Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Catalog: 2020-21 College of Liberal Arts Program: Theatre Arts and Dance Major (Performance) Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Theatre Arts and Dance Major (Performance)

Meet the Faculty


The theatre major offers a comprehensive education in the art and craft of the theatre. The curriculum exposes students broadly to theatre history, literature, theory, and criticism, and provides rigorous training in acting, directing, design, dramaturgy, and technical theatre. To achieve these skills, students complete a series of required courses and participate in the departmental production program.

Philosophy
The Rollins College Department of Theatre and Dance provides for the development of imaginative, purposeful, and skilled expression. Teh department inspires students’ artistic, intellectual, and personal growth. Graduates of the program are prepared to lead, collaborate with, and enrich the communities in which they live, work, and serve.

Performance
The department typically produces eight (8) theatre and dance productions per year at two on-campus venues: the Annie Russell Theatre, a 377-seat proscenium theatre listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, and a flexible black box theatre space.

Majors take a set of courses and concentrate in performance, design and technical theatre, musical theatre, directing or dramaturgy, or theatre studies. The department issues a comprehensive reading list of theatre literature for majors. Faculty evaluate student progress at the end of the sophomore year, and seniors must complete a senior capstone experience.

Major Requirements

Fifty-four (54) credit hours are required, including:

  • a core of eleven (11) courses,
    all majors take a core sequence of seven (7) four-hour courses and four (4) two-hour production courses; and
  • an emphasis in one (1) of five (5) areas,
    all majors select an area of emphasis consisting of five (5) four-hour courses and a two-hour capstone course.
  • successful completion of the department’s Sophomore Review Process.

THE Core Courses

Course NameCrs:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
THE 111 - Introduction to Technical Theatre
THE 112 - Fundamentals of Theatrical Design
THE 133 - Acting I: Fundamentals
THE 201 - Script Analysis
THE 210 - Survey of Western Dramatic Literature
THE 341 - History of the Theatre I and II
THE 342 - History of the Theatre I and II

The following four (4) courses:

Course NameCrs:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
THE 418 - Theatre Production – Technical
THE 419 - Theatre Production – Technical
THE 420 - Theatre Production – Technical
THE 421 - Theatre Production – Technical

Performance Concentration Courses

Course NameCrs:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
THE 233 - Acting II: Character w/Laboratory

Prereq(s): THE 111 and THE 133.

THE 480 - Theatre Capstone

Two (2) of the following:

Course NameCrs:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
DAN 135 - Freedom to Move
THE 136 - Voice and Speech I: Free Voice
THE 234 - Movement I: Body Dynamics

Prereq(s): THE 133-required, THE 136-suggested.

One (1) of the following:

Course NameCrs:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
THE 225 - Improvisational Theatre I: Fundamentals
THE 236 - Voice and Speech II: Vocal Dynamics

Prereq(s): THE 136.

THE 255 - Acting for Musical Theatre I

Prereq(s): THE 133 or instructor consent.

THE 333 - Directing I: Fundamentals

Prereq(s): THE 111, THE 133, THE 201, and THE 211.

THE 336 - Theatre for Social Change

Prereq(s): THE 133, or THE 225, or instructor consent.

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