It will be a milestone moment this December when graduating senior Shawn Murdock becomes the first student to receive a bachelor's degree in theatre from UAH. But it's one that might not have happened for the theatre and English double major had he not taken a theatre appreciation class his first semester. "I loved it so much that I decided to add a theatre minor," he says. That soon led to roles in UAH Theatre's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Becky Shaw" - and in what finally sealed the deal for Murdock to upgrade the minor to a major - the opportunity to direct his own production of "Beckett in the Black Box" this fall.