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Minor in Theater Arts awarded through the Music and Theater Arts Section of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Official minor requirements are maintained by the MIT registrar in the Institute catalog alongside the Course 21T major

Training

Students choose one 12-unit foundation subject from Introduction to Acting, Physical Improvisation: Bodies in Motion, Fundamentals of Theater Design, Performance Media, Script Analysis, and Playwriting Fundamentals

Five further elective subjects follow, giving 57-60 units of restricted electives and a 69-72 unit total inside Theater Arts

Electives are assembled with the Theater Arts minor advisor as one coherent program rather than a fixed sequence

Degree Flexibility

The minor is built so a student can either experiment across playwriting, acting, directing, and design or concentrate more deeply in a single discipline

It attaches to any MIT major, so engineering and science students can carry a formal theater credential on the transcript

Theater Arts also offers a HASS concentration and two major routes, so students can scale their commitment up or down inside the same department

School info

Snapshot

Avg GPA (W)

4.19

Admit rate

school-wide

Grad rate

96%

Enrollment

4.5K

Earnings

$143K

10yr after

Costs & aid

Tuition & fees

$67,140

Before aid

Cost of attendance

$92,760

Before aid

Average net price

$20,111

After aid

Coa · sfs.mit.edu College Scorecard

Program info updated 1d ago

Program Highlights

Program Recognition

Minor in Theater Arts awarded through the Music and Theater Arts Section of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Official minor requirements are maintained by the MIT registrar in the Institute catalog alongside the Course 21T major

Training

Five further elective subjects follow, giving 57-60 units of restricted electives and a 69-72 unit total inside Theater Arts

Electives are assembled with the Theater Arts minor advisor as one coherent program rather than a fixed sequence

Degree Flexibility

The minor is built so a student can either experiment across playwriting, acting, directing, and design or concentrate more deeply in a single discipline

It attaches to any MIT major, so engineering and science students can carry a formal theater credential on the transcript

Theater Arts also offers a HASS concentration and two major routes, so students can scale their commitment up or down inside the same department

Program Highlights

Program Recognition

Minor in Theater Arts awarded through the Music and Theater Arts Section of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Official minor requirements are maintained by the MIT registrar in the Institute catalog alongside the Course 21T major

Training

Five further elective subjects follow, giving 57-60 units of restricted electives and a 69-72 unit total inside Theater Arts

Electives are assembled with the Theater Arts minor advisor as one coherent program rather than a fixed sequence

Degree Flexibility

The minor is built so a student can either experiment across playwriting, acting, directing, and design or concentrate more deeply in a single discipline

It attaches to any MIT major, so engineering and science students can carry a formal theater credential on the transcript

Theater Arts also offers a HASS concentration and two major routes, so students can scale their commitment up or down inside the same department

Good to Know

Admission Pathway

Enrolled MIT students declare the minor on the Theater Arts minor application form published by the department

Music and Theater Arts notes that Theater Arts uses a different form from the standard HASS minor application

The minor advisor approves the elective selections as a single coherent program

Important Notes

The minor is not part of the first-year or transfer application to MIT, so it carries no separate application fee or deadline

Transfer credit toward Theater Arts subjects is requested on the department's transfer credit form

What's The Process

Audition Process

There is no audition, interview, or portfolio review for the Minor in Theater Arts

Admission to MIT is the only competitive step; the minor itself is declared by students who are already enrolled

Study begins with one foundation subject, after which the remaining elective program is planned with the minor advisor

School info

Snapshot

Avg GPA (W)

4.19

Admit rate

school-wide

Grad rate

96%

Enrollment

4.5K

Earnings

$143K

10yr after

Costs & aid

Tuition & fees

$67,140

Before aid

Cost of attendance

$92,760

Before aid

Average net price

$20,111

After aid

Coa · sfs.mit.edu College Scorecard

Program Recognition

Minor in Theater Arts awarded through the Music and Theater Arts Section of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Official minor requirements are maintained by the MIT registrar in the Institute catalog alongside the Course 21T major

Training

Five further elective subjects follow, giving 57-60 units of restricted electives and a 69-72 unit total inside Theater Arts

Electives are assembled with the Theater Arts minor advisor as one coherent program rather than a fixed sequence

Degree Flexibility

The minor is built so a student can either experiment across playwriting, acting, directing, and design or concentrate more deeply in a single discipline

It attaches to any MIT major, so engineering and science students can carry a formal theater credential on the transcript

Theater Arts also offers a HASS concentration and two major routes, so students can scale their commitment up or down inside the same department

Updated 1d ago