Drama

Discovery - 9 credit hours

These courses provide foundational ideas, practices, and methods in theatre studies. Establishing a context for exploration and synthesis during and after undergraduate study, each class is essential to our department’s theoretical and practical approaches to theatre and dance.

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  Required Courses 

• DRAM 2010 - Theatre Design, Technology, & Production Credits: 3
• DRAM 2050 - Performance and/as Theory Credits: 3
• DRAM 2060 - The Body and Performance Credits: 3

Learning Areas - 12 credit hours

Each learning area includes several mid-level courses addressing key specialties within the fields of Drama and Dance. All the courses are frequently taught and may be taken without prerequisite. Drawn from across the departmental curriculum, they are grouped by similarity in method, content, or aims.

Focused Inquiry - 12 credit hours

Working with their advisors, students craft a plan for further opportunities to specialize or for exploration into new areas they’ve not yet explored in theatre or dance. Opportunities for applied performance, production, and design work may also be used to fulfill part of a student’s plan of study.

Focused Inquiry: 12 credits in Drama or Dance at 2000 level or above, 6 of which must be from courses 3000 or above

Note: Courses may only be taken once to fulfill Focused Inquiry requirements.

Possible courses: 

• DANC 2210 - Ballet I Credits: 1
• DANC 2220 - Modern/Contemporary I Credits: 1
• DANC 2230 - Jazz Dance I Credits: 1
• DANC 2300 - Dance Improvisation Credits: 2 to 3
• DANC 2430 - Production Laboratory: Dance Credits: 1 to 3
• DANC 3210 - Ballet II Credits: 1
• DANC 3220 - Modern/Contemporary II Credits: 1
• DANC 3300 - Dance Composition Credits: 3
• DANC 3400 - Dance and Culture Credits: 3
• DANC 3620 - Dance Repertory Credits: 1 to 3
• DANC 3640 - Screendance Credits: 3
• DRAM 2020 - Acting I Credits: 3
• DRAM 2110 - Lighting Technology Credits: 3
• DRAM 2210 - Scenic Technology Credits: 3
• DRAM 2230 - Production Studio: Scenery Credits: 1
• DRAM 2231 - Production Lab: Run Crew Credits: 1
• DRAM 2310 - Costume Technology Credits: 3
• DRAM 2330 - Production Laboratory: Costume and Makeup Credits: 1
• DRAM 2620 - Sound Design Credits: 3
• DRAM 2630 - Production Laboratory: Sound Credits: 1
• DRAM 2830 - Production Lab: Digital Media Credits: 1 to 3
• DRAM 2840 - Design Studio Lab Credits: 1 to 3
• DRAM 3030 - Dramaturgy Credits: 3
• DRAM 3050 - Making Theatre Histories Credits: 3
• DRAM 3070 - African-American Theatre Credits: 3
• DRAM 3080 - Script Analysis: Dramatic Structure and Theatrical Production Credits: 3
• DRAM 3090 - Theatre and Social Change Credits: 3
• DRAM 3410 - Acting II Credits: 3
• DRAM 3430 - Improvisation Credits: 3
• DRAM 3440 - Movement for Theatre Credits: 3
• DRAM 3651 - Directing I Credits: 3
• DRAM 3652 - Production Management Credits: 3
• DRAM 3653 - Production Laboratory: Stage Management Credits: 1 to 3
• DRAM 3655 - Film Directing Credits: 3
• DRAM 3710 - Playwriting I Credits: 3
• DRAM 3730 - Screenwriting Credits: 3
• DRAM 3820 - Video Design I Credits: 3
• DRAM 3825 - Media Design Studio Credits: 3
• DRAM 4020 - Comedy as Protest Credits: 3
• DRAM 4110 - Lighting Design Credits: 3
• DRAM 4590 - Special Topics in Theatre Credits: 1 to 3

•       Special Topics: Black Monologues 

              OR

        Special Topics: Producing Film

• DRAM 4593 - Special Topics in Performance Credits: 1 to 3

•       Special Topics: Speaking Social Justice

              OR 

        Special Topics: Booking the Job: Audition Technique

              OR 

        Special Topics: New Works: Collaboration & Performance

              OR

        Special Topics: 

• DRAM 4651 - Directing II Credits: 3
• DRAM 4730 - Advanced Playwriting Credits: 3

Discovery (3 credit hours)

These courses provide foundational ideas, practices, and methods in theatre studies. 

Choose one of the following courses:

• DRAM 2010 - Theatre Design, Technology, & Production Credits: 3
• DRAM 2050 - Performance and/as Theory Credits: 3
• DRAM 2060 - The Body and Performance Credits: 3

Learning Areas (9 credit hours)

Each learning area includes several mid-level courses addressing key specialties within the fields of theatre and dance.

(Choose one course from three of the following areas)

Focused Inquiry (6 credit hours)

Working with their advisors, students craft a plan for further opportunities to specialize or for exploration into new areas they’ve not yet explored in theatre.

• 6 credit hours of Drama courses at the 2000 level or above.

3 of these credits must be at the 3000 level or above.

            Possible courses: refer to the Focused Inquiry list in the Drama Major section above.