Theatre Degrees
SOU’s Theatre program focuses entirely on undergraduate students. Experience close working relationships with faculty who are specialists in every aspect of theatrical study.
Undergraduate Degrees
Theatre, BFA
Offered as a Bachelor of Fine Arts
The BFA degree is appropriate for students who are preparing for professional careers in theatre. BFA candidates must select an area of concentration for their degree. Students pursuing the BFA degree are expected to complete a thesis project in their area of concentration.
Theatre, BFA (Performance Concentration)
Offered as a Bachelor of Fine Arts
The Performance Concentration offers intensive, conservatory-style training to actors and performers working towards professional careers in the arts. Students accepted into the Performance Concentration will complete sequenced coursework in acting, movement, and voice and speech.
Graduate Degrees
Master of Theatre Studies: Production and Design
Offered as a Master of Theatre Studies in Production and Design
An intensive program specifically designed for working high school and community college theatre teachers provides thorough training in the essential script analysis, design, and production aspects of the theatrical process. All TA 521 through TA 543 courses for the Master of Theatre Studies meet on the SOU campus over three summers.
Certificate Program
Certificate in Character and Costume Design
Offered as an Academic Certification
Students will learn the elements of design, project, and character analysis as they investigate how what we wear tells its own story.
Certificate in Directing and Devising
Offered as an Academic Certification
The Certificate in Directing and Devising provides students with a curriculum in these two diverse approaches to a theatre project.
Certificate in Lighting Design and Technology
Offered as an Academic Certification
Before the curtain rises or the director shouts, “Camera. Action!” designers and technicians have filled the scene with light.
Certificate in Musical Theatre
Offered as an Academic Certification
The Certificate in Musical Theatre develops proficiency in the three major disciplines of musical theatre – singing, acting, and dance.
Certificate in Production Fabrication
Offered as an Academic Certification
This certificate is for students pursuing careers in technology and fabrication for live performance, cinema, and emerging media.
Certificate in Scenic and Environment Design
Offered as an Academic Certification
Maybe it started in the sandbox, or Lego, or drawing treacherous terrains for role playing games. If you love creating worlds then the Certificate in Scenic and Environment Design could be for you.
Certificate in Shakespeare Studies
Offered as an Academic Certification
The Certificate in Shakespeare Studies at SOU encompasses the study of Shakespeare’s language and analyses of his plays–as historical artifacts embedded in Elizabethan-Jacobean culture, as objects of ongoing critical-theoretical scrutiny, and as scripts for performance.
Certificate in Theatre and Arts Management
Offered as an Academic Certification
The Certificate in Theatre and Arts Management offers a wide range of training for students pursuing careers in arts leadership.
Contact the Theatre Program
SOU Theatre Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6346
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