Performing Arts Minor

Minor Programs: Music, Theater & Performance Studies, and Performing Arts

DPA offers three minors. The requirements for a minor in Music or Theater & Performance Studies include a combination of scholarly and creative courses. The Performing Arts minor is designed for students working across various performing arts disciplines, including Theater and Performance Studies, Music, Dance, and Public Speaking. The Performing Arts minor includes three 3-credit courses in any of these four disciplines and three additional courses from any other area/s in the department. Four 1-credit Music or Dance performance credits or three 1-credit Theater performance credits may be bundled into a single 3-credit course upon request by the student to their dean. Performing Arts Minors concentrating in TPST, Music, or Dance can count up to two total bundles toward the degree (either each bundling from a different performing arts field or, if approved by the Program Director, two in the same field.)

For course listings for Music and Theater, see the Schedule of Classes

Minor in Performing Arts

Explore the Performing Arts with our interdisciplinary minor, where you can develop a concentration in any of our department’s arts disciplines: music, theater, dance, and public speaking. To earn this minor, take three courses in your chosen discipline and three elective courses from others, plus a single credit of the Performing Arts Colloquium for degree students from across the department. Students may count bundled performance courses as a single 3-credit course, such as four semesters of music ensembles (MUSC 1000) or dance ensembles (DANC 1000), or three credits of the Performance Lab sequence for theater production (TPST 1900 – TPST 1908). Dance-focused minors may combine four semesters of DANC 1020 technique classes (such as Ballet or Modern) into the equivalent of a single 3-credit course, along with a course bundle for four semesters of DANC 1000. This opportunity for two bundles from dance is only for minors focusing on dance.

Requirements for the Minor in Performing Arts

19 credit hours: 6 courses in Performing Arts and a colloquium

• Three courses in any one of three disciplines (theater, music, dance, or public speaking)
• Three courses from any other areas in the department
• One one-credit Performing Arts Colloquium

Note: A maximum of three courses from any particular discipline may count towards the Performing Arts minor.