Degree Programs

DegreeRequirements
Ph.D. in Art History & Visual Culture
  • 12 to 15 courses, excluding language courses
  • 2 to 4 courses taken from other departments at Duke
  • Language proficiency in at least two foreign languages
  • Preliminary exam
  • Dissertation
Ph.D. in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures
  • 15 courses including Practicum experiences (excluding language courses), 2 max undergraduate courses, on approval.
  • Computational Media, Arts & Cultures Proseminar (first semester)
  • 2 Practice-Based courses
  • 4 CMAC Faculty-led Seminars
  • 4 Practicum Experiences
  • Additional electives, on approval
  • Language proficiency in at least two languages, one of which must be a machine language
  • Preliminary exam
Master of Arts - Digital Art History / Computational Media
  • 18-month program
  • 10 courses taken over 3 semesters
    • Two Graduate Seminars
    • Two Lab Practicum Experiences
    • Two Additional Electives
    • Two Thesis Credit courses
  • Written thesis
Master of Fine Arts - Experimental & Documentary Arts
  • 2-year degree program requiring 15 courses over 4 semesters
  • 10 required courses in prescribed sequence and 5 electives
    • 5 studio courses: Documentary Fieldwork, Experiments in the Moving Image, Computational Media, Thesis Writing Workshop and Thesis Project Workshop
    • 5 seminars: Continuity and Change in Experimental and Documentary Arts, Critique I-IV
    • 5 electives
  • Present project in a second year Spring MFA Exhibition
  • Written thesis