Effective Winter 2024
Exclusions:Not open to students pursuing a Drama major within the Residential College nor an academic minor or major in the Department of Theatre and Drama.
Advising
1813 East Quadrangle
(734) 647-2745
Students can schedule appointments with the Drama advisor here or by stopping by the offices at 1813 East Quadrangle.
RC academic minors are open to all undergraduate students
Prerequisites
None
Requirements
The minor requires one foundational course, one capstone course and a minimum of three electives to reach the 15-credits. At least three courses must be at the 300-level or above.
Courses that count toward the foundational requirement (choose one):
- RCDRAMA 281 Inside the Dramatic Experience
- RCDRAMA 282 Drama and Interpretation
Courses that count toward the capstone requirement (choose one):
- RCDRAMA 481: Play Production Seminar (capstone requirement is usually filled by this course, but may be filled by one of the three other courses listed)
- RCCORE 307 College Teaching (Student Teaching Internship)
- RCCORE 406 Independent Study
- RCDRAMA 483 Shakespeare in the Arb
Other courses — electives (choose at least three):
- THTREMUS 101 Intro to Acting I
- THTREMUS 102 Intro to Acting II
- THTREMUS 110 Intro to Acting for the Camera
- THTREMUS 227 / ENGLISH 227 Introductory Playwriting
- THTREMUS 240 Introduction to Design
- THTREMUS 241 Directing I
- THTREMUS 250 Introduction to Technical Theatre Practice
- THTREMUS 251 Practicum I
- THTREMUS 321 Theatre History I
- THTREMUS 322 Theatre History II
- THTREMUS 323 / ENGLISH 349 American Theatre and Drama
- RCDRAMA 332 The Atonement Project
- RCDRAMA 334 Latina/o Theatre for Social Change
- RCDRAMA 335 Theatre and Incarceration
- RCDRAMA 381 Shakespeare on the Stage
- RCDRAMA 383 Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov
- RCDRAMA 387 Masterpieces of Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare’s Contemporaries
- RCDRAMA 389 The Modern Theater: Marginalized Roles in American Musical Theater
- RCDRAMA 390 Special Topics in Period and Place Drama
- RCDRAMA 483 Shakespeare in the Arb'
- RCDRAMA 482 Director and Text
- RCDRAMA 485 Special Drama Topics
- RCHUMS 334 Theatre, Music, and Arts through the Lens of 20th Century American Politics
- RCHUMS 334 Advanced Practice in Community Engagement through the Arts
- RCHUMS 341 Community Empowerment through the Arts
- RCMUSIC 254 The Human Voice as Acoustical Instrument
- ENGLISH 293-001 Great Works: Hamlet, Hamlet, Hamlet
- ENGLISH 293-002 Great Works: Art and Activism in Four Plays by Arthur Miller
- ENGLISH 346 001 Disaster Plays
- ENGLISH 349 American Theatre and Drama
- ENGLISH 427 Advanced Playwriting
- Other courses as approved by the Drama Program head
Drama - Text-to-Performance (T-t-P) (Minor) (Fall 2012 - Fall 2023)
Effective Fall 2012
Exclusions:Not open to students pursuing an academic minor or major in the Department of Theatre and Drama.
Advising
1813 East Quadrangle
(734) 647-2745
The Residential College (RC) is a four-year undergraduate liberal arts program with about 900 students and 60 faculty, situated within LSA. All RC advisors are RC faculty members and are available to meet with students to discuss RC and LSA requirements, possible majors, graduation requirements, etc. The RC Board on Academic Standing considers petitions submitted by RC students relating to requirements, deadlines, and academic circumstances. Appointments with academic advisors can be scheduled by calling the RC Academic Services Office at (734) 647-2745 or by stopping by the offices at 1813 East Quadrangle.
Students wishing to pursue an academic minor must develop a specific plan for its completion in consultation with the program's designated advisor.
RC academic minors are open to all LSA students
Prerequisites
None for the Academic Minor per se, although individual courses elected to meet the requirements of the Academic Minor may have course prerequisites.
Requirements
A minimum of 5 courses (at least 15-20 credits), to be elected from categories as stated:
- Core Courses (both are required, and must be taken in sequence; ideally, the electives should be completed in the interval between taking RCHUMS 281 and 481):
- RCHUMS 281: Introduction to Comedy and Tragedy
- RCHUMS 481: Play Production Seminar.
- Electives. Each student will select three electives in consultation with the T-t-P advisor. One course must be from Group A and two courses from Group B.
- Texts and Scenes
- RCHUMS 380: Greek Theatre.
- RCHUMS 381: Shakespeare on the Stage.
- RCHUMS 382: Molière and His Theatre.
- RCHUMS 383: Ibsen and Strindberg.
- RCHUMS 385: The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht.
- RCHUMS 389: The Modern Theatre.
- RCHUMS 390: Special Period and Place Drama.
- The Varieties of Literature for the Theatre
- RCHUMS 386 / MEMS 421: Medieval Drama.
- AAS 341 / THTREMUS 222: Introduction to Black Theatre.
- AAS 342 / THTREMUS 233: Acting and the Black Experience.
- ASIAN 310: The Theater of China and Japan.
- CLCIV 386: Greek Drama.
- ENGLISH 267: Introduction to Shakespeare.
- ENGLISH 349 / THTREMUS 323: American Theatre and Drama.
- ENGLISH 367 / MEMS 367: Shakespeare's Principal Plays.
- ENGLISH 368 / MEMS 368: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.
- ENGLISH 445: Shakespeare's Rivals.
- ENGLISH 446: World Drama: Congreve to Ibsen.
- ENGLISH 447: Modern Drama.
- ENGLISH 448: Contemporary Drama.
- GERMAN 320: German Expressionism in English Translation.
- GERMAN 360: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic.
- GERMAN 381: Eighteenth to Nineteenth-century Drama.
- GERMAN 382: Nineteenth to Twentieth-century Drama.
- MEMS 367 / ENGLISH 367: Shakespeare's Principal Plays.
- MEMS 368 / ENGLISH 368: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.
- MEMS 421 / RCHUMS 386: Medieval Drama.
- ITALIAN 471: Italian Theater.
- SPANISH 425: Latin-American Theater.
- SPANISH 460: The Spanish Comedia.
- SPANISH 468: Modern Spanish Theater.
- RUSSIAN 463: Chekhov.
- THTREMUS 222 / AAS 341: Introduction to Black Theatre.
- THTREMUS 233 / AAS 342: Acting and the Black Experience.
- THTREMUS 323 / ENGLISH 349: American Theatre and Drama.
- THTREMUS 324: Contemporary Black Theatre.
- THTREMUS 332: Performing Gender: Drama from Oral Sources.
- THTREMUS 402: Ideas of Theatre: Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
