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Performance and Theatre Making
Create innovative new theatre by cultivating your dramaturgical skills, performance training and critical thinking. Gain confidence in facilitation and community engagement to reach your audiences. Build your networks and industry knowledge through placement study. Emerge with a well-rounded skillset that prepares you to make, perform and facilitate creative work for the contemporary cultural environment.
Visual Studies
The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto offers the Master of Visual Studies (MVS) degree program.
Dance - Performance and Professional Practices
The University of Salford offers a full-time MA in Dance - Performance and Professional Practices, designed to enhance your skills as a performer and dance professional. This one-year programme, commencing in September 2026, integrates practical training with industry collaboration, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.
Music Research
The Music Research (MA) at University of Manitoba is designed to provide a broad foundation in advanced concepts and skills in musicology and music theory.

Master of Arts (Performing Arts)
The Master of Arts (Performing Arts) offered at Edith Cowan University is primarily aimed at high-level researchers, critics and practitioners from a wide cross-section of the arts community who wish to extend their independent capacity to operate in an increasingly multi-art form and technologically-based profession.
Dance
The Dance MFA at the University at Buffalo is a three-year, full-time programme focusing on embodied inquiry and choreographic creation. Students engage in advanced practice and theory to develop as innovative artist-scholars. This 60-credit curriculum offers close faculty mentorship and extensive performance opportunities.
Music Performance - Pedagogy
The Music Performance - Pedagogy programme at the University of Missouri - Kansas City is a Master of Music degree designed for advanced musicians. This postgraduate course focuses on refining instrumental skills alongside instructional expertise. Students engage in full-time study to master both artistic execution and teaching theory.
Music Education
At Music Education from Southern Methodist University are offered: an option for candidates who already hold teaching certification and an option for candidates with a degree in music who are seeking teacher certification.

Architecture
The Architecture degree at the University of Westminster offers a unique opportunity for graduates interested in the intersection of architectural design, theory and research, encouraging students to develop their own positions and identities as creative practitioners and thinkers. The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

Curatorial Practice
The Curatorial Practice MA degree from the Istituto Europeo Di Design (IED) is training up future professional curators with solid theory knowledge and extensive hands-on experience in creating exhibitions and shows from concept development all the way to project execution.
Piano Pedagogy and Performance
The Piano Pedagogy and Performance program from Baylor University prides itself on facilitating a well-rounded education for the developing artist-teacher by providing supervised practicum teaching experience along with coursework, internships, observations, and research opportunities that cover a variety of levels and ages.
Art History and Museum Studies
The Art History and Museum Studies program of the Case Western Reserve University is designed to provide you with a broad knowledge of major art historical periods, scholarly and bibliographical resources, and methodologies of art history.
Brass - Tuba and Euphonium
At Brass - Tuba and Euphonium from University of North Carolina School of the Arts you will be part of a vibrant school of musicians as dedicated to refining their craft as you are.

Theatre
The Theatre master's degree from World University of Design is an advanced professional degree designed for aspiring theatre practitioners and innovators.
Music Theory
New England Conservatory of Music degrees in Music Theory offer students the unique opportunity to work one-on-one with the department’s diverse faculty, which includes leading scholars, composers, and performers.

Product Design Engineering
The MSc in Product Design Engineering at The Glasgow School of Art brings together two cultures - the studio and creative environment of one of Europe's leading art schools - the GSA and the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow - a world top 100 university (QS World Ranking).
Apparel Design and Production
Apparel Design and Production at Oklahoma State Universitycan help you advance your skill set with applied coursework that focuses on integrating theory and research in the field.
Architecture
The Master in Architecture from University of Luxembourg addresses the contemporary challenges of climate change, resource scarcity, and social inequalities through the lens of architecture, urbanism, and territorial design.
Product Design
The 2-year MA in Product Design at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti developed out of the MA in Design, first as a specialization and now as its own complete degree program.

Urban Planning
This Urban Planning MSc programme from UWE Bristol (University of the West of England) is suited to a range of entrants - graduates from related disciplines, such as geography, professionals from planning practice and those from non-related backgrounds who are passionate about the subject.