New degrees
We believe that through the study of design and the arts, you gain the knowledge and skills to become the change-makers of the world.
New degrees
BA in Art (Art Studies) (Online)
The BA in art with a concentration in art studies is a multidisciplinary program with a broad educational foundation in the arts and General Studies with a curriculum unparalleled in its scope of course offerings from across the university. This concentration offers students a great deal of flexibility in planning coursework. Students, in consultation with faculty advisors, can design a course of study focused on their individual aspirations. This uniquely open degree program features coursework in art history, studio art, and a range of arts-related topics, including performing arts and the history of performance, and fields such as African and African American studies, American Indian studies, history, languages and literature, and women's studies.
BA in Film (Filmmaking Practices) (Los Angeles)
Students who pursue the BA in film with a concentration in filmmaking practices receive grounding in fundamental production skills; entertainment and media ethics; feature, short and episodic screenwriting; and general film and media industry history and practices. The Los Angeles location for the BA in film with a concentration in filmmaking practices is accepting transfer students with an associate degree in film or media production from select California community colleges for the fall 2022 term.
MA in Narrative and Emerging Media
The Los Angeles-based MA in Narrative and Emerging Media (MA-NEM) focuses on the development of a creative practice and critical understanding of emerging storytelling and immersive experience content creation in augmented, virtual and extended reality, and short-form digital, streaming and virtual production. The program is a collaborative effort between the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
MSD in Design (Experience Design)
The MSD program with a concentration in experience design focuses on design practices for virtual experiences in extended reality technologies, including environmental design, programmatic in both real and virtual universes, rapid prototyping, storytelling and worldbuilding. This program is unique among emerging media programs, with the application of these technologies and practices in socially engaged and transdisciplinary modalities, taking tools that evolved primarily from and for entertainment and applying them to the modeling of real-world challenges and futures.
MS in Innovation and Venture Development
The Master of Science in Innovation and Venture Development is a one-year, transdisciplinary partnership between three leading schools at ASU: the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and W. P. Carey School of Business. Students will be part of a small founding team expected to create and develop a start-up venture and defend it, supported by the MSIVD ecosystem of faculty, like-minded peers, and mentors. This is an experience-based program that prepares students to lead cross-disciplinary teams, identify needs and evaluate opportunities, and create and launch scalable business models that provide value to all stakeholders. Students leave with a road map for successful ventures, whether they’re looking to start something on their own or lead innovation inside a large organization.
MS in Futures and Design
The MS program in futures and design combines future-focused theories and practices, including speculative design, science fiction and foresight studies, to investigate and craft alternative futures. Students learn a range of future-oriented theories and methods used today by organizations --- and invent the theories and methods of tomorrow. Students explore a variety of epistemological perspectives and experiential processes to systematically define complex problems and explore robust strategies of change. In doing so, they diversify their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
MS in Digital Culture (Extended Reality Technologies)
The MS program in digital culture with a concentration in extended reality technologies focuses on the development of innovative tools and methodologies for extended reality and immersive technologies, including simulation, visualization, interaction, computer vision, human-computer interaction, experience design, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Students develop a fundamental understanding of how emerging media technologies can be used to create virtual worlds that simulate the existing world alongside entirely new ones. In addition, students develop skills in programming languages and software applications necessary to these production workflows, and they have the ability to manage projects; work effectively in collaborative teams transform research into creative and technological products and reflect upon the ethical, cultural and social frameworks within which their work occurs.
New certificates
Music Entrepreneurship (Certificate) undergraduate and graduate
Music entrepreneurship is a discipline that intersects the traditional music disciplines. Music entrepreneurship harnesses the skills and mindset of the entrepreneur to empower musicians to create work that is meaningful, sustainable and oriented to community and market need.
Students in a music degree program and non-music degree students with a background in music benefit from the business, marketing and organizational skills they develop through the certificate courses as applied specifically to and within the arts.
New minors
Minor in Music Theatre
The minor program in music theatre allows students with a background, interest or passion in music theatre to continue their studies and further explore the craft.
Students develop skills through performance-based small group classes and private instruction, and coursework also includes the study of theoretical and historical elements of music and theatre.

Are you interested in one of our new degrees?
Contact Herberger Admissions
Our admission representatives in the Herberger Institute specialize in all design and arts disciplines and can help you find the perfect degree program.
Call the Herberger Admissions and Recruitment Office at 480-727-4757 or email HerbergerAdmissions@asu.edu.