The Theater minor is a great way to enhance your artistic and expressive abilities. Courses in Acting and Directing develop imagination, confidence and leadership skills, while the choice of electives allows you to choose classes that offer skills in particular areas and/or complement your major.
Highlights
- Small class sizes
- Intimate theater community
- Two mainstages, a Spring Showcase, musicals in alternate years, a Staged Reading Series, and a Religious Drama Team that performs on-campus and in churches.
- Scholarships are available to those interested in working on productions as actors, technicians, stage managers, or for joining the Religious Drama Team.
Career opportunities
The study of theater provides supplemental preparation in the areas of teacher education, communication, group process, organization, aesthetics, public presentation and other skills valuable in a wide variety of fields, as well as preparation for graduate school, theater ministry or conservatory training.
Course listing
General Education Prerequisites
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| THTR 105 | Theater Appreciation | 3 |
Required Courses (18 Units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| THTR 350 | Acting | 3 |
| THTR 360 | Directing and Staging Texts | 3 |
Select one of the following
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| LIT 380 | World Theater: Roots to 1800 | 3 |
| LIT 385 | World Theater: 1800 to Present | 3 |
Select one of the following
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| THTR 115 | Drama Practicum: The Company | 2 |
| THTR 315 | Drama Practicum: The Company | 2 |
Elective Courses
Select 7 units from the following
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| THTR 321 | Applied Theater | 3 |
| THTR 330 | Dance Styles | 3 |
| THTR 335 | Drama Ministry | 3 |
| THTR 355 | Creative Drama | 3 |
| THTR 365 | Stage Technology | 2 |
| THTR 370 | Auditioning | 1 |
| THTR 380 | Stage Make-Up | 1 |
| THTR 375 | Costume Design and Production | 3 |
| HIST 360 | Greece: Drama and Paideia in the Polis | 4 |
| LIT 380 | World Theater: Roots to 1800 | 3 |
| LIT 385 | World Theater: 1800 to Present | 3 |
| LIT 415 | Shakespeare | 3 |
Program director
Julia Reimer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Theater