Lower Division Theatre Core Courses (14 units)

Take all of the following courses:

• TA 1300 - Production Participation (1-2) (3 units)
• TA 1310 - Stagecraft - Scenery and Properties (2)
• TA 1320 - Introduction to Lighting and Sound (2)
• TA 1330 - Introduction to Costumes and Makeup (2)
• TA 1410 - Acting I (3)

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  Performance Option students must take one semester of either Ballet or Contemporary Dance (minimum 2 units)
  
  Choose from the following courses:

• DANC 1400 - Contemporary Dance (2)
• DANC 2400 - Intermediate Contemporary Dance (2)
• DANC 3400 - Advanced Contemporary Dance (3)
• DANC 1000 - Beginning Ballet (2)
• DANC 2000 - Intermediate Ballet (2)

Upper Division Theatre Core Courses (15 units)

Take all of the following courses:

• TA 3110 - Development of World Theatre I (3)
• TA 3120 - Development of World Theatre II (3)
• TA 3900 - Performance Research and Writing (3)
• TA 4450 - Principles of Directing (3)
• TA 4670 - Praxis: Theory and Practice in Performance (3)

Performance Option Required Courses (24 units)

Take all of the following courses:

• TA 1420 - Acting II (3)
• TA 2430 - Vocal Techniques for the Stage (3)
• TA 3410 - Acting III: Classical Acting (3)

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  Take 9 units from the following courses (7 units must be in Upper Division coursework):

   

• DANC 2700 - Choreography I (2)
• TA 2760 - Introduction to Playwriting (3)
• TA 3390 - Stage Management (3)
• TA 3480 - Viewpoints (3)
• TA 4420 - Acting Studio (2)
• TA 4440 - Acting for Camera (3)
• TA 4460 - Advanced Directing (3)
• TA 4540L - Selected Topics in Theatre Arts (1-3)
• TA 4540P - Selected Topics in Theatre Arts (1-3)
• TA 4630 - Shakespearean Performance (3)
• TA 4750 - Dramaturgy (3)
• TA 4760 - Playwriting (3)
• TA 4761 - Playwriting: Adaptation (3)
• TA 4762 - Community-Based Theatre (3)
• TA 4810 - Devised Theatre (3)
• TA 4990 - Undergraduate Directed Study (1-3)

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Take 6 units from the following courses:

• TA 3000 - Production Participation (1-2)  
   
• TA 4100 - Performance Participation (1-2)  also listed as
• DANC 4100 - Performance Participation (1-2)  
   
• TA 4490 - Management Practicum (2)  
• TA 4500 - Design Practicum (1-2)  

Performance option students must fulfill 6 units of upper division department production/performance participations. This requirement is met through performance in, understudying, directing, dramaturgical work, stage management or assisting on a department production or by special assignment approved by the faculty. These participations will be validated with registration in TA 4100, DANC 4100, TA 3000, TA 4490 or TA 4500.  

Performance majors are required to attend the department general auditions in the fall and spring semester.  Any student that does not attend will be ineligible for any performance activity that academic year.

Lower Division Theatre Core Courses (14 units)

Take all of the following courses:

• TA 1300 - Production Participation (1-2) (3 units)
• TA 1310 - Stagecraft - Scenery and Properties (2)
• TA 1320 - Introduction to Lighting and Sound (2)
• TA 1330 - Introduction to Costumes and Makeup (2)
• TA 1410 - Acting I (3)

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  Design & Production Option students must take one semester of either Ballet or Contemporary Dance (minimum 2 units)
  
  Choose from the following courses:

• DANC 1400 - Contemporary Dance (2)
• DANC 2400 - Intermediate Contemporary Dance (2)
• DANC 3400 - Advanced Contemporary Dance (3)
• DANC 1000 - Beginning Ballet (2)
• DANC 2000 - Intermediate Ballet (2)

Upper Division Theatre Core Courses (15 units)

Take all of the following courses:

• TA 3110 - Development of World Theatre I (3)
• TA 3120 - Development of World Theatre II (3)
• TA 3900 - Performance Research and Writing (3)
• TA 4450 - Principles of Directing (3)
• TA 4670 - Praxis: Theory and Practice in Performance (3)

Design & Production Option required Courses (24 units)

Take all of the following courses:

• TA 1610 - Drafting for the Theatre (3)
• TA 1620 - History of Styles (3)
• TA 3390 - Stage Management (3)

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  Take 9 units from the following courses:

   

• TA 4260 - Costume Design (3)
• TA 4310 - Scenic Design (3)
• TA 4340 - Lighting Design (3)
• TA 4390 - Arts Management (3)
• TA 4220 - Advanced Makeup Design (3)
• TA 4270 - Advanced Costume Design (3)
• TA 4320 - Advanced Scenic Design (3)
• TA 4350 - Advanced Lighting Design (3)
• TA 4370 - Introduction to 3D Printing (3)
• TA 4540L - Selected Topics in Theatre Arts (1-3)
• TA 4540P - Selected Topics in Theatre Arts (1-3)

Participation

Take 6 units from the following courses:

• TA 3000 - Production Participation (1-2)  
• TA 4490 - Management Practicum (2)  
• TA 4500 - Design Practicum (1-2)  

Design and Production option students must fulfill 6 units of upper division department production participations.  This requirement is met through Technical, Production, Design or Assistant Design work, Prop Master, Painter, directing, dramaturgical work, stage management or assisting on a department production or by special assignment approved by the faculty.  These assignments are validated with registration in TA 3000 and the Management/Design Practicum TA 4490 or TA 4500.

Design and Production majors are required to attend the department portfolio review in the spring semester.  Any student that does not attend will be ineligible for any production activity the following academic year.

Lower Division Required Courses (8 units)

Take all of the following courses:

• TA 1300 - Production Participation (1-2) (1 unit)
• TA 1320 - Introduction to Lighting and Sound (2)
• TA 2430 - Vocal Techniques for the Stage (3)
• DANC 2700 - Choreography I (2)

Upper Division Required Courses (18 units)

• DANC 3500 - Contemporary African Dance (3)
• DANC 3700 - Choreography II (3)
• TA 3900 - Performance Research and Writing (3)
• DANC 4210 - Embodied Histories: Dance in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century (3)
• DANC 4400 - Theory and Analysis of Dance (3)
• DANC 4770 - Moving Cultures: World Dance (3)

Dance Option students are required to take one full year of Ballet (4 units)

Students will be placed into the appropriate level upon entrance to the program

• Take 4 units of the following repeatable courses:

• DANC 1000 - Beginning Ballet (2)
• DANC 2000 - Intermediate Ballet (2)

Dance Option students are required to take a minimum of 9 units of Contemporary dance.

(6 units must be in upper division DANC 3400)

Students will be placed into the appropriate level upon entrance to the program

• DANC 1400 - Contemporary Dance (2)
• DANC 2400 - Intermediate Contemporary Dance (2)
• DANC 3400 - Advanced Contemporary Dance (3)

Participation

Take 6 units from the following courses:

• DANC 4100 - Performance Participation (1-2)  Also listed as 
• TA 4100 - Performance Participation (1-2)  
   
• TA 3000 - Production Participation (1-2)  

Dance option students will fulfill three upper division department production participations. This requirement is met through performance in a department production or by special assignment approved by the faculty. These assignments are validated with registration in DANC 4100 or TA 3000.

Electives in Dance (8 units)

(Select 8 units from the following courses.  2 units must be in Upper Division coursework.)

• DANC 1200 - Beginning Jazz Dance (2)
• DANC 1600 - Beginning Tap Dance (1)
• DANC 2000 - Intermediate Ballet (2)
• DANC 2200 - Intermediate Jazz Dance (2)
• DANC 2540L - Special Topics in Dance (1-3)
• DANC 2540P - Special Topics in Dance (1-3)
• DANC 2560 - Salsa and Contemporary Latin American Dance Practices (1)
• DANC 2700 - Choreography I (2)
• DANC 3000 - Advanced Ballet (1)
• DANC 3200 - Advanced Jazz Dance (2)
• DANC 3500 - Contemporary African Dance (3)
• DANC 3700 - Choreography II (3)
• DANC 4000 - Creative Dance in the Elementary Classroom (3)
• DANC 4010 - Dance Techniques and Creativity in Elementary Education (3)
• DANC 4100 - Performance Participation (1-2)
• DANC 4350 - Dance Movement and Identity (3)
• DANC 4540L - Special Topics in Dance (1-3)
• DANC 4540P - Special Topics in Dance (1-3)
• DANC 4600 - Contact Improvisation (3)
• DANC 4700 - Experimental Dance (3)
• DANC 4780 - Choreography for Camera (2)
• TA 1300 - Production Participation (1-2)
• TA 1310 - Stagecraft - Scenery and Properties (2)
• TA 1330 - Introduction to Costumes and Makeup (2)
• TA 1410 - Acting I (3)
• TA 3000 - Production Participation (1-2)
• TA 3390 - Stage Management (3)
• TA 3480 - Viewpoints (3)
• TA 4260 - Costume Design (3)
• TA 4340 - Lighting Design (3)
• TA 4390 - Arts Management (3)
• TA 4490 - Management Practicum (2)
• TA 4500 - Design Practicum (1-2)
• TA 4540L - Selected Topics in Theatre Arts (1-3)
• TA 4540P - Selected Topics in Theatre Arts (1-3)
• TA 4810 - Devised Theatre (3)
• TA 4890 - Advanced Creative Workshop (1-2)