Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina, has a program that offers a major in technical theater. As the College website points out, you will have access to the Elizabeth Boatwright Performance Arts Center, which includes a 466-seat theater known as the Watson Theater. According to the college's website, the classes for this concentration include technical theater, production design, scene design and a final practicum where you have the opportunity to walk behind the scenes of a real-life production. Coker is a four-year institution that educates more than 1,100 students each year. The instruction is individualized because the classes there are small. The average class size is 12.
Blinn, a Texas college, has four campuses in that state: at Bryan, Schulenberg, Sealy and Brenham. The college is a four-year institution that educates 1100-plus students with an average class size of 12. According to the college's website, the classes for this concentration include Technical Theatre, Production Design, Scene Design and a final practicum where you have the opportunity to work behind the scenes of a real life production. In addition, students have the option of working with touring events booked with the O'Donnell Performing Arts Center on campus. The website points out that the Theater Arts Department participates in at least one play festival throughout the year to provide even more hands-on experience. This does not include the student led productions, which offer even more practical training.
The Lehman College program, located in the Bronx, New York, offers training in sound, scene design and theater management. Hands-on learning experiences are ample at the College. Major productions, as well as student-led plays, are among the opportunities an education at Lehman affords to you as a student. In addition, the school may invite you to build a portfolio and secure employment with Lehman Stages. If you wish to apply, your verbal and mathematics SAT scores should, when combined, equal 940 or better. If you take the GED, a score of 3100 or higher will give you an advantage in the admission process. If English is not your first language, you must score 500 or higher on the TOEFL.
The California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California, is a four-year-institution that offers a Technical Theater program. The curriculum includes courses in set design, sound effects, theater acoustics, scene painting and property management. In this major, you also receive training in the use of computer applications related to those areas. The school aims to create more artistic freedom than more traditional schools which offer the same training.