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  • Department of Theatre and Dance
    232 Wright Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-0888
    Fax: (530) 752-8818
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Performance Studies

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Priority: Dec. 1
  • Final: May 31

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec. 1
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.A. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan C

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Writing sample
  • Three letters of recommendation

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of twentieth and twenty-first century performance, including in acting, directing, design and choreography. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in performance criticism, history, media, theory, and practice.

While an M.A. degree may be obtained while pursuing a Ph.D. degree, only Ph.D. applications will be accepted.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Performance Studies website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Lynette Hunter Theatre and Dance (530) 752-0888
Academic Advisers
Lynette Hunter
(Adviser: Admissions and Primary Contact) 		Theatre and Dance 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-0888
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Marian Bilheimer Arts Administrative Group (530) 754-6973
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Jean Telford Graduate Studies (530) 752-9292