Gain a broad knowledge base for collaborative theatre-making.  

In our program, you’ll engage with theatre on multiple levels—creative, intellectual, and practical. Guided by our outstanding faculty, you’ll receive conservatory-caliber training in a small class setting. As a Theater Minor, you’ll immerse yourself in dramaturgy, communication, and visual literacy, while also gaining hands-on production and performance experience. You’ll have the opportunity to attend shows throughout the Bay Area and work with a diverse range of guest artists. 

This minor pairs well with any major. Students graduate well-equipped for a career in theatre, both onstage and off. Others put their critical, technical, and creative skills to work outside of the arts, in education, therapy, and beyond.

Myriad possibilities await you, and we are here to prepare you for them!

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Theatre, Minor

The minor in Theatre is for students who wish to explore the academic study of Theatre, in addition to majoring in another discipline.

Requirements

Lower Division

  • The following lower-division courses are required for the minor.
  • Theatre and Performance Histories I (3 units)
  • Introduction to Technical Theatre (3 units)

Acting

  • Take one of the following courses:
  • Acting I: Acting for Every Body (3 units)
  • Interactive Theatre (3 units)

Theatre Lab

  • Take 2 units from the following options:
  • Theatre Lab: Selecting a Season (1 units)
  • Theatre Lab: Professional Development (1 units)
  • Theatre Lab: Stage Makeup (1 units)
  • Theatre Lab: Variable Topic (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: The Speaking Voice (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Movement for Actor (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Stage Combat (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Acting on Camera (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Improv (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Audition Monologues (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Variable Topic (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Lighting (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Audio (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Scenic Construction Techniques (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Scenic Painting (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Costuming (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Drafting (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Variable Topic (1 units)

Production Praxis

  • Students must take 1 unit of:
  • Theatre Production (1-2 units)

Upper Division

  • The following course is required:
  • Creativity and Collaboration (4 units)

Theatre Theory, History or Criticism Requirement

  • Take 3 units from one of the following courses:
  • Theatre and Performance Histories II (4 units)
  • Theatre in Performance: Bay Area Theatre (3 units)
  • Theatre & American Cultures (3 units)
  • Sp Topics: Theatre History, Theory, Or Criticism (3-4 units)
  • Special Topics: Community Engaged Theatre (3-4 units)

UD Elective

  • Take at least 3 units of any 300- or 400-level THTR course(s), except for THTR 380 or 385.
  • Theatre and Performance Histories I (3 units)
  • Acting I: Acting for Every Body (3 units)
  • Introduction to Technical Theatre (3 units)
  • Theatre Lab: Selecting a Season (1 units)
  • Theatre Lab: Professional Development (1 units)
  • Theatre Lab: Stage Makeup (1 units)
  • Theatre Lab: Variable Topic (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: the Speaking Voice (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Movement for Actors (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Stage Combat (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Acting on Camera (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Improv (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Audition Monologues (1 units)
  • Acting Lab: Variable Topic (1 units)
  • Interactive Theatre (3 units)
  • Interactive Theatre: Engaged Learning (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Lighting (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Audio (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Scenic Construction Techniques (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Scenic Painting (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Costuming (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Drafting (1 units)
  • Tech Lab: Variable Topic (1 units)
  • Theatre Production (1-2 units)
  • Creativity and Collaboration (4 units)
  • Theatre & Performance Histories II (4 units)
  • Theatre in Performance: Bay Area Theatre (3 units)
  • Theatre & American Cultures (3 units)
  • Special Topics: Theatre History, Theory, or Criticism (3-4 units)
  • Advanced Acting Study (4 units)
  • Special Topics: Playwriting and Dramaturgy (1-4 units)
  • Special Topics: Community Engaged Theatre (3-4 units)
  • Stage Management (3 units)
  • Special Topics: Theatre Management (1-3 units)
  • Special Topics: Projection for the Stage (1-3 units)
  • Costume Design (3 units)
  • Costume Construction (3 units)
  • Stage Lighting Design (3 units)
  • Special Topics: Stage Electrics (1-3 units)
  • Scenic Design (3 units)
  • Special Topics: Scenic Construction (1-3 units)
  • Special Topics: Audio Design (1-3 units)
  • Special Topics: Audio Production (1-3 units)
  • Theatre Production: Performance & Theatre Studies (1-4 units)
  • Theatre Production: Design & Technical Theatre (2-4 units)
  • Directing for the Stage (4 units)
  • Theatre Production: Student Directors (1-4 units)
  • Internship (1-4 units)
  • Capstone Project (1 units)
  • Capstone Project Roundtable (3 units)
  • Independent Study (1-4 units)

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