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  • THTR 471: Advanced Playwriting

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    An advanced creative writing course where students practice dramatic structure and the process of playwriting. Students learn the craft and discipline of developing a dramatic text through the revision and completion of a full-length play. Prerequisites: THTR 371 or consent of instructor. Notes: Repeatable once for credit with consent of the department.
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  • THTR 490: Production Workshop

    6.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    The workshop is intended for advanced actors. Beginning with a play, participants spend the term exploring a social and historical context for the script, as well as studying the writer's background. The research is incorporated into the rehearsal process, which culminates in a fully staged production. Prerequisites: Audition and consent of instructor. Notes: Repeatable for credit with consent of instructor.
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  • VIAR : AFST 100 Introduction to the Black Experience

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    GEP/GFR: Meets AH. Understanding the black experience in the African diaspora. A survey of historical and sociocultural ties that link people of African descent worldwide. African roots in world civilizations are discussed. This course is an introductory course for majors and nonmajors.
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  • VPA 120H: Introduction to the Arts I

    2.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    This course is specifically for Linehan Artist Scholars and is an introduction to contemporary art practice. Students will explore art-making through a variety of exercises in performance, sound, writing, visual art and collaborative work under the direction of the instructor and guest artists. Landmark art works of the last 100 years also will be discussed with relevance to the students' New York field trip in the fall. Emphasis is on the development of a vocabulary for understanding form, content and process. Students also are required to analyze selected performances/ exhibitions. Prerequisites: Admission to the Linehan Artist Scholar Program.
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  • VPA 121H: Introduction to the Arts II

    2.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    This course is specifically for Linehan Artist Scholars and is the second of a two-semester introduction to contemporary art practice. Students will continue to explore art-making through a variety of exercises in collaborative performance under the direction of the instructor and guest artists. Students will examine models of collaborative art work and design and implement short pieces. Students will attend a local multimedia event and critique it. Prerequisites: Admission to the Linehan Artist Scholar Program.
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  • VPA 225: Ideas in the Arts

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    GEP/GFR: Meets AH. An introductory course that explores central issues in the visual and performing arts. A study of the inter-relationships of essential elements in a work of art, including process, technique, form, subject matter and content, will be emphasized. The course also covers an examination of the arts in a larger context, from historical, cultural and theoretical perspectives. Students will attend and discuss performances and exhibitions drawn from the areas of dance, music, visual art and theatre.
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  • VPA 244: Forms of Movement

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    A workshop in various physical disciplines, ranging from dance forms to the martial arts. Certain of the disciplines, such as yoga and T'ai Chi Chu'an, arealso techniques of meditation. In any given semester, concentration may be on a single form of movement (sometimes involving sound) or on a range of movement experience. Connections are explored between movement ideas and, where relevant, their philosophical and social roots; for instance, the dependency of the T'ai Chi Chu'an on Taoism or the relation between the idea of body language and Gestalt thought. Notes: Repeatable for credit.
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  • VPA 301: Special Topics: Aesthetics, Ethical Values and the New Media

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    Addresses basic questions in aesthetics and how those issues interface with questions of ethical value that have been intensified and complicated with new developments in technology. Aesthetic issues such as what is beautiful, what is art and what is the aesthetic experience will be discussed in relation to classic historical texts from Plato and Aristotle to Kant and selected 20th-century aestheticians. Important in this regard are questions of how what is beautiful gave way to considerations to taste and ultimately what is the nature of the aesthetic experience. Continues with such topics as who decides what is beautiful (e.g., insider vs. outsider art), who owns art (e.g., Native American artifacts "collected" for museums,graffiti, digitized art), the authenticity of the art object and if art has an ethical value (political art, pornography, representation and aestheticization of violence in art, Nazi film, etc.). Prerequisites: A 200-level course in the student's area of concentration.
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  • VPA 320: Art and the Artist: 1990s

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    A study of new directions in the arts, fostered by the advent of computer technology and its integration into the arts. Featured will be visiting artists working in various media to discuss technology used in dance, music, theatre and the visual arts. Of special concern will be the increasing influence of digital media and their effects on the artist and on art. Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of the instructor.
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  • VPA 322: Ideas of Performance

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maryland-Baltimore County

    The course defines performance as any professional act done by an artist. Students investigate changing strategies of performance in dance, music, theatre and visual arts. Major questions: How do ideas get into the arts from other fields of experience How do the arts cope with the fading of traditional structures of meaning In studying the interaction among the various arts, the course refers to such developments as mixed-media and kinetic events and the use of environments, "anti-literatures,"verbal and non-verbal strategies, serialism, indeterminacy, ready-made materials, etc. Students are exposed to slides, video, films and guest lecturers from the VPA and other arts departments.
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