Hi, Cameron,
Your point is well taken, but I'd suggest a modest amendment. The College
Art Associate resolved many of the problems in the early 1970s by developing
a North American standard describing the MFA degree as the terminal degree
for advanced professional practice in art and design. This became the degree
teaching for teaching professional skills. It is not a research degree.
Thus, one might well describe the DDes as a "post-terminal degree."
The PhD remains terminal degree for advanced research practice in all
fields. This degree is the degree required for teaching research skills and
supervising research students. It is a research degree, and it is therefore
not post-terminal.
If one earns an MFA and a PhD, one has two terminal degrees of different kinds.
Yours,
Ken
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:05:28 -0500, Cameron Tonkinwise
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>In an attempt to negotiate the particularities of the
>US situation that Gunnar identifies, I have tried to
>characterize a PhD (or DDes) as a
>'post-terminal degree,'
>though that clearly results in some branding problems.
>Cameron
>
>
>On 12/12/09 11:45 AM, "Swanson, Gunnar" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Many of us who supervise Master of
>> Fine Arts students are acutely aware that, at least in the United States, the
>> MFA is a degree that serves as a license to teach the MFA's subject matter at
>> the university level. How does the de facto license to teach fit into this?
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