The Theatre Arts major offers unique training for students with vital theatrical sensibilities and wide-ranging interests and abilities. It offers two approaches that serve two kinds of students: those who demonstrate the maturity to create an interdisciplinary program combining theatre with another field of study and those who demonstrate the sustained motivation and imagination to create original works.
The interdisciplinary approach allows a student to develop a unique curriculum in close and continuing consultation with faculty mentors. Some students have used this major to create individualized curricula, through the Boston University Collaborative Degree Program (BUCOP), between the School of Theatre and other schools and colleges at Boston University.
Students who participate in the creation of original works follow a course of study that exposes them to increasingly demanding exercises in performance, adaptation, writing, directing, and producing. This approach provides exceptional preparation for apprenticeship or graduate work in any of these areas.
Prior to entering the BFA Acting program, students must complete the Performance Core curriculum.
Course of Study