Jul 31, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

Theatre: Performance and Theatre Studies Concentration, BA


The major in Theatre: Performance & Theatre Studies Concentration is for students who are interested in adopting a multidimensional approach to the study of acting, directing, dramaturgy, and/or playwriting.

Learning Outcomes

When they have completed the Performing Arts Program, students will be able to:

  • DEMONSTRATE multidimensional (individual and ensemble) performance capacity through training, embodiment, and understanding of social/cultural context and theory.
  • DEMONSTRATE the capacity to support the technical and design needs of a production through the integration of tools and techniques, communication, dramaturgical skill, and an understanding of social/cultural context and theory.
  • ANALYZE and INTERPRET works of art from around the world, considering issues of access, representation, exclusion and inclusion in the field of Performing Arts.
  • DEVELOP an artistic voice and promote the agency to express it in community.

Lower Division


The following lower-division courses are required for the major.

Production Praxis


Students must take 2 units of:

Advanced Performance Praxis


Students must take 2 units of:

DEIB requirement


Students must take one of the following DEIB courses, which may have been taken above. If students did not take a DEIB course to satisfy the previous categories the effective size of the major will increase by 3 units.