The core curriculum includes Graduate Studio and Critiques augmented by specialized courses in Collaborative Projects, Topics in Social Practice Art, and Public Realm Seminars.

The area of emphasis also features professional practice courses such as Field Methodologies and Field Internships, providing unique opportunities?to work outside Otis College with well-known artists, activists, critics, and curators from around the world.?

Each student?s individualized learning plan includes electives in studio art courses, critical theory, and independent studies.?Students can take classes in other graduate programs??Writing, Fine Arts, and Graphic Design??and in other departments across the College. The full range of Otis College shops, faculty, courses, and library is available for students' production.

Program alumni?have worked with?artists including?Kim?Abeles,?Marc?Bamuthi Joseph, Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe, Mary Miss, and on projects?organized with Creative Time, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Liverpool?Biennial, Transforma at?Prospect I, and the?Venice Biennale.??