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Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts

The Department of Theatre Arts offers three basic programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree with opportunities for options in Performance (acting), Technical Theatre (scenery/costume/ lighting design), and General Theatre. This flexibility of program planning in Theatre Arts has been organized to serve student needs in three principal areas:

(1) Enrichment of a liberal arts background through development of appreciation and insight derived from theatre arts courses taken as general education electives;

(2) Development of interests and skills that will offer lifelong satisfactions as an avocational outlet;

(3) Preparation for theatre professions in community theatre, recreational theatre, educational theatre, and professional theatre.

Several course offerings in theatre and dramatic literature are available jointly with the Comparative Literature department. These courses cover the full range of world drama from the viewpoints of theatre and dramatic literature.

The General Option in the Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts provides an opportunity to gain a broad exposure to the discipline. The curriculum requires study in acting; technical and design crafts; history, literature, and criticism of theatre; and directing.

Requirements

The Theatre Arts core is required of all majors. THEA 010 is required each semester of enrollment. (Note: THEA 010 units are not included in the total of 120 units for graduation.) Other core classes are: THEA 101, 114A, 142, 146, 148, 201, 271 (lower division) and THEA 321 ,322, 324I, 374, 426 (upper division).

All performance majors will fulfill also four performance requirements (with or without credit) to graduate. This requirement is met through acting, understudying, directing, or assistant directing for a mainstage production; acting or directing for a showcase production; or by special assignment approved by the performance faculty.

All majors are required to participate with or without credit in the departmental production program. Furthermore, majors enrolled in any acting course are expected to audition and participate in departmental productions in that semester. The student is expected to accept any role in which he/she is cast. Majors are also expected to seek approval from their advisors before making any commitment to a theatre program which lies outside of the departmental academic atmosphere.

No more than eight units of Theatre Arts activity (cast and/or crew) will apply toward degree requirements. Crew requirements for all majors consist of one major running crew assignment in residence in each of the areas of costume, make-up, stagecraft and lighting to be satisfactorily completed with or without credit during the semester following completion of the related course. Students with transfer credit in those related courses must fulfill the same running crew requirements, with or without credit, within the first three semesters of matriculation into the university.

At the beginning of each semester, incoming students to the Performance or Tech options, including transfer students (or those who have been inactive for a year in our department), are required to audition (Performance) or interview (Tech). Auditions and interviews will be conducted by appropriate faculty/student groups. (These auditions are required for admittance to certain upper division classes and are therefore used for appropriate placement of students at their level of competency as determined by the faculty.)

General Option

In addition to lower/upper division core, choose 21 units from the following:

THEA 112, 114B, 144, 214, 262, 312, 316, 341, 352, 364, 375, 425i, 427, 433, 442, 447, 449, 451, 476, 498;

and choose 3 activity units from:
THEA 310A/B, 340A/B, 410A/B, 440A/B.

Performance Option

In addition to lower/upper division core, take each of the following:

THEA 112, 114B, 214, 262;

and choose 9 units from:
THEA 144, 312, 316, 318, 375, 413, 414, 415, 462.

Technical Theatre Option: Scenery/Costume/Lighting Design

In addition to lower/upper division core, take each of the following:

THEA 352, 433;

and choose 15 units from:
THEA 144, 341, 342, 441, 442, 446, 447, 448, 449, 451, 456, 472, 498.

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