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TheBarnard College Department of Theatre mounts a full season of productions in the Minor Latham Playhouse and the Glicker-Milstein Theatre, a crucible of investigation that is a credit-bearing element of the curriculum, and open to all undergraduate students for audition. A collaboration between students and professional theatre artists, the Department of Theatre productions are both a learning process and a scene of encounter, where perceptions are shaped for the attention and creative reflection of a larger public.

Barnard students may declare the major at any time; Columbia students have a major-selection period in the second year, but all students must declare the major by the spring semester of the sophomore year. The major requirements are spelled out below, and the process for choosing a thesis area as well: all Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors complete a thesis as a capstone to their work in the degree. For more information about the major, please contact the Theatre Department office.

All majors must submit the online Theatre Major Declaration Form, available on the Department of Theatre website (theatre.barnard.edu); Barnard majors must also submit the Barnard Major Declaration Form via Slate. Prior to declaring the major, students should make an appointment with the Department Chair or their undergraduate advisor. All majors should introduce themselves to the Theatre Administrator in 333C Milbank Hall; she will add names to the departmental listserv, and help students to keep up to date in important information about studying in the Department.

Mission: To engage imaginatively with the inheritance of the past, the questions of the present, and the possibilities of the future through embodied and intellectual inquiry into theatre and performance.

What do we value?

In the Department of Theatre, faculty, staff, and students understand drama, theatre, and performance as artistic and social practices, and as means and objects of study that model the investigation and production, the making, of a sustainable, equitable, livable future. We pursue theatre and performance within the purpose of the university: to learn, explore, and fashion disciplines of inquiry, new ways of knowing and so new structures of knowledge. Theatre is a site of public encounter, and we undertake its many forms of collaboration in order to speak with the campus and the community, to perform an imaginative, ethical engagement of possibility: of critical dialogue among the arts, humanities, and sciences; of social and climate justice; of equity and inclusion; of the manifold joys of creative work across the regenerative interdisciplines of theatre and performance.

practice: inquiry across a range of platforms of scholarly and artistic production that define and enlarge one another, participating in learning modes of embodiment, of spatial array, of visual and sonic design, of written expression, and of cultural interpretation across a range of forms

learn: the historical, cultural, social, political, and aesthetic contexts of drama, theatre and performance, and the contemporary practices of performance as means of seeing theatre today as an instrument of critical invention and ethical performative intervention

students majoring in Theatre, or taking courses as non-majors, pursuing a variety of paths toward their future. Among other avenues, our students have gone on to pursue further study in MFA and PhD programs in various fields, leading to professional careers in theatre, as well as to academic careers in the humanities, theatre, and performance studies. Many find the writing, performance, and collaborative skills developed in the study and practice of theatre essential in their future work in a variety of professional settings.

is part of an energetic and distinguished academic community, making theatre, learning theatre, understanding the theoretical, social, cultural, ideological the work of theatre in conversation with the interrogative work of research across an academic campus

acknowledges its location in Lenapehoking, the territory of the Lenape people, as a step towards recognizing the traditional and enduring stewards of this land and disrupting the invisibility and ongoing erasure of Indigenous Peoples

Students successfully completing coursework in stage and production management or pursuing a Senior Thesis in Performance: Stage and Production Management should be able to attain the following objectives:

On our student billboards outside the theatre office at 336 and 333 Milbank there are flyers and information on the major, minor, and how to get involved in the department. Please visit this page on our website for the most up-to-date forms for the major: -requirements, and here for the minor: -requirements.

There are semesterly open house/course planning events that students can attend to learn more about the upcoming semester. These are typically held in early November for information about the Spring semester, and early April for information about the Fall semester. Join the theatre listserv to stay up to date on these and other departmental events.

Students are required to attend the first day of class; students who do not attend the first day who are registered for the course will be dropped. Students in acting classes who have been admitted to the course who do not attend the first class meeting will be dropped. Some courses determine enrollment on the first day of class. If the course is over-enrolled, the instructor will determine a method for deciding which students get priority, and only those students present on the first day will be considered.

The Barnard College Department of Theatre is open to any and all Columbia University undergraduates. While our productions require auditions, the program generally is open for enrollment, meaning interested students in or outside of the major may participate in courses as they choose.

All students wishing to take Acting courses in the Theatre Department must first complete an Acting I class before moving on to the Acting II series. (Transfer students, please discuss transfer credit equivalencies with the Theatre Department office.)

Please see here for an up-to-date listing of our Acting course descriptions. Please note that Acting II: Acting Sondheim and Acting II: Contemporary Musical Theatre requires all interested students to submit a video singing audition as well as other information, detailed both on our website and in the course catalogue.

Finally, students majoring in theatre are required to apply for the concentration field in which they will complete a senior thesis. The application for senior thesis fields (acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, solo performance, research) is due in January of the junior year (after 5th semester; 3 semesters remaining); students must be declared majors, and have taken formal coursework in the department in the potential field(s) of the senior thesis. Please see here for more information about the senior thesis: -thesis-0

Students interested in PhD studies in the field of literature, theatre, or performance studies should consult Profs. W. B. Worthen, Shayoni Mitra, and/or Yizhou Huang; students interested in MFA in design should consult Prof. Sandra Goldmark; in directing should consult Prof. Alice Reagan; in acting should consult Prof. Gisela Cardenas. All faculty are generally willing to be consulted on your next steps.

Several lecture/seminar courses at Columbia University may be counted toward the lecture/seminar requirement in the major or minor. Majors may count up to two courses not taken in the Department of Theatre toward the major; minors may count one. A list of such courses (typically Shakespeare, drama courses offered in the English department, and so on) is developed for each semester. Columbia English (ENTA) and Barnard English (ENTH) courses are typically counted; other courses should be approved by the Theatre Department office.

Students are allowed to count up to 2 courses taken elsewhere toward the Theatre major, provided they are similar in duration, number of meetings, and content to courses that fulfill the major offered in the department. Courses are evaluated by the Theatre Department office. Students must take all courses counting toward the minor at Barnard/Columbia. The THTR UN3150 and THTR UN3151 Critical Histories of Drama, Theatre, and Performance cannot be substituted for coursework elsewhere.

Classes taken abroad through other institutions or programs are treated as transfer credit and are subject to the same policies as other transfer courses. Accordingly, there will be a limit on the number of study abroad courses taken at other institutions that can be counted toward the major or minor.

To receive credit toward the major or minor for a study abroad course (whether taken through a Columbia program or another institution/program), students must submit a Study Abroad Approval form through Slate and obtain the approval of the Theatre Department office.

Summer courses at Barnard are equivalent to those taken during the academic year. Courses that have been approved for the fulfillment of departmental requirements will automatically count toward the major/minor.

Barnard College has a long-standing commitment to preparing students in the major so that they may undertake a capstone project. All Barnard seniors are required to complete a senior project or thesis, an opportunity the Theatre/Drama & Theatre Arts major extends to all majors, whether from Barnard, Columbia College, or Columbia General Studies. The senior thesis project allows students to develop records of individual research that include theoretical engagement in the major discipline, the development of creative projects or research, and original empirical and interpretive analysis. The thesis review will be conducted by the full-time faculty of the department (Cardenas, Goldmark, Huang, Mitra, Reagan, H. Worthen, W.B. Worthen), in consultation with faculty in specific thesis fields.

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