Question: 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 ?

Context articles: Delaware College of Art and Design
University of Hertfordshire
Doctor of Arts
Li Hongbo
Doctor of Fine Arts
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Penny Siopis
Drama school
Linda Threadgill
Master of Fine Arts

The Delaware College of Art and Design (DCAD) was founded in 1997 through a partnership between the Pratt Institute and the Corcoran College of Art and Design.
 DCAD’s mission is to educate talented and committed students to become art makers, idea generators, problem solvers, and visual communicators who can redefine the way we perceive and experience the world around us.
 DCAD’s associate of fine arts (AFA) degree program is offered in six disciplines: Animation, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, and Photography.
 Apart from the traditional disciplines of the fine artist, these include opportunities in publishing, marketing, computer graphics, advertising, packaging, display design, and photography.
 In addition to studio courses, courses in art history and writing and literature (combined) complete the curriculum.
 Most students transfer to other colleges that offer the BFA degree; Pratt, Corcoran, MICA, RISD, the School of the Chicago Art Institute, PAFA, UArts, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are but some of the fine schools to which students are accepted and attend.
 The College is independently accredited regionally by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and nationally by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
The University of Hertfordshire is a university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
 The university is based largely in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
 Its antecedent institution, Hatfield Technical College, was founded in 1948 and was identified as one of 25 Colleges of Technology in the United Kingdom in 1959.
 In 1992, Hatfield Polytechnic was granted university status by the British government and subsequently renamed University of Hertfordshire.
The Doctor of Arts (D.A.; occasionally D.Arts or Art.D.
 from the Latin "artium doctor") is a discipline-based terminal doctoral degree that was originally conceived and designed to be an alternative to the traditional research-based Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and the education-based Doctor of Education (Ed.D.).
 Like other doctorates, the D.A. is an academic degree of the highest level.
 The D.A. is also frequently conferred as an honorary degree with the added designation of honoris causa.
Li Hongbo () is an artist born in China’s Jilin province in 1974.
 He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Jilin Normal University in 1996, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Folk Art in 2001, MFA degree in Experimental Art in 2010, both from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
 Li Hongbo is best known for his lifelike paper sculptures, made entirely out of paper and glue.
 His work has been exhibited in museums around the world.
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.
Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a graduate-level fine arts institution in Montpelier, Vermont.
 VCFA is a national center for graduate fine arts education with a unique practice-based learning model, internationally renowned faculty, and a range of delivery models — including low residency, intensive conference retreats, and fully residential programs.
 VCFA educates emerging and established artists through the offering of six low residency Master of Fine Arts degrees in the following fields: Writing, Writing for Children & Young Adults, Visual Art, Music Composition, Graphic Design and Film; a residential Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing and Publishing; low residency Master of Arts in Teaching in Art and Design Education; and a low residency Master of Arts in Art and Design Education.
 Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award winners, Newbery Medal honorees, Guggenheim Fellowship and Fulbright Program fellows, and Ford Foundation grant recipients.
Penny Siopis is a South African artist who lives in Cape Town.
 She was born in 1953 in Vryburg in the Northern Cape, a little town to which her Greek parents had moved after inheriting a bakery from her maternal grandfather.
 Siopis studied Fine Arts at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, completing her master's degree in 1976, after which she pursued postgraduate studies at Portsmouth Polytechnic in the United Kingdom.
 She taught Fine Arts at the Technikon Natal in Durban from 1980 to 1983.
 In 1984 she took up a lectureship at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
 During this time she was also visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds (1992-3) and visiting Professor in Fine Arts at Umeå University in Sweden (2000) as part of an interinstitutional exchange.
 She is currently Honorary Professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
A drama school, stage school or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or department at a college or university; or a free-standing institution (such as the Drama section at the Juilliard School); which specializes in the pre-professional training in drama and theatre arts, such as acting, design and technical theatre, arts administration, and related subjects.
 If the drama school is part of a degree-granting institution, undergraduates typically take a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, or, occasionally, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Design.
 Graduate students may take a Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Fine Arts, Doctor of Arts, Doctor of Fine Arts, or Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Linda Threadgill (born 1947) is an American artist whose primary emphasis is metalsmithing.
 Born in Corpus Christi, TX, her early interests in art explored both ceramics and painting.
 She became interested in working with metal while an undergraduate, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia in 1970, where she studied with noted American metalsmith Robert Ebendorf.
 A portfolio of work based on her experimentation with photo-etching and electroforming led her to study with innovative metalsmith Stanley Lechtzin at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, where she was awarded the Teaching Assistantship in the Metals Department, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1978.
 In 1979, she was awarded a Florida Fine Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship based on her studio work.
 Later this same year, she was invited to join the faculty of the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
 In 1983 she was named a Distinguished Member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, and in 1984, received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship.
 In 1994, she received the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research.
 During her tenure on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, she also received 11 University of Wisconsin Faculty Research Grants, and was awarded the University of Wisconsin Outstanding Research Award in 1987, 1995 and 1999.
 She served as a Craftsman Trustee to the American Craft Council from 1996-1999, and in 2000, she was designated Trustee Emerita.
 In 2001, she was named an Artisan Member of the Society of American Silversmiths.
 She headed the Metals Program at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater from 1979-2003, and is Professor Emerita.
 In 2005 she was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council.
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a graduate degree that typically requires two to three years of postgraduate study after a bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Fine Arts), though the term of study varies by country or university.
 The MFA is a creative degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts—or in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.
 The following terminal degree would be a PhD in Practice-Based Research or Practice-Led Research.
 Coursework is primarily of an applied or performing nature with the program often culminating in a major work or performance.