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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
2 credits per semester May be repeated. A special dance-related course designed to meet the specific needs of theatre students.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Open to majors only. Twice a week. Continuation of PFA 200 (Acting III) with emphasis on choice of scenes for the actor’s growth. Emphasis is on process, not on finished scenes.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Open to non-majors. The second half of Theatre History I, this course examines the 18th and 19th-century European antecedents to 20th century American drama. Playwrights such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Wilde, Shaw, and Yeats will be discussed in terms of their influence on some of the major literary movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. These movements include Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. American playwrights will include Elmer Rice, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, Caryl Churchill, and others. Additional emphasis will be placed on the development of modern stagecraft and modern scene design. Class will consist of lectures and in-class discussion of plays. Also included will be a Broadway theatre tour.
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2.00 Credits
2 creditOpen to majors only. Twice a week. Continuation of voice and diction work from PFA 230 (Voice III).
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course about art and the human imagination will explore philosophical, historical, and practical issues pertinent to the creative arts. By examining the nature of art, what compels the artist to create, the distinctions and connections among art forms, and the vital relationship between history and the arts, the variety and centrality of human expression through art will be seen in the broader context of liberal learning. This course rotates among the Performing Arts, Art and Art History, Communications, and Music Departments.
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5.00 Credits
5 credit Required by acting majors during sophomore and junior years. This course allows assessment of professional skills and work habits while in production, from punctuality and reliability to crew or designer relations, as outlined in the Departmental Handbook and professional practice.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An introductory but intense course in performing drama written in verse, it concentrates on using Moliere, Shakespeare, and modern verse playwrights to develop skills in analysis and the making of powerful, text-based choices using basic elements like tone, color, meter, rhyme, pace, and rhythm.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Open to non-majors with permission of instructor. Twice a week. An introduction to the director’s specific duties in realizing the production of a play. The student is taught the step-by-step procedure from script analysis, to director’ s concept, to its realization upon the stage. Full consideration is given to th e director 痵 responsibilities to the text, the production staff, the actors, and the management. The student is taught how to make a production budget, to present it, and is introduced to correct audition-casting procedures, as well as the setting up of a rehearsal schedule
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An emotionally supported, truthfully worked-out performance is called for in camera work or heightened-language theatre ( avant-garde or classical verse). This course is designed to investigate the application of the “inner life” concept to our technical performance and to eliminate, as far as possible, remaining “falseness” (or unsupported theatricality) in our work, prior to our immersion in the professional world or in graduate school
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Continuing with the work of PFA 304, this course concentrates on Shakespearean monologues and scenes to deepen the student’s understanding of how to act verse powerfully and truthfully, and continues work done in earlier classes in linking voice and bodily relation to text-based acting choices.
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