Doctor of Arts

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British actor Nigel Planer wearing the academic dress of a Doctor of Arts, awarded as an honorary degree by Edinburgh Napier University

The Doctor of Arts (D.A.; occasionally D.Arts or Art.D. from the

honoris causa
.

The Carnegie Foundation was the first to fund ten universities with seed money to initiate the degree.

The D.A. differs from the Ph.D. and Ed.D. degrees in its shift in emphasis from research (though a project or thesis is generally required) to the advanced study of a specific discipline, content area expertise, learning theory, and curriculum design. As such, it is often described as a "teaching doctorate". The D.A. differs from the Ed.D. in its strong disciplinary focus, while still embracing the Ed.D.'s concern for issues in education, and a theoretical as well as practical preparation in pedagogy.[citation needed]

National variations

Australia

In Australia, the Doctor of Creative Arts degree is offered at several universities as a terminal degree in the field.

Europe

In 2016,

Society for Artistic Research
.

In

dissertation
in the fields of art and design.

North America

While the PhD is the most common doctoral degree in the United States,

U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation recognize a number of research-oriented doctoral degrees such as the D.A. as "equivalent",[3][4]
and do not discriminate between them.

The idea for a Doctor of Arts degree was originally proposed at the 1932 meeting of the Association of American Universities by Wallace Atwood, then president of Clark University. However, it was not until in 1967, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, that Carnegie Mellon University (formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology), began to offer the D.A. in Mathematics, History, English and Fine Arts.[5] The first Doctor of Arts degree in the United States was awarded in 1968, by Carnegie Mellon University, to Donald H. Taranto in the field of mathematics. Guiding principles for the Doctor of Arts degree were established in 1970 by the Committee on Graduate Studies of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and by the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States. Additional support was provided by the Carnegie Foundation in 1971.[6]

The National Doctor of Arts Association (NDAA) was founded in 1991 at Idaho State University.

South America

In Argentina, the Doctorate of Arts is offered by the National University of Córdoba and the National University of Rosario.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The 'Florence Principles' On the Doctorate in the Arts" (PDF). ELIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-21.
  2. ^ "Digest of Education Statistics, 2018". nces.ed.gov. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  3. ^ "Structure of the U.S. Education System: Research Doctorate Degrees". February 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
  4. ^ Research Doctorate Degrees
  5. .