When you enroll at Susquehanna, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. The following is an excerpt from the complete course catalog. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor, consult with their advisor(s) and the Academic Planning Tool.
Learning Goals
- Students will develop proficiency in the methods of creating artistic and scholarly work and acquire abilities to integrate the study and practice of theatre.
- Students will learn how to create and contribute to the discipline of theatre by recognizing and employing relevant and worthy theatre, non-theatre and interdisciplinary sources to inform their creative and scholarly activities.
- Students will articulate artistic and scholarly vocabularies drawn from written, visual and physical texts that will support their continued practice and study of theatre.
- Students will learn how to reflect upon and assess their work in critical and constructive ways by applying concepts, theories and methods within academic and professional contexts.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Theatre
Susquehanna offers a major in theatre with three emphases: performance, production and design, and theatre studies. Majors complete university Central Curriculum requirements plus 52 semester hours of courses in one of the three theatre emphases. These include introductory courses and specific emphasis requirements. A grade of C- or better is required for any course to apply to the major or minor. Courses may count toward only one emphasis or minor. The department also expects theatre majors and minors to participate each semester in department theatre productions and activities supervised by department faculty.
Theatre Major Emphases
Students fulfill the university Central Curriculum requirements, participate fully in department productions and successfully complete the following courses:
24 Department Requirements
4 THEA-151 Acting Fundamentals
4 THEA-252 World Theatre 1
4 THEA-253 World Theatre 2
4 THEA-258 From Page to Stage
4 THEA-340 Stage Management and Theatre Operations
4 THEA-453 Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Students also choose one of the following options:
Option One: Performance Emphasis
Option Two: Production and Design Emphasis
Option Three: Theatre Studies Emphasis
4 THEA-452 Seminar in Theatre
28 Option Two: Production and Design Emphasis
4 THEA-142 Stagecraft
4 THEA-143 Scenic Production
4 THEA-152 Theatrical Design Fundamentals
4 THEA-501 Production Lab
8 Choose 8 semester hours from the following:
4 THEA-246 Scenic Design
4 THEA-341 Costume Design
4 THEA-342 Stage Makeup
4 THEA-345 Lighting Design
8 Choose 8 semester hours from the following:
4 THEA-144 Costume Technology
4 THEA-452 Seminar in Theatre (repeatable with topic change)
4 THEA-254 African-American Theatre History or THEA-240 Theatre and Violence
14 Electives
The remaining 14 semester hours may be chosen from the courses below:
4 THEA-142 Stagecraft or THEA-143 Scenic Production or THEA-144 Costume Technology
4 THEA-246 Scenic Design or THEA-345 Lighting Design
4 THEA-342 Stage Makeup or THEA-341 Costume Design
4 THEA-251 Acting II: Voice and Movement
4 THEA-260 The Choreopoem
4 THEA-451 Directing
4 THEA-452 Seminar in Theatre (repeatable once with department head approval)
1 THEA-502 Dramaturgy (repeatable once)
1 THEA-501 Production Lab (repeatable once)
No more than 4 semester hours from the following may be included:
1 THEA-101 The Musical
1 THEA-102 Student-Directed Production
1 THEA-103 Acting Workshop
1 THEA-104 Advanced Acting Workshop
1 THEA-105 Experimental Acting Workshop
Honor Society
Students who meet the requisite national and local standards are eligible to join Alpha Psi Omega.