classes, including "Comedy Writing for Television," "Intermediate Creative Writing: Comedy," and "Comedy Writers' Room" are a regular part of the curriculum. In September 2016, the college began offering a B.F.A. in Comedic Arts, claiming it to be "the first degree of its kind in the country."
The Emerson College Comedy Scholarship is offered each year to one rising senior who has "demonstrated leadership and talent in the writing, performance, or direction of comedy." The college is also home to the American Comedy Archives, established in 2005 to "acquire, preserve and make available primary source material that documents the professional activities of the ground breaking individuals who have written, produced or performed comedy for radio, television, motion pictures or live performance".
== List of presidents ==
Charles Wesley Emerson (1880–1903)
William James Rolphe (1903–08)
Henry Lawrence Southwick (1908–32)
Harry S. Ross (1932–45)
Boylston Green (1945–49)
Samuel Justus McKinley (1949–67)
Richard Chapin …
