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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Fine Arts with Concentration in Theater, B.A.

Location(s): Emmitsburg


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A minimum of 120 credit hours is required for a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts Theater.

Theater Electives


Complete 12 Credits from the Following:

Core Requirements (46 to 49 credits)


The First Year Symposium (3 credits)


Complete the First Year Symposium

World Language Requirement (3-6 Credits)


Complete either 6 credits at the 101 and 102 level or 3 credits at the 200 level or above

  • Introductory Language (For students beginning at the 101 level)
    • XXXX 101 (3)
    • XXXX 102 (3)
  • Advanced Language (For students who begin at the 201 level or above)
    • XXXX 201/301 (or higher).

Foundations of Philosophy (3 Credits)


Origins of the West (3 Credits)


Philosophy in the Modern Age (3 Credits)


Atlantic Encounters (3 Credits)


Mathematical Thinking (3 Credits)


Foundations of Theology: Faith and Revelation (3 Credits)


America in the World (3 Credits)


Theology: Made in God’s Image (3 Credits)


Modernity in Literature or the Arts (3 Credits)


Choose from among one of the following:

Laboratory Science (3-4 Credits)


Choose one laboratory science course:

Global Encounters (3 Credits)


Choose one Global Encounters course:

  • XXGE Global Encounters
    • Global Encounters courses are offered in many departments, including Business, Communication, English, Education, Foreign Language, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Theology.

Ethics and the Human Good (3 Credits)


Complete one of the following:

Ethical Leaders (0 Credits)


The Ethical Leadership Experiential Learning Core Requirement invites students to integrate their own personal call to leadership with a mature reflection on one or more of the core virtues of Justice, Courage, Integrity, and Humility.  Students will accomplish this by engaging in and reflecting upon the practice of virtue ethics within the context of one or more experiential learning activities.

Sample Four Year Sequence


 


Freshman Year 

Fall Semester 

FSYM 101 The First Year Symposium (3)  

World Languages I (3)

Foundations in Social Science (3) (either semester)

FATH 241 Production Practicum: Technical (3)  (Total of 3 credits)

Elective (3)

15 credits 

Spring Semester 

WCIV 102 Origins of the West (3)  

World Languages II (3)

PHIL 103 Foundations of Philosophy (3)    

FATH 103 Introduction to Theatre (3)    

Elective (3)

15 credits 

Sophomore Year

Fall Semester

WCIV 201 Atlantic Encounters: 1450-1850 (3)    

PHIL 203 Philosophy in the Modern Age (3)  

FATH 105 Acting I (3)    

FATH 108 Stagecraft (3)    

MATH 211 Mathematical Thinking (3)    

15 credits 

Spring Semester 

AMER 202 America in the World (3)  

THEOL 220 Foundations of Theology (3)    

FATH 106 Acting II (3)  

FATH 208 Stage Design (3)  

Elective (3)

15 credits 

 

Junior Year 

Fall Semester 

THEOL 320 Made in God’s Image (3)  

THMO 300 Modernity in Theatre (3)  

GNSCI XXX Lab Science (4) (either semester) 

FATH XXX Fine Arts Theatre Course (3)

Elective (3)

16 credits 

Spring Semester

THEOL/PHIL 300 Ethics and The Human Good (3)

XXGE 3XX Gobal Encounters (3) (either semester) 

FATH 221 History of Theatre (3)  

FATH XXX Fine Arts Theatre Course (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits

 

Senior Year

Fall Semester

FATH XXX Fine Arts Theatre Course (3)

FATH XXX Fine Arts Theatre Course (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits

Spring Semester

FATH 402 Senior Project Tutorial (3)     

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits 

 

* The above sequence can be used for Theatre Majors with a focus on Performance or Technical Theatre. 

**Students interested in studying Technical Theatre should plan to take the following electives-FATH 108 Stagecraft (3) , FATH 208 Stage Design (3) , and FATH 308 Technical Production (3) .
Suggested Electives for a Technical Theatre focus can include courses in Communications, English, World Languages and Cultures, and History, based on the talents and skills of the student, as well as with consultation with the student’s academic advisor. Students are also strongly urged to investigate Internship possibilities, either in the summer or as a semester-long assignment. The Career Center catalogs a wide variety or arts-based internships.

 

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