The Bachelor of Arts degree is designed to provide students with a theatrical world view, a foreign language and a minor that is supportive of their major career aspirations. Students are expected to achieve competency in performance, dramaturgy and technical theatre/design through such courses as Acting, Directing, Theatre History, Stagecraft, and Stage Technology. Approximately one-third of the total undergraduate credits hours in the B.A. degree program are devoted to theatre courses (36 credits) and provide a theatre generalist's body of course work and practical theatre experiences conducive to further study at graduate school, conservatory or regional theatre. The BA technical concentration student will take at least three specific technical theatre classes and have to opportunity to work in their area of expertise on all the department productions. Students will also have a minor with 15 to 18 credits and will also take four semesters of a foreign language or the equivalent.