戏剧文学士

戏剧系被广泛认可并列为美国十大培训计划之一，该系将广泛的自由学习和综合训练结合到了戏剧的几个子学科中。戏剧部制作一个完整的戏剧，音乐剧和世界首演的完整季，其规模和观众/演员关系都不同。戏剧系创始教师的愿景是“培养将批判性智力与严格的戏剧经验相结合的学生。”为此，该系营造了一个创造力，对设计，性能的深入学习的环境。以及学术活动。该系罕见的杰出常任教师，著名的客座大师班老师，互动的学生群体以及一流的设施相结合，使其提供的课程既富有创意又严格。目前的教师包括在其实践领域活跃且备受推崇的个人，因此仍然能够向戏剧学
The B.A. program consists of a comprehensive study of acting, directing, design, music theatre, playwriting, stage management, theatre production, and dramatic theory, criticism, literature, and history. It involves hands-on participation in productions as an actor, designer, writer, technician, or stage manager. Auditions for all productions at UCI are open to undergraduates, and some productions are open exclusively to undergraduates. The B.A. program does not require an entrance audition.<br><br>There can be few subjects as broad or as fundamental to human civilization as those of Drama and Theatre. The B.A. in Drama is part of a larger education which includes close consideration of world history and politics, human psychology and desire, music, dance, literature and art, visual and aural aesthetics, and both ancient and contemporary technologies of communication. While Drama is rightfully considered an entertainment, it is an entertainment that begins with the greatest literature ever written – from the classics of Euripides, Shakespeare and Molière to modern Americans like Tennessee Williams, August Wilson and David Henry Hwang – as presented in the most sophisticated performance techniques from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas developed over 3,000 years. And Theatre – the practice of Drama – is a hands-on collaboration that involves real-time interactions with other artists, and displaying the results to real-life audiences.