Program Overview

Theatre Design/Tech Degree

Overview

The Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Theatre Design/Tech is a four-year program that prepares students to work professionally in the areas of scenic, lighting, sound, props, and costume design, stage management, scenic construction, and other areas of theatre production.

Program Details

• Program Type: Major
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 4 years
• Credit Hours: 120

Program Description

The emphasis on design & technology prepares students to work professionally in the areas of scenic, lighting, sound, props, and costume design, stage management, scenic construction, and other areas of theatre production.

Requirements

• Core Theatre Courses: Students complete a selection of core theatre courses, encompassing various aspects of theatre.
• Customized Coursework: After completing the core in each concentration, the student's subsequent coursework is customized.
• Laboratory Work: Students gain practical experience in costuming, stagecraft, stage lighting, stage management, and theatrical makeup through laboratory work.

Marketable Skills

• Analytical Knowledge of Historical/Social Context
• Teamwork
• Oral and Written Communication
• Multi-cultural/Diversity Competencies
• Workplace Resourcefulness/Innovation

Theatre Design/Tech Degree Highlights

• Unique Performance Opportunities: Qualified undergraduate students perform lead roles, direct public productions, stage-manage, and design scenery, costumes, lights, make-up, and wigs.
• Faculty Expertise: Faculty members are outstanding teachers as well as active professionals and renowned researchers.
• Facilities: The Department of Dance and Theatre maintains the University Theater (409-seat proscenium theatre) and the Studio Theater (160-seat black box), and the technical facilities to support the annual season.
• Student Organizations: Students are part of two student organizations — the Drama Lab and the Alpha Psi Omega national honor society — that provide performance and networking opportunities.

Career Paths

• Acting (both stage and film)
• Acting Coach
• Artist-in-Residence
• Box Office Manager
• Directing
• Drama Education and Criticism
• Lighting, Costume, Makeup, Props, Scenery, or Sound Design
• Marketing Director
• Producing
• Stage Crew Member
• Stage Managing
• Theatrical Photographer
• Theatre Teacher at an Elementary or Secondary School

Theatre Design/Tech Degree Courses

• Rehearsal and Performance for the Stage (1-3 hrs)
• Advanced Scenic Painting for the Theatre (3 hrs)
• Scenic Design (3 hrs)
• Costume I (3 hrs)
• Theatrical Makeup (3 hrs)
• Design/Tech and The Profession (3 hrs)

Related Programs

• Theatre Technologies Certificate
• Dance Minor
• Music & Performing Arts
• STEM
• College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
• Department of Dance and Theatre