Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) is doctoral degree in fine arts, may be given as an honorary degree, or an earned professional degree, in the UK, which university in Hertfordshire, offer this programme ?
Doctor of Fine Arts Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) is doctoral degree in fine arts, may be given as an honorary degree (a degree "honoris causa") or an earned professional degree (in the UK). Doctoral programmes leading to DFAs are of equivalent level as a PhD, with the same requirement to demonstrate new knowledge, but typically contain a practical component and a more structured programme of learning than a PhD. DFA programmes are offered by universities including University of Hertfordshire and University of East London.
Stephen Ben Cox Stephen Ben Cox (born 1950) is an English artist (painter and sculptor), gardener, and author/historian. He was born and brought up in a village in Gloucestershire England, and rural themes and landscape came to dominate all aspects of his life. From 1968-1972 he studied art at the University of Reading (under Terry Frost, Claude Rogers, Rita Donagh, amongst others)to obtain his B.A. degree. In 1973-74 he was one of three British Council post-graduate scholars to Romania 1973-74 living and researching in Bucharest (during the Cold War) but travelling all over the country, especially Transylvania. This was during the Ceauşescu period of Communist rule. On returning to England he taught in British schools and then did post-graduate study at Reading University to obtain his teaching qualification PGCE (Post-Graduate Certificate in Education), then became an art teacher, interior designer/decorator and practising professional and exhibiting artist for many years.