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4.00 Credits
Literary analysis of the play from the director's point of view. Lectures and laboratory work address the problems of translation from script to stage in terms of composition, picturization, movement, pantomime, rhythm, and tempo, with emphasis on the realistic proscenium theatre. Prerequisite: Communication Arts 150 or permission of instructor.
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A writing intensive exploration of the practices and methods of media criticism and close textual analysis. Students read and write essays surveying a variety of perspectives & approaches to the criticism of media. Assignments encourage students to carefully examine the texts and contexts of contemporary media, paying close attention to the aesthetic, generic, and cultural features of specific media artifacts.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to dramatic & theatrical analysis.Models of critical theories (historical, textual, political) are used to further the student's understanding of dramatic literature across several periods. Emphasis is on written analysis, discussion, and dramaturgical research. Prerequisite: Communication Arts 130 or permission of instructor."
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the communicative role design plays within the performing arts. Students study fundamentals of design and communication theory as applied to theatre and design. Emphasis is placed on developing the student's ability to communicate visual ideas within a performance framework.
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4.00 Credits
A practical introduction to the skills and theory of public presentation. Students perform a number of formal speeches and engage with theoretical readings on the nature of rhetorical context, audience, persuasion, and publics. A commitment to civic engagement is fostered by introducing and exploring questions of social processes of change.
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4.00 Credits
A writing-intensive introduction to textual criticism grounded in rhetoric. Students study theories of rhetorical analysis and learn to write critical essays that assess the efficacy of rhetorical artifacts (speeches, essays, images, public spaces) in relation to community problems.
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4.00 Credits
An investigation of performance, ritual, ceremony,oratory, or narrative film from a rhetorical perspective. Students exercise skills in observation and analysis, oriented toward one or more of the key relationships of symbolic action: presentation and representation, self and other, individual and community, rhetor and audience, necessity and expedience, theory and practice.
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of a specific topic in media theory, history, or criticism. Topics may include gender,sexuality and media, interpreting popular culture,the cultural history of the situation comedy, national and international virtual identities, and broadcast history.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of a specific topic in film and video production. Topics may include historical, social, political, and theoretical approaches to creative communication practices. Students apply the lens of each topic to the practice of production.
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4.00 Credits
A concentration on the physical nature of the actor's work. Primary emphasis is on vocal production for the stage and a variety of approaches to stage movement. Classroom performance of memorized scenes is required. May not be taken Credit/No Credit. Prerequisite: Communication Arts 150.
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