The Department of Theatre has over 25 faculty, staff and full-time lecturers teaching 175 undergraduate majors, 40 undergraduate minors, 45 graduate majors, and an average of 1,000 additional students through general education, non-major, and graduate courses every quarter! Combined with nationally and internationally known visiting artists/scholars, along with international exchanges, courses/events with multicultural, ethnic, and gender content which deepen the student experience, the department boasts strengths in interdisciplinary teaching and research collaborations with internal/external partners; outreach/engagement initiatives which have become laboratories for experimentation, educational growth, and professional development.  Innovative research and pedagogical work grows out of our continuing attention to the importance of historical traditions in the visual and performing arts.