School of the Arts

School of the Arts
Established	1948
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Dean	Carol Becker
Degrees	MFA
Enrollment	780 students (2005)
Website	arts.columbia.edu/

The School of the Arts (SoA) is Columbia's fine arts school.

History

It was founded in 1948 and is primarily housed in Dodge Hall with additional studio space in Prentis Hall on 125th Street.

Finding space for the school has long been an issue; the performing arts component was slated to move to the Lincoln Center area in the early 2000s, and a new School of the Arts Building was once planned as a major expansion of Prentis. Currently, the school is slated to be among the first to move to new quarters - specifically, a building nicknamed "The Lantern" - at the center of the new Manhattanville campus.

Organisation

The School of the Arts has four internal "divisions", but these are not part of the university-wide designations. The four divisions, of which there is an MFA degree available for each, are as follows:

• Writing Division / Writing Program
• Visual Arts Division / Visual Arts Program
• Theatre Division / Theatre Program
• Film Division / Film Program