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2.00 Credits
A course geared to the actor's individual skills, to strengthen performance in monologues. Students will work with contemporary plays, developing character, emotional truth, and physical action. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: THEA 35. Offered spring semester.
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2.00 Credits
A course geared to the actor's individual skills, to strengthen performance in scene study. Students will work with contemporary plays, developing character, emotional truth, and physical action. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: THEA 35. Offered spring semester.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the theory and practice of directing, from the selection of a play through casting, rehearsals, and performance. Emphasizes script analysis and how one translates the playwright's vision into theatrical reality. All students are involved in project work with new plays written by advanced playwrights. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: THEA 26, THEA 35, and permission of instructor. Offered spring semester.
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4.00 Credits
Writing the one-act play from rough draft through polished revision. Exercises in characterization, plot, setting, dialogue, theme, metaphor and dramatic structure. Course focuses on developing material based on observation, adaptation, and imagination through the use of journals, newspapers and improvisation. Class meetings focus on the reading and discussion of student work and selected published plays. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: THEA 15 and permission of instructor. Offered every semester.
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2.00 Credits
A dramatic literature seminar exploring how modern theatre looks at ways of doing business, from Naturalism (Hauptman's The Weavers) through Expressionism (Treadwell's Machinal), Epic theatre (Brecht's Mother Courage) and Realism (Ibsen's An Enemy of the People). The intersection of race, gender and economy will be examined in works ranging from Shaw's Major Barbara to Anna Deveare Smith's Twilight. Videos may include such work as The Cradle Will Rock, Death of a Salesman and Raisin in the Sun. Students will examine readings through written analysis and group discussion. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
A selected study of the contributions of women in the theatre, with special focus on plays by women. Course may be organized by historical period(s) or appropriate theme. Also could include study of other women theatrical artists and practitioners: actors, directors, designers, artistic directors, producers. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offered spring semester in odd-numbered years.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic cultural role, issues, structures, operations, and personnel of performing arts (music and theatre) organizations, focusing primarily on the non-profit sector. Contextual subjects will include: an arts institution's role in and responsibility to its community; government's role in the arts; issues of control and power within the organization. Specific topics will include: types of organizations and organizational structures; marketing, publicity and public relations; fundraising, donor relations, grant writing; long-range planning. Prerequisite: At least 8 credits in Theatre Arts or Music. Offered spring semesters in even-numbered years. Same as: MUS 70.
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary course that explores the development of feminist theories principally in the United States and Europe from Mary Wollstonecraft through "the Second Wave. The course examines the work of such theorists as Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Julia Cooper, Emma Goldman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Church Terrell, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, as well as feminism's evolving conversations with liberalism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis and its dialogues with the anti-slavery/civil rights movements and the gay/lesbian rights movements. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WMST 12. Offered fall semester in alternate years. Same as: WMSTG 711S WMSTG 711 WGST 111.
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary course focused on contemporary feminist theory. The objectives of the course are first, to explore the broad range of theories that make up the body of contemporary scholarship referred to as "feminist theory"; second, to examine feminist critiques and innovations in methodologies in many fields; and third, to consider some of the fundamental questions these theories raise about the origins of gender difference, the nature and origins of patriarchy, the intersections between gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality as categories of analysis and bases of oppression or empowerment. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WMST 12. Offered fall semester in alternate years. Same as: HISTG 112 WMSTG 710 WGST 112.
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary course designed to lay the groundwork for the women's and gender studies major and minor. Also appropriate as a first course for any student interested in pursuing the study of gender within their major field. This U.S. focused course considers questions fundamental to the field: What is a woman? What is gender? What is sex? How does culture construct gender and gender difference? How do gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect and interact?; the course, also, lays the groundwork for further work in the field by introducing students to analytical and critical concepts and approaches for understanding the lives of women and the construction of gender within larger social, political, and cultural structures; and it considers how we think about individual lives using these questions. Required for women's studies majors and minors. Offered spring semester annually. Same as: WGST 12.
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