Dec 13, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Theatre, B.A.


Our program of study emphasizes the intersection of practice and theory and is geared toward students who are interested in theatre and dance as part of a liberal arts education. Students create a program that is unique to their interests and strengths, with freedom to choose between a wide variety of electives to complete a truly individualized course of study. Theatre courses emphasize the collaborative nature of the art form, which encompasses performance, literature, design, history, artistic community, and intellectual rigor. Dance courses enhance critical thinking and analytical skills, cooperation and teamwork, self-expression and self-esteem, organization and problem solving, and cultural literacy. They also provide integral skills for theatre and opera students who want to market themselves as versatile performers.

The major in theatre must include the following:

College Requirements


  • Art, Music and/or Arts Administration Credit(s): 6
    plus 39 hours at 300-level or above

Subtotal: College Required hours: 6


UK Core Requirements


See the UK Core section of this Catalog for the complete UK Core requirements . The courses listed below are (a) recommended by the college, or (b) required courses that also fulfill UK Core areas. Students should work closely with their advisor to complete the UK Core requirements.

I. Intellectual Inquiry in Arts and Creativity


II. Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities


III. Intellectual Inquiry in the Social Sciences


IV. Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences


V. Composition and Communication I


VI. Composition and Communication II


VII. Quantitative Foundations


VIII. Statistical Inferential Reasoning


IX. Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA


X. Global Dynamics


UK Core hours: 31


Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR)


Subtotal: Graduate Composition and Communication Requirement hours (GCCR): 3


Core Major Requirements


*Course may be used towards completion of a UK Core Requirement.

one of the following Acting courses


one of the following Production courses


one of following Design courses:


Core Major Requirement hours: 30


Theatre Electives


In addition, students are required to complete 15 credits of theatre electives. If a student has a particular interest area within theatre, these electives may be selected and completed within a specific theatre focus under the guidance of their advisor or faculty mentor.

Theatre Elective hours: 15


Electives


Students can choose electives to lead to the minimum total of 120 hours required for graduation

Total Hours: 120