Theatre Arts
This minor provides a path into the performing arts while developing the analytical, creative, communication, executive functioning, and performance-based skills that are essential in every career, from business, law, and criminal justice to healthcare, education, and sales. Learn about theater-based techniques used in group problem solving, crisis interventions, and criminal justice, while experiencing the excitement of acting, directing, improvisation, and play production, or developing skills, such as costuming, make-up, set design, and lighting. Understand theater in terms of history, criticism, theory, and communications as a means to apply the skills learned on-stage or back-stage to the world stage.
- Apply drama–based skills in non–theatrical environments, for example business, law, criminal justice settings, healthcare, and education.
- Communicate effectively by learning vocal and movement techniques essential to any type of presentation or performance.
- Enhance empathy by learning to read, sense, and understand other performers and the audience.
- Engage in experiential learning to understand better multiple perspectives and the ways in which identities, such as racial, ethnic, class, and gender identities, influence a character’s lived experience.
- Appreciate the creative, analytical, and collaborative work of playwriting, acting, directing, and theatrical design.
- Enhance creative critical thinking and writing skills through analyzing scripts from various periods of theater history and imagining them as performances.
- Acquire cultural capital through exposure to professional theatre and performances in the New York City area.
- Lawyer
- Teacher
- Police Officer
- Corrections Officer
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Sales
- Actor
- Playwright
- Stage Director
- Designer