Program Overview

Theatre Arts Associate in Arts Degree Program

Related Degrees & Certificates

• AA-T Associate in Arts Degree for Transfer: Theatre Arts (60 units)

Career Opportunities

The Theatre Arts program is designed for students of all levels of experience. Graduates can pursue careers in:

• Acting for stage, film, and television
• Voiceover for radio, TV, and video games
• Teaching drama and public speaking to children and adults in schools, theatres, and professional environments
• Directing for film, television, and the stage
• Writing for film, television, and the stage
• Stage management, event management, talent agent, casting director, company manager, executive director
• Public relations, marketing
• Sound design, broadcast technician, light design, makeup artist, hair stylist, wardrobe manager
• Carpentry, electric engineering

Program Learning Outcomes

Students completing this program will be able to:

• Apply critical thinking in the creative process
• Use the language of the discipline; demonstrate command of critical vocabulary
• Describe the roles of creative expression in human cultures
• Engage with the arts; integrate the arts into life
• Use critical thinking in evaluating works of art in intrinsic terms, expressive content, and social context

Program Overview

The Cañada College Theatre Arts Department presents a program rich in depth and diversity. Students pursuing a career in the theatre arts or simply desiring creative expression will find in the drama department a wide array of relevant and exciting courses, as well as an extensive opportunity to put their developing knowledge and talent to work in both the creative and technical aspects of production. Students have the opportunity to perform, direct, design, build, crew, and manage both live productions and radio plays.

The Cañada Theatre Arts Department can point with satisfaction to a significant and steadily growing number of its former students who go on to professional stage, film, and television work as performers, producers, and technicians - and also to the many gratified amateurs.

Requirements

AA Degree Requirements Major: Core and Selective Requirements

Complete Core Courses (9 units):

• DRAM 140: Introduction to the Theatre (3 units)
• DRAM 200: Acting I: Acting For the Stage and the Camera (3 units)
• DRAM 305: Technical Production I (3 units)

Selective Courses

Choose a minimum of 12 units from the following:

Group A (complete 3 units):

• DRAM 233: Introduction to New Play Development (3 units)
• DRAM 300.1: Rehearsal and Performance I (3 units)

Group B (complete 9 units):

• DRAM 101: History of Theatre (3 units)
• DRAM 150: Script Analysis (3 units)
• DRAM 151: Introduction to Shakespeare I (3 units)
• DRAM 201: Acting II (3 units)

Total Required Major Units: 21

And required General Education coursework and electives as needed to meet the minimum 60 units required for the Associate degree.

Please refer to the AA/AS Degree Requirements for more information.