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

Theatre Arts and Dance Major (Dramaturgy)

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

Dramaturgy Concentration Courses

Dramaturgy emphasis students must choose at least one from each of the following three sub-specialities:

Theatre History and Dramaturgical Research

Course NameCrs:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
DAN 203 - Dance History
THE 215 - Global Theatre
THE 241 - Classical Theatre
THE 350 - Topics in Theatre
THE 360 - Forbidden Acts: The Queer Aesthetic in 20th Century Theatre & Film

Community Building Through Theatre

Course NameCrs:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
THE 244 - Theatre and Disability
THE 265 - Critical Performance Ethnography
THE 336 - Theatre for Social Change

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

Collaborative Theatre Development

Course NameCrs:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
THE 202 - Performance Design
THE 225 - Improvisational Theatre I: Fundamentals
THE 333 - Directing I: Fundamentals

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

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