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2008-2009 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:

Examples of electives within the School of Design:
  • 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
Examples of 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