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Longstreet Theatre
Green and Sumter Streets
Main Office, Room 402
Columbia, SC 29208

phone: 803.777.4288   
fax: 803.777.6669
email: theatre@sc.edu or dance@sc.edu

Department of Theatre and Dance
MFA PROGRAM OF STUDY

The Master of Fine Arts Degree with emphasis in
SCENE DESIGN

A three-year program (63 credits)

1. Required Core of Scene Design Courses 21 credits
2. Required Critical and Supportive Studies 21 credits
3. Skills Courses 18 credits
4. Thesis Preparation 3 credits

63 credits

Other requirements for the MFA degree:
* A thesis must be accepted by the MFA Advisory Committee and by the Graduate School.
* A comprehensive examination must be passed.
* All course work must be at the 500 level or above; and one-half of the course work,
exclusive of thesis preparation, must be at the 700 level or above.
* A professional internship must be completed successfully.

Required Scene Design Courses: 21 credits
The Scene Design Student is required to take the following required courses:

557 Advanced Scene Design
786 Professional Scene Design Practices I
787 Professional Scene Design Practices II
721 Practicum I
721 Practicum II
790 Professional Internship (6 credits)

Critical and Supportive Studies: 21 credits
All Design Students are required to take:
710 Graduate Design Studio
??? Text Analysis
759 Design Motifs (Period Styles)
778 Director’s Workshop I

The Scene Design Student must take 9 credits from among the following 3-credit courses:
567 Dramatic Theory I
568 Dramatic Theory II
582 Costume Design
588 Stage Lighting Design
761 Studies in Theatre History
765 Staging in the Non-Traditional Theatre

Skills Courses: 18 credits
The Scene Design Student is required to take a total of 18 credits from among the following 3-credit courses:

510 Rendering Techniques
553 Advanced Stagecraft
554 Theatre Safety
??? Model Building
731 Technical Drawing
555 Scene Painting for the Stage
732 Computer-Assisted Design for Theatre
733 Computer Imaging for the Theatre
755 Advanced Scene Painting for the Stage
757 Problems in Theatre Practice I
758 Problems in Theatre Practice II

University Requirement: 3 credits
799 Thesis Preparation

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Sample Program of Study: Scene Design

First Semester
*** Pre-Semester Teaching Workshop
710 Graduate Design Studio
797 Text Analysis
731 Technical Drawing
557 Advanced Scene Design

Second Semester
??? Model Building
555 Scene Painting for the Stage
732 Computer-Assisted Design for the Theatre
510 Rendering Techniques

Third Semester
786 Professional Scene Design Practice I
721 Practicum
588 Stage Lighting Design
733 Computer Imaging for the Theatre

Fourth Semester
787 Professional Scene Design Practice II
778 Director’s Workshop I
721 Practicum
582 Costume Design

Fifth Semester
759 Design Motifs
??? Critical or Supportive Studies Elective
A possibility of six more credits of electives in this semester

Sixth Semester
790 Professional Internship

THSP 799: "Thesis Preparation" (3) will be elected during the appropriate semesters.