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Secondary Theatre Education Emphasis
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For candidates who want to teach drama courses and/or direct high school productions, the Secondary Theatre Education emphasis offers practical and theoretical training for teachers. Through laboratory work, students obtain hands-on theatre teaching experience, so that by the time they reach their graduate school internship, they have spent significant hours in the classroom working with children. Students are provided with extensive training and practical teaching experience specifically geared towards the goal of being a theatre teacher. Students will be expected to fully integrate education and theatre coursework so that they leave UNH prepared for the rigorous task of teaching at the secondary level. |
| SECONDARY THEATRE EDUCATION EMPHASIS | ||||||||
| I. 52-60 CREDITS REQUIRED FROM THEATRE | ||||||||
| THDA 436 | History of Theatre I | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 438 | History of Theatre II | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 459 | Stagecraft | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 460 | Elements of Design | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 463 | Theatre Dance I | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 475 | Stage Makeup | 2 CR | ||||||
| THDA 551 | Acting I | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 589 A-D | Practicum | 0-8 CR*** | ||||||
| THDA 624 | Theatre For Young Audiences | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 721 | Arts Integration | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 727** | Methods of Teaching Theatre | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 729 | Community Oriented Drama Programs | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 741 | Directing I | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 760 | Teacher Planning For Theatre | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 799 | Capstone Project (must be taken in senior year) | 2 CR | ||||||
| II. 4 CREDITS FROM DESIGN / THEATRE TECHNOLOGY | ||||||||
| THDA 458 | Costume Construction | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 546 | Costume Design | 4 CR | ||||||
| THDA 548 | Stage Lighting Design and Execution | 4 CR | ||||||
| III. 4 CREDITS FROM EDUCATION | ||||||||
| EDUC 500/935 | Exploring Teaching | ** 4 CR | ||||||
| B.A. In Theatre with emphasis in Secondary Theatre Education TOTAL | 60-68 CR | |||||||
| IV. 16 CREDITS REQUIRED FROM EDUCATION* | ||||||||
| EDUC 700/800 | Educational Structure and Change | 4 CR | ||||||
| EDUC 701/801 | Human Development & Learning: Educational Psychology | 4 CR | ||||||
| EDUC 705/805** | Alternative Perspectives on the Nature of Education | 4 CR | ||||||
| EDUC 751B/851B | Educating Exceptional Learners: Secondary | 4 CR | ||||||
| B.A. In Theatre plus undergraduate coursework towards M.A.T. in Theatre Education TOTAL | 76-84 CR | |||||||
THDA ELECTIVES: Students should take at least 8 credits from the following theatre courses (one of which should be another Design course): THDA 450: History of Musical Theatre in America, THDA 520: Creative Drama, THDA 547: Stage Properties, THDA 583: Introduction to Puppetry; THDA 622: Storytelling, Story Theatre, and Involvement Dramatics, THDA 632: Interpretation of Shakespeare in Theatre; THDA 638: American Theatre: 1920-1970; THDA 641: Stage Management, THDA 652: Scenic Design, THDA 657: Play Reading; THDA 683: Advanced Puppetry, THDA 750: Writing for Performance, THDA 762: Women In 20th & 21st c. American Theatre
NOTE: It is understood that students will fulfill 20 internship contact hours with theatre students in their emphasis area: elementary, middle, or high school. Projects for 653A and 729 cannot count as internship hours. Students may fulfill this requirement through a variety of teaching opportunities with the department’s outreach program (both during the school year and in the summer), or they may work with local schools teaching, coaching actors, assistant directing, choreographing, or in some other capacity as specifically arranged with the student’s theatre advisor.
It is also understood that students involved in the above course curriculum in order to get state theatre arts certification must apply to either the UNH Department of Education or another university for acceptance into a fifth year Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) or Masters of Education (M. Ed.) degree program which fulfills state requirements for certification.
* May be taken at undergraduate or graduate level.
** Must be taken before student teaching internship
***Students are required to take at least one practicum for every semester they are a major in the Theatre & Dance Department. In addition, each student must take each type of practicum at least once (Technical, Costume, Performance, Marketing & Promotion). Practicum may be taken for 1 or 0 credits.
Contact Prof. Raina Ames (862-3044, Raina.Ames@unh.edu)