The Theatre Department offers a major and a minor in theatre.
Theatre is an art form that explores many dimensions of the human experience.
Theatre studied in a liberal arts context offers the student a way of exploring people, cultures, literature, design, the communication process, and many allied arts through the living experience of theatre. Students may enrich their liberal arts studies while learning about theatre in all its aspects-historical, cultural, and performance. The theatre major includes courses in performance, theatre history and criticism, dramatic literature, design, and technical theatre production. It is designed to offer a balance between the varied artistic elements of theatre and an intellectual understanding of the diverse theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects of this art. Theatre students prepare for careers in theatre and other performance media, for further studies in theatre at the graduate level, or students may pursue careers in diverse fields outside of professional theatre.