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As a performing arts major with a concentration in theater, you will take performance, studio, history, and seminars. Playwrights, actors, and stagecraft artists: you will develop, cultivate, and hone the skills you need to succeed in performance, design, and instruction (teaching), and become a prime candidate for graduate programs. In performance courses, you will be members and sometimes soloists in production and ensembles in front of live audiences. These courses emphasize collaborative skills and ensemble performance. In studio courses, you will study acting in-depth, exploring specified techniques such as the Stanislavski Method, Alexander, Meisner, Hagen, Adler, and Spolin Technique. You will explore improv, stage combat, pantomime, puppetry, and devising to become confident, well rounded, performance artists. Studio courses emphasize technique, repertoire, presentation, and ultimately, creative performance or design projects. History courses provide the context for all theater practice and enhance students’ ability to perform, write about, promote, question, or collaborate with artists working in any theatrical style. Finally, seminar courses give students the theoretical foundation for their craft. Portfolio building, workshops, master classes, script analysis, and more help the artist to find their voice and contribute with confidence to the arts world. In addition, you will undertake three internships, including a semester-long, full-time professional experience relevant to performing arts and theater. You will complete a two-semester senior thesis on a topic relevant to theater, and containing interdisciplinary components. You will experience the integration of theory and practice through coursework, experiential learning, and independent field research and/or creative composition in the senior thesis sequence.
