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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine various depictions of Black identities found in diverse genres of art including but not limited to antebellum slave narratives, museum exhibitions, blues and jazz musical recordings, theater, visual art, film and hip-hop music and culture.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed for students who are interested in merging social activism, dance/theater and teaching. Students will learn how to use movement and theater as tools for social change in settings such as senior centers, schools and prisons. In studio sessions, students will identify, approach and construct classes for community sites. Selected films and readings will provide a context for duscussion and assist in the development of individual student's research and teaching methods. The class will include lab sessions at designated off-campus sites where students will lead and participate in teaching workshops. Limited to 15 students. Cross Listed With: DANCE - 331
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4.00 Credits
In this course students will be introduced to contemporary African American literature in both its written and film versions. The course focuses on novels and plays written during the second half of the 20th century and their corresponding films. These texts explore a number of important moments in African American History including slavery, emancipation, segregation, the Black Power Movement, and contemporary African American life.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the literature of the "New Negro Movement" as an international phenomenon that influenced connected blacks throughout the African Diaspora. During the term we will read selections of theater, fiction, poetry, essays and journalism of the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude movements, comparing and contrasting the works and ideas from blacks residing in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States.
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4.00 Credits
Process of writing a play or script for stage or media from germinal idea, through production.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the conceptual as well as the practical phases of directing a play beginning with the question: what moved the playwright to tell this story and continuing with all technical aspects from holding auditions to opening night.
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4.00 Credits
A detailed study and practice of the methods used in designing costumes, settings, and properties. Cross Listed With: BAVA - 356
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4.00 Credits
Hip-Hop articulates an "esthetic of resistance," becoming a vital youth-driven artistic forum for social action and change. Combined with theater, it addresses issues of youth empowerment, solidarity and peacebuilding. This course bridges history, theory and practice of this socially engaged form, into a coherent methodology and performance style.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: THETR - 152. A study of the aesthetics, principles, and practices of lighting for the stage and media, including design and execution of at least one production in dance, drama, television, or film.
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1.00 Credits
Practical exercise in production techniques through participation in departmental or College Players productions. Offered every semester.
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