Admissions Requirements

General Application Requirements

• Completed and signed application  
• Undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited university (2.5 GPA min.)
• $35 application fee payable to Eastern University 
• Official transcript (Postmarked to GPS Admissions) from any college or university that you have attended
• Current resume 
• A signed disclosure of online learning
• Completed essay questions

Return Application Materials to:

• By fax: 215-848-2651
• By email:urbanstudies@eastern.edu
• By mail:
  Eastern University
  GPS Admissions
  1300 Eagle Rd      
  St. Davids, PA 19087-3696

Additional Requirements

• 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 AND
• A portfolio demonstrating a high level of artistic attainment. Electronic submissions required. Learn more about the portfolio requirements AND
• 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 four questions
• Email all questions in a single Word document or PDF to urbanstudies@eastern.edu
• The essay questions are as follows:

1. Discuss your faith experience and spiritual development.
2. Describe your career goals and how the arts in transformation program will help you to fulfill them.  
3. Briefly define poverty and explain how you believe the arts in transformation program can be used to confront poverty.  
4. 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. 
   • 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? 
   • 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?