Theatre Arts and the Core!
Did you know…
- That 35 different Theatre and Dance classes fulfill the Core Arts requirement?
- Theatre and Dance classes fulfill 12 other areas of the Core?
- And that Theatre and Dance classes appear on 7 different Pathways?
Theatre and Dance courses fulfill a wide variety of Core Curriculum requirements, lending itself particularly well to becoming a major, second major, or minor.
Foundations
1 course in Critical Thinking and Writing 1 & 2
- Spectacle and Society
4 Courses in Cultures and Ideas 1 & 2
- All the World’s a Stage
- Global Perspectives in Theatre
- When God was a Woman
- (De)Colonial Narratives
Explorations
1 Course in Ethics
- The Ethics in Drama, the Drama in Ethics (THTR 60)
2 Courses in Civic Engagement
- Teaching the Performing Arts (DANC 59/159)
- Modern American Theatre History: Censorship, Arts Funding, and Theatre Unions (THTR 44)
6 Courses in Diversity: U.S. Perspectives
- African American Dance History (DANC 62/162)
- Women in Dance History (DANC 66/166)
- Drama of Diversity (THTR 65)
- Fashion, Politics, & Issues of Gender (THTR 151)
- Theatre of Dissent: Social Movement, Migration & Revolution in the Americas (THTR 163)
- Feminism Remixed: Gender, Performance, and Popular Culture (THTR 167)
35 Courses in Arts
- Jazz Dance I (DANC 40)
- Jazz Dance II (DANC 41)
- Jazz Dance III (DANC 42)
- Ballet I (DANC 43)
- Ballet II (DANC 44)
- Ballet III (DANC 45)
- Modern/Contemporary Dance I (DANC 46)
- Modern/Contemporary Dance II (DANC 47)
- Modern/Contemporary Dance III (DANC 48)
- Dance Composition (DANC 49)
- Tap Dance I (DANC 50)
- Tap Dance II (DANC 51)
- Afro-Haitian Dance (DANC 52)
- Musical Theatre Dance Styles (DANC 55/155)
- Teaching the Performing Arts (DANC 59/159)
- Walk Across California ((DANC 69/169)
- Ballet IV (DANC 140)
- Ballet V (DANC 141)
- Jazz Dance IV (DANC 142)
- Choreography (DANC 143)
- Jazz Dance V (DANC 145)
- Modern/Contemporary Dance IV (DANC 146)
- Improv (THTR 7)
- Acting for Nonmajors (THTR 8)
- Intro to Performance Collaboration (THTR 10)
- Voice I: Voice, Speech, & Presentation Skills (THTR 21)
- Intermediate Acting (THTR 24)
- Introduction to Design (THTR 30)
- Introduction to Production (THTR 31)
- Costume Construction (THTR 32)
- Stage Lighting (THTR 33)
- The Ethics in Drama, the Drama in Ethics (THTR 60)
- Scenic Design (THTR 133)
- Costume Design (THTR 134)
- Screenwriting (THTR 173)
1 Course in Natural Science
- Physics of Dance (DANC 4)
1 Course in Religion Theology, and Culture 2
- Incarnating the Word: Theology and Theatre (THTR 109)
1 Course in Cultures and Ideas 3
- Cultures on the Move (DANC 68)
Integrations
4 Courses in Advanced Writing
- Dance History (DANC 67)
- Playwriting (THTR 170)
- Literature and Performance (THTR 172)
- Classical Tragedy (THTR 181)
3 Courses in Experiential Learning for Social Justice
- Teaching the Performing Arts (DANC 59/159)
- Walk Across California (DANC 69/169)
- Social Justice and the Arts (THTR 189, formerly DANC 189)
7 Pathways which include Theatre and Dance classes:
- American Studies
- Beauty
- Children, Family & Society
- Cinema Studies
- Design Thinking
- Gender, Sexuality, & the Body
- Justice and the Arts