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School for the Contemporary Arts
Room 601C SCA, 778.782.3724 Tel, 778.782.5907 Fax, , mfagrad@sfu.ca
Director
M.S. Gotfrit BA (C’dia), MA (McG) – music
Graduate Program Chair
J. Radul BMus, BA (S Fraser), MFA (Bard)
Faculty and Areas of Research
See “School for the Contemporary Arts” on page 152 for a complete list of faculty.
C.V.A. Browne – documentary and innovative film production, poetry, fiction, screenplay, poetics, interdisciplinary performance
A. Clay – drawing, painting, text work, installation, contemporary feminist and critical theories
H. Daniel – performance and new technologies
A. Eigenfeldt – music for dance, MIDI systems, digital signal processing
M. Eist – ballet, modern dance, body therapies, choreography, dance education, dance history
J. Garay – choreography, performance, costume design
M.S. Gotfrit – electroacoustic music, film-sound design and scoring
P. Gruben – directing, scriptwriting, editing: dramatic and experimental narrative
S. Hill – theatre performance, directing, devising, interdisciplinary collaboration
R. Kitsos – choreography, performance, combining new technologies and performance
D.D. Kugler – directing, dramaturgy, play-making
J. Levitin** – film production and theory, independent film making, feminist film criticism, ideological studies, third world film, comedy, directing, women’s studies
D.K. MacIntyre – music composition, interdisciplinary composition and performance, collaboration
L. Marks – experimental and electronic media, non-Western approaches to media technologies, representation of the senses, and Arab and African cinema
D. Oleksijczuk – images and objects produced in Britain and Canada, intercultural and global approaches to the history of art, contemporary art and visual culture
C. Pavsek – documentary cinema, political cinema, German cinema, film theory
J. Radul – performance, video, photography, sound and text, contemporary theory
P. Stella – acting, directing, playmaking, dramaturgy
O. Underhill – composition, conducting, contemporary ensembles, music theatre, interdisciplinary collaboration, 20th century theory
C. Welsby – avant garde film and video making, photography and time-based gallery installations
J. Yoon – photo and video based installation, image and text, art in the public realm, contemporary theory – feminst, post-colonial and diasporic discourses
*joint appointment with communication
**joint appointment with women’s studies
The program, leading to a master of fine arts (MFA) in interdisciplinary studies, provides advanced training in music, dance, theatre, film, and visual arts. It furthers cross-disciplinary research, technical skill and artistic creativity, and the development of critical awareness of the relatedness of the arts both in contemporary society and in an historical perspective. The MFA degree is the standard qualifying degree for teaching at the post-secondary level. Courses provide flexibility to accommodate individual differences in background and artistic goals, with emphasis on the production of creative interdisciplinary work. The program is full time and two years in duration. It cannot be pursued part-time and has a residency requirement due to the nature of the artistic practice.
Admission Requirements
Applicants must hold a BFA, BA, BMus or BEd in one or more of the art disciplines, with a 3.0 CGPA or better. In special cases, a candidate may be admitted who does not satisfy this requirement but who either possesses comparable certification (an art school or conservatory diploma) or has exceptional experience as a practising artist.
Applicants must demonstrate creative competence with a high standing in music, dance, theatre, film, or visual art undergraduate courses, or substantial experience in these fields outside the university. For consideration by the admissions committee, applicants submit a work portfolio of audio or video tapes, scores, slides, films, plays or academic papers. Performing artists may be asked to audition.
Foreign students may be required to demonstrate proficiency in the English language, attained by scoring 570 or above in the Test of English as a Foreign Language.
Degree Requirements
MFA candidates complete a minimum of 35 units, including 25 of course work and a project, which is the equivalent of 10 units. Normally, this project is an art presentation accompanied by appropriate documentation with an oral defence.
Students complete all of
FPA 811-5 Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar I
FPA 812-5 Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar II
FPA 813-5 Interdisciplinary Graduate Studio
FPA 898-10 Master of Fine Arts Graduating Project
plus two of
FPA 883-5 Studio in Fine and Performing Arts I
FPA 885-5 Studio in Fine and Performing Arts II
FPA 887-5 Selected Topics in Fine and Performing Arts
FPA 889-5 Directed Study in Fine and Performing Arts
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