Undergraduate Courses
Starting in AY 26-27, TAPS no longer maintains a wait list for our College core courses.
Major & Minor
Through its undergraduate major and minor programs, TAPS invites students to explore theater and performance as both creative practice and critical inquiry.
Graduate Courses
Funding & Fellowships
For current tuition and fees, please visit the Office of the Bursar.
PhD students who matriculate in Summer 2020 and after will be guaranteed to have funding support from the University of Chicago, external sources, or a combination of the two for the duration of their program to include the following:
MA Program
The TAPS program specialization in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) is ideally suited to students who seek an intensive immersion in the field of theater and performance studies and/or who seek to extend their training in the theory and practice of theater and performance studies at the graduate level.
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Admissions
The PhD program in Theater and Performance Studies is a joint degree program. Students cannot receive a stand-alone PhD in TAPS. Students wishing to begin graduate studies in Autumn 2026 or after should apply to a partnering department and indicate their interest in the TAPS joint program.
Graduate Program
The PhD program in TAPS at the University of Chicago is dialogical, experimental, and highly individualized. Students develop a program of study that reflects their particular training and interests (including coursework, teaching, and performance-based research) and complement their training in TAPS with a joint doctorate in a cooperating field: Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, English Language and Literature, Germanic Studies, Music, or Romance Languages and Literatures.