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2024-2025 Catalogue 
    
2024-2025 Catalogue

English - Theatre Arts Minor


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Students minoring in English - Theatre Arts will acquire the knowledge of terminology, theory, history, structure, and conventions of theatre and drama; experience of using the voice and body as instruments in performance; appreciation of the collaborative nature of theatre productions; familiarity with a broad sampling of dramatic literature that varies in both cultural context and subject matter; and an understanding of the key intrinsic aesthetic and humanistic values in dramatic literature and theatre performance. Students will also develop intellectual and rhetorical skills necessary to analyze, discuss, and write about plays and performances

Requirements: In order to obtain a minor in English - Theatre Arts, a student must complete a total of five courses: four core courses and one course that can be chosen from a list of electives.

One of the following dramatic literature or general theatre courses:


  • EN363 Special Topics: American Drama and Culture
  • EN363 Special Topics: American Playwrights since 1945
  • EN363 Special Topics: European Masters of Drama
  • EN363 Special Topics: Introduction to Theatre
  • EN364 - Special Topics: The Public Theater: From Hair to Hamilton

Elective (Fifth class):


  • EN155 - World of Drama
  • EN335 - Special Topics: Shakespeare on the Stage and Page
  • EN363 - Special Topics: American Drama and Culture
  • EN363 - Special Topics: American Playwrights since 1945
  • EN363 - Special Topics: European Masters of Drama
  • EN363 - Special Topics: Introduction to Theatre
  • EN364 - Special Topics: The Public Theater: From Hair to Hamilton
  • EN400 - Independent Study (to complete a final project for the minor, in consultation with the theatre arts minor coordinator)
  • EN481 - Internship (approved by the theatre arts minor coordinator)
  • FAS103 - Creativity
  • MU241 - American Musical Theatre
  • Another course (approved by the theatre arts minor coordinator)     

Double Counting of Courses


Students majoring in English or Communication and minoring in English - Theatre Arts may count no more than one course for both the major and minor.

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Contact information: Jesse Saywell

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