Theatre (BFA) – Design and Technology
The BFA program in theatre provides you with the first-hand knowledge and skills required to succeed within the industry. With five tracks available, you’ll have an opportunity to study in a discipline that aligns with your professional and personal goals.
Theatre UCF is located in Orlando, an entertainment mecca. Here, you’ll spend time creating productions, participating in professional internships and making connections with top employers around Central Florida. Busy production seasons provide you with an opportunity to apply what you learn in the classroom. Plus, you’ll gain valuable experience working with the Celebration of the Arts each year at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center, a state-of-the-art performing arts venue in downtown Orlando.
Acting Track
Cover different areas of acting in your coursework, including various styles of stage and film acting, applied voice, dance, stagecraft, stage combat, history, script analysis, makeup, directing, career/business planning and auditioning. Plus, there are many ways to get involved, like Project Spotlight, a student organization that develops new works and provides opportunities with our Orlando partners such as Disney, Orlando Shakes, The Orlando Repertory Theatre, Universal and others.
Design and Technology Track
Learn how to analyze dramatic material — scripts, scores and outlines — for their thematic and emotional impact and conceptualize dynamic design ideas which engage audiences’ senses. Plus, gain experience bringing a vision to life through teamwork and implement practical skills such as traditional/digital drawing and painting, virtual modeling, audio/video/lighting programing, fabric patterning, and welding/carpentry/computer-controlled fabrication.
Musical Theatre Track
Gain skills in music theory, piano, acting, applied voice, dance, stagecraft, history, script analysis, makeup, directing, career/business planning and auditioning. A professional internship is also required before graduating. Many graduates go on to work for partners, including Disney and Universal.
Stage Management Track
Learn the art and craft of stage managing through courses that focus on management theory, rehearsal and performance management, paperwork, organizational theory, theatrical unions, contracts and the business of theatre. You’ll gain experience managing a variety of live events both on campus and at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center, including traditional plays, musicals, corporate events, concerts, opera, dance, devised work, touring and industry presentations.
Intakes
- Jan
- March
- Sep
Application Processing Time in Days: 20
Minimum English Language Requirements
English Level Description | IELTS (1.0 -9.0) | TOEFL IBT (0-120) | TOEFL CBT (0-300) | PTE (10-90) | |
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Expert | 9 | 120 | 297-300 | 86-90 | |
Very Good | 8.5 | 115-119 | 280-293 | 83-86 | |
Very Good | 8 | 110-114 | 270-280 | 79-83 | |
Good | 7.5 | 102-109 | 253-267 | 73-79 | |
Good | 7 | 94-101 | 240-253 | 65-73 | |
Competent | 6.5 | 79-93 | 213-233 | 58-65 | |
Competent | 6 | 60-78 | 170-210 | 50-58 | |
Modest | 5.5 | 46-59 | 133-210 | 43-50 | |
Modest | 5 | 35-45 | 107-133 | 36-43 | |
Limited | 4 | 32-34 | 97-103 | 30-36 | |
Extremely Limited | < 4 | < 31 | < 93 | < 30 |
Job Opportunity Potential
Career Services has numerous resources and services to offer as you search for the right major or prepare for your job search. It’s never too early or too late to work on your professional development plan. The more time you invest in this process, the more likely you are to achieve your goals.
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Match your preferences to career possibilities. Create an account, the UCF group license is V7C3JT8X.
Career Advising
See a career counselor to clarify your career goals and explore options, schedule an appointment in Handshake.
What Can I Do with This Major
Helps connect majors with careers. Includes common career areas, typical employers and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities. Also includes a list of websites that provide information about majors and careers.
Career Planning Class (MHS 2330)
Introduction to career and life planning theories and concepts that assists students in applying these to their own lives.
4-year Career Action Plan
Use your time at UCF to strategically reach your career goals. Career Services can help you from your beginning at UCF, until graduation. Use this plan as a guide to stay on track and get to the finish line.
PSW Opportunity
3 year psw
Admission Requirement / Eligibility Criteria
- Students who change degree programs and select this major must adopt the most current catalog
- Departmental Residency Requirement: at least 21 semester hours of regularly scheduled 3000-4000 level courses must be taken from the UCF Psychology Department
- Students must earn a grade of "C" (2.0) or better in each course used to satisfy the CPP, Core Requirements, Restricted Electives and Science Electives.
- Students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in all courses satisfying major requirements. If additional Psychology courses are taken beyond the minimum required (e.g. additional restricted electives), those courses will be included in the GPA calculation.
- Students can select only one Track.
- Co-op or internship credit cannot be used in this major without prior approval
- Additional requirements exist for students pursuing the Honors in the Major program.
- All prerequisites of courses taught within the College of Sciences will be enforced.
- Courses designated in 1 (General Education Program) and 2 (Common Program Prerequisites) are usually completed in the first 60 hours.
Students whose first language is not English may be required to demonstrate English proficiency by one of the following means:
Proving you’re from a country where English is the only official language
Establishing that a prior bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree was earned from another accredited institution of higher education (meeting university transfer eligibility requirements) in the United States
Establishing that a prior bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree was earned from a country where English is the only official language or from a university at which English is the only official language of instruction
Submitting a qualifying score (220 or higher for computer-based; 80 or higher for internet-based or 550 or higher for paper-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or a score of 6.5 or higher on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
A minimum 520 EBRW rSAT score, 480 Critical Reading SAT score or 20 ACT (English section)
Presenting a minimum grade of “B” in both English Composition I and English Composition II, or the equivalent, taken at another accredited institution of higher education (meeting university transfer eligibility requirements) in the United States
Completion of four years of English in an American high school in the United States
Completion of the UCF English Language Institute (ELI) level 8 or higher with a grade of “B” or better
Completion of EAP 2851 with a grade of “C” or better or placement into ENC 1101
- Course Type: Full Time
- Course Level: Bachelors/UG Degree
- Duration: 04 Year
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Total Tuition Fee:
89760 USD
Annual Cost of Living: 14000 USD
Application Fee: 31 USD
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