M.A. Degree Requirements

Candidates for the master’s degree in Theatre and Film elect an emphasis in Theatre Studies or Film/Media. The candidate’s program begins with the core requirements listed below and culminates in a thesis. To be admitted, a student will ordinarily be expected to have a Graduate Record Examination score of at least 600 (verbal), 500 (quantitative), and 4.5 (analytical writing). Students who took the GRE before the implementation of the analytical writing section (i.e. before October 2002) will be expected to have an analytical score of 600 or above. To complete the M.A., the student must sustain a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher through 33 graduate credit hours.

M.A. in Theatre Studies (33 hours)

Department Core.
To be taken the first semester in residence:
TH&F 800 Introduction to Graduate Study in Theatre and Film ..........................................................................3

Theatre Studies Core.
Methodology.
TH&F 702 Graduate Seminar in: (Historiography) ...........3
TH&F 702 Graduate Seminar in: (Theory and Criticism) ..3

Production.
Choose two courses in either directing or scenography: ..6
A. Directing
TH&F 609 Play Directing (3)
TH&F 715 Problems and Techniques of Direction (3)
TH&F 815 Advanced Play Production (3-6)
B. Scenography
TH&F 516 Scenic Painting Techniques (3)
TH&F 517 Computer-aided Design for Theatre, Film, and Video (3)
TH&F 518 Scenography I (3)
TH&F 519 Scenography II (3)
TH&F 618 Scenography III (3)
TH&F 619 Scenography IV (3)

General Theatre Studies Concentration.
Fifteen hours of courses from graduate offerings in theatre history, dramatic literature, history and criticism: .........15
Of these 15 hours, up to 6 may be graduate courses from other areas such as film studies, child psychology, American studies, African and African-American studies, women’s studies, developmental psychology, English, and pertinent offerings from language and culture programs.

Completion of the Degree.
An oral examination structured around a thesis based on scholarly and/or creative research:
TH&F 899 Master’s Thesis ..........................................3

All courses must be selected in consultation with the adviser.