UBC Graduate Theatre Programs

[Jerry Wasserman]

*UBC Graduate Theatre Programs Extend Application Deadline and Offer 
Increased Aboriginal Student Support
*
The University of British Columbia Department of Theatre and Film has 
extended its deadline for applications to the MA and PhD. Theatre 
Studies Programs to *February 1*, and is excited to announce that the 
Faculty of Arts at UBC is now offering full funding to aboriginal 
students who qualify for admission to our programs.

Located in a vibrant, multicultural city and within a leading research 
institution and dynamic local theatre scene, Theatre at UBC is committed 
to creating theatre and drama that engages diverse communities and 
cultures. Its MA and PhD programs build on the expertise of its academic 
faculty to focus on Modern British, American, European and Canadian 
Theatre, Dramaturgy, Activist Theatres, Theatre Audiences, Theatre and 
Health, Performance Theory as well as Theatre History, Historiography 
and Theory more broadly defined.

Our graduates have become academic professors and scholars, educators, 
cultural policymakers, dramaturgs and other professional innovators 
capable of engaging with the fundamental cultural discourses and 
problems of our time. Graduate students in our program have the 
opportunity to be taught and mentored by faculty in Theatre Studies and 
a wide range of scholars with theatre interests in cognate fields (Film, 
Geography, English, Classics, Women’s Studies…). Students also have the 
opportunity to learn from the acclaimed production skills of the broader 
UBC Theatre Department and are required to take at least one course 
which brings them into contact with the department’s MFA Design and 
Directing students. Both the MA and the PhD involve thesis work and 
writing, activities that benefit from the strong library research 
resources available at UBC. Both MA and PhD students at UBC benefit from 
Teaching and/or Research Assistantships and all graduate students are 
supported in their efforts to secure national scholarship funding for 
their studies.

For further information please see:
http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/programs_phd.shtml
or contact Professor Kirsty Johnston, Graduate Chair 
(kirstyj at interchange.ubc.ca)