THAR at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 15 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate THAR coursework.

• THAR 0120Introduction to Actingopens 4 courses (3.5 directly)
• THAR 0020Fundamentals of Acting: First-Year Seminaropens 2 courses (2 directly)
• THAR 0114Playwriting Workshopopens 1 course (1 directly)
• THAR 0121Introduction to Directingopens 1 course (0.5 directly)
• THAR 0130Introduction to Light, Set, and Costume Designopens 1 course (0.2 directly)
• THAR 1131Concepts of Lightingopens 1 course (0.2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate THAR work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 15 THAR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 105 more THAR courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on THAR, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in THAR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at THAR 0170

  1. THAR 0120Introduction to Acting
  2. THAR 0170Voice for the Actor

• 2 courses deep, ending at THAR 1114

  1. THAR 0114Playwriting Workshop
  2. THAR 1114Advanced Playwriting

• 2 courses deep, ending at THAR 1120

  1. THAR 0020Fundamentals of Acting: First-Year Seminar
  2. THAR 1120Advanced Acting

• 2 courses deep, ending at THAR 3130

  1. THAR 0130Introduction to Light, Set, and Costume Design
  2. THAR 3130Theatre Design Lab: Applied Scenography

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for THAR yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under THAR yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

THAR does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.