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School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology

The School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology offers a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Performing Arts with a Theatre Concentration. This interdisciplinary program allows students to explore the arts through a combination of writing, interdisciplinary studies, professional development, historical context, theory, and practice.

Visual and Performing Arts (BA) with Theatre Concentration

The Theatre concentration focuses on student work in areas of theatre, including Acting, Stage Management, Technical Theatre, Design, Musical Theatre, Directing, Voice Over, Playwriting, Dance, and Production Ensemble. Students will also develop knowledge in theatre history and literature.

Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Performing Arts with Theatre Concentration

The degree requirements for this program consist of 120 semester credit hours.

Faculty

The faculty for this program includes:

• Professors: Fred I. Curchack, Thomas P. Riccio
• Clinical Assistant Professor: Shelby Hibbs
• Professor of Instruction: Kathy Lingo

Degree Requirements

The degree requirements are as follows:

Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours

• Communication: 6 semester credit hours
  • RHET 1302 Rhetoric
  • COMM 1311 Survey of Oral and Technology-based Communication or COMM 1315 Public Speaking
• Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses
• Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences Core courses
• Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture Core courses
• Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
  • THEA 1310 Understanding Theatre
• American History: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History Core courses
• Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
  • GOVT 2305 American National Government and GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Social and Behavioral Sciences Core courses
• Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses

Major Requirements, Lower-Division: 6 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum

• THEA 1310 Understanding Theatre
• 3 semester credit hours from a THEA studio course
• 3 semester credit hours from a THEA/DANC/MUSI studio ensemble course

Major Requirements, Upper-Division: 39 semester credit hours

• Major Core Courses: 15 semester credit hours
  • VPAS 3340 Writing in the Arts
  • VPAS 4389 Theory and Practice of the Visual and Performing Arts
  • VPAS 4390 Senior Capstone or VPAS 4V99 Senior Honors in Visual and Performing Art
  • 3 semester credit hours of upper-level Related Courses from the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (excluding the THEA prefix)
  • Select 3 semester credit hours of Professional Development Courses
• Theatre Concentration Requirements: 24 semester credit hours
  • THEA 3323 Performance in Historical Context
  • THEA 3310 Theatre/Performance Ensemble or 3 semester credit hours of THEA 3V10 Technical Theatre Practicum
  • 12 semester credit hours of upper-level THEA courses
  • 3 semester credit hours of upper-division THEA/DANC/MUSI courses
  • 3 semester credit hours of upper-division Visual and Performing Arts elective

Elective Requirements: 33 semester credit hours

• Free Electives: 33 semester credit hours
  • Both upper- and lower-division courses may be used as electives. Students are encouraged to enroll in courses in other performance areas, such as dance and music.

Additional Requirements

• The plan must include sufficient upper-division courses to total 45 upper-division semester credit hours.
• Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of AHTC 1100.
• Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course. Students, including transfer students, who complete their core curriculum at UT Dallas must take UNIV 2020.