By Jen Germain
After this semester, advanced theater classes will no longer be offered at PPCC. Due to a lack of enrollment and money to fund the department, the only theater classes that will continue to be available are introduction classes. They include THE 105 - Introduction to Theatre Arts, THE 111 - Acting I, and play writing 1 and 2.
Along with the reduction of theater classes, plans to turn the auditorium at the Centennial campus into a lecture hall are already under way. Not only does this create a problem for the remaining theater classes that will now have to meet in classrooms, but it also means the end of play productions at PPCC.
Overdramatic theater geeks like myself consider this to be somewhat of a tragic event. It’s annoying enough that although I actively participated in theater during all four years of high school, and I was still required to take an Introduction to Theater class here at PPCC, and now it’s the end of the road for me.
Perhaps the Theater department at PPCC wouldn’t have such a low enrollment rate if it were offered at the Rampart Range or Down Town Studio campuses. This semester has definitely been an inconvenience for me to drive all the way to Centennial for one class. I’m pretty confident that I’m not the only one who falls into this category. Obviously the Rampart Range and Down Town Campuses don’t offer theater due to the fact that neither come equipped with an auditorium, but then again neither will Centennial.
The end of theater at PPCC is definitely very upsetting and unfair. Most students don’t want to deal with the complexities of enrolling at UCCS just for one or two classes, and we shouldn’t have to. It doesn’t seem as if the college has done much to prevent this from happening, and it does seem that theater has been put on the lower end of valued classes. Somehow I doubt that if advanced science classes weren’t bringing in money for the college, those classes wouldn’t be done away with.
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