Theatre Performance, B.F.A. Suggested 4-Year Plan

How to use your 4-Year Plan?

This is a suggested 4-year plan for your major, as followed by the Department of Theatre, and is not meant to replace regular academic advising.
The plan may be flexible and changed to accommodate studying abroad, a second major/minor(s), or AP/IB credits.
You should work with the B.F.A. Theatre Performance Program Director and/or academic advisor to develop a plan that meets your interests and goals.
You must earn a minimum of 120 credits to graduate and 78 major-specific credits to earn a B.F.A. in Theatre Performance degree.
External Transfer students are advised that the B.F.A. Theatre Performance degree must be completed in four years. Only a limited numbr of theatre credits are transferable. The B.F.A. Theatre Performance degree does not accept internal transfer students. Please contact the program advisor for degree planning.
If you have any questions, please contact the B.F.A. Theatre Performance Program Director.

Suggested 4-Year Plan

We encourage you to select your General Education (GE) and minor/second major/Themed Inquiry/Honors program around the degree plan below. Once you fill your GE classes around your major classes, you will have a better idea of the space remaining each semester when choosing your Exploration Focus.
To be enrolled full time, you must take at least 12 credits a semester.
In order to graduate within 4 years, we recommend you take 30 credits a year.

Year 1

Fall Semester (8.5 credits for major)
TH 100 - Introduction to Entertainment Design and Technology 3 credits
TH 105 - Theatre Practicum ½ credit
TH 111 - Introduction to Performing Techniques 2 credits
TH 170 - Production Process: The Art of Collaboration 3 credits
Spring Semester (6.5 credits for major)
TH 112 - Acting Fundamentals 3 credits
TH 211 - Movement for the Performer 3 credits
TH 105 - Theatre Practicum ½ credit

Year 2

Fall Semester (11.5 credits for major)
TH 105 - Theatre Practicum ½ credit
TH 218 - Character Building for Performance 3 credits
TH 220 - Basic Makeup for the Performing Artist 1 credit
TH 230 - Screen Acting I 3 credits
TH 283 - Voice Production and Techniques I 3 credits
TH 113 - Theatre Performance 1 credit *
*TH 113 can be taken during the spring of your first year, and the fall and spring of your sophomore year. Receiving performance credit depends on being cast in a theatre production.
Spring Semester (9 credits for major)
All BFA Theatre Performance sophomores are attending the Theatre Academy of London during this semester.
TPP4531 Stage Combat (Elective) (3 credits)**
Substitutes a theatre performance elective.
TPP 4730 Dialects for the Stage (3 credits)
Substitutes TH 411 Voice Production and Techniques II.
TPP 4935 Acting Styles - High Comedy (3 credits)
Substitutes TH 315 Acting Styles.
** Students must complete 15 total credits of major electives, which can be taken in any semester. Three of those credits must be a technology elective. See the catalog for a list of major electives

Year 3

Fall Semester (13.5 credits for major)
TH 105 - Theatre Practicum ½ credit
TH 371 - Theatre History I - Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century 3 credits
TH 379 - Text Analysis and Scene Study for Performance 3 credits
TH 313 - Theatre Performance 1 credit
TH 313 can be taken during the fall and spring of your junior and senior year. Receiving performance credit depends on being cast in a theatre production.
TH 388 - Directing for the Theatre I 3 credits
THXXX Elective (3 credits)**
Spring Semester (9 credits for major)
TH 372 - Theatre History II - Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries 3 credits
TH 322 - Acting Shakespeare I 3 credits
TH 411 - Voice Production and Techniques II 3 credits
Taken at the Theatre Academy of London, spring semester, sophomore year: TPP 4730.
TH 419 - The Actor Process: From Rehearsal to Performance 3 credits
TH XXX-Elective (3 credits)

**Students must complete 15 total credits of major electives, which can be taken in any semester. Three of those credits must be a technology elective. See the catalog for a list of major electives.

Year 4

Fall Semester (12 credits for major)
TH 321 - Meisner Technique 3 credits
TH 410 - Acting Shakespeare II 3 credits
TH 497A - The Business of Acting 3 credits
THXXX Electives (3 credits)
Spring Semester (9 credits for major)
TH 369 - Dramatic Theory and Criticism 3 credits
TH 497B - BFA Showcase 3 credits
THXXX Elective (3 credits)

** Students must complete 15 total credits of major electives, which can be taken in any semester. three of those credits must be a technology elective. See the catalog for a list of major electives.