The graduate interdisciplinary specialization in fine arts (GISFA) makes it possible for students who want to pursue a broad-based art education or a close focus in a second art field, beyond their major program of study, to do so. A programmatic approach to interdisciplinarity among artists pursuing their graduate degrees at the Ohio State University, the GISFA program offers such students a well-rounded, pedagogically founded sequence of courses (even as the program has enough flexibility to be tailored to fit any single student’s particular needs), providing what will essentially constitute a “graduate minor” in art-making that cuts across all arts disciplines, earned concurrently with the M.F.A. (or the equivalent degree in other fields—e.g., the M.M. or D.M.A. in Music) in the student’s own discipline.
