With the core competence in the field of music theater, GIPA offers three areas of concentration (majors):

Theater Performance: Designed to help students obtain performing arts–related skills through practical trainings including theater design and production with regard to all aspects of the performance theater.
Collaborative Piano: Designed to prepare students to collaborate with the production and rehearsals of theater performances as pianists.
Arts Marketing and Industries: Offers theoretical and practical training courses for planning, marketing and media strategy related to performing arts/music theater. Also deals with policy, law and management issues surrounding the development of cultural and creative industries.

Required Courses

  • Arts Industry and Marketing
  • Special Topics on Performing Arts

Elective Courses

  • Musical Acting

Required Course for Theatre Arts

  • Research Methodology (I)
  • Acting (I)
  • Acting (II)
  • Acting (III)
  • Body Theater (I)
  • Body Theater (II)
  • Body Theater (III)
  • Practicum in Performance (I)
  • Practicum in Performance (II)
  • Practicum in Performance (III)
  • Practicum in Performance (IV)

Elective Course for Theatre Arts

  • Internship
  • Musical Theater Performance, Theory and Practice (II)
  • Musical Theater Performance, Theory and Practice (II)
  • Advanced Musical Acting
  • Studies in Directing Process
  • Special Topic on Directing
  • Image and Theatrical Space for Performing Arts
  • Special Topics on Script Analysis for Performing Arts
  • Acoustic Practice
  • Technical Theater Practice
  • Vocal Technique (I)
  • Vocal Technique (II)
  • Vocal Technique (III)
  • Vocal Technique (IV)

  • Repertoire Coaching (I)
  • Repertoire Coaching (II)
  • Choreography in Musical Theater
  • Advanced Theater in Education
  • Training of Basic Acting
  • Body Theater
  • Performing Theater
  • Stage Design
  • Practice of  Directing
  • Studies in Plays of Gao Xingjian
  • Playwriting

Required Course for Collaborative Piano

  • Research Methodology (I)
  • G1 Studio Accompanying(I)
  • G1 Studio Accompanying(II)
  • G2 Studio Accompanying(I)
  • G2 Studio Accompanying(II)
  • G1 Major (Collaborative Piano)(I)
  • G1 Major (Collaborative Piano)(II)
  • G2 Major (Collaborative Piano)(I)
  • G2 Major (Collaborative Piano)(II)

Core Elective Course for Collaborative Piano

  • Arts of Collaborative Piano
  • Diction(I)
  • Diction(II)
  • French Melodies Repertoire
  • German Lieder Repertoire
  • Studies in Operatic Accompanying

Elective Course for Collaborative Piano

  • Internship
  • Piano Lesson(I)
  • Piano Lesson(II)
  • Studies in Chamber Music Literature with Piano(I)
  • Studies in Chamber Music Literature with Piano(II)
  • Techniques of Performing Orchestral Works
  • Keyboard Harmony and Improvisation(I)
  • Keyboard Harmony and Improvisation(II)
  • English Art Songs Repertoire
  • Taiwan Contemporary Arts Songs Repertoire
  • Italian Art Songs Repertoire
  • Musical Theater Accompanying(I)
  • Musical Theater Accompanying(II)

Required Course for Arts Marketing and Culture Industries

  • Internship in Marketing(I)
  • Internship in Marketing(II)
  • Research Methodology (II)
  • Studies in Art and Culture Policy

Elective Course for Arts Marketing and Culture Industries

  • Internship
  • Performing Arts Management
  • Studies in Performing Arts Strategy
  • Studies in Arts Consumption and Audience Develop
  • Art Law
  • Human Resource and Organization Management for the Arts
  • Arts Entrepreneurship and Finance Management
  • Arts Festival Planning and Management
  • Culture and Tourism Industry
  • Industrial Analysis of Performing Arts
  • Executive Managing on Performance Group
  • Arts and Business Cooperation

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