Dec 05, 2024  
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog 
    
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog

Arts and Science Transfer, Theatre Area of Concentration


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Arts and Sciences Transfer Degree, Theater Performance Area of Concentration

At Baltimore City Community College, the Arts and Sciences Transfer Theatre Performance, (AOC) inspires, develops, and transforms each emerging artist’s/student’s intellectual and creative attributes allowing for optimal expression and exploration of performance styles. The course of study includes intensive training in acting, movement and vocal techniques, script analysis, character development, two levels of theatre history, examination of classical, modern, and contemporary dramatic literature, replication of selected theatrical conventions, scene work and performance opportunities. At the end of the program, students may either transfer to continue their academic training or follow a more direct career path.


Suggested Sequence of Courses

** All BCCC students must meet the College’s Computer Literacy requirements in order to receive a degree or a certificate. All first-time, full- and part-time degree and certificate seeking students are required to complete the PRE 100  course within the first six credits.

Program Learning Outcomes


  • Identify the major authors, periods, movements, and issues in drama and theater.

  • Interpret themes and issues addressed in dramatic works and compare them to personal experiences or historical events.

  • Apply historical information to the critique of artistic work.

  • Write English prose with clarity, style, and artistic purpose.

  • Use dramatic narrative conventions to write and perform monologues, scenes, and plays that are based on personal experiences, real or improvised situations, or historical events.

  • Apply vocabulary from dance, music, and visual arts, to discuss the visual, aural, or kinesthetic elements of a theatrical production.

  • Demonstrate mastery of one or more aspects of the theater including, but not limited to: acting, directing, design (sets, lighting, costumes, sound, props, makeup), playwriting, dramaturgy, criticism, scholarship, administration, and management.

  • Use selected forms, themes, conflicts, and action to create improvised and scripted dramatic works.

  • Work collaboratively on group projects, effectively drawing from all members’ strengths.

  • Describe each of the traditional jobs found in the theater (actor; playwright; producer; director; lighting, costume, and set designers) and how they evolved over time in a variety of historical periods and cultures.

  • Analyze and illustrate ways in which the script, properties, scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound are manipulated to communicate dramatic elements in theatrical productions.

  • Formulate, apply, and communicate criteria for evaluating personal performances and the performances of others.

1st Semester


Total Semester Credits 15


2nd Semester


Total Semester Credits 16


3rd Semester


Total Semester Credits 14


4th Semester


Total Semester Credits 15


Program Total 60


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