Theater Courses

We believe that the best theater education combines experiential courses that emphasize learning-through-doing with theater studies courses in which students explore dramatic literature and performance within historical and cultural contexts.

We offer studio courses in which your artistic skills as an actor, director, designer, or playwright will be challenged and strengthened, including:

• Acting I, II, and III
• Advanced Scene Study: Styles
• Advanced Scene Study: Shakespeare
• Advance Scene Study: The Realists
• Design Aesthetics
• Directing I
• Playwriting Studio 

Courses in theater history and dramatic literature (both inside and outside the department) will develop your analytical skills and provide you with opportunities to explore theatrical performance as a forum through which social concerns are debated and discussed, such as:

• Theater and Culture
• Seminar in Theater: Eugene O'Neill and His America
• Intersecting Performances: Dance-Theater (cross-listed with the dance department)
• Special Projects: Gender in Contemporary Performance (cross-listed with the department of Gender and Women's Studies)

If you are thinking of majoring in theater, we recommend that you take THE 104 (Acting I: Preparation), THE 120 (Technical Theater), THE 206 (Acting II: Script Analysis) and THE 141 (The Art of Theater) over the course of your first three semesters.

We encourage you to meet with a theater professor to discuss your interests and the major.

Last Modified: Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:10 PM