Training
•Bullet: The 42-semester-hour BA core combines acting, design and technology, community-engaged theatre, script analysis, dramaturgy, contemporary performance, collaboration, arts entrepreneurship, a senior project, production work, and advisor-approved electives
•Bullet: Students work with an advisor to shape a creative emphasis around interests such as acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, film production, playwriting, stage management, or theatre management
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: The Theatre & Film program presents two to three mainstage productions each year alongside student-driven theatre works and film projects
•Bullet: Students can participate in mainstage shows, film productions, and student work from the beginning of their college experience
Professional Development
•Bullet: The curriculum connects theatrical practice with arts entrepreneurship and civic engagement, and the catalog identifies internship opportunities in art therapy, cultural tourism, and youth theatre
Facilities
•Bullet: Renovated Harper-McNeeley Auditorium has expanded backstage space, a modern lighting and rigging system, and adaptable seating for approximately 350 to 1,000 audience members
•Bullet: The Boiler House scene shop supports work with materials from foam to steel, while found-space productions use campus mansions, an outdoor pavilion and amphitheatre, a chapel, and community venues
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: Twelve advisor-approved elective credits may come from Theatre and Film or related Art, Business, Communication, and English courses; Theatre majors also complete a department-approved minor
