Performing Arts

Minor in Theatre

  • 22 credit hours with grades of C or better with at least 12 credit hours unique to the minor 
  • Students intending to pursue the theatre minor must be assigned a departmental advisor. 

Course Requirements

  • PERF-115 Theatre: Principles, Plays, and Performance 1:1 (3)
  • PERF-251 Fundamentals of Acting I (3) 
  • PERF-260 Production I: Stagecraft (3) 
  • PERF-261 Production II: Introduction to Design (3) 
  • PERF-265 Theatre Practicum (1) 
  • PERF-365 Theatre History I: From the Greeks to the
     Seventeenth Century (3)  or PERF-366 Theatre History II: from Baroque to the End of the Nineteenth Century (3) 
  • One of the following: 
  • PERF-450 Rotating Topics in Theatre (3) 
  • PERF-452 Directing Techniques (3) 
  • PERF-457 Playwriting (3) 
  • One of the following: 
  • PERF-252 Fundamentals of Acting II (3)
  • PERF-350 Fundamentals of Acting III (3)
  • PERF-362 Lighting Design (3) 
  • PERF-364 Basics of Scene and Costume Design (3)