Theater Concentration

Concentration Overview

As a performing arts major with a concentration in theater, you will take performance, studio, history, and seminars. Playwrights, actors, and stagecraft artists: you will develop, cultivate, and hone the skills you need to succeed in performance, design, and instruction (teaching), and become a prime candidate for graduate programs.

In performance courses, you will be members and sometimes soloists in production and ensembles in front of live audiences. These courses emphasize collaborative skills and ensemble performance. In studio courses, you will study acting in-depth, exploring specified techniques such as the Stanislavski Method, Alexander, Meisner, Hagen, Adler, and Spolin Technique. You will explore improv, stage combat, pantomime, puppetry, and devising to become confident, well rounded, performance artists. Studio courses emphasize technique, repertoire, presentation, and ultimately, creative performance or design projects. History courses provide the context for all theater practice and enhance students’ ability to perform, write about, promote, question, or collaborate with artists working in any theatrical style. Finally, seminar courses give students the theoretical foundation for their craft. Portfolio building, workshops, master classes, script analysis, and more help the artist to find their voice and contribute with confidence to the arts world.

In addition, you will undertake three internships, including a semester-long, full-time professional experience relevant to performing arts and theater. You will complete a two-semester senior thesis on a topic relevant to theater, and containing interdisciplinary components. You will experience the integration of theory and practice through coursework, experiential learning, and independent field research and/or creative composition in the senior thesis sequence.
Curriculum
Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 131

First Year - Credits: 32
- Quantitative Reasoning聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- ENG 111聽-聽Critical Reading and Writing I (Cr: 3)
- ENG 112聽-聽Critical Reading and Writing II (Cr: 3)
- DRA 100聽-聽Introduction to Theater (Cr: 3)
- DRA 105聽-聽Theater Performance (Cr: 1)
- DRA 106聽-聽Private Theater Instruction (Cr: 0.5 or 1)
  
  (Students will take twice)
- DRA 200聽-聽Acting Techniques I (Cr: 3)
- DRA 205聽-聽Acting Techniques II (Cr: 3)
- DRA 220聽-聽Introduction to Theater Production (Cr: 3)
- INT 100聽-聽Internship I (Cr: 2)
- MUS 105聽-聽西瓜视频 College Chorus (Cr: 1)
- PA 100聽-聽Introduction to Performing Arts (Cr: 3)
- PA 101聽-聽Performance Review (Cr: 1)
  
  (Students will take twice)
Second Year - Credits: 35
- Aesthetic Awareness and聽Creative Expression General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- Global Issues聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- Individual and Society聽General Education Requirement聽(Cr: 3)
- Literary Perspectives聽General Education Requirement聽(Cr: 3)
- Science and Technology聽General Education Requirement聽(Cr: 3)
- World Cultures聽General Education Requirement聽(Cr: 3)
- ART 265聽-聽Arts Administration I (Cr: 3)
- DRA 105聽-聽Theater Performance (Cr: 1)
  
  (Students will take twice)
- DRA 106聽-聽Private Theater Instruction (Cr: 0.5 or 1)
  
  (Students will take twice)
- ENG 340聽-聽Playwriting and Screenwriting II (Cr: 3)
- ENG 365聽-聽Shakespeare (Cr: 3)
- INT 200聽-聽Internship II (Cr: 2)
- PA 101聽-聽Performance Review (Cr: 1)
  
  (Students will take twice)
Third Year - Credits: 33
- General Education Electives (Cr: 9)
- Values and Ethical Reasoning聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
- DRA 105聽-聽Theater Performance (Cr: 1)
  
  (Students will take twice)
- DRA 106聽-聽Private Theater Instruction (Cr: 0.5 or 1)
  
  (Students will take twice)
- DRA 310聽-聽Directing (Cr: 3)
- PA 101聽-聽Performance Review (Cr: 1)
  
  (Students will take twice)
- PA 200聽-聽Aesthetics in the Performing Arts (Cr: 3)
- PA 300聽-聽Performance Workshop I (Cr: 3)
- PA 305聽-聽Performance Workshop II (Cr: 3)
- PA 310聽-聽Audition and Portfolio (Cr: 3)
Fourth Year - Credits: 31
- General Education Elective (Cr: 3)
- ART 365聽-聽Arts Administration II (Cr: 3)
- DAN 235聽-聽Mind and Body Awareness (Cr: 3)
- ENG 212聽-聽Drama Survey (Cr: 3)
- MUS 105聽-聽西瓜视频 College Chorus (Cr: 1)
- PA 480聽-聽Semester Internship (Cr: 12)
- PA 489聽-聽Senior Research (Cr: 3)
- PA 491聽-聽Senior Capstone (Cr: 3)
Internships and Careers
An 西瓜视频 education means you'll graduate with a degree and a resume.

Whether you pursue graduate school or embark on your career right away after graduation, we believe that your time at 西瓜视频 will prepare you for the next step.

Internships:

Students are required to complete three internships within their major and/or minor. Internship sites have included:
- New York Film Academy
- North Shore Music Theatre
- Stage 284 at The Community House
- Firehouse Center for the Arts
- Boston Ballet
- Ovation Theatre
- The Artful Life Counseling Center & Studio
- Walt Disney World College Program
- Center for Creative YOuth
Jobs:
Many of our graduates have become or worked for:
- Theatre Workshop of Nantucket
- Stage 284 at The Community House
- North Shore Music Theatre
- Theater Teacher
- Lisa Pilato Dance Center
- Freelance Artist
- Actor
- Arts Administrator
- Walt Disney World
- Norwegian Cruise Lines
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