Beginning in fall 2018, graduate-level scholars will conduct advanced research at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences and art and design practices. Building on a transdisciplinary approach, the new 1.5-year Master of Arts programs in Global Arts and Cultures challenges students to extend the boundaries of traditional scholarship while critically considering emerging challenges of 21st-century life.

In Global Arts and Cultures students explore the arts—visual, literary, architectural, performing—in a broad sense to understand how they shape and are shaped by various global and historical forces, and to think about their present and future role in an increasingly connected world.

The department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design (TLAD), which merged with the Division of Liberal Arts in the Fall of 2021, offers graduate students a progressive and dynamic center of inquiry and practice that directly links academic study to engagement with communities beyond campus. TLAD students both explore and contribute to the development of new practices in art and design teaching across an arts learning continuum spanning from kindergarten to college and beyond.