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B.A. in Theatre Arts: Production/Performance

Summary of Requirements


2024-2025
Core Curriculum 43
Pre-Major Courses 6
Major and Related Courses 36-39
Free Elective Courses 32-35
TOTAL 120
 

Required pre-major courses 6 credits

THE 101Visual Gestural Communication

3
THE 110Introduction to Theatre

3

Required theatre and related courses 27-30 credits

THE 320Field Experience

3-6
ENG 441Shakespeare

3
THE 281Theatre Production Practicum

1-3
THE 341Introduction to Performance Translation

3
THE 348Performance Studies

3
THE 350Script Analysis

3
THE 351Modern Theatre

3
THE 353Foundations of Acting

3
THE 373Performing Arts Management

3

THE 281: Repeat as necessary for a minimum of 6 credits.

 

Elective theatre courses 9 credits

Choose nine hours:

THE 201Fundamentals of Body Movement

3
THE 250Dance and Fundamental Movement Activities

1
THE 336Physical Theatre Studio

3
THE 342Play Creation Lab

3
THE 361Stagecraft

3
THE 405Lighting Design Lab

3
THE 461History of Costume

3
THE 464Costume Design and Construction Lab

3
THE 466Scenic Design Lab

3
THE 470Creative Movement and Drama, Preschool - Kindergarten

3
THE 472Educational Drama Grades 1-6

3
THE 474Educational Drama - Grades 6-12

3
THE 476Theatre for Youth

3
THE 478Directing Lab

3
THE 480Practicum in Educational Drama

3
THE 495Special Topics

1-3
THE 499Independent Study

1-3

Program Outcomes

Students are expected to be fluent in the methodologies of creating artistic works and scholarly documents, and acquire the ability to integrate both methods as ways of knowing.

 

Students are expected to develop a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge base that may be applied to their individual creative and scholarly work.

 

Based on a common performance vocabulary drawn from written, visual, and physical texts, students are expected to be proficient in the artistic and scholarly processes, as well as gain the ability to reflect upon their work in an engaging, artistic, and constructive way.

 

Students are expected to critically, creatively, and objectively apply concepts, theories, and methodologies to a myriad of issues encountered in current and future academic, personal, and professional contexts

 

While in the process of creating artistic products, students are expected to demonstrate an ability to work in a positive, constructive, and compromising manner with artists and/or other students of various artistic disciplines.

 

Subject:

Theatre Arts