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Theatre and Performance
The graduate programs in Theatre and Performance at the University at Buffalo, feature a unique integration of scholarship and practice. We believe that if you know something theoretically but don't know it practically, then you don't truly understand its whole theory.
Urbanism
Urbanism from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia is aimed at students who wish to undertake further research training in order to complete and defend a doctoral thesis.
Film and Media
Students at Film and Media from University of California, Berkeley are encouraged to situate moving images within the larger theoretical and analytical frameworks of a range of other disciplines.
History of Art
Although the Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University offers both the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees, the MA is awarded in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD. The department does not admit students who wish to work solely toward the master's degree.
Creative Arts
Designed for high performing university graduates, the Creative Arts program from James Cook University is a postgraduate research degree with a supervised project of original research at its core. Develop high level independent research skills while making an original contribution of knowledge to a specific discipline or area of practice.
Music Composition
The Department of Music has for decades enjoyed a reputation as one of a handful of departments in North America dedicated to contemporary musical creation at the highest level. The Music Composition program is offered at the University at Buffalo .
Musical Arts in Performance
The Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with concentrations in brass, conducting, percussion, piano, strings, voice, and woodwinds, is intended for those musicians planning to work at the most advanced academic and professional levels of music.
Musical Arts
The Musical Arts degree from The University of Arizona has emphases in composition, conducting, and performance. In the performance emphasis concentrations are available in bassoon, cello, clarinet, double bass, euphonium, flute, guitar, horn, harp, harpsichord, oboe, organ, percussion, piano, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin, and voice.
Multiple Woodwinds
The Frost School of Music’s Department of Instrumental Performance has programs tailored to meet the needs and interests of students – like you – who aspire to performance careers. This DMA in Multiple Woodwinds is offered at the University of Miami.
Drama and Theatre Studies
Doctoral Drama and Theatre Studies degrees at Stellenbosch University in the arts are research degrees culminating in a dissertation. The study as a whole can consist of theoretical work or it can be the result of an integrated study of the creative processes and theoretical work which are reported in a dissertation.
Art History
The School of Art & Art History at University of Florida offers graduate programs leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.
Musicology and Ethnomusicology
The Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology program at Boston University offers two tracks: Historical Musicology or Ethnomusicology, as well as a double concentration in Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology. It is primarily for students who are preparing to pursue research and teaching at a university, college, or conservatory.
Cinema and Media Studies
The PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University, incorporating theoretical, historical and critical approaches to visual media, is designed to encompass a variety of methodological frameworks, cultural practices, and historiographic models.
Art History
At the Southern Methodist University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Art History. Art History awards two Ph.D. Fellowships each year.
Arts
Here in the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University we combine text and practice based approaches to research. With world-leading academics and research across our subject areas, we provide a vibrant environment for our large and dynamic group of PhD students.
Music
Music students are invited to join one of the thriving research groups at the University of Lincoln and participate in its Critical Encounters Research Series, alongside academic staff and peers.
Urban Planning
Our Urban Planning program at the University at Buffalo is fully accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board.
Composition
The Ph.D. program in Composition at the University of Pennsylvania stresses training in the craft of composition, contemporary repertory, and theory and analysis.
Music History
Graduate studies in Music History at the University of Washington prepare students for careers in academia and performance.
Architecture
This Doctor of Architecture degree program is offered by the School of Design at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.