Ashland Center for Theatre Studies
Master of Theatre Studies
in Production and Design
Master Degree Requirements
The Master of Theatre Studies in Production and Design offers you the opportunity to learn from theatre professionals in a creative environment while you earn your degree (a total of 45 credits) over three years. You earn 12 credits each year through the summer residency plus the applied projects in your own school. Each summer will require two weeks in residence on the SOU campus. The curriculum also includes required projects before and after each two-week residency period. This work includes play reading, analysis papers, and theoretical designs, as well as research, curriculum, design, and production projects executed in your own school.
Completion of the Master of Theatre Studies degree requires 9 additional theatre elective credits for a total of 45 graduate credits. The additional 9 graduate level credits are taken at SOU (week-long 'a la carte' courses in the summer or online courses during the school year). You may petition to have 6 credits accepted from a previously completed graduate degree in an appropriate discipline.
2009 3-credit courses which may be used towards the additional 9 credits required for the Master of Theatre Studies Degree:
Survey of Dramatic Literature: Modern Drama - an online course January 5-March 20
Bring Shakespeare to Life: Text to Performance - July 5-10
Stage Combat - July 26-31
Shadow Puppetry: Writing, Design, Performance - July 26-31
Intelligent Use of Automated Lighting - July 26-31
The curriculum culminates with a thesis project. The thesis project includes a complete directorial analysis that is applied to all four areas of design (scenic, costume, lighting, sound) and is realized in working drawings, renderings, recordings and prospectuses for a complex presentational play.
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