Interdisciplinary Study

A mission of PennDesign is to achieve complex understanding gained by looking beyond disciplines.

Master of Fine Arts students choose graduate-level electives as part of their academic program. For example:

Electives within PennDesign:
- Architecture: Mapping the Non-Traditional City
- Architecture: The Question of Style
- Architecture: Space and Structure
- City and Regional Planning: Inner City House Markets
- Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning: topics in Ecological Design, Restoration Ecology

Electives within the University of Pennsylvania:
- Cinema Studies Seminar
- Other Cinema Studies Courses
- Film: Seminar in Theory
- Elementary Zulu
- English: Victorian Fears and Our Own
- English: Modernism
- Folklore: Unorthodox Health
- Folklore: Jewish Humor
- International Political Economy
- Korean Film and Culture
- History of Art: Twentieth Century Theory and Criticism
- 20th Century Art: 1945-Now
- Myth in Society
- Music: Seminar in Theory
- Native American Folklore
- Post War Japanese Cinema and Visual Culture
- Religion: Ethnography of Belief

Certificate and Dual Degree programs

PennDesign offers a multitude of interdisciplinary programs including dual degree options and certificates.