Located in New York City, the art center of the world, the Studies in Arts and Humanities Education Program is a unique interdisciplinary course of study. Grounded in the recognition that all aesthetic experience shares a common thread-namely, the human capacity to create and interpret symbols-the Studies in Arts and Humanities Education Program brings together training in the teaching of literature, film, and the related arts in a single concentration. It is not simply its interdisciplinary nature or the wide learning and varied skills of the faculty drawn from other departments in the school that distinguish this course of study; it is also its abiding concern with the central role of the viewer/reader/listener (the learner) in any aesthetic transaction as well as its attention to the cultural context in which the arts are created, experienced, and taught.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the Studies in Arts and Humanities Education Program have a wide range of career opportunities in both school and nonschool settings: teaching literature, film, and/or the allied arts in intermediate or secondary schools or in two- or four-year colleges; educating teachers of literature and the allied arts; conducting research in aesthetics and aesthetic education; and directing curriculum development and educational programs in schools, colleges, and other arts-affiliated institutions. Our graduates have also been engaged in the production of print and media materials for the improvement of instruction in the arts and humanities area.
Degree/Course Requirements for Masters of the Arts
Master's candidates must complete 40 points total:
Type | Name | Number |
| Core: | Problems in Critical Theory | E87.2016 |
| Arts and Culture | E89.2144 | |
| Growth Through Response to Literature and the Arts | E87.2033 | |
| Cognates: | Various courses related to the students' interests and not offered in the program such as aesthetics, philosophy, history, psychology, or sociology. | |
| Electives: | Literature and Values | E89.2093 |
| Fiction and Film | E87.2523 | |
| Writing Criticism | E87.2503 | |
| Drama in Education | E17.2193 | |
| Foundations: | Literature and the Arts: Experience and Response | E87.2135 |
| Terminal Experience: | Internship in Arts and Humanities | E87.2300 |
* PLEASE NOTE: Many of the courses listed above are examples only and do not indicate a student's specific curriculum.
Degree/Course Requirements for Doctoral Students
Candidates for the Ph.D. must take 60 points beyond the M.A. of which 30 points must be taken in residence. Specific requirements beyond the general requirements listed below are developed for each student in consultation with an adviser. In addition to the 9-point core, doctoral candidates must take the following:
Type | Name | Number |
| Foundations: | Literature and the Arts: Experience and Response | E87.2135 |
| Aesthetic Foundations of the Arts | E88.2051 | |
| Cognates: | Various courses related to the students' interests and not offered in the program (see above). | |
| Seminars: | Departmental Seminar, by advisement | - |
| Dissertation Proposal Seminar | E59.3005 | |
| Research Methods: | Aesthetic Inquiry | E10.2137 |
| Historical Research | E10.2135 | |
| Philosophical Inquiry | E10.2136 | |
| Case Study Research | E10.2138 | |
| Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis | E10.2134 | |
| Research Electives: | Stylistics | E87.2003 |
| Perception and Aesthetic Form | E87.2527 | |
| Research in Cognitive Development | E35.2198 | |
| Electives: | Literature and Values | E89.2093 |
| Fiction and Film | E87.2523 | |
| Writing Criticism | E87.2503 | |
| Drama in Education | E17.2193 | |
* PLEASE NOTE: Many of the courses listed above are examples only and do not indicate a student's specific curriculum.
Special Admission Requirements
In addition to the general requirements for the school, candidates for the M.A. degree must have completed at least 30 points in previous college-level course work in English language, literature, film, theatre, media, or the allied arts; candidates for the Ph.D. must hold a master's degree in English, English education, theatre, dance, or any of the allied arts. Candidates wishing to specialize in the application of creative activity in the arts to classroom practice must submit examples of their own creative work.