Youth Drama Emphasis

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The Youth Drama emphasis is for those students who wish to use the dramatic arts as a teaching tool, either in the elementary classroom or as a teaching artist. Our comprehensive curriculum is specifically designed to train teachers. Through laboratory work, students obtain hands-on teaching experience, so that by the time they reach their graduate school internship, they have spent significant hours in the classroom working with children. Students will be expected to fully integrate education and theatre coursework so that they leave UNH with sound theoretical training in addition to practical instruction on how to use drama to enhance learning outcomes, address classroom discipline issues, and, of course, bring the arts to life in the classroom.

YOUTH DRAMA EMPHASIS
	I. 50-58 CREDITS REQUIRED
THDA 459	Stagecraft	4 CR
THDA 460	Elements of Design	4 CR
THDA 463	Theatre Dance I	4 CR
THDA 520	Creative Drama	4 CR
THDA 583	Introduction to Puppetry	4 CR
THDA 589 A-D	Practicum	0-8 CR***
THDA 622	Storytelling, Story Theatre and Involvement Dramatics	4 CR
THDA 624	Theatre for Young Audiences	4 CR
THDA 683	Advanced Puppetry	4 CR
THDA 721	Arts Integration	4 CR
THDA 727	Methods of Teaching Theatre	4 CR
THDA 729	Community Oriented Drama Programs	4 CR
THDA 760	Teacher Planning For Theatre	4 CR
THDA 799	Capstone Project (must be taken in senior year)	2 CR
	II. 4 CREDITS FROM EDUCATION
EDUC 500/935	Exploring Teaching	** 4 CR
	B.A. In Theatre with emphasis in Youth Drama TOTAL	54-62 CR
	III. 24 CREDITS REQUIRED FROM EDUCATION*
EDUC 700/800	Educational Structure and Change	4 CR
EDUC 701/801	Human Development & Learning: Educational Psychology	4 CR
EDUC 703F/803F	Teaching Science	2 CR
EDUC 703M/803M	Teaching Elementary Science & Social Studies	2 CR
EDUC 705/805**	Alternative Perspectives on the Nature of Education	4 CR
EDUC 706/806**	Introduction to Reading Instruction	4 CR
EDUC 751A/851A	Educating Exceptional Learners: Elementary	4 CR
	IV. 4 CREDITS FROM MATH EDUCATION**
MATH 601 or 602	Exploring Mathematics for Teachers I or II	4 CR
MATH 621	Number Systems for Teachers	4 CR
MATH 622	Geometry for Teachers	4 CR
MATH 623	Topics in Mathematics for Teachers	4 CR
MATH 703	Teaching of Mathematics, K-6	4 CR
MATH 910	Teaching Elementary School Mathematics	4 CR
EDUC 741/841	Exploring Mathematics for Young Children	4 CR
	B.A. In Theatre plus undergraduate coursework towards M.Ed. In Elementary Education TOTAL	UP TO 90 CR

NOTE: It is understood that students will fulfill 20 internship contact hours with theatre students in their emphasis area: elementary, middle, or high school. Projects for 653A and 729 cannot count as internship hours. Students may fulfill this requirement through a variety of teaching opportunities with the department’s outreach program (both during the school year and in the summer), or they may work with local schools teaching, coaching actors, assistant directing, choreographing, or in some other capacity as specifically arranged with the student’s theatre advisor.

It is also understood that students involved in the above course curriculum in order to get state theatre arts certification must apply to either the UNH Department of Education or another university for acceptance into a fifth year Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) or Masters of Education (M. Ed.) degree program which fulfills state requirements for certification.

* May be taken at undergraduate or graduate level.
** Must be taken before student teaching internship

***Students are required to take at least one practicum for every semester they are a major in the Theatre & Dance Department. In addition, each student must take each type of practicum at least once (Technical, Costume, Performance, Marketing & Promotion). Practicum may be taken for 1 or 0 credits.

Contact Prof. Raina Ames (862-3044, Raina.Ames@unh.edu)