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WORKING 2025-2026 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Media Study PhD
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Our PhD program is one of a small set of innovative doctoral programs in experimental and practice-led research in the Media Arts in the United States. This program offers a space for the development of artist-scholar-researchers whose hybrid making and writing practices respond and contribute to the development and transformation of media, art, technology, and culture. Students in this program develop a set of conceptual and technical abilities that allow them to engage with the aesthetic, political, and social challenges and debates surrounding media making and scholarship. A Media Study PhD requires both a written Dissertation and Media Project for conferral. Appropriate for artists who aim to conduct their research in an academic context, this PhD is equally appropriate for scholars who want to expand their capabilities as artists and makers. Combining professional rigor with highly individualized mentorship, our graduate program prepares students to become innovative artists, scholars, and teachers of media analysis, production, and theory. This program is designed to be completed in five years.
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Required Core (9 credits)
Directed Study (30 Credits)
Dissertation & Media Project (At least 9 credits)
Total Credit Hours: 72
3.0 Degree GPA required Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
1) Demonstrate ability to work productively as an artist in a university environment, as well as on the local, national, and international stage.
2) Demonstrate mastery of knowledge in the field, including the ability to apply associated technologies to novel and emerging issues, and the ability to apply theoretical concepts in the study of media to one’s own research and artistic work in, e.g., artists’ statements, exhibition programs, etc.
3) Production of a significant text, supported in a media arts practice, demonstrating effective skills in critical research and writing.
4) Production of a significant media arts project demonstrating the highest level of expertise in the field.
5) Demonstrate sustained artistic-scholar productivity in media, publications, and performances/exhibitions, including participation in professional organizations locally, nationally, and internationally via invited and peer-reviewed scholarly research and artistic production in publications in professional journals and conference proceedings, and in presentations at related conferences and festivals.
6) Demonstrate broad professional foundations through attendance at workshops, residencies, internships, fellowships, grant applications, and commissions.
7) Demonstrate the ability to teach at the university level, along with service and mentoring effectiveness. - In Person (100 percent of courses offered in person)
SED Statement
This program is officially registered with the New York State Education Department (SED). |
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