MFA Experience Design and Production Course Requirements The MFA degrees in Experience Design and Production require three years of full-time study. An evaluation will be made at the end of the first year of study to determine the remainder of the student's curriculum, based on the faculty's evaluation of the student's work and the goals of the particular student. The graduate curriculum for each program is highly individualized, with the core requirements serving as a framework for further studies customized to meet each student's goals and ambitions.

MFA Experience Design and Production Course Requirements for Scene Design Specialization

Students who complete the MFA Scene Design Program will be able to:

• Display a personal artistic vision: the culmination of exploration through historical and current theory with the expressed intention of discovering new forms, theory, and means of expression.

• Develop aesthetic sophistication through studying theory across a range of disciplines (e.g. music composition, performance theory, directing, and semiotics).

• Imagine all aspects of live performance as a collaborative process through collective analysis.

• Engage in self-critique and critical thinking.

• Demonstrate a diversity of ideas through interdisciplinary and collaborative practices.

• Practice an expanded means of expression, including performance practice, model making, drafting, painting, drawing, and use of new media.

• Work authentically, originally, at risk—to navigate the complexities of working within established art making structures at the same time using their voice to create new structures.

Métier Requirements

• TSCE 505 Techniques of Design

• TSCE 510 Performance by Design

• TSCE 545 Design Methodology

• TSCE 600, 601 Special Topics in Design

• TSCE 700 Open Studio

• TSCE 750 Graduate Closure

• TIMM 640 Digital Rendering or TIMM 644 Digital Drawing

• THST 500 Interpretive Strategies for Plays

• THST 501 Interpretive Strategies for Performance or equivalent elective

• TDAP 695 D&P Production (4 semesters)

• TWNT 600 Winter Session (every Spring that it is offered)

Via consultation with your mentor, suggested electives are offered within the School of Theater and throughout the Institute, subject to availability and permission of listed instructor.

Additional Curricular Track Available to students enrolled in the MFA Scene Design Specialization

MFA Interactive Media for Performance

Students who complete the MFA Interactive Media for Performance Specialization will be able to:

• Create generative work in live situations—including, but not limited to, performance, interactive time-based visual art, and new forms of electronically-mediated narrative.

• Display a personal artistic vision and process. Explore methods of its expression, drawing from historical and current theory, with the intention of discovering new forms, theories, and means of expression.

• Demonstrate a diversity of ideas through interdisciplinary, collaborative practices and collective analysis.

• Demonstrate an advanced skill set and means of expression, including performance practice, software, hardware, drafting, drawing, and the use of new media.

• Work authentically, originally, and at risk to navigate the complexities of working within established art making structures while simultaneously striving to create new structures.

Métier Requirements

• TVID 500, 501 Integrating Video and Live Performance (two semesters)

• TVID 600 Creating for Augmented Reality

• TVID 605 Architectural Projection

• TVID 610 Video Installation

• TVID 613 TouchDesigner

• TVID 615 Creating for Virtual Reality

• TVID 515 Motion Graphics

• THST 500 Interpretive Strategies for Plays

• THST 501 Interpretive Strategies for Performance or equivalent elective

• TIMM 650 Cinema 4D

• TIMM 651 Advanced Cinema 4D

• TVID 653 Unity Game Engine

• TVID 652 Unity Game Engine: C# Programming

• TSCE 510 Performance by Design

• TDAP 695 D&P Production (4 semesters)

• TWNT 600 Winter Session (every Spring that it is offered)

Via consultation with your mentor, suggested electives are offered within the School of Theater and throughout the Institute, subject to availability and permission of listed instructor.