Program Overview

Program Overview

The Creative Technologies MFA program is a diverse and dynamic community exploring complex issues in art, design, and technology. Our students create practice-based arts and human-centered design employing interdisciplinary methods within a top research university. Our graduates leave with the conceptual and technical skills needed to work in emerging fields of creative technologies.

Program Details

• Graduate Program Director: Zach Duer
• CIP code: 10.0304
• College: Architecture, Arts, and Design
• Campus(es) where program is offered: Blacksburg

Admission Requirements

• Minimum GPA: 3.0
• TOEFL IBT: 90
  • TOEFL reading sub-score: 20
  • TOEFL listening sub-score: 20
  • TOEFL speaking sub-score: 20
• IELTS (TOEFL alternative): 6.5
• GRE: optional
• Letter(s) of recommendation: 2 required
• Required supplemental materials:
  • Resume/CV
  • 1-2 page personal statement, describing why you want to pursue an MFA degree and the artistic and/or interdisciplinary research you intend to conduct while you're here.
  • Portfolio of relevant artwork, scholarship, or other research

Admission Terms and Deadlines

• Admission terms: Fall
• Admission application deadlines: January 31
• Institution code: 5859

Degree Requirements

• Minimum total credit hours required for the degree: 60
• Total minimum credit hour requirement of graded graduate-level courses: 48
• Total minimum credit hour requirement of Research: 12
• Degree options: Thesis only

Core Courses

• ART 5534 Topics in Graduate Critique Methods and Practice - 9 credits
• ART 5854G Advanced Theories and Processes of Contemporary Art - 3 credits
• ART 5994 Research and Thesis - 12 Credits

Elective Courses

• History / Theory Courses - 6 Credits
• Studio Topics - 30 credits

Notes

• ART 5854G Advanced Theories and Processes of Contemporary Art also fulfills the program Ethics requirement.
• Of the 30 credits of Studio Topics, up to 9 credits of graduate-level courses outside of SOVA are allowed with approval of the MFA Program Director.