Columbia College Chicago Offers a New Comedy Focused Theatre Degree

With the goal of teaching students how to "Study Funny," Columbia College Chicago's new theatre degree in comedy writing and performance is far from the usual academic fare for students dreaming of having a career you can laugh at.

Columbia College is partnering with The Second City to recruit students for a new B.A. Theatre degree with a specialization in Comedy Writing and Performance, to begin this fall. The degree program, based in the Columbia College Theatre Department, also partners with Columbia's Television and Arts, Entertainment and Media Management departments to provide the core curriculum.

The Comedy Writing and Performance degree builds on the Theatre Department's long and successful tradition of teaching improvisation and sketch comedy as part of its acting sequence. The degree program also incorporates the College's five-year-old "study abroad" semester in Comedy Studies at The Second City, which invites students from around the country to imbed themselves into the improv giant's Chicago location for an intensive semester of on-site classes and workshops, receiving Columbia College Chicago credit hours.

For further information about the new Comedy Writing and Performance Specialization, visit www.colum.edu/comedy.