The B.F.A. Production Design Program can be described as pre-professional training within a liberal arts program. Students must audition for entry into the program upon acceptance by the college for admittance as a first-year student. The successful completion of a core program of basic theatre studies along with highly concentrated tracks in the specialized skills of costume, lighting ro scene design is expected. Studies in related performance ares and in the fine arts of painting, drawing, sculpture and graphic design are necessary to complete the student's artistic development.
Instruction is by a resident faculty that is active in commercial theatre.
This highly specialized, intensive program, with a balance of classroom and practical training, is the ideal situation for the student who is dedicvated to a career in theatre but desires an environment for study that is professionally oriented, yet personlized.