The Department of Theatre offers a Bachelor of Arts degree. It also offers an approved program for the Multiple Subject teaching credential. Students who complete such a program are exempt from subject matter examinations when applying for a teaching credential program. Financial assistance is available to students in the form of student assistantships, work-study, Gluck Fellowships, and scholarships such as the Chancellor's Performance Award. Student minigrants are available to support many student creative and research projects.
Students take part in faculty-directed shows, student productions, and class presentations.
Advanced students are invited to undertake special projects, such as the production of an original work, or special in-depth studies in acting, directing, design, or playwriting. Students also participate in annual new play festivals in which student-written plays are given productions under the guidance of faculty or guest artists. The University Honors Program offers lower-division courses taught by distinguished faculty and introduces undergraduates to the challenges and rewards of scholarship and research from the beginning of their undergraduate careers. In the upper division, the program invites outstanding students to design and produce honors theses and projects under individual faculty supervision. Throughthe departmental Honors Program, highly qualified students are invited to conduct a research thesis of their own initiative and design in collaboration with a faculty member.