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?
  
  

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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

• Beginning Jazz Dance (DANC 40)
• Beginning Intermediate Jazz Dance (DANC 41)
• Intermediate Jazz Dance (DANC 42)
• Beginning Ballet (DANC 43)
• Beginning Intermediate Ballet (DANC 44)
• Intermediate Ballet (DANC 45)
• Beginning Modern/Contemporary Dance (DANC 46)
• Beginning Intermediate Modern/Contemporary Dance (DANC 47)
• Intermediate Modern/Contemporary Dance (DANC 48)
• Dance Composition (DANC 49)
• Beginning Tap Dance (DANC 50)
• Beginning Intermediate Tap Dance (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)
  
• Intermediate Advanced Ballet (DANC 140)
• Advanced Ballet (DANC 141)
  
• Intermediate Advanced Jazz Dance (DANC 142)
• Choreography (DANC 143)
• Advanced Jazz Dance (DANC 145)
  
• Intermediate Advanced Modern/Contemporary Dance (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