Admissions Requirements

General Application Requirements

• Completed and signed application  
• $35 application fee payable to Eastern University 
• Official transcript from the College or University that you graduated from
• Undergraduate degree with 2.5 GPA minimum  
• Current resume (emailed in Word doc or PDF format to gpsadm@eastern.edu)
• If you would like to mail a hard copy of your resume instead of an electronic version send it with your application fee check to:

Education and Experience Requirement

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in an art form: music, dance, drama, visual arts, graphic design, videography, or  
• Completion of a minor concentration in an art form with a demonstrated high level of competency in the art form, or  
• Completion of an undergraduate degree with significant formal training and demonstrated proficiency in an art form  
• Presentation of a portfolio demonstrating a high level of artistic attainment  
• A minimum of one year volunteer or work experience in a community arts organization or volunteer community work

Essay Requirement (writing sample)

• Signed and dated (printed name and date is acceptable if submitted electronically);
• Minimum 1000 words total for all three questions
• Email all questions in a single Word document or PDF to gpsadm@eastern.edu
• If you desire to send a hard copy mail it to

1. Describe your career goals and how the arts in transformation program will help you to fulfill them.  
2. Briefly define poverty and explain how you believe the arts in transformation program can be used to confront poverty.  
3. People working in community arts are faced with many ethical dilemmas throughout their work. Below are two examples. Please pick one and explain how you would respond or react to the situation.

a. You are working in a homeless shelter developing a mural with 80 children and youth. During the ten week artistic experience how would you use the arts to teach artistic skill, academic improvement, social skills and spiritual development?

b. During the teaching of an after-school arts program you discover that a teenage young man has voluntarily left his home because of abuse, neglect and drug addiction of their single parent. He is now living with friends and sometimes on the street. How would you become involved or not, in this situation?

Contact Us

Urban Studies Department
Campolo College of Graduate and Professional Studies
Eastern University | Philadelphia
3300 Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19129

P: 215-769-3121
F: 215-848-2651
E: urbanma@eastern.edu