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Performance Concentration (18 Credits)

The Performance concentration provides students with an interdisciplinary and comprehensive program for performers interested in Acting, Dance/Movement and Physical Theatre practices with applications for both stage and screen.

Required Program Core Courses

See Theatre and Performance Media Major Required Courses, Practicum, and Major Elective

Required Sequence

Dependent on performance selection in Theatre Core:

  • THE 171 Improvisation & Physical Theatre - 3 credits
    or
    THE 172 Acting I for Majors - 3 credits
  • THE 174 The Actor’s Voice - 3 credits
  • THE 273 Acting II - 3 credits
  • THE 372 Acting III: Period Styles - 3 credits

Elective Courses

Choose three credits:

  • THE 270 Directing I - 3 credits
  • THE 365 Special Topics in Theatre (when topically appropriate) - 3 credits
  • THE 377 Advanced Movement for the Actor - 3 credits
  • THE 393 Stage Combat: The Actor/Combatant - 3 credits
  • THE 471 On-Camera Acting - 3 credits
  • THE 499 Site-Specific Theatre - 3 credits

Required Foundational Courses

Dependent on performance selection in Theatre Core:

  • THE 171 Improvisation & Physical Theatre - 3 credits
    or
    DNC 253 Modern Dance I - 3 credits
  • DNC 240 West African Dance I - 3 credits
  • DNC 280 World Dance: Movement as Culture - 3 credits
  • DNC 254 Modern Dance II - 3 credits

Elective Courses

Choose three credits:

  • THE 180 Performance-in-Context: Dance/Choreography - 3 credits
  • DNC 241 West African Dance II - 3 credits
  • DNC 251 Ballet I - Beginning - 3 credits
  • DNC 255 Tap Dance - 3 credits
  • DNC 346 Improvisation - 3 credits
  • DNC 347 Dance Workshop - 3 credits
  • DNC 351 Ballet II - Intermediate - 3 credits
  • DNC 365 Special Topics (when topically appropriate) - 3 credits
  • DNC 395 Practicum in Dance - 1 to 3 credits
  • DNC 491 Justice Alternatives through the Arts - 1 to 3 credits
  • THE 299 Diversity in Performance - 3 credits
  • THE 377 Advanced Movement for the Actor - 3 credits

*Fulfulls Tier I of the Liberal Arts Core
**Fulfills Tier II of the Liberal Arts Core