Bachelor Degree in Literature-Theatre

Literature-theatre is a major for students who think of drama as the union of complementary disciplines and should appeal to the student interested in playwriting, dramaturgy, and performance, or in literary criticism with an emphasis on dramatic literature. You’ll take courses in the literature and theatre departments and demonstrate proficiency in a non-English language. For your senior thesis, you’ll undertake a research-centered project or a project that integrates research with production.

As a literature-theatre major, you’ll complete coursework in both departments while also demonstrating proficiency in a non-English language. On the literature side of your studies, you’ll develop a powerful capacity to analyze texts. On the theatre side, you’ll read, study, and make plays and performance. In the second semester of your junior year, you’ll be examined by both departments to determine whether you’ll be admitted to senior standing, at which point you’ll embark on a senior thesis project.