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4.00 Credits
Course examines the relationships between theater and culture, where culture is understood as a process of knowing the other, of looking and listening, of creating and maintaining connection in a community. An examination of theoretical texts in economics, history, sociology, cultural studies, politics, and performance provides a foundation for exploring and experiencing various techniques of making theater in community. (Fall semester)
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4.00 Credits
The art of puppetry and the basic methods of construction, operation, manipulation, and performance of puppets are examined. Emphasis is on the use of puppets as an educational tool. Projects include creating examples of each of the four major types of puppets: shadow, hand, rod, and marionette-using a range of construction techniques and materials appropriate to an educational setting. The course culminates in the construction of puppets for in-class presentations. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials as needed. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
Students are introduced to the scope, purposes, and history of theater experiences for children and adolescents. Topics include play reading and analysis, the examination of formal and participatory theater, and theater-in-education techniques. (Fall semester)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to a variety of schemes and stimuli to use in writing scripts for child or youth audiences or to use in helping young people to write their own plays. Attention will be given to freeing and stretching the imagination, issues of structure and methods of play development, culminating in readings of new work. Classwork will include writing, improvising, reading aloud, critiquing, and discussing work for and with youth. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
Students will design grant proposals with a focus on community-based projects, learning grant writing, skill building, and developing relationships with local arts funders and community artists successful at grant writing and community-based collaborations. Skills include research, budget preparation, developing "boilerplate" data, and writing for specificconstituencies and potential audiences. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
The exploration of the conceptual and structural material pertinent to the musical play form with emphasis on developing skills in the staging of the materials through the coordination of music, lyrics, and dialogue. Each student will be required to stage scenes from musicals for class demonstration. Selected students will be assigned to stage mini-musicals for public presentation. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (Fall semester)
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4.00 Credits
Workshop will provide students with the ability to experience exercises designed to generate ideas, develop playwriting technique, and explore the theatrical realization of text. Prerequisite: TH 388. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
First of a two-semester course exploring the historical development of the media arts, including the film, broadcasting, and sound recording industries until 1950. Investigates the relationships between economics, industrial history, and social and political systems, and the styles and techniques of specific films and broadcast programs. Special attention is given to the diversity of styles of presentation in the media.
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4.00 Credits
Second of a two-semester course exploring the historical development of the media arts, focusing on the continuing development of the film, broadcasting, and sound recording industries after 1950, as well as the development of video and digital technologies. Investigates the relationships between economics, industrial history, and social and political systems, and the styles and techniques of specific films and videos, broadcast programs, and digital media products. Prerequisite: VM 100.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the visual language of communication shared among all of the visual arts, emphasizing visual analysis, understanding of materials, the history of style and techniques, and the functions and meanings of art in its varied manifestations. Provides foundation for subsequent studies in the visual and media arts. Fulfills the Aesthetics perspective of the General Education requirements.
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