Advising
Bennett Williamson
DANM Program Manager
Arts Division Programs Office
Digital Arts Research Center 302C
(831) 459-5628
bemawill@ucsc.edu
• Advising appointments are available at the times shown below and are 30-minutes each. Students can check the office for drop-in appointments during business hours but appointments are not guaranteed unless scheduled on this calendar.
• If none of the time slots work for you, please feel free to contact the advisor whose contact information you can find to the left.
Key Thesis Dates
YEAR 1 | SPRING
| Last day of quarter (~June 15) | All thesis committee members have agreed to serve on thesis committee. APPROVAL DUE – Thesis Committe Form |
YEAR 2 | FALL
| Week 5 (~Nov 1) | Submit written thesis project proposal to committee (2500-5000 words). |
| Week 7 (~Nov 15) | Meet with committee to discuss proposal |
| Last day of quarter (~Dec 14) | All thesis committee members have approved the submitted Thesis Abstract based on project proposal. (Students who have not received signed approval for their thesis abstract will be recommended for probation.) APPROVAL DUE – Thesis Abstract form |
YEAR 2 | WINTER
| By the end of the quarter | Meet with committee once to discuss progress on MFA project |
YEAR 2 | SPRING
| Week 2 (~April 15) | Meet with committee to review functioning beta version of MFA project and establish Critique Topics. APPROVAL DUE – Studio Review Critique Form |
| Last day of Week 2 (~April 14) | Deadline to apply for Spring graduation FORM DUE – Application for Master’s Degree |
| Lask weekend in April (~April 27) | MFA Exhibition |
| Week 7 (~May 18) | Send Draft of thesis paper to committee, at least 5 days before Oral Defense |
| Week 8 (~May 25) | Meet with committee for Oral Defense. All thesis committee members approve that student passed the Oral Defense, with or without more edits required on thesis before approval. APPROVAL DUE – Oral Defense Review Form |
| Weeks 8-10 | Resubmit thesis paper to committee if edits were requested after Oral Review. |
| *See Grad Div Site (~June 1) | Last day to submit completed thesis via ProQuest upload and ink-signed title page to Grad Division office if you would like your name in the Commencement program. |
| *See Grad Div Site (~June 4th) | Last day to register with Graduate Division for Commencement ceremony |
| Last day of the Quarter (Jun 14) | Final deadline to submit completed thesis via ProQuest upload and ink-signed title page to Grad Division office. The original signatures of your committee on your title page are the final approval of your thesis and allow you to graduate. |
Thesis Process
A two-year MFA program is short and intense. Students begin thinking about their thesis research as early as the application process and continue defining the scope of their research from the very first day of classes. Second year students work almost exclusively on their thesis projects and papers which are the culmination of each student’s research in the program. Thesis projects may be…
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2020 | FALL
| ID | Title | Professor |
| DANM 201 | Recent Methods and Approaches to Digital Arts and Culture | Yolande Harris |
| DANM 202 | Dialogues and Questions in Digital Arts and Culture | Mark Nash |
| DANM 250E | Collaborative Research Group: Experimental Play | Elizabeth Swensen |
| DANM 250F | Research Group: Isaac Julien Studio Lab | Isaac Julien |
| DANM 280 | Seminar in Digital Arts and New Media | Karlton Hester |
| THEA 290A | Text Analysis | Amy Ginther |
| THEA 294 | Future Stages | Marianne Weems |
2021 | WINTER
| ID | Title | Professor |
| DANM 211 | Critique | Jennifer Gonzalez |
| DANM 215 | MFA Exhibition Production | Mark Nash |
| DANM 250E | Collaborative Research Group: Experimental Play | A.M. Darke |
| DANM 250F | Research Group: Isaac Julien Studio Lab | Mark Nash & Isaac Julien |
| DANM 280 | Seminar in Digital Arts and New Media | Karlton Hester |
| DANM 281 | Special Topics in DANM | Isaac Julien |
| DANM 299 | Thesis Research | (various, ind study) |
| THEA 290B | Performance Histories | Michael Chemers |
2021 | SPRING
| ID | Title | Professor |
| DANM 212 | Thesis Proposal | Karlton Hester |
| DANM 250E | Collaborative Research Group: Experimental Play | TBD |
| DANM 250F | Research Group: Isaac Julien Studio Lab | Mark Nash & Isaac Julien |
| DANM 251 / THEA 251 | Graduate Student Production | Marianne Weems |
| DANM 280 | Seminar in Digital Arts and New Media | Robin Hunicke |
| THEA 290C | Performance Analysis | Kate Edmunds |
| DANM 299 | Thesis Research | (various, ind study) |