Our Theatre curriculum provides comprehensive training across all areas: acting (stage/screen), directing, design, dramaturgy, and technical theatre. You'll develop strong communication, learn how to identify historical periods and styles, and gain practical technical skills in costuming, lighting, set design, and construction. You’ll also engage with a diverse community of performers and behind-the-scenes technicians as you create productions that attract audiences from across the university and the local community.

Our on-campus costume and scenery shops, dance studios, music labs, and design studios let you connect your stage work with technical experience.

Core Courses (40 credits)

Credits

( THEA 1000
 The Theatre Arts
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 1500
Comedy and Improvisation
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 2000
 Voice and Movement 
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 2020
Acting I
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 2030
Play Analysis
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 2060
Technical Theatre
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 2101
Theatre Laboratory I
/Credits: 1)
( THEA 2102
Theatre Laboratory II
/Credits: 1)
( THEA 2103
Theatre Laboratory III
/Credits: 1)
( THEA 2104
Theatre Laboratory IV
/Credits: 1)
( THEA 3050
 Costuming and Makeup
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 3070
 Lighting and Sound Design 
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 3200
Theatre History I
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 3250
Theatre History II
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 3275
American Musical Theatre
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 3500
Production and Stage Management
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 4100
Directing for the Stage
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 4930
Senior Seminar
/Credits: 1)

Select 3 credits from the following courses:

Credits

( THEA 3020
Acting II
/Credits: 3)
( THEA 3060
Scene Design
/Credits: 3)

The Bachelor of Arts degree requires at least 24 credits of coursework from the following disciplines: ARTS, COMM, DANC, FILM, HIST, HUMN, LITR, MUSC, PHIL, POLS, and THEA, as well as an intermediate degree of competency in a foreign language (generally, a minimum of 6 credits or another demonstration of competency).

The academic program and curriculum requirements listed on this page are from the NSU Undergraduate Student Catalog. Students are bound by policies and curricula published in the catalog in effect the semester they enter the university, unless an agreement is made with appropriate NSU administration officials allowing them to abide by policies published in a later catalog.

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4-Year Plan of Study

See the entire program at a glance. The four-year plan of study will assist you in planning your future at NSU. It presents an overall idea of the order in which courses might be taken in a four-year plan during a student's college career.