Perform with a purpose. If you're driven by a love for performance, creative storytelling, and using theatre as a force for change, the Applied Theatre concentration offers you the perfect starting point.
You’ll build a strong foundation in the core elements of theatre, including:
- Acting & Directing: Learn how to bring characters and stories to life on stage.
- Playwriting & Dramatic Literature: Explore the written word and how it shapes performance.
- Theatre History & Performance Theory: Understand the evolution of theatre and its role in society.
- Design Elements: Discover how lighting, sound, set, and costume design enhance storytelling.
As one of the few undergraduate tracks of its kind, and the only theatre curriculum on campus, this concentration offers a rare opportunity to blend artistic passion with real-world purpose. You’ll gain hands-on experience through active participation, using storytelling and performance to spark awareness, inspire change, and empower people to reimagine their lives and communities.
You’ll learn how performance becomes a tool for education, activism, and community engagement. It can be scripted, improvised, devised, or digitally blended—each shaped by the unique needs of its audience, setting, and purpose. It’s a flexible, responsive art form that adapts to the moment and invites collaboration at every turn.
Explore how movies, TV, and media shape culture and spark conversation. This concentration explores the history, theory, and criticism of film, television, and media arts, helping you understand how stories are crafted and how they reflect the world around us. You'll study media as both artistic expression and a form of communication, analyzing how it influences identity, politics, and society.
You’ll combine critical analysis with hands-on creative work by developing projects through screenwriting, directing, editing, and production. Whether you aim to be a filmmaker, critic, or media scholar, you’ll gain the skills to create impactful stories and understand their cultural significance.
Create media that’s both visually compelling and culturally meaningful. This concentration blends technical training with critical insight, helping you understand film and television as tools for storytelling, communication, and artistic expression.
You’ll explore how media functions in society, learning to analyze its historical roots, cultural impact, and aesthetic qualities. From screen and sound design to editing and directing, you’ll gain hands-on experience in the production process while applying critical concepts to your creative work. You won’t just learn how to make media—you’ll learn why it matters and how to make it resonate.
Whether you're developing a short film, producing a documentary, or experimenting with digital storytelling, this concentration empowers you to build media projects that are informed, intentional, and uniquely your own.
