Minor in Performing Arts
Overview
The Minor in Performing Arts allows students from any major to develop basic skills in performing arts — acting, dance, and music— and enhance their creative and critical skills. The minor enables students to explore their creativity through a learning approach that emphasizes artistic excellence, interdisciplinary learning, socially engaged performance, and the spirit of collaboration.
Program Educational Objectives
After graduation, students are expected to:
- cultivate artistic discipline along with creative and basic performing arts skills, and
- develop the creative process of the ever-changing contemporary arts landscape.
Student Outcomes
At the completion of the program, students will be able to:
- exhibit basic aesthetic awareness related to performing arts production,
- develop critical thinking in relation to the performing arts and express it in writing,
- demonstrate familiarity with key concepts and historical contexts related to the performing arts field, and
- demonstrate the ability to work on productions in different media either individually or as part of a creative team.
Curriculum
A total of 18 credits are required, distributed as follows:
- Required Core Courses (6 credits)
- Major and General Elective Courses (12 credits)
Required Core Courses (6 credits)
Major and General Elective Courses (12 credits)
- PFA217 Fundamentals of Music Technology
- PFA221 Theories of Body in Performance
- PFA223 Kinesiology
- PFA240 Fundamentals of Acting
- PFA244 Fundamentals of Theatrical Design
- PFA249 Theatre in Lebanon & the Arab World
- PFA257 Musical Theater
- PFA301 Playwriting
- PFA303 Stage Management
- PFA305 Performance Repertoire
- PFA314 World Music History
- PFA318 Writing Music for Visual Media
- PFA319 Directing for the Stage
- PFA328 Music Theory & Practice
- PFA343 Advanced Acting
- PFA401 Dramatic Literature
- PFA418 Performing Arts Productions
- PFA421 Dance Composition
- PFA488 Topics in Performing Arts