MVAP.MFA - Master of Fine Arts - Voicearts Performance

VoiceArts (MFA)

MLSN601 Hour Lessons as assigned (4 classes)

MPRF510 Graduate Vocal Coaching

MBLExxx World Music Ensemble (recommended in MFA1)

TWO classes in advanced History/Literature/Theory/Analysis chosen from

• MHST500-509 Music Cultures

• MHST525 Survey of Sound Art

• MHST530 Studies in Experimental Pop

• MHST531 Studies in Avant-Rock & Noise

• MHST542 Women in Western Music History

• MHST545 [r]evolution of Solo Vocal Lit

• MHST546 Opera AND 

• MHST610 The Elastic Voice

• MHST600–698

• MTHY510 Acoustics for Musicians

• MTHY600–698

FOUR Experimental Voice classes chosen from:

• MAIC654 Sounding the Voice

• MCMP625 & 626 Experimental Music Workshop I & II

• MPRF526 Experimental Voice

• MPRF651 Singing the Books

• MPRF652 Contemporary Vocal Techniques

• MPRF653 What kind of text is that? 

• MPRF655 Dada's Divas

• MPRF657 Land, Ritual, Performance

• Other experimental voice courses as approved by mentor

MPRF610 Physiology of the Voice

Pedagogy Course, chosen from (1 course):

• AAIC523 Practice & Pedagogy: ArtPilot

• MPCD699 Graduate Independent Project: Pedagogy

• MPCD603 Teaching Artistry

• MPCD604 Pedagogy: Best Practices

• MPCD620 Teaching the Voice

MFOR503 Voice Forum ( 2 classes or as assigned by mentor)

Performance project or ensemble electives, chosen in consultation with mentor chosen from (4 classes):

• MBLE500 The Ensemble

• MBLE560 The Baltic Voice

• MBLE601 Chamber Singers

• MBLE602 Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

• MBLE606 Chamber Music

• MBLE609 Period Instrument Ensemble

• MBLE610 Improvisation Ensemble

• MBLE625 Creative Electronic Ensemble

• MBLE628 Collaborative Music Ensemble

• MBLE650 Sonic Boom Ensemble

• MPRF502 Opera Theater

• MPRF699 Independent Study

• Other performance project course as approved by mentor

Career preparation course chosen from:

• AART511L Collaborate, Perform, Document

• MPCD650 Career Design for Musicians

• MPCD651 Creative Producing for Music

• MPCD660 Creative Entrepreneurship

• MTEC617 Media and Web Development

• TGEN750 Entrepreneurship: The Artist as Entrepreneur

• Other professional development courses as approved by mentor

Performance theory or practicum classes outside of Music (2 classes):

• CCRW548 Source and Archive

• CCRW557 Feminist Poetics

• CMWP651 Documentary Strategies

• CMWP688 Writing and Performing the Self

• DAIC550 Extreme Body in Performance

• DCHR501 Institute Dance Composition

• DCHR560 Creation & Critique

• DPER560 Performance & Identity

• FFDP604 Advanced Acting Workshop

• FPFV673 Acting Bad

• TACT770 Voice-Over Elective

• THST530 Grad Seminar: Adaptation

• THST535 Grad Seminar: Dramaturgy

• THST545 Grad Seminar: Theater of Witness

• TGEN510 Institute Acting Techniques I

• TGEN515 Institute Acting Techniques II

• TGEN520 Institute Directing I

• TGEN525 Institute Directing II

• TGEN575 Inst Producing: Prac Skills

• TGEN660 Improvisation

• TGEN661 Improvisation

• TIMM571 Performing Object Laboratory

• THST510 Surv World Theater Arts

• TWFP680 Special Topics in Writing

• Other performance theory or practicum class as approved by mentor

Courses in movement techniques (2 classes) chosen from:

• DCHR601 Graduate Advanced Improv

• DTCH500 Institute Dance Contemporary

• DTCH552 The Conscious Dancer

• DTCH603 Institute Dance Ballet

• DTCH604 Institute Dance Special Topics

• MBLE550 African Dance

• MBLE552 Balinese Dance

• MBLE554/556 Javanese Dance

• MPRF505 Alexander Technique for Musicians

• MPRF611 Bodies and Voice

• TACT570/571 Intro to Tai Chi

• TGEN535 Alexander Technique Fundamentals

• Other movement class as approved by mentor

MFOR600 Artists-in-Residence Week (2 classes)

Winter Session (2 units of coursework taken in January)

MPRF590 Mid-Residence Performance Project/Recital

MPRF690 Graduation Jury & Performance Project/Recital

MCMP690 Graduation Portfolio Review

Electives (to fulfill 60-unit degree requirement)

The VoiceArts specialization requires a review of each student's professional portfolio development each semester as a component of the lesson requirement.