UHM的设计计划是一个小型的，个性化的，多元文化的计划，着重于动手培训，多样化的设计和教学机会，由专业活跃的教师提供的个性化指导以及具有区域剧院的设计前景。MFA设计专业的学生主要专注于风景，照明或服装设计三大学科之一，并且还可以选择将重点放在次要领域。我们认为设计教育应该是动手操作，不要停在教室的墙上。看到它比谈论它更好。做起来比看它要好。如此规模的其他大学很少能提供UHM所提供的复杂而稳定的生产季节。这意味着将在课堂上学到的技能应用到实际的实际产品中的机会很多。善于运用自己并充分利用其培训和设计机会的
The Design Program at UHM is a small, personalized, multi-cultural program that emphasizes hands-on training, varied design and teaching opportunities, individualized mentoring with professionally active faculty, and design prospects with area theatres. MFA design students primarily concentrate on one of three disciplines'scenic, lighting, or costume design and may also choose to have a secondary area of focus.We believe that design education should be hands-on, and does not stop at the classroom walls. It's better to see it than talk about it. It's better to do it, than to see it. Few other universities of this size can offer the complex and robust production season found at UHM. This translates as numerous opportunities to apply skills learned in class to real actualized productions. Students, who apply themselves and take full advantage of their training and design opportunities, will graduate with a resume and portfolio for which they can be proud. UHM Theatre and Dance provides a unique opportunity to learn and design for a wide variety of production styles. Please visit other parts of this website to learn about our wonderful array of specialized theatre disciplines. The design program supports all these other areas, giving our students a wide range of exposure to genres and styles, and tremendous opportunity for practical experience.<br>Our faculty are not only educators, but also practicing professionals, respected in their fields, who are encouraged to maintain professional careers and contacts beyond the university. These outside endeavors allow our faculty opportunities to continually develop and stay current in their fields, and also bring invaluable credibility into the classroom by sharing their real-world experiences.<br><br>Whenever possible, MFA design students are given the opportunity to gain formal teaching experience invaluable for the educational theatre job market. These students, under applicable faculty guidance, help to train other students in the shops during production builds, mentor undergraduate design students, and also have the potential to be guest lecturers, teaching assistants, and instructors for appropriate classes.<br><br>Because of the Design program's unique multicultural training, our graduates stand out in the job market. Our graduates have found work across the nation in design, technical and other production positions for regional and semi-professional theatre, as well as teaching and designing for reputable colleges and universities.