Project #5 Graduate School

The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences
The Master of Fine Arts program in Theatre Management

Students gain invaluable academic and objective experience from the two environments. The program allows for a very high degree of personal contact and involvement in the operation of the University Theatre. To maintain that environment, enrollment in the program is limited to a maximum of three students admitted each year.

The Degree Requirements
A total of 60 semester hours is required for the Master of Fine Arts Degree. Students will fill those hours with the following class requirements:

• Marketing the Arts (3 hours)
• Arts Advocacy and Public Policy (3 hours)
• Fundraising & Financial Management for the Arts (3 hours)
• Business & Legal Issues in the American Theatre (3 hours)
• Graduate Theatre Practicum (2 hours)
• Additional courses in Theatre Management/Arts Administration (40 hours)

Students will select 6 hours from the following:

• Organizational Theory and Behavior (3 hours)
• Human Resource Management (3 hours)
• Management Communications (3 hours)
• Small Business Consulting (3 hours)
• Industrial Relations (3 hours)

The Application Procedure
Candidates for admission to the Theatre Management program must meet the admission criteria established by the University of Alabama Graduate School. Candidates for the program must:

1.	Applicants must complete a baccalaureate degree in an arts or arts related field with a minimum 3.0 GPA (major/cumulative).
2.	Applicant must submit a COMPLETED APPLICATION (including ALL requested materials) by January 1st for fall admission. Late applications or applications with late material will not be considered.
3.	Applicant must submit a resume, to be mailed to the Program Director, detailing educational and any related professional experience.
4.	Applicant must submit three (3) letters of recommendation directly to the Program Director from three (3) seperate sources. At least one (1) letter must be from a professor in your undergraduate major or in your proposed field of graduate study. Click here for instructions on preparing the letters of recommendation.
5.	The admissions committee will review completed applications (all requested material included) during the second week of January. Because of the number of applications, only select applicants will be asked to interview. Applicants who are asked to interview are encouraged to present a portfolio of related work (i.e. marketing materials, writing samples, budget samples, or other projects to showcase their strenghts.)

Graduate Assistantships
Degree candidates in this program are awarded assistantships that provide a stipend of $1212 per month and full tuition.


Indiana Unversity Bloomington, Department of Theatre
Master of Arts

General Information
The candidate for the Master of Arts degree is expected to be familiar with all areas of study in theatre and drama but, in accordance with the student's aims and prior training, may be allowed to concentrate his/her study largely in one area. Usually the thesis subject or project the candidate selects will determine the area of concentration. In that area the candidate must acquire a mastery sufficient to allow him/her to do independent thinking and to demonstrate the results in a thesis. All graduate students are expected to supplement the knowledge acquired in courses by participating in the various production activities of the department and by independent reading and study.

Requirements and Qualifications:

1. An adequate undergraduate academic background for graduate study in theatre and drama. This should include at least three undergraduate courses in the general area of theatre production: one of these must have been in either Acting or Directing; another in Costuming, Lighting, Scenic Design, or Stagecraft; and at least three courses in the area of Theatre History, Dramatic Literature, and Dramatic Theory.
2. An understanding of research methods and a general knowledge of bibliographical resources in theatre and drama.
3. A well-balanced program of at least 30 semester hours including:
   • T500, Introduction to Graduate Study and Research (1.5 cr.)
   • T501, Historiography (1.5 cr.)
   • At least 20 semester hours in the department (which may include T500 and five semester hours of credit in T895, MA Thesis). The remaining ten semester hours may be taken in the department or an allied field (or fields) outside the department. (The student must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 in all coursework taken for graduate credit.)
   • At least 15 semester hours in courses numbered 500 or above (which may include T500 and T895).
4. Language Requirement. The ability to translate scholarly materials on theatre from one foreign language must be demonstrated.
5. A minimum of two semesters, or equivalent summer sessions, in residence at Indiana University. (The entire MA program must be completed within a five-year period.)
6. The mastery of a specific topic, demonstrated by a thesis and an oral examination upon it and appropriate materials or a Master's Essay.

University of Washington, Department of Drama
Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism

The Ph.D. program provides comprehensive training in theatre scholarship with a dual emphasis on theatre and performance history and dramatic theory. Particular strengths of the program include American, English and Classical studies, race and gender studies, semiotics, Asian and post-colonial theory. The plan of study addresses a full range of Western and Non-Western materials from the ancient to the postmodern.

Graduates of the program have gone on to careers as university professors, arts administrators, dramaturgs and critics. Most applicants have theatre degrees and stage experience, but production work is not an integral part of the doctoral program.

Program Information

Coursework within the School consists of three years of study including a sequence of 16 seminars (8 in history/8 in theory), a reading quarter and qualifying and comprehensive examinations. Students also enroll in a minimum of three upper level courses outside the School of Drama and must complete an upper level reading course in a foreign language.

Topics in the history sequence have included Drama in the Industrial Age , Communism and Capitalism , and Sources and Antiquity . From the seminars, students are encouraged to develop original research and to present their work at professional conferences, leading to publication in academic journals.

The fourth year of the program is devoted to writing a dissertation under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Recent doctoral dissertations have explored semiotics, feminism, medieval traditions, American theatre history, contemporary English and German drama, ethnicity and performance theory.