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Program Description

The Theatre Minor allows students to focus in areas that interest them within the discipline of live performance: acting and directing for stage production; theatre history, theory, and criticism; and theatre design and technologies.

Department of Performing and Media Arts Minors

The Department of Performing and Media Arts offers four minors. In addition, the Department administers the interdisciplinary Media Studies minor. The minors are open to all undergraduate students in the university, including those outside the College of Arts and Sciences, and require at least 15 credits per minor. To declare a minor, you will need to contact pma-dus@cornell.edu. All credit toward the minor must be from PMA courses taken at Cornell or from PMA courses taken with Cornell approved programs. Independent Study courses do not count toward any PMA minor.

Minor Requirements

Guidelines for Minors

• Fulfill the requirements for the desired minor listed below.
• Pass all courses with a letter grade of C or higher.
• No S-U grades are accepted unless there is no letter grade option.
• First-year Writing Seminars do not count for the minor.
• All courses must be taken for 3-credits or more, except in the case of the Production Labs, and a total of at least 15-credits are required.
• Cross listed courses not taught or co-taught by PMA faculty will not count as credit for any PMA Minor. Courses taken through Study Abroad programs, other than those directly affiliated with Cornell (such as Cornell-in-Rome), cannot be used toward the minor.
• Minor must be declared before week three of the final semester of enrollment at Cornell. Students should declare as early as possible to gain the appropriate advising to fulfill the minor.
• Credits earned from Production Labs can only be used to fulfill the Production Lab requirement.

Program Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
PMA 3750	Global Theatre and Performance	4
PMA 2800	Introduction to Acting (or any PMA course in Design (DE))	4
Three additional courses focused on Theatre, excluding Production Laboratory courses
PMA 1410	Media Production Laboratory	2
or PMA 1610	Production Technology Laboratory