Undergraduate Curricula

Graduate Curricula

M.F.A. Program in Dance

Culture and Performance
M.A. Degree
Ph.D. Degree

* Optional specializations in Folklore Studies or Dance Studies available.

Departmental Course Catalog

Schedule of Classes

Registrar's Links for Prospective Students

Degree Programs

Guided by an interdisciplinary faculty of artists, dance scholars, and ethnographers, the academic programs in World Arts and Cultures are organized around three fundamental missions:

• The formulation of critical and intercultural insights into the nature of human creativity.
  
• The creation and interdisciplinary study of dance and other body-based modes of performance.
• Mutually beneficial engagement with the diverse cultural and artistic communities of Los Angeles.

The Department of World Arts and Cultures is an interdisciplinary unit, which finds its raison d'être in a set of intellectual and artistic problems rather than an established academic discipline. The programs of teaching, research, and performance in World Arts and Cultures are unified around a shared concern with problems of cultural identity and difference; the meaning of tradition in contemporary societies; the forging of connections between critical theory and artistic practice; and the changing social roles and responsibilities of artists and scholars of the arts, both in the United States and world-wide.

The undergraduate program offers concentrations in dance and cultural studies.

The graduate program offers an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Culture and Performance, and an M.F.A. in Dance, with an emphasis on choreography.

Students at all levels are encouraged to explore relationships among the different curricular emphases, including world arts practices, cultural studies, dance studies, and folklore, as a means to tailor a particular course of study to their professional goals.

Students in World Arts and Cultures at UCLA study with faculty members of international standing engaged in both creative artistic work and research. Graduates of this unique department have gone on to pursue advanced degrees and careers in dance, folklore, anthropology, arts management or practice, education, cultural policy, community outreach, architecture and urban planning, law, public service, and many other fields.

Graduate Student Resources and Forms

Graduate Student Handbook

Graduate Student Handbook: Appendices

MFA Degree Requirements and Checklist

CAP Degree Requirements and Checklist

Research Subject Protocol

Language Petition

Nomination of Thesis Committee

Reconstitution of Thesis Committee

Thesis Approval Form

MFA Budget Template for Projects/Productions

Masters Comprehensive Examination Committee

Master's Petition for Advancement to Candidacy

Master's Filing Fee Application

Nomination of Doctoral Committee

Reconstitution of Doctoral Committee

Doctoral Filing Fee Application

Request for Leave of Absence

Teaching Assistant Handbook

TA Statement of Understanding

Waiver of Liability - Required

Waiver of Liability -Voluntary

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