Theatre Minor

Requirements for the Minor

Core Requirements (five courses)

1. One course in performance:

• THEA 001A PO - Basic Acting: Tools and Fundamentals
   ,
  THEA 001C PO - Basic Acting: Chicano Theatre and Performance
   ,
  THEA 001E PO - Acting for Social Change
   ,
  THEA 001F PO - Basic Acting: Performing Asia America
     or
• THEA 008 PO - Collective Creation 

2. One course in design:

• THEA 002 PO - The Dramatic Imagination 

3. One course 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 

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.

Electives (one course)

Any combination of full or half-credit courses not taken as part of the core requirements above.

Minors are encouraged to take at least one theatre elective containing a community engagement component. 

Production Crew Assignments

Academic credit for this work is available but not required.