Minimum requirements for admission to the Graduate Division are outlined in the Academic Requirements section of this catalog. Students who meet these requirements may be admitted as conditionally classified in the Theatre Arts Graduate Program until the department's graduate committee approves reclassification to candidacy.
To be admitted to the Department of Television, Radio, Film and Theatre as a conditionally classified graduate student, you must:
1. Meet all minimum university Graduate Division requirements as an undergraduate in theatre arts, radio, television, film, media;
2. Achieve a 3.0 grade point average in your major field of study;
3. Achieve an overall grade point average of 3.0 or above.
Applicants who do not meet the above grade requirements, but exhibit through test scores or artistic achievement the potential for graduate study in Theatre Arts, may be admitted to conditionally classified standing upon the recommendation of the graduate coordinator.
Applicants must submit to the graduate coordinator a portfolio which documents his or her achievements and aspirations as a student and/or participant in one of the performance disciplines (television, theatre arts, radio, film, or multimedia).
Deficiencies in academic background, especially in regard to applicants with undergraduate degrees in fields outside of theatre arts, will be determined by the graduate coordinator or department chair. Coursework taken to address such deficiencies will not be applied to the Master's degree program.
Reclassification to candidacy requires favorable action by both the department's and university's graduate committees. You must:
1. Meet institutional requirements as set forth in the Academic Requirements section of this catalog;
2. Complete the Graduate English Writing requirement. The University requires that all graduate students demonstrate competency in written English as a condition for advancement to candidacy. Please refer to the SJSU catalog section titled “Competency in Written English” for details. For graduate courses that meet the competency in written English requirement, please refer to the Graduate Studies and Research website at www.sjsu.edu/gradstudies.
3. Show aptitude for advanced work in the major area as measured by performance in appropriate academic courses, instructor appraisals, special qualifying tests or other means;
4. Complete TA 260 and received acceptance of Thesis Proposal from the department graduate committee.
With the assistance of a faculty advisor, the applicant develops a proposed Master's degree program according to Plan A, as outlined below. The content will be determined by the individual student's background, area of concentration and thesis. All programs will include an eight-unit core: TA 200 Graduate Research in Theatre Arts, TA 201 Theory of Theatre and Performing Arts, and TA 260 Graduate Problems in Theatre Arts, which must be taken at the first opportunity after enrollment; as well as an additional 22 units to include a minimum of 15 units of 200-level courses of which 6 units must derive from the cycle of four seminars offered by the department (TA 220, 221, 241, 270). Additional 100- or 200-level courses related to the degree objective will complete the program. Each student must demonstrate competence in written English.
A program will be planned with the advisor and submitted to the department graduate committee for approval. The content will be determined according to the individual student's background, area of concentration and the thesis area. The program will include a minimum of two seminars in the department and a maximum of four units for the thesis. See Thesis section of this catalog.
With this program the thesis candidate takes an oral examination focusing on the thesis.
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