A half-major in the­atre com­bined with another half-major in a com­ple­men­tary field allows per­form­ing arts stu­dents to develop the crit­i­cal skills needed to dis­cover, to inter­pret, and to eval­u­ate social ideas before they con­sider how to cre­atively trans­late crit­i­cal thoughts into effec­tive images on stage. Sim­i­larly, stu­dents whose major resides in media, screen stud­ies, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies, visual arts, music, archi­tec­ture as well as the sci­ences, his­tory, soci­ol­ogy, psy­chol­ogy, cul­tural stud­ies, human ser­vices, and so on will find the­atre stud­ies courses and activ­i­ties help­ful as they work across the cur­ricu­lum with the intent to develop a crit­i­cal frame­work and a set of skills that enrich their under­stand­ing of the human con­di­tion through inter­pret­ing and cre­at­ing stage-worthy images.

For more infor­ma­tion about NU Core require­ments, course descrip­tions, and addi­tional infor­ma­tion see the North­east­ern Uni­ver­sity cat­a­log, main­tained by the Registrar.

 

To com­plete a Half-Major in The­atre, stu­dents take 9 courses:

  • 5 at an intro­duc­tory level
  • 4 at an inter­me­di­ate or advanced level