Facilities Supporting CATA Programs and Activities

The Wells Theater, is a state-of-the-art facility.  It features computerized lighting control, a counterweighted fly system, large scenic and costume shops, a design lab with a CAD system and plotter as well as several Mac computers, and computerized front-of-house operations.  Crimson Masque, the department’s drama society, involves well over 100 students each year in four faculty directed productions.  Additionally, substantial opportunities for student directing, playwriting, acting and designing are available each year.  The recently established "WIT Theatre" in the lower level of Haldeman-Theissen Center offers an experimental, "black-box" space primarily dedicated to student projects and productions, substantially increasing the opportunities for students to pursue projects of their own design and interest.

MC-TV, our cable television studio, is a versatile facility with stage, lighting and audio equipment for producing newscasts and variety shows.  In 2005 the TV studio was upgraded with state of the art all-digital production equipment.  Regularly scheduled television programming is broadcast through a campus wide cable television station which is supervised by the CATA department.  MC-TV also supports the production and broadcast of student written and produced video and "short films." 

Radio station WMCR is a student operated campus station, broadcast through the campus cable system in FM stereo.  The station has two, new, professionally equipped audio broadcast studios located in the Stockdale Center, one “on-air” and one for production and laboratory work. The studio equipment used is like that in a commercial station.  Over 80 students participate in radio of television activities each semester.

In the Fall of 2004 a newly constructed  Computer/Media laboratory was opened in Wallace Hall with stations for 20 students using Windows based computers equipped with software for audio/video editing, multi-media production, graphic design, web authoring and other applications.