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2007-2008 Interdisciplinary Study



Last modified: 05.04.08


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 the School of Design:
  • Architecture: Light and Color
  • Architecture: Mapping the Non-Traditional City
  • Architecture: The Question of Style
  • Architecture: This Place Has an Attitude, Learning from Las Vegas
  • City and Regional Planning: Public Art Planning
  • Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning: Power of Place
  • Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning: Surrealism and Nature

Electives within the University of Pennsylvania:
  • Asian American Identity in the Visual Arts
  • Art, Artists, and Society
  • Art as Communication
  • Art Criticism 60s 70s
  • Greek Vase Painting
  • History of Aesthetics
  • Image, Memory, Text
  • Nineteenth Century American Landscape
  • Minorities and Media
  • Seminar in Cultural Studies and the Mass Media
  • Vision and Visuality
  • Visual Culture of the Islamic World

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