Theater History (Minor)

Program Availability

The Theater History minor is available on the Indiana State University campus, located in Terre Haute, Indiana. This minor is not available online.

Courses for the Theater History Minor

(19 credits)

The Theater History minor is ideal for Theater, Music, and History majors who are interested in theater but are not pursuing career pathways in the artistic aspects of performance theater. Possible career opportunities include theater historians, dramaturgs, and literary managers. The minor offers courses in play analysis, theater history, dramaturgy, and related topics. In the minor, you will choose elective courses based on your interests in theater, music, and history. You will also take a required production credit course related to production dramaturgy.

Required Theater Courses (9 credits)

THTR 191 – Introduction to Play Analysis
THTR 295 – Theater History I
THTR 396 – Theater History II

Required Music Course (3 credits)

MUS 242 – History of Musical Theater

Required History Course (3 credits)

HIST 200 – How Historians Ask and Answer Questions

Required Practicum Course (1 credit)

Please select one of the following courses. Credit is related to production dramaturgy.

THTR 299 – Production Credit
THTR 499 – Advanced Production Credit

Elective (3 credits)

Choose one course from the following:

Theater/Dance:

DANC 128 – Introduction to Musical Theater Dance Styles
THTR 372 – Period Styles for the Theater
THTR 483 – Dramaturgy
THTR 498D – Independent Project in Playwriting, Dramaturgy, and Directing

Music

MUS 334 – Topics in Music
MUS 439 – Advanced Topics in Music History

History

HIST 320 – Comparative Slavery
HIST 331 – U.S. Workers’ Fight for Justice
HIST 333 – African American History to 1890
HIST 334 – African American History, 1890 to Present
HIST 336 – The 1960s: Counterculture and Protest
HIST 345 – Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
HIST 350 – Democracy as a Way of Life
HIST 351 – The Ancient World
HIST 353 – Medieval Europe
HIST 355 – Early Modern Europe, 1500-1815
HIST 356 – Modern Asia
HIST 357 – Europe since 1750
HIST 358 – The Atlantic World, 1500-1820
HIST 395 – Independent Study in History
HIST 399 – How We Got to Now
HIST 400 – History Capstone Seminar
HIST 402 – Travel Study in History
HIST 404 – Internship in Public History
HIST 408 – Nation-Building, Democracy, and Development in the Modern World
HIST 409 – The Birth of Europe
HIST 411 – The Colonial Experience
HIST 412 – The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877
HIST 413 – Revolutionary America
HIST 414 – Antebellum America, 1815-1848
HIST 415 – The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1917
HIST 417 – The United States in Crisis, 1917-1945
HIST 418 – The United States’ Atomic Age, 1945 to the Present
HIST 419 – Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
HIST 420 – United States Foreign Relations to 1900
HIST 421 – United States Diplomacy
HIST 422 – The Rise and Fall of the Spanish World Empire
HIST 425 – History of Indiana
HIST 426 – History of the South
HIST 433 – History of Labor in the United States
HIST 434 – The History of Thought and Culture in the United States, to 1860
HIST 435 – The History of Thought and Culture in the United States, 1860 to the Present
HIST 436 – Indians and Europeans in Early America
HIST 437 – Race and Nationality in the United States
HIST 439 – A-C Women in History
HIST 439A – Women in History: United States
HIST 439B – Women in History: Europe
HIST 439C – Women in History: Wider World
HIST 444 – Latin America: The Colonial Era
HIST 446 – Latin America and the United States
HIST 447 – Contested Heritage: Making, Shaping, and Fighting Over Public History
HIST 455 – The Renaissance, 1300-1520
HIST 456 – The Reformation, 1500-1650
HIST 459 – Mapping History
HIST 460 – Europe in the Twentieth Century
HIST 466 – Modern Britain
HIST 467 – Modern France
HIST 468 – Modern Germany
HIST 470 – Tsarist Russia
HIST 471 – Modern Russia
HIST 474 – World Empires
HIST 478 – History of Islam
HIST 484 – History of the Modern Middle East
HIST 493 – Rise of Modern China
HIST 494 – Topics in U.S. History
HIST 496 – Topics in European History
HIST 498 – Topics in World History