Master of Fine Arts
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈmæstər əv faɪn ɑrts/
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Máster en Bellas Artes
- Last academic year, I was excited to begin studying for my Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing at Big Name School.
Examples
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Lee left Taiwan in 1978 and relocated to the United States, where he completed a Master of Fine Arts in Directing at New York University in Manhattan.
Academic text (2009) -
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Cal Arts and a Master of Fine Arts at UC San Diego.
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That summer was my last at the University of Iowa; I had a Master of Fine Arts degree and, beginning in the fall, a job as a teacher in Massachusetts.
Fiction book (1997) -
Education: San Francisco Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, 1982; Academy of Art College, San Francisco, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture.
Blog text (24) -
When in January 1985 I entered a Master of Fine Arts in Writing program, it had been nearly twenty years since I'd read at all widely in poetry.
Academic text (1992) -
Weaving those elements together with folding fans was the unlikely start to the novel, which began as my Master of Fine Arts thesis.
Blog text (7) -
Robert Root is professor emeritus of English at Central Michigan University and honored visiting faculty in the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing at Ashland University.
Blog text (16) -
ADA LIMON received her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at New York University, where she studied with the current U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, among others.
Blog text (28) -
I actually have a Master of Fine Arts in poetry.
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Last academic year, I was excited to begin studying for my Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing at Big Name School.
Synonyms
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6.1
A postgraduate university degree in art or creative writing
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'master' (a master's degree) + 'of' + 'fine' (refined/creative) + 'arts' (creative disciplines), so a learner who knows these words can infer it denotes a master's degree in the fine arts. The 'Master of [discipline]' naming pattern is widespread and follows regular English academic noun phrase formation, making its meaning readily derivable for B1 learners.
Etymology
Master of Fine Arts comes from older uses of master to mean a very skilled teacher and fine arts to mean arts made for beauty, like painting, theatre, or creative writing. So the name shows that a person has reached high skill in those arts and has finished a higher 'degree' in them.