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Academic/Artistics Tracks:
acting | music/dance | design/technical | directing/dramatic literature | administration |
minor in theater arts | teaching | permanent curriculum

Emphasizing critical inquiry, scholarship, script analysis and practical studio application students work to develop mastery in the close reading and imaginative realization of plays. Augmented with courses in English, the directing/dramatic literature track approaches texts and trends in a variety of contexts, with persuasive relationships to the world outside the theater.

This track prepares students to undertake graduate study/professional training in directing, literature & criticism, playwriting or dramaturgy.
In addition to satisfying all General Education, Interdisciplinary and Theater Core requirements, the directing/dramatic literature track requires:

1) ENGL 308
2) THEA 336, 350
3) Select two: THEA 330, 346, 366W, 367 461W, 468(W)
4) Twelve additional hours of approved upper-level Theater electives

5) Successful completion of the Theater Arts Graduation Examination

^ Repeatable for credit

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