Minor in Theater

The Minor in Theater addresses fundamentals of theater tradition and practices, including performance skills, a variety of methods, and direct participation in productions.  The minor requires a minimum of 18 credit-hours of STHE and SPTH classes. Students may choose 6 courses in any order, though we recommend permission of the instructor for Directed Study. 

Acting - STHE 201B (3 hrs.): Fundamentals of character development and perofrmance for live theater.

Fundamentals of Theater. -  STHE 101B (3 hrs.): An overview of the core areas in theater theory and practice, including scripts, production procedures, performance, and design.

Performance Methods -  STHE 345B (3 hrs.): Nontraditional theater approaches focusing on voice and stage movement, including oral interpretation, image theater, Viewpoints, and Neutral Mask. 

Applied Performance - STHE 320B (3 hrs.): Performance as research method. Students select and explore subjects and then create original immersive theater projects performance work through a process of creative devising. 

Performance Ensemble - STHE 399B (3 hrs.): The course is dedicated to performing a live theater production in the Frank Hayden Theater. It relies on the full array of theater skills, depending on actors, writers, producers, crew, and technicians to pull off a production in which class time is rehearsal time.

Directed Study in Performance - STHE 495 B (3 hrs.): Small group theater project lead by professors, ideally as a capstone course. 

Stagecraft - SPTH 270: Technical and backstage skill development, including lighting design, sound design, crew, set building, stage management, and other technical production elements.

Stagecraft lab - SPTH 271 (1 hr.):  Lab focused on hands-on experience with technical theater, taken concurrently with SPTH 270.

Any 18 hrs = Minor