The Design/Tech BFA program prepares candidates for entry-level positions in the areas of design, management, technology and craft professions in theatre and other parts of the entertainment industry. Upon completing this program, some students advance to graduate-level professional training at a variety of institutions throughout the country. Undergraduate Design/Tech majors have the opportunity to study and work in all areas, including Scenery Design, Construction & Rigging, Costume Design and Construction, Lighting Design, Properties Design & Construction, and Sound Design. Course work combines with practical work on CRT productions.  Advanced undergraduates with particular promise often serve as assistant designers or designers for CRT Studio Works productions.  Outstanding undergraduates have even worked as principal designers of CRT Mainstage productions. 

Informal assessments by the Design/Technical faculty in the student's freshman and sophomore years are helpful in providing feedback, sharpening focus and encouraging candidates with demonstrated aptitude to continue in the program.
Junior and senior BFA Design/Tech majors participate in portfolio reviews at the end of each semester and are encouraged to enter U/RTA (University and Regional Theatre Association) Final Competitions in New York City in January to compete for positions in Professional Regional Theatres and member graduate school programs throughout the country.
Course of Study for the BFA in Design/Tech
Unlike many fields of study in which students take few courses in their major during their early semesters, BFA Dramatic Arts Students begin intensive training in their chosen field immediately upon entering UConn. In a BFA program, approximately two-thirds of your college courses are in your chosen field of study. Most of the remaining credits you will take constitute the university's General Education Requirements in writing, math, history, humanities, science and social science. You will take from one to three general education courses per semester, depending on your semester standing.
The following is a list of the actual dramatic arts courses you will take in order to complete your BFA in Design/Tech.

ALL of the courses from the following list:
ALL of the courses from the following list:
DRAM 105 Scenographic Techniques
DRAM 106 Computer Aided Drafting for the Theatre
DRAM 107 Theatre Production Studio (one each: Lighting, Costumes & Stagecraft
DRAM 108 Fundaments of Design
DRAM 109 Drawing and Painting for the Theatre
DRAM 118 Computer Rendering
DRAM 130 History of Drama I
DRAM 131 History of Drama II
DRAM 200 Scenery Construction
DRAM 207C Lighting for the Theatre
DRAM 211 Scene Design
DRAM 213 Costume History
DRAM 215 Sound for the Theatre
DRAM 263W Directing
DRAM 299 Independent Study (12 credits)

Any two from the following list of courses:
DRAM 230 Women in Theatre
DRAM 231 African-American Theatre
DRAM 235 Period Studies in Theatre
DRAM 282 Trends in Contemporary. Theatre

Any three from the following specific courses:
DRAM 201 Rigging
DRAM 203 Stage Management
DRAM 208 Lighting for the Theatre II
DRAM 212 Scene Design
DRAM 214 Costume Design
DRAM 247 Puppetry
DRAM 248 Puppetry