Theatre Major

Requirements for the Major

Core Requirements (seven courses)

1.  One course in performance: any course in the THEA001 PO series of THEA012  PO.  

2.  One course in design: THEA 002 PO - The Dramatic Imagination  

3.  Two courses in theatre history/dramatic literature:

• THEA 030 PO - World Theatre and Drama I: Greeks to Restoration  
• THEA 031 PO - Word Theatre and Drama II: Kabuki to Contemporary  
• THEA 141 PO - Dramaturgy  

4.  One course in theatre technology:

• THEA 021 PO - Costume Construction
    
• THEA 022 PO - Stage Lighting Technology  
• THEA 023 PO - Theatre Crafts  
• THEA 024 PO - Sound for the Theatre  

5.  One course (or the equivalent) in movement:

• THEA 013 PO - Corporeal Mime  
• THEA 014 PO - Corporeal Mime and Pedagogy  and/or
• any studio course taught by the Pomona College Dance Program or the Scripps College Dance Department.

Note: This requirement (#5) may be met by one full credit course, or a combination of two half-courses, which can be in a single subject, or spread out among two of the three above.

6. THEA 188 PO - Theory/Criticism/Praxis  

Electives (two courses)

Any combination of full or half-credit courses not taken as part of the core requirements above. Majors are encouraged to take at least one theatre elective containing a community engagement component.

Practicum (half course) 

• THEA187  PO 
  This course is to be thematically related to the student’s proposed Senior Thesis or Project below, and must be completed before the Senior Tehsis or Project has begun. 

Senior Exercise (one course)

• THEA190 PO Senior Research and Colloquium (half course; fall semester only) and
• THEA 191H PO - Senior Thesis  (fall or spring semester) or THEA 192H PO - Senior Project   (half course; fall or spring semester)

Production Crew Assignments 

Three production crew assisgnments are required. Academic credit for this work is availalble but not required. See THEA 052C PO - Theatre Production: Practicum   and  THEA 052H PO - Theatre Production: Practicum and Pedagogy .