Drama department
Areas of study for doctoral candidates
- Autobiographical performance
- Drama and education
- Embodiment
- Oral art, voice and speech
- Site-specific performance
Music department
Areas of study for doctoral candidates
- African art music (with focus on South and West Africa)
- Music aesthetics
- Music analysis
- Music and evolutionary theory / Palaeomusicology
- Music composition
- South African art music in the European tradition
Visual Arts department
Areas of study for doctoral candidates
- Archival studies
- Critical citizenship
- Design discourse: in general; illustration and design in particular
- Drawing education
- Enactionist cognitivism in drawing
- Fine Arts discourse: painting, artists' books and photography
- Gender and performativity
- Gender and the visual media
- Habitus and drawing
- Multiculturalism and art education
- Nationalism and the visual arts
- Perception and vision in drawing
- Phenomology of drawing
- Photographic discourse
- Photography
- Postcolonial studies
- Queer theory
- Social responsibility
- Theories of subjectivity
- Theory of drawing
- Trait in drawing
- Trans studies
- Visual communication design/graphic design
