About the course

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in acting is a three-year graduate program designed to train students at an advanced level in performance technique and prepare them for entry into professional theatre. The aim of the program is to provide students with performance skills, a capacity for critical analysis, and practical experiences to develop within them a personal, artistic performance process. By exploring new processes and challenging old one, students gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their strengths and skills in diverse acting styles. The work also challenges them as actors to communicate and engage with audiences.

　　The acting student will experience an intense first-year cohort experience with other MFA graduate students that will focus on techniques and principles in the service of communicating story and character through dramatic action and concept. In that year the acting students will investigate theory and criticism of acting methods. In the second two years of the MFA program students take some courses with upper-division BFA acting students and often serve as teaching assistants to professors in specific areas of interest such as acting, directing, voice, speech, movement, history, and theory. The intense study and teaching in these areas serves to develop a personal philosophy and pedagogy of acting.

　　In addition, the program develops students as teachers and utilizes teaching and the development of teaching pedagogy to further develop the student?s understanding of his/her own craft and theory. Teaching assistantships are available to qualified applicants who have been admitted to the graduate program. These are awarded annually on a competitive basis and are renewable depending on the candidate's progress and job performance and the instruction needs of the program. All applicants are considered for these awards. Students need not apply under separate cover. Teaching assistants are required to register for nine credits each semester. Scholarships - View all scholarships Internships

　　

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Course fees are indicative and should be used as a guide. Speak to a counsellor to get an accurate price.

　　Duration: 6 Semester(s)Fees: Not available

Intake	Location
Autumn (August), 2024	Missoula
Autumn (August), 2025	Missoula

　　

How to apply

Entry requirements for University of Montana

Request that official transcripts be sent to the School of Theatre & Dance from all colleges and universities you have attended (excluding University of Montana - unofficial transcript from UM accepted). Transcripts may also be transmitted electronically through the National Student Clearinghouse.

　　Applicants scoring higher than 550 on the TOEFL PBT (the TOEFL PBT is no longer administered as of October 2017), the replacement TOEFL-Paper Delivered Test will be accepted in place of the PBT, 80 on the TOEFL IBT or 6.5

　　

English language requirements

　　6.5

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　　TOEFL Internet based overall score: 80.0

　　

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