The following letter was sent directly to Godoy; Bert's query from Sweden suggests that the information will be useful to others. My offer to answer specific questions stands for anyone who wishes to write. Cal ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 20:52:33 EST From: Cal <PRYLUCK@TEMPLEVM> Subject: Re: MFA/PhD Info To: Helio Augusto Godoy de Souza <GODOY@BRUFMS> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 20 Feb 1992 16:58:52 BR I read your appeal for information on SCREEN-L. My department covers a number of areas indicated by the department name. There are seven of us who teach film and video production, history, criticism; the three people who do not teach production have the Ph. D. degree; one of them also has an MFA but has not taught production for many years, by his choice. The other four all have MFA degrees. They teach all of the production courses and some of the history and criticism courses. Of the three in history/criticism, one is a full professor (soon to retire), the other two are tenured associate professors Among the four teaching principally production, one is a full professor, the others are associate professors with tenure. Three members of this latter group have international reputations for their productions; all three of the history/criticism group have international reputations. The Temple University program for the Master of Fine Arts also has an international reputation; one-third to one-half of our candidates for the MFA are overseas students, many from Asia, some from Europe, occasionally one from South America. Our MFA graduates are teaching all over the world (that is many go home to successful careers as teachers and producers). At least one of our MFA graduates is a full professor at a very prestigious university in the United States. Still, despite the success of our MFA graduates we on the faculty have the sense that many incoming students want the additional education that goes with completing a Ph. D. degree. Certainly university administrators feel more comfortable with faculty members who hold the Ph. D. even when the MFA degree is more appropriate for the teaching they are expected to do. Because of these circumstances we suspect that the pressure for a doctorate even for conservatory-type teaching will get stronger. We are in the final stages of introducing a new degree program which will combine the MFA and Ph. D. To enter the program for a doctorate a student must have the MFA or demonstrated equivalent skills. The program will be rigorous on both the production side and the history/criticism/theory side. It is unclear at this time whether it will be possible to complete a script or production in lieu of the dissertation. Is this the sort of information you wanted? I'll be glad to send further details or answer specific questions. Cal Pryluck <PRYLUCK@TEMPLEVM> Dept of Radio-Television-Film <[log in to unmask]> Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122