Master of City Planning + Master of Fine Arts Dual-Degree


Students in the City and Regional Planning/Fine Arts dual-degree program will uniquely blend important aspects of the Fine Arts curriculum - such as public art and monument studies (includes its administration), the management of the body in both public and private terms, and subject formation in the context of conceived habitus of the built environment -- with the deeper understanding of placemaking, cultural theory, and research methods that comes from the City Planning curriculum. In recent decades, spatial production and the regulation of space have become important concerns for many contemporary artists. Ethical issues as they play out in the social environment are often a driver of artistic interest. Reciprocally, the field of city and regional planning increasingly looks to the model of art to self-interrogate and self-innovate towards a more transdisciplinary practice. Graduates from this dual-degree program are well-suited to be strong candidates for positions in nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

The dual-degree program is designed to be completed in three academic years.

Total CUs for the Dual-Degree: 29
Students completing the MCP/MFA dual-degree need 29 total CUs, plus one (1) City Planning internship. Completed on their own, the MCP requires 18 CUs and the MFA requires CUs. Note: a minimum of 15 course units are required within the MCP degree under the PAB accreditation.

MCP/MFA Program Requirements

CITY PLANNING COURSES
CPLN 5000 (500) Planning History and Theory 1
CPLN 5010 (501) Quantitative Methods 1
CPLN 5020 (502) or 5090 (509) Law and Urban Development or Urban and Infrastructure Finance 1
CPLN 5030 (503) Modeling Geographic Objects 1
CPLN 6000 (600) Workshop 2
CPLN 7000 (700) Studio 2
CPLN xxxx Concentration Foundation Course* 1
CPLN xxxx Concentration Foundation or Elective Course* 1
CPLN xxxx Concentration Foundation or Elective Course* 1
CPLN xxxx Concentration Elective Course* 1
CPLN xxxx Free Elective Course 1
CPLN xxxx Free Elective Course 1
CPLN xxxx Free Elective Course 1
    City Planning Summer Internship 0
    MCP-Only CUs 15

FINE ARTS COURSES
FNAR 5010 (501) Graduate Studio I 2
FNAR 5020 (502) Graduate Studio II 2
FNAR 6020 (602) Graduate Studio III 2
FNAR 7010 (701) Graduate Critique I 1
FNAR 7020 (702) Graduate Critique II 1
FNAR 7030 (703) Graduate Critique III 1
FNAR xxxx Graduate MFA Seminar (or fulfilled by FNAR 801, 802, 803, or 804) 1
FNAR xxxx Graduate MFA Seminar (or fulfilled by FNAR 801, 802, 803, or 804) 1
FNAR xxxx FNAR Elective #1 1
FNAR xxxx FNAR Elective #2/Outside Elective 1
FNAR xxxx FNAR Elective #3/Outside Elective 1
    FNAR-Only CUs 14

TOTAL CUs REQUIRED FOR THE MCP/MFA: 29

*Refer to the CPLN concentration details in the Penn Catalog and/or the MCP program website for information about which and how many concentration courses are needed. Note: for the 2021-2022 Academic Year, the MCP program website supercedes the Penn Catalog if any details between the two sources do not align. For this reason, please be sure to reference the MCP program page.