TETD.MFA - Master of Fine Arts - Exp Design & Prod -Technical Direction

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 Technical Direction Specialization

MFA Technical Direction Specialization

By graduation, the MFA Technical Direction student will:

• With a high degree of skill and creativity, utilize today's changing technology.

• Exhibit a level of professionalism that meets or exceeds the demands of the growing theater/entertainment industries and the field of technical direction.

• Take the lead in the creation of new art and technologies.

• Be able to respond critically and constructively, both verbally and in writing, to scripts and performances.

• Explore interdisciplinary practices and engage in multiple aspects of art making

• Demonstrate an understanding of global aesthetics and performance history.

• Work within collaborative processes, which are open, imaginative and ethically-balanced.

Métier Requirements

• TTDI 505 Advanced Stagecraft

• TTDI 510 Welding I

• TTDI 525, 526 Statistical Engineering

• TTDI 560 Technical Design

• TTDI 575 The Stagecraft of Illusion

• TTDI 500 Fundamentals of Technical Direction I

• TTDI 600 Fundamentals of Technical Direction II

• TIMM 615 AutoCAD I

• TIMM 625 AutoCAD II

• TTDI 710 Parametric Drafting

• TTDI 650 Rigging

• TDAP 695 D&P Production (4 semesters)

• THST 500 Interpretive Strategies for Plays

• THST 501 Interpretive Strategies for Performance or equivalent elective

• 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.