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Program
Requirements
Theater/Scene Design,
MFA
(Concentration: Lighting Design)
Campus
Location:
Main Campus
Full-time/Part-time
Status
Students are required to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m.
General
Program Requirements:
Number of Didactic credits
required beyond the Baccalaureate:
66
Required Courses:
Theater 407, 408, 440, 441, 463, 464, 467, 472, 473, 994 plus several course specific to the students design emphasis as decided by the student and approved by the design faculty.
Students must earn credits in the following areas: thirty-three credits in required courses (above), fifteen credits in lighting design, six credits (one per semester) for production seminar. The remaining credits are determined by consultation and approval of the design faculty, with the student developing his or her own program of study based on individual interests, academic needs and talent.
Internship:
False
Language Examination:
False
Culminating
Events:
Thesis
Thesis 1 - The Master’s Thesis is typically a realized and produced production design, executed by the Theater Department as part of their mainstage season. The underlying premise is to create and produce a professional design within a professional production. Along with gathering all research, creating all designs, drafts, renderings, models, and samples for the design, the student is required to write a document defending the design and explaining the process.Thesis 2 - Students meet with their Thesis advisors throughout the period of designing and executing the show as well as meeting with advisors during the writing of the Thesis.Thesis 3 - The Thesis advisor, in consultation with the Design Faculty and the Artistic Staff of the production, discusses the progress and results of the Thesis.
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