Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Drama Education P-12 (BA)

 

Bachelor of Arts Degree

 

General Education

I. Communication (9 hours)

Rhetoric and Composition

 

ENGL 1101*

           

Rhetoric and Composition

3

                     
Literature and Composition 
ENGL 1102*             Literature and Composition 3

Communication 

               

Choose course from approved list

3

II. Humanities and Fine Arts (15 hours)

Modern Languages

               

Choose sequence from approved list

6

                     

English Literature

 

 

            Choose one 2000-level English Literature course
(ENGL 2225 and ENGL 2226 may NOT be used)

3

                     

Philosophy and Religion

                Choose one PHIL or RELG course at the
1000-2000 level

3

                     
Fine Arts    THTR 3301             Theatre History I 3

III. History and Social Sciences (9 hours)

                     
World History    EDUC 2201             The Multicultural Classroom 3

Government

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

                     
Social Science 
EDUC 2207             Learning and Cognition  3
     OR                
    PSYC 2290              Human Growth and Development 3

IV. Mathematics and Natural Sciences (10 to 12 hours)

Mathematics*

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3 to 4

                     
Natural Science                 Choose a pair in sequence from approved list   7 to 8
                     

V. Ethics (3 hours)

                     
Ethics                  Choose course from approved list 3
                     

VI. Institutional Requirement (1 hour)

First-Year Experience

 

*Grade of C or higher required.

 

PDMT 1101

           

Introduction to University Life and
the Liberal Arts Tradition

 

1

Total Credit Hours:46-49

Students who enter with fewer than 24 semester credit hours must satisfy the institutional requirement.

Theatre Foundations

THED 3400Drama Education

3

THTR 1150Technical/Production Practicum

1

THTR 1151Acting/Directing Practicum

1

THTR 2205Fundamentals of Technical Theatre I

3

THTR 2206Fundamentals of Technical Theatre 2

3

THTR 2210Fundamentals of Acting

3

THTR 2220Stage Movement and Dance

3

THTR 2230Children's Theater

3

THTR 3301Theatre History I

3

THTR 3302Theatre History II

3

THTR 4410Fundamentals of Directing

3

Total Credit Hours:30

Students must take THTR 1150 two times for a total of two semester credit hours.

Drama Education Major

EDUC 1199Introduction to Education

3

EDUC 2000Introduction to Professional Practice

3

EDUC 2201The Multicultural Classroom

3

EDUC 2250Media and Technology for Educators

3

EDUC 3330Foundations of Literacy

3

EDUC 3355Exceptional Children

3

EDUC 4479Internship I

1

EDUC 4489Internship II

3

EDUC 4497Classroom Management

3

EDUC 4499Internship III

9

PSYC 2290Human Growth and Development

3

OR

EDUC 2207Learning and Cognition

3

Total Credit Hours:37

General Electives

General Electives

12-17

Total Credit Hours:12-17

Total Credit Hours: 121