M.F.A. in Imaging and Digital Arts

The M.F.A. IMDA Program strives to provide graduate students with a laboratory environment equipped with relevant and engaging media tools to empower them to generate evolutionary artistic solutions. IMDA students have access to updated facilities and methodologies for making art and to courses in art history and theory that reflect current critical discourse.

The IMDA course of study offers students an interdisciplinary approach to new methods of image making that enables them to develop technical skills and intellectual flexibility by incorporating:

Computer art
Video
Filmmaking
Photography
Installation
Interactive and hybrid forms of display
Art theory and criticism

IMDA students work toward gaining greater technical proficiency and conceptual understanding of several media and equip themselves to dissolve the limits of any one specialized field or method. The MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts is committed to investigating conceptual and technical transformations in the visual arts within the broader context of the history of art. Such exploration and experimentation pose new conceptual challenges that are central to the student's course of study.

The M.F.A. IMDA Program, a full-time, three-year course of study, is open to a limited number of applicants so lab facilities will be available to them.

Requirements for completion:

  • 60 credit hours
  • 6 credits may be upper-level undergraduate courses approved by program director
  • 12 credits earned with a written thesis, thesis exhibition, and oral defense
  • Grade of "B" or better in all course work
  • 3rd semester review of student's research needed for advancement to candidacy
  • Student must achieve candidacy to continue.
  • Some students may qualify for early candidacy after 2nd semester.
  • After advancement, student will work with their major professor and Thesis Committee for approval of thesis and exhibition, so thesis and oral defense may be presented.