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Entertainment Arts Design Minor

Middle Tennessee State University proudly offers a minor in entertainment and arts design. Study of entertainment and arts design is student centered. Students have the opportunity to work on mainstage productions as designers and technicians alongside our highly trained faculty and staff. Design and technology students also get hands on work with state-of-the-art equipment that they will use in their professional careers including ETC Lighting Consoles and Fixtures, Martin and Varilite Fixtures, Bernina Sewing Machines, Dewalt tools.


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Students showcase design skills

Students showcase design skills

MTSU Theatre and Dance prides itself on providing students with an abundance of opportunities outside the traditional classroom early in their college career providing the foundation for transition to the work place. The Department production season provides undergraduate students the opportunity for extensive design experience for mainstage productions. Significant opportunities also exist for students focusing on the technology of theatre. Student work is regularly reviewed and adjudicated by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the Southeastern Theatre Conference Design Competition.

Students experience design and technology in the field

Students experience design and technology in the field

MTSU Theatre and Dance provides with extensive opportunities through extensive participation in industry conferences (USITT/SETC/KCACTF/LDI.) Field based study trips demonstrate the application of classroom skills in the professional environment, such as the 2016 trip to visit Cirque du Solei resident shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. The five day trip included seeing performances and experiencing backstage tours of Ka, Mystere, The Beatles Love and Michael Jackson One as well as networking opportunities with company members and alumni of MTSU.

The entertainment and arts design minor is an 18 hour course of study through the department of Theatre and Dance. The minor is designed to provide students with diverse training in all areas of design and technology including lighting, stagecraft, costuming, stage management, sound, props, and hair/makeup. Students pursuing an entertainment and arts design minor will be provided with the skills to effectively make a career in the competitive world of design and technology.