Teacher Education Students interested in teaching careers should contact the Office of Admissions and request brochures on elementary and secondary education programs at Ball State. This program, administered by the Department of Speech Communication, prepares you for certification to teach and direct theatre in Indiana public schools. It offers a variety of speech, interpretation, and theatre classes. This minor combines course work in speech, theatre, and telecommunications. The Department of Theatre and Dance awards seven to nine Fine Arts Scholarships each year to new theatre and dance students.
All scholarships are available on the basis of an audition or portfolio review.
Theatre and dance faculty have written books and articles for professional journals, have acted, directed, or danced professionally, and have served in professional associations. All are active in theatre or dance productions on and off campus. The University Theatre is across the plaza from Bracken Library. Classrooms are in the theatre and on the third floor of the Arts and Communications Building. Well-equipped modern shops for scenery, properties, costumes, makeup, and the Edward S. Strother Theatre are in this building.