The Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre in the Performing Arts Department  provides comprehensive training in musical theatre while maintaining a firm grounding in the liberal arts. The goal is to foster flexibility and versatility in students to enable them to participate in musical theatre on a number of levels.

The program's objectives are far reaching. Students will leave the program with the knowledge and confidence to participate in educational, professional or semiprofessional productions with competence and skill. Performance opportunities include main stage productions, singing/dancing in cabarets on and off campus and participating in student-directed productions and workshops.

Graduates are active in community and professional theatre organizations, assist and provide leadership in primary and secondary school productions and often continue their education in musical theatre in an M.F.A. or M.A. program in music, theatre or musical theatre.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

1. Employ a broad range of acting knowledge, including the ability to create, through word and action, believable characters in plays and musicals.
2. Demonstrate analytical and performance skills required in musicals and plays from various genres and time periods.
3. Demonstrate significant technical proficiency in the various styles of movement and dance employed in musical theatre.
4. Demonstrate technical proficiency in musicianship, including advanced skill in aural, rhythmic, and written musical forms. 
5. Demonstrate knowledge of theatre history, musical theatre history and the work of influential playwrights, composers, directors, choreographers and other creative artists.

Program Standard Grade Point Average Requirement

The major GPA is calculated by all courses identified in the college catalog as required for the major. In addition, this program has an established program standard GPA which may be used to determine progress in the program.

• Program Standard GPA
  • Minimum GPA of 2.0 in DNC, MUS, and THT courses
• Musical Theatre Major Requirements
  • 49 credits in DNC, MUS, and THT courses

Students must audition for admittance to the program. In addition to the university-wide requirements in writing, quantitative skills, foreign language and General Education, the B.A. in musical theatre requirements will be met by successful completion of the following courses and portfolio or project assessment: