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 |
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| 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 |
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*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.
