Program Overview

Theatre Major

The Theatre Major at Colorado State University is designed for students who are passionate about telling stories through theatrical performances. This program offers a comprehensive education in theatrical storytelling, with a focus on social change and community engagement.

At a Glance

• Degree type: Bachelor of Arts
• Format: On campus
• Part of: College of Liberal Arts
• Audition required: Yes
• Accelerated option: No

Concentrations

The Theatre Major offers several concentrations, allowing students to specialize in a specific area of interest. These concentrations include:

• Musical Theatre: Practice singing, dancing, and acting, along with learning musical-theatre history, theory, and repertoire.
• Performance: Study and practice performance in multiple acting styles and approaches, such as Stanislavski, Meisner, and Suzuki.
• Costume Design and Technology: Develop a unique artistic vision as a costume, makeup, and hair designer and technician.
• Lighting Design and Technology: Explore drafting, computerized/virtual reality pre-visualization, automated lighting programming, and other fields of design.
• Projection Design and Technology: Explore techniques including drafting, virtual reality, content creation, video, and application of emerging technologies.
• Set Design: Explore creative concepts of set design for theatre, musicals, opera, dance, and industry.
• Sound Design and Technology: Explore the techniques sound designers use to develop and communicate their ideas, including recording, mixing, audio engineering, sound control programming, content creation, and application of emerging technologies.

Career Options

As a theatre graduate, students will be well-rounded academically and artistically, with a wide range of career performance opportunities on stage, behind the scenes, in direction, in script writing, costumes and makeup, travel performance, education, and more. Some potential career options include:

• Stage Performer
• Stage/Musical Theatre Director
• Lighting/Sound/Projection Designer
• Production Stage Manager
• Set Designer
• Costume Designer/Makeup Artist
• Artistic Director
• Script Writer/Adapter
• Teacher/Professor

Related CSU Majors

• Music, B.A.
• Apparel and Merchandising, B.A.
• Interior Architecture and Design, B.S.