Undergraduate Degrees in Theatre and Film
Major in Theater Arts
Undergraduates in theater arts are expected to acquire basic skills in performance, design and production, practice, and dramatic literature and theater history. These basic skills are developed in the core requirements. The remaining credits are met through a selected option, performance, design/production, or theatre studies, which provides for flexibility and allows a student to specialize in an area of interest. Students choose from electives in Theatre & Film, and World Languages & Literatures (Kabuki, Peninsular Drama, and Sophocles/Euripides).
Blithe Spirit directed by William Tate
Major in Film
Undergraduates in film are expected to acquire basic skills in theory, history, criticism, and practice. Core requirements are met through curricular offerings in the Department of Theatre and Film. The remaining credits are met through a selected option, production, performance, or film studies, which provides for flexibility and allows a student to specialize in an area of interest. Students choose from electives in Film, or an approved list of courses from Art and Music, and our co-enrollment community college partners.
TA 408: Directing Actors for the Camera
Minors in Theater, Film and Dance
Secondary Education Program
It is imperative that the student who wishes to teach theater arts in secondary school be in contact with the Department of Theater Arts secondary education adviser as early as possible, so that various options and requirements can be fully explained and a program of study developed.
Ten Things You Should Know About Theatre and Film at PSU
1. Theatre and Film offers a comprehensive liberal arts-based pre-professional program, as well as specialization in theater, film and dance disciplines.
2. Theatre and Film has small classes and majors and minors receive personal attention.
3. Theatre and Film faculty work professionally in the region's arts organizations and creative services sector, frequently assisted by their students.
4. Theatre and Film visiting faculty in acting, directing, design, and production are drawn from the ranks of professionals in the local and national theater and film community.
5. Theatre and Film offers numerous performance opportunities for students. Each year, we stage three major productions in the 476-seat Lincoln Performance Hall, as well as a score of other performances in the department's intimate Studio Theater.
6. Located in the Cultural District in the heart of Portland, Theatre and Film is within easy walking distance of many of the city's theaters, cinemas, museums, libraries, galleries, and arts organizations.
7. Theatre and Film students are active both on campus and in the region's professional theater and film scene.
8. Theatre and Film students are encouraged as part of their degree program to set up one-on-one independent learning contracts with regular and visiting faculty as well as internships with urban arts organizations and creative services providers.
9. Students with an interest in theater and film can use approved courses from and be co-enrolled at PCC Cascade, Mt. Hood, Clackamas, abd Clark, to satisfy degree requirements.
10. All PSU students, regardless of major, are eligible to participate in Theatre and Film productions and activities.
