开始您的大学生涯，建立基本的戏剧艺术技能，例如表演技巧，即兴创作，文本分析，语音，语音和动作。随着计划的进行，您将有很多机会参与电影和舞台制作。在Syracuse舞台工作时，您还可以赚取Equity points。美术学士课程可让您通过设计，舞台灯光，服装历史，戏剧文学和国家管理等课程来扩大戏剧体验。您还可以在后台作为正在运行的工作人员或舞台助理的一部分来工作。
The Bachelor of Fine Arts program allows you to broaden your drama experience with classes in design, stage lighting, costume history, dramatic literature, and state management. You can also work behind the scenes as part of a running crew or assistant stage manager.<br><br>The B.F.A. in acting makes full use of the resources provided by the Department of Drama and its relationship with Syracuse Stage to provide emerging theater artists with rigorous training in performance technique, text analysis, creative improvisation, voice, speech, and movement.<br><br>You will be immediately immersed in a program of pre-professional study in your first year, devoting as many as 18 hours of class time per week to various theater arts. Courses in theater history, directing, voice/verse, playwriting, and technical theater broaden your studies. In the B.F.A. program, you may also select courses in design, stage lighting, costume history, dramatic literature, and stage management. Although first-year students are not permitted to perform on stage for the public, you will have the opportunity to work on productions behind the scenes in a wide variety of jobs, ranging from running crews to assistant stage managing.<br><br>Following this first year of building fundamental skills, you will have many opportunities to audition for roles in department productions, co-productions with Syracuse Stage, numerous student- and faculty-sponsored productions, films produced by VPA film students, and Syracuse Stage productions (when age-appropriate roles are available). Equity points may be earned through work with Syracuse Stage.