Bachelor of Arts in Theatre - Performance

at Susquehanna University USA

As an accounting student, you’ll get the skills, hands-on experience and knowledge to excel in whatever industry you’d like. We have a high rate of success in preparing accounting majors to land jobs before or shortly after graduation. Understanding accounting rules and regulations is just one factor for career success. Today’s accountants analyze data to provide meaningful insights to help clients and businesses prepare for their futures.

Because our bold curriculum is rooted in the liberal arts, you’ll develop essential skills that most sought-after accountants excel at

• Writing
• Teamwork
• Presentations
• Critical thinking
• Interpersonal relationships
• Leadership

A Master of Education in Curriculum & Instruction (M.Ed.) degree from Susquehanna will make you a better teacher by deepening your understanding of teaching and learning. In as few as five semesters (34 semester hours), you’ll become a more productive, creative, and reflective educational leader.

With classes in curriculum design, research methods, critical media literacy, and inclusive classroom strategies, you’ll be prepared to lead students and be a resource to peers. You’ll be paired with professors based on your research and content interests, so your studies will have the most applicable impact on your teaching.

Beyond the satisfaction of becoming a better teacher, public school teachers will see a significant raise in pay from their districts. Locally, teachers with master’s degrees earn, on average, $1,700 more per year than their bachelor’s degree holding counterparts.

Take center stage at Susquehanna and beyond in our theatre performance major.

You’ll grow artistically as an actor. From critical analysis of dramatic literature, to authentic and powerful acting on stage, you’ll develop in your craft beyond what you thought possible.

Explore characters that force you out of your comfort zone and learn something about yourself in the process. You’ll focus on the tools you need to improve your acting. Our intensive acting classes are supported by coursework in theatre history and dramatic theory, enhancing your performances. Adding one of our interdisciplinary minors, like arts administration and women’s studies, help you gain a better understanding of important topics in today’s world.

In ways more broad-based than fine arts degrees, you’ll gain a better understanding of human communication and culture.

As a marketer, you’ll have the ability to measure and read the pulse of the market — so you can help deliver what customers want while meeting the goals of your organization.

Susquehanna’s courses, experiences and faculty mentoring will prepare you for success.

We guarantee international internships for all business students. We have students who intern in dynamic cities such as London, Barcelona, Tokyo, Hamburg and many more. We also have internship partnerships at top organizations in the U.S., where experience can give you the edge before graduation.

In our program, you’ll learn to understand your consumers and evaluate competitors, make decisions on product development and determine distribution strategies. You’ll have a solid foundation of marketing basics, including market research, market segmentation, consumer behavior, digital marketing, pricing strategies and marketing communications.

Majors work towards the development of a cohesive body of work that demonstrates a distinctive personal style. The program emphasizes the mastery of a broad range of fundamental skills, with a focused experience in one technique or medium. Majors are well versed in historical and contemporary art, and are given numerous opportunities to exhibit their work, travel, and receive feedback from faculty and peers.

Prior to graduation, students will professionally mount a public exhibition of the work in The Lore Degenstein Gallery, where they will gain experience in a professional gallery with museum standards.

Required independent coursework and a cross-disciplinary approach allow students to investigate and experiment with multiple ways of creating art. Students are encouraged and given ample time to develop a distinctive and personal visual style.

Get the thrill of hearing your work performed live during your first year. We hold a composers’ concert each semester devoted to student-created work.

Our music department is collaborative yet competitive, pushing you to grow as a musician and composer.

You’ll explore a variety of musical styles, conduct student ensembles and become well-versed in music literature and theory.

We’re one of a few undergraduate-only institutions to offer a music composition degree program. It’s small and selective, giving you plenty of chances to work one-on-one with faculty who are experienced educators and active performers.

From your very first semester, you’ll get important hands-on experience. In Global Business Perspectives, you’ll work on a consulting project to develop recommendations to improve the profitability of a major corporation, such as Netflix, Burberry or Under Armour. Then you’ll pitch your plan to real-life business executives.

Your education won’t just take place on campus — or even within the United States. You will go places around the world. Consider our award-winning study abroad programs, such as our popular Global Opportunities in London, where you’ll live, study and intern with other business students in the heart of this bustling city. You’ll gain intercultural competency and a level of confidence that you can succeed wherever you land in your career path.

Because our bold curriculum is rooted in the liberal arts, you’ll develop all of these essential skills like

• Writing
• Teamwork
• Presentations
• Critical thinking
• Interpersonal relationships
• Leadership

Combine your love of physics, interest in chemistry and outstanding math skills into career opportunities with exciting growth potential. Chemical physics is the perfect major if you’re interested in how our world works on a chemical level, but don’t want to pursue a double major.

Chemical physics graduates have a variety of career options that span many industries

• Material engineering
• Physics and/or chemistry research
• Biotechnology
• Electronics
• Petroleum
• Pharmaceuticals
• Medicine

Studying literature gives you the analytical tools and writing skills employers in any industry covet.

At Susquehanna, you’ll harness the power of language, while learning to express yourself with style and grace.

From studying forms of writing to analyzing Shakespeare, every class you take builds toward a senior capstone project-modeled on grad school programs-that challenges you to think more deeply about your past four years.

You’ll have ample opportunities to publish your own work and contribute to eight department-focused student publications. Creative outlets on campus for literature majors include the Literature Club or the Comic Book Club.

Biochemistry is one of the most exciting degrees you can pursue in college.

You will apply chemical and physical principles to increase your knowledge of the complex chemical reactions among molecules in biological systems.

Learn to more fully understand life by studying the chemical relationship with the environment. The uses for this knowledge are astounding.

• Unlock human genomes
• Study genetic mutations and evolution
• Cure devastating diseases
• Make a difference

Work closely with biochemistry faculty on research using the latest equipment and technology — chromatography systems, laser systems and a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. Get comfortable in a modern laboratory setting doing research with our first class faculty.