Prerequisites
Theater 1: Introduction to Theater Studies: How Performance
Happens
Theater 15: World Theater History: Classical and Medieval Theater
Theater 16: World Theater History: Early Modern Theater
Theater 40: Technical Production
Prerequisite courses should normally be completed by the end of the
sophomore year. Students who become majors after the sophomore year should
enroll for the prerequisite courses during the first terms in which they are
available after the major has been declared.
Requirements
Nine major courses, exclusive of the prerequisites, as enumerated within the
following categories:
A. Four courses in dramatic literature, theater history, theory and
criticism, no more than one of which can be taken outside of the Theater
Department.
(1) Two of the following courses:
- Theater 18: Modern Drama I
- Theater 62: Plays in Performance: Perception and Analysis (FSP)
- Theater 63: Dramatic Theory and Criticism
- English 24: Shakespeare I
- Theater 19: Modern Drama II
- Theater 20: Topics in Modern and Contemporary Western Theater
- English 26: English Drama to 1642
- English 54: Modern British Drama
(2) Two of the following courses:
- Theater 21: Topics in American Theater
- Theater 22: Black Theater, U.S.A.
- Theatre 23: African Theater: From Colonialism to the Present
- Theater 24: Performance in Asia
- English 47: American Drama
- Theater 10: Special Topics in Theater (with the approval of the Chair)
With prior approval of the Chair, a course in theater studies from another
department (in dramatic literature, theater history, or theater theory and
criticism) may be used to fulfill this category (e.g. Greek and Roman Studies
2: The Tragedy and Comedy of Greece and Rome).
Or any course listed above in categories 1-2.
B. Five courses in theater practice:
(6), (7), (8), (9), (10) An organized, coherent program of five courses
supported by the major, written rationale, and approved by the Chair of the
Department. Theater 90: The Senior Colloquium may be used in partial
fulfillment of this requirement.
C. Production requirement:
Every Theater major is expected to demonstrate competence in the area of
theater production by active and sustained participation in theater offerings
at the Hopkins Center (or elsewhere as approved by the Department), especially
during the period of his or her declared major. Active and sustained
participation shall consist of at least five active involvements in productions
sponsored (or with approval, cosponsored) by the Department over a minimum of
three terms. Such participation can include any form of activity with the
exception of work associated with the prerequisite course Theater 40: Technical
Production:
- courses that include a production component
- acting in productions
- participation in a production crew
- stage management
- directing
- designing
- playwriting when the script is produced under the sponsorship of the
Department
- dramaturgy under faculty supervision
At least two of these involvements in production must be in areas other than
acting.
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