Theatre Programs for Future Teachers

Our program at Theatre Arts provides future teachers with a tool that not many instructors can claim to use -
drama for learning! In our Theatre Arts Option for English Majors and in our Liberal Studies Concentration in
Theatre, students learn how to help their future students by using pantomime, theatre games, improvisation,
storytelling, and masks and puppets. These techniques are helpful for learning social, creative, communication
and problem solving skills, as well as reinforcing learning in Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
We help you to learn how to help your students express themselves, and learn about their world in the process.


English Majors also look at the skill of Playwriting and contemporary theatre, so that they might provide instruction
at the secondary level on areas of Production, History, and Drama Literature:

English Major - Theatre Arts Option (15 units)

Required Courses (12 units)
THE 337. Creative Dramatics (3)
THE 346. Theatre Workshop (3)
THE 353. Playwriting (3)
THE 453. Multicultural Diversity in American Theatre (3)

Select one course from the following (3 units):
THE 355. World Theatre I (3)
THE 357. World Theatre II (3)


The School of Education students in Liberal Studies get to apply their drama techniques in a local school where
they serve an internship for one semester:

Liberal Studies - Theatre Arts Option (12 units)

Required courses (9 units):
THE 337. Creative Dramatics (3)
THE 374. Directing and Stage Management (3)
THE 496. Theatre Internship (3)

Select one course from any of the following:
THE 243. Stagecraft (3)
THE 320. Speech Skills and Techniques (3)
THE 346. Theatre Workshop (3)
THE 355. World Theatre I (3)
THE 357. World Theatre II (3)
THE 453. Multicultural Diversity in American Theatre (3)
Note: THE 320 and THE 337 may not double count for both the core and the option.

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