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  • 4.00 Credits

    Course presents approaches to lighting design and poses specific design problems for the student to solve. Attention is also given to color, composition, cueing, and production through presentations and discussions in class. Students will participate in department productions as assistant designers and electricians. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials as needed. Prerequisite: TH 242. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Course will build on the experience of fundamental level coursework. Students will develop methods for solving the practical and aesthetic problems that a working professional designer, working in theater and allied fields, will encounter. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials as needed.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Students will practice with a variety of scene shop paint media and surfaces while they learn how to depict both natural and architectural forms. Both large-scale backdrop painting and more detailed faux finish techniques will be studied. Students are expected to supply appropriate materials as needed.
  • 2.00 Credits

    A basic course in the art of film and television make-up effects, this course includes the use of refined cosmetics and prosthetic techniques to execute character, age, and casting molds to create appliances for extreme stylistic character make-up on a studio partner. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials as needed. Prerequisite: TH 247.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Students explore advanced design principles and processes in all areas of costume design. Students will experience the complete process of designing costumes for a given project: creating and presenting the design concept; working with the costume shop; developing appropriate paperwork for counting, building, and running costumes; budgeting; research; collaboration; and rendering final sketches. Students will produce a portfolio of work and learn to communicate professionally with other members of the theatrical production team. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials as needed. Prerequisite: TH 248. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Various topics providing design students with the opportunity to develop specific skills in the presentation of design concepts including, but not limited to, the areas of costume design, scenic design, lighting design, museum exhibition and installation, and/or design for film and television. Work will focus on design research, conceptualization, and methods of artistic presentation appropriate to the specific design area. Students may study model building, advanced rendering technique, drawing, computer graphics, collage, mixed media, and/or portfolio presentation. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials as needed. Prerequisite: TH 140 or TH 240. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    An exploration of professional production management in theater ranging from commercial and nonprofit regional theater models to touring and special events management. (Spring semester)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Course will provide students with the additional tools, techniques, and information to build the bridge from practicing stage management in an educational environment to the professional theater or MFA program through in-depth study of the Actor's Equity Rules, creation of complex repertory rehearsal schedules of multiple productions, and hands-on training exercises of calling musical show cues with lighting, automation, and fly to music with cue lights. Prerequisite: TH 277.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Major principles of play directing are studied. Through comprehensive script analysis, students become familiar with the structure of a play as a basis on which the various elements of theater can be organized to achieve dramatic unity. Laboratory application of directing practices introduces students to the techniques employed by a director to communicate with actors and audience, including principles of composition, movement, stage business, and rhythm. Prerequisite: junior standing.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Working from the reading and analysis of contemporary plays, from discussions of contemporary theatrical techniques, and from exercises through which the student writer gains access to personal material, the major focus of the semester will be the writing and revision of several drafts of at least one one-act play suitable for production on stage. Pieces, scenes, and whole plays will be read in class and active participation in the workshop process is a required component of the course. (Semester varies)
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