Program Offered
- Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts
The Performing Arts Program at 海角社区 offers a broad, integrated undergraduate experience in music, theatre, and dance, with attention to the relatively new fields of audience and performance studies. The core courses provide the base necessary for building an educational and professional career in the performing arts.
Core courses offer experience in each of the three major areas of the performing arts鈥擠ance, Music and Theatre鈥攚ith special attention to current and future trends. Students also choose an emphasis to follow through one of the following areas:
- The Dance emphasis (PADA) provides concentrated study in collaborative dance performance and musical theatre
- The Music emphasis (PAMU) provides concentrated study in commercial music and musical theatre and collaborative performance.
- The Theatre emphasis (PATH) provides concentrated study in acting, directing and musical theatre and collaborative performance.
The Performing Arts degree program stresses interdisciplinarity and the multicultural, global perspectives that are the hallmarks of 海角社区CI. In addition to gaining expertise and experience in their chosen fields of Dance, Music, or Theater, students will gain interdisciplinary experience in the performing arts, with education and experience in the intersections between the fields.
Careers
The Performing Arts major will prepare students for further study and for entry into the performing arts professions.
Program Learning Outcomes
Students graduating from the Performing Arts program will be able to:
- Perform in one or more of the Performing Arts emphases of dance, music, and theatre.
- Demonstrate critical thinking through analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of written, visual, and audio texts in an interdisciplinary context.
- Understand and appreciate the roles of the performing arts in contemporary as well as historical cultures and societies.
- Work collaboratively with people from a diverse range of artistic and cultural backgrounds.
- Express themselves effectively in written, physical, and spoken forms in response to a variety of personal, local, global, and historical events.
- Apply multiple theoretical perspectives to their own performances and the performances of others.
Faculty
Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Chair, English, Performing Arts & Communication
Bell Tower West, Room 1235
805-437-8865
j.kilpatrick@csuci.edu
Catherine Scott Burriss, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Performing Arts
Bell Tower East, Room 2760
805-437-3126
catherine.burriss@csuci.edu
Ted Lucas, Ph.D.
Professor of Music
Bell Tower West, Room 2188
805-437-8483
theodore.lucas@csuci.edu
Luda Popenhagen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Performing Arts
Bell Tower East, Room 2786
805-437-3187
luda.popenhagen@csuci.edu
Contact Information
Email: performing.arts@csuci.edu
Web Site:
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts (120 units)
Core Requirements: (18 units)
Emphasis (21 units)
General Education (39 units)
Upper Division Interdisciplinary GE (9 units)
Title V Courses (6 units)
Performing Arts Electives (12 units)
Electives in any Discipline (15 units)
Total (120 units)
Performing Arts Core Courses (18 units)
PA 101 Introduction to the Performing Arts (3)
PA 202 Integrating Dance, Music and Theatre (3)
PA 335 Business and the Performing Arts (3)
PA 350 Audience and Performance Studies (3)
PA 360 Musical Theatre (3)
PA 436 Physics of Performing Arts (3)
Emphasis Requirements
Students choose either Dance, Music, or Theater as an emphasis.
Dance Emphasis (21 units)
PADA 151 Conditioning for Dancers (3)
PADA 253 Jazz Dance I (3)
PADA 254 Modern Dance I (3)
PADA 353 Jazz Dance II (3)
PADA 354 Modern Dance II (3)
PADA 458 Dance Ensemble (3)
PAMU 499 Performing Arts Capstone Internship in Music (3)
Music Emphasis (21 units)
PAMU 100 Music Appreciation (3)
PAMU 261 Music Theory (3)
PAMU 363 Music History (3)
PAMU 330 Jazz in America (3)
PAMU 499 Performing Arts Capstone Internship in
Music (3)
Six units in the following repeatable courses, in consultation with the PAMU advisor:
PAMU 109 Private Lessons (1)
PAMU 307 University Chorus (1)
PAMU 308 University Orchestra (1)
PAMU 309 Private Lessons (1)
Theatre Emphasis (21 units)
PATH 338 Theatre in History (HIST) (3)
PATH 280 Acting I (3)
PATH 281 Play Analysis (3)
PATH 380 Acting II (3)
PATH 382 Directing (3)
PATH 481 Production (3)
PATH 499 Performing Arts Capstone Internship in Theatre (3)
Strongly Suggested Elective Courses
PATH 338 Theatre in History (HIST) (3)
(Theatre Emphasis students may not double-count this course as an elective)
PATH 333 Multicultural Drama in Performance and Production (ENGL) (3)
PATH 410 Shakespeare鈥檚 Plays (ENGL) (3)
Performing Arts Electives
Twelve units of electives from the following list:
Note: some courses listed as electives are required in one of the emphases but remain electives for the other two emphases.
PA 292 Internship in Performing Arts 鈥� Lower
Division (1-3)
(Repeatable for up to 3 units)
PA 294 Independent Study (1-3)
(Repeatable for up to 6 units)
PA 383 Scenic Design (ART) (3)
PA 384 Costume Design (ART) (3)
PA 492 Internship in Performing Arts 鈥� Upper
Division (1-3) (Repeatable for up to 6 units)
PA 494 Independent Study (1-3)
(Repeatable for up to 6 units)
PA 490 Special Topics (3)
(Repeatable for up to 6 units)
PAMU 100 Music Appreciation (3)
PAMU 109 Private Lessons (1)
PAMU 200 History of Rock (3)
PAMU 307 University Chorus (1)
PAMU 308 University Orchestra (1)
PAMU 309 Private Lessons (1)
PAMU 330 Jazz in America (3)
PAMU 333 The Varieties of Musical Experience (3)
PAMU 335 The Physics of Music (PHYS) (3)
PAMU 336 Art and Music: Dissonance, Diversity
and Continuity (ART) (3)
PAMU 243 Teaching Music to Children (3)
PAMU 432 Arts of the Harlem Renaissance
(ART/ENGL) (3)
PATH 332 Teaching Dramatic Literature (ENGL) (3)
PATH 333 Multicultural Drama in Performance/
Production (ENGL) (3)
PATH 334 Spanish Language Drama and Theatre
(SPAN) (3)
PATH 343 Teaching Drama to Children (EDUC) (3)
PATH 380 Acting II (3)
PATH 412 Drama of Ancient Greece (ENGL) (3)
PATH 444 Original Practice in Renaissance
Drama (ENGL) (3)
ENGL 463 Writing for the Stage and Screen (3)