Music Theater Minor for Music Majors

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(24 semester hours)

The following courses are designed to provide music majors with the performance and technical theater skills to complement their music training in preparing them for the challenges of working on-stage, back-stage, and front-of-stage in various musical theater genres.

Required Theater Courses (12 hours):

THTR 101 - Introduction to Theater for Majors and Minors 3 hours
THTR 191 - Introduction to Play Analysis 3 hours
THTR 278 - Introduction to Stage Makeup 1 hour
THTR 299A-F - Theater Laboratory 1 hour
THTR 379 - Stage Management 1 hour
THTR 381 - Directing for the Proscenium Stage 3 hours

Required for Performance Focus (12 hours):

THTR 150 - Beginning Acting 3 hours
THTR 250 - Acting Techniques 3 hours
THTR 456 - Audition Techniques 1 hour
THTR 499A-F - Advanced Theater Laboratory 1 hour

Choose four hours from the following in consultation with theater and music advisors:

Required for Teaching Focus (12 hours):

THTR 150 - Beginning Acting 3 hours
THTR 176 - Introduction to Technical Theater 3 hours
*
THTR 275 - Introduction to Theater Design 3 hours

Choose three hours from the following, in consultation with theater and music advisors:

THTR 170 - Beginning Scenic Studio Practicum 1 hour
THTR 171 - Beginning Costume Studio Practicum 1 hour
THTR 450 - Playwriting 3 hours
THTR 464A-F - Independent Study in Theater 1-3 hours
**
THTR 480 - Directing for the Thrust and Arena Stage 3 hours

Notes:

*Music students who have completed Theater 299 do not have to sign up for 176L, the laboratory portion of 176.

**Credit for Theater 464 will be fulfilled by serving as a teaching assistant in a course taught by a member of the theater faculty.

For information on the music theater minor for theater majors, please see the listing under the Department of Music.

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