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Program Duration: 2 Year Program
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Degree Type: Associate in Arts (A.A.)
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Total Credit Hours: 62
About This Program
Our Theater program helps you discover and express your creativity while enhancing your teamwork and leadership skills. You will learn how to perform scenes and monologues; create characters; improvise during performances; understand and demonstrate basic principles, techniques and styles of body movement and dance; read and write about significant dramatic literature; design costumes; build, design, paint and light stage scenery; operate stage lighting; serve as a stage manager; and rehearse and present a play. As a Theater student, you will also develop skills beneficial to your educational and professional careers, such as public speaking, verbal and written communication, project management, and teamwork.
Transfer Opportunities
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Program Entry Requirements
The program is open to interested students. Students are required to satisfy placement at the time of admission. Students who are identified as needing developmental course work must satisfactorily complete the appropriate English and mathematics courses as a part of their degree program.
General Education Requirements
All general education requirements necessary for graduation are met through the courses in the program as indicated above. Students who wish to take courses that differ from the general education courses indicated above must complete a course substitution request form. To access the form, login to the MyCCP portal, and in the Student tab, under Electronic Forms, click on the Records and Registration Forms link, then choose Request For Course Substitution Of Graduation Requirement link. A more detailed explanation of the College's general education requirements is also available.
Program of Study and Graduation Requirements
A minimum of 62 credits and a grade point average of 2.0 ("C" average) are required for graduation.
Launch Your Career in Theater
- Media Technical Directors/Managers – est. salary $96,103
- Producers and Directors – est. salary $96,103
- Costume Attendants – est. salary $59,205*
- Talent Directors – est. salary $96,103
- Set and Exhibit Designers – est. salary $58,394
Career Outlook
Median Salary of an Actor
Number of Jobs in the Region
10-year Job Outlook in the Region for Actors
Actor
Play parts in stage, television, radio, video, or film productions, or other settings for entertainment, information, or advertisements.
Starting Pay: $30,975
Typical Tasks
- Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.
- Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
- Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.
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Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations.
- Attend auditions and casting calls to audition for roles.
- Work with other crew members responsible for lighting, costumes, make-up, and props.
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