MFA Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley

The two-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Program supports 6 graduate students per year and strives to graduate working artists who will continue to demonstrate significant artistic, critical and cultural impacts across a wide array of disciplines. Incoming MFA students are expected to already be deeply engaged in their creative practice and possess technical proficiency in their chosen media. Graduate coursework and independent study are designed to help students develop interpretive understandings of their creative work in the multiple contexts of specific localities and global contemporary art.

Faculty: Graduate Division  |  Department: Art Practice  |  Duration: 2 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Berkeley, CA, United States

What you will study

Curriculum Unit requirements to complete the program: 64 units in two years Course List Code Title Units ART 294 Seminar for M.F.A. Students (Students enroll in this class every semester) 16 ART 218 Seminar: Theory and Criticism (Students enroll in this class twice, every fall semester) 8 ART 290 Independent Study (First year) 4 ART 295 Independent Study for M.F.A.

Career pathways

Graduates enter career areas including Academia & Education, Architecture, Arts & Entertainment, Nonprofit.

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