Drama Major

Required Units

Total number of units required for major, excluding any required Intensive(s): 10.5

Required Intensive units, if any: 1

Total units required: 11.5

Total Number of Specific Courses Required

• DRAM 102 - Introduction to Theater-Making: Theory and Practice
• DRAM 103 - Introduction to Stagecraft
• DRAM 120 - Fundamentals of Theatrical Design
• DRAM 221 - Sources of World Drama
• DRAM 222 - Sources of World Drama

Distributional Content Area Units Required

Two units in dramatic literature, theater history or performance studies, one of which must be a seminar at the 300 level.

• DRAM 224 - Introduction to Performance Studies: What is(n’t) Performance
• DRAM 232 - Dramaturgy
• DRAM 234 - Topics in Global Performance
• DRAM 313 - Historic Costume Collection and Exhibition
• DRAM 336 - Seminar in Performance Studies
• DRAM 339 - Shakespeare in Production
• DRAM 340 - Seminar in Performance Studies: Artaud and His Legacy

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• Two units in production courses at the 200-level or above such as:

• DRAM 200 - Drama Department Production
• DRAM 203 - The Actor’s Craft: The Study of Acting
• DRAM 204 - Theatre Technologies: Stage Lighting
• DRAM 205 - The Actor’s Voice
• DRAM 106 - Movement and Dance for Actors
• DRAM 207 - Graphic Communications for Theater
• DRAM 208 - Draping and Pattern-Development for Stage Production
• DRAM 209 - Introduction to Costume Design for the Stage
• DRAM 304 - The Art of Acting: Shakespeare
• DRAM 306 - The Art of Acting: Comedy
• DRAM 308 - Auditioning and Acting for the Camera
• DRAM 390 - Senior Project in Drama
• DRAM 391 - Senior Production Laboratory

Electives

Two additional units at the 200-level or above in Drama, Film, or Dance.

Intensives

One unit of the Intensive version of the following courses:

• DRAM 390 - Senior Project in Drama
• DRAM 392 - Intensive Topics