Majoring & Minoring: Bachelor of Fine Arts

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre allows students to focus intensively on artistic, academic and production aspects of the theatre discipline. A set of core courses is required for all BFA and BA students. Students pursuing the BFA may choose from the Acting, Design and Technology and Musical Theatre Emphases.

In addition, students who wish to pursue the BFA are admitted to candidacy for that degree only after successfully completing a review process at the end of the fall semester of their sophomore year. Prior to this review process, students are requested to complete the Theatre History and Historiography I, Stagecraft, Voice and Movement, Design Fundamentals and Fundamentals of Acting courses and three semesters of Technical Theatre Laboratory.

In the three semesters prior to their review, students are also required to participate in all departmental auditions and to work as a member of a production staff as an actor or technician each semester. Following the successful completion of the BFA review process, candidates must continue to audition for all department productions and perform or design or work as production assistants for at least one department production per semester. To maintain the status as BFA candidates and to graduate with the BFA degree, students must successfully complete a jury presentation at the end of the spring semester of their sophomore, junior and senior years.

In addition, BFA candidates are required to present an audition or portfolio to prospective employers at a major theatre conference such as the Southwestern Theatre Association, Southeastern Theatre Conference, USITT or other approved activities.