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APPF - Applied Performance Minor

Program Title

Applied Performance

Program Type

Minor

Degree Designation

Minor

Program Description

Effective: Fall 2016

Requisites

Requirements for the Minor (24 Credits)


I. Disciplinary Core: Theatre and Dance (8 credits)

Complete the following:

  • course - Introduction to Acting

Plus four credits from the following:

  • course - Beginning Movement Studies

  • course - Intermediate Movement Studies

  • course - Movement for the Musical Stage

  • course - Special Topics in Dance

  • course - Special Topics in Dance

  • course - Playwriting

II. Interdisciplinary: Performance and Community-Based Learning (12 Credits)

1. At least 4 but no more than 8 credits taken from among the following:

  • course - Applied Performance: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Violence, and Discrimination through Interactive Performance

  • course - Theatre in The Community: The Newark Collaboration

  • course - Special Topics in Applied Performance

2. At least 4 but no more than 8 credits taken from among the following:

  • course - The Non-Profit Sector

  • course - Leadership in Practice

  • course - Selected Topics in Pan-African Studies

  • course - Global Hip-Hop, Youth Activism, and Global Change

  • course - Social Policy and Inequality in America

  • course - The Practice of Public Sociology

  • course - Engendering Prison

  • course - Selected Topics: Latin American, Peninsular or Transatlantic Contexts

  • course - Community Based Learning: The U.S. Latino/a Experience

NOTE: course can be cross-listed with other Drew courses to fulfill the Interdisciplinary requirement, provided students can apply their artistic and/or literary skills to the coursework.

III. Internship (4 credits)

Complete two 2-credit internships or one 4-credit internship with an approved organization dedicated to Applied Theatre and Dance, or an approved community partner organization desiring to employ Applied Theatre and Dance projects to fulfill its mission.