Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of Theatre

Theatre, Minor


Academic Information

This minor provides students with opportunities to become involved in script analysis, stagecraft, acting, costuming, and production workshops. This highly experiential minor broadens understanding of the many disciplines required to create stage "magic."

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College of Arts and Letters

Department of Theatre

Theatre, Minor


Careers

What Can I Do with a Minor in Theatre?

If you dream of a life that’s long on excitement and short on the dull bits, then the theatre is calling you. Whether you hope to work in professional theatre or pursue further education, our programs will put your dreams at center stage.

We offer nationally respected curricula in theatre studies, performance, and design and technology. We will help you develop the broadest possible understanding of the art and craft of the stage with our practical and academic courses. You'll also receive a firm grounding in the liberal arts. You'll study dramatic literature, history, theory and criticism, theatre performance, and design, and technology. You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn by doing. The university theatre season includes four faculty directed, mainstage productions and numerous student produced, second stage productions per year.

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of Theatre

Theatre, Minor


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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of Theatre

Theatre, Minor


Overview

In addition to University Requirements:

Students may be able to use some courses to meet more than one requirement. Contact your advisor for details.

No more than fifty percent of the units used to satisfy minor requirements may be used to satisfy major requirements.

Minimum Units for Completion 22

Purpose Statement

A minor in Theatre Arts provides the undergraduate theatre student with the broadest possible understanding of the art and craft of theatre through the creative, critical, and applied practice of theatre, and provides opportunity through performance and production for the student to learn their art by doing their art in a learner-centered environment. The program seeks to prepare students for a global society by creating an awareness of the diversity of lived experience, practicing empathetic thinking, and sustainability with a global perspective. Majors that pair well with a Theatre Minor are Business, Creative Media and Film, Studio Art, Secondary Education, Cultural Arts and Management, Music, Psychology, English, Anthropology, Visual Communications, and many more due to the diverse and skill-based education that Theatre Arts offers the student.

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College of Arts and Letters

Department of Theatre

Theatre, Minor


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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of Theatre

Theatre, Minor


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