Theater/AmeriCulture Arts Program
| Key to Course Offerings |
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designates courses in the Quantitative Scientific Cluster |
| I: |
the Ideas and Events Cluster |
| B: |
the Human Behavior Cluster |
| L: |
the Literature, Language and Arts Cluster |
| C: |
Multicultural |
| IDIS: |
Interdisciplinary courses
Multicultural and interdisciplinary courses also fulfill a cluster designation. |
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Asterisk indicates that the course may be offered less than once every two years. |
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Undergraduate Day School |
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Undergraduate Evening School |
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Courses having a more narrow focus than those taught on a regular basis of courses being taught on an experimental basis can be taught as Topics courses. These courses will be assigned numbers based on the student level for which they are intended-first, second, third or fourth year. |
Stage Movement
THEA 1700 3 cr. 3 hr.
This workshop-oriented course utilizes the basic techniques of theatrical mime and movement with emphasis on developing each student's potential for effective physicalization on stage.
Introduction to Theater
THEA 2000 3 cr. 3 hr.
This introductory course surveys theater with emphasis on its history, focuses, practices and major practitioners, including directors, actors and scenic designers. The focus is on historical and social contexts. L, C
Children's Theater
*THEA 2100 3 cr. 3 hr.
This introductory course in theater for children explores its principles and practices, covering aspects of play production for juvenile audiences. Emphasis is on script selection and evaluation, directing, acting and staging techniques.
Stagecraft and Theater Production
THEA 2200 3 cr. 3 hr.
In a laboratory situation, the student takes one selected play from initial sketches through to the finished model and plans for production, including design, set building, costuming, lighting and management.
Acting I
THEA 2700 3 cr. 3 hr.
In this course the acting fundamentals of stage speech and movement, creative mime and improvisation are explored. Plays are read and analyzed. Systematic technique building and scene study are heavily emphasized. L
History of the Theater I
THEA 2730 3 cr. 3 hr.
This is the first course in a two-semester survey on the history of theater, from its roots in pre-history through the Greeks, the Middle Ages, the renaissance, and ending with Moliere. This course examines the times of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Moliere, among others, discovering how playwrights were products of their times and how their work contributed to shaping those times. The focus is on western theater, but also included are theater traditions of East Asia, India, Oceania and Africa, such as Balinese Dance Theater, Noh, Bunraku and Chinese Opera. L C
History of the Theater II
THEA 2740 3 cr. 3 hr.
This is the second course in a two-semester survey on the history of theater, from late renaissance to the present. This course examines restoration drama and works of such playwrights as Ibsen, Brecht and Beckett, among others, discovering how they were products of their times and how their work contributed to shaping those times. The focus is on western theater, but also included are theater traditions of East Asia, India, Oceania and Africa as living traditions and new voices. L C
Acting II
THEA 2800 3 cr. 3 hr.
This will be an advanced course in examining the art of the actor building on the preliminary skills learned in Acting I. Students will perform scenes from the contemporary and classical repertoire. Traditional and contemporary methods of character development will be studied and attempted. Techniques of acting Shakespeare will be learned. Audition technique will be introduced and developed.
Applied Acting
THEA 2850 3 cr. 3 hr.
This course will offer the practical, on-stage experience of realizing a role in a fully mounted main stage production. Students will accomplish this through performance, maintaining an actor's journal and writing an analysis of the experience after the production is completed. This course may be taken for up to two times for credit.
Acting for the Camera
THEA 3010 3 cr. 3 hr.
This is an intensive scene study course for the advanced student actor. Scenes will be selected from extant and new film scripts and will be directed, filmed and edited by film students who are taking a companion course in the Communications Media department.
Prerequisite: COMM 3730 Directing.
Directing the Play
THEA 4000 3 cr. 3 hr.
This lecture/seminar/workshop covers the basic elements of style, blocking, organization and focus for directing. It may be taken twice for credit.
Independent Study
THEA 4903 3 cr. 3 hr.
The Independent Study is for exceptional students excelling in scholarship and is taken upon approval of the department head and advising instructor. Course of study, meetings and credit are arranged upon approval.
Internship
THEA 4940 3 cr.
Directed Study
THEA 4975 1-6 cr.
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