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1.25 Credits
Overview of selected theater/dance performance genres of India, Indonesia, China, Korea, and Japan with attention to how cultural, political, and social flows have impacted contemporary performance in Asia and beyond. Lectures supplemented by workshops. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) M. Foley
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1.25 Credits
Spanning slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, the great depression, civil rights, and the black power/black arts movements, course explores African American drama from literary, historical, and biographical perspectives in lecture/discussions, film excerpts, dramatizations, and visits from award-winning guests. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Asian court and popular performance are traced. Sanskrit drama is contrasted with Indian epic recitation, medium, and courtesan dance. Gender specialization is noted in Indonesian courts using Indian and local legends in dance, mask/puppetry, and clowning. Buddhist and Confucian impulses in Chinese theater and early Korean and Japanese mask and puppetry are introduced. Students are evaluated on participation, tests, writing, and a performance project. (General Education Code(s): A.) M. Foley, P. Gallagher
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1.25 Credits
Examines Western dramatic literature, theater history, and design from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, the Spanish golden age, and Elizabethan England. Looks at dramatic texts in their historical moments, bringing theater design and the function of performance into critical contexts. Major theoretical treatises, scripts, scenarios, background readings, and other texts are discussed in relation to the actual performance and staging practices of the period. (General Education Code(s): A.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Chronological critical and historical overview of ballet from its origins in the 15th century to the present, fleshing out the sociological, aesthetic, and design (costume and set) aspects of ballet production from the courts to the bourgeois opera house and the independent impresario. Enrollment limited to 40. (General Education Code(s): A.) M. Franko
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1.25 Credits
Considers theater of the Americas with attention to indigenous pre-Colombian roots as well as trans-Atlantic connections forged in Spanish use of performance in conquest and development of African-influenced arts in black communities. Includes use of art in national independence movements, civil-rights struggles, and continuing movement across borders of the Americas with links to Africa. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) A. Martinez
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1.25 Credits
Looks at use of theater/performance in the U.S. and Latin America by the state, oppositional groups, and theater and performance practitioners to solidify or challenge structures of power beginning with pre-Colombian indigenous civilizations, 16th-century Spanish/European conquest, national independence movements, to the U.S. Latino diaspora. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) A. Martinez
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1.25 Credits
Examines modern theatrical experimentation from English Restoration through contemporary era. Major theoretical texts, scripts, and background readings establish critical contexts for analyzing modern performance and dramatic literature. Prerequisite(s): course 60A or 60B or 60C or 61. (General Education Code(s): A.) K. Jannarone
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1.25 Credits
Examines major black African diasporic playwrights and theater. Focuses on the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that gave rise to the works of dramatists such as Ama Ata Aidoo, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinke, Aime Cesaire, Debbie Green Tucker, and Paul Boakye. Prerequisite(s): course 61 or 60A or 60B or 60C. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) M. Hendricks
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1.25 Credits
Introduces students to basic tools for the creation of multimedia digital projects. Special attention is given to the integration of video, sound, graphics, text and virtual reality and to the creation and execution of strategies for interaction between users and the projects themselves. With this in mind, students design and create computer puzzles and games. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): A.) J. Bierman
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