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37 Master's degrees offered by the university
Balinese and Javanese Music and Dance
Working with a full instrument collection, The MFA Balinese and Javanese Music and Dance Specialization from California Institute of the Arts CalArts provides a comprehensive exploration of the music and dance of Bali and Java.
Jazz
Founded by the late jazz giant Charlie Haden as a creative alternative to academic jazz studies, California Institute of the Arts CalArts Jazz studies emphasizes small ensemble performance and improvisation, training students to become highly versatile performers, improvisers and composers.
Winds
Winds studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts, part of the InstrumentalArts family of offerings, surveys Western musical repertoire from the medieval to the modern, also emphasizes contemporary styles, diverse musical cultures, improvisation, digital technology and interdisciplinary media.
Lighting Design
The MFA Lighting Design curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts centers on developing critical and practical skills with coursework that includes lessons in immersive lighting design, AutoCAD, digital rendering, Vectorworks, and strategies for live performance across a wide variety of creative arenas.
Collaborative Keyboard
Collaborative Keyboard studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts prepares advanced students for careers in various collaborative keyboard disciplines.
Harp
Harp studies at California Institute of the Arts CalArts , part of the InstrumentalArts offerings, enables harpists to explore a full range of repertoire, ensemble performance opportunities and supplemental coursework in support of their métier
Directing
At California Institute of the Arts CalArts, in addition to MFA Directing-specific seminars and labs, students participate extensively in the Acting Program as well as in the Programs in Experience Design and Production.
Acting
The Acting Program from California Institute of the Arts CalArts offers classically centered training with an eye toward the future, and is designed to prepare emerging artists for the performance challenges of the 21st Century.
VoiceArts
The VoiceArts Specialization at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is uniquely designed for creative artists whose primary means of expression is the voice—for those who wish to develop both their unique artistic voice and their vocal mechanism.
Interactive Media for Performance
The Interactive Media for Performance Specialization in the CalArts School of Theater at California Institute of the Arts CalArts trains visionary artists to create interactive tools and moving imagery for live and time-based artwork.
Stage Management
The Stage Management specialization at California Institute of the Arts CalArts trains qualified students for careers as creative managers in a variety of professional performance environments.
Performer-Composer
California Institute of the Arts CalArts’ unique Performer-Composer studies reflects the increasing demand for flexible musicians who are able to integrate composition with performance practice.
Brass
Brass studies at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is unique and innovative, with a curriculum designed to further develop the role of brass instruments in the present and looking toward the future.
North Indian Music
The North Indian Music MFA Specialization at California Institute of the Arts CalArts trains students to become fluent and skilled performers through in-depth, hands-on training under the direction of internationally esteemed faculty.
Costume Design
The Costume Design MFA Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts encourages students to break with traditional notions of costume design—and think instead in terms of garments that expand or otherwise reshape the physical space of performers.
Technical Direction
Generating a tangible world from abstract ideas, drawings, and conversations, the Technical Direction Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts prepares students to work in collaborative design, fabrication, and technical management.
Choreography
The MFA in Choreography at the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is an opportunity accelerator for dance artists pursuing careers as creators and educators.