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4.00 Credits
Continued study of an actor's skills, including style, in period or non-realistic plays. Acting for the camera may also be covered. Classroom performance of memorized scenes is required. May not be taken Credit/No Credit.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the significant public discourse of a particular speaker, group, movement, or chosen period in American history. The focus is on analyzing the rhetorical force, historical context, and argumentative strategies of public discourse (such as speeches, essays, letters, etc.) in order to better understand how such texts contribute to social and political change. The particular topic varies by instructor.
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4.00 Credits
A lecture and laboratory course addressing the auditory, visual, and kinetic analysis of the script, as well as theories of perception and communication. Emphasis is on the problems of directing in the non-realism, non-proscenium theatre.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced examination of developments in theatre performance. Topics may include: performance studies, nineteenth-century American theatre, musical theatre, community-based theatre, or Asian theatre. Offered every other year.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced examination of particular issues or concepts in rhetorical theory. Topics may include visual rhetorics, the public sphere, identity politics, rhetoric of science, rhetoric and corporeality, or material rhetoric. Prerequisite: Communication Arts course at the 300-level, or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An intensive production class that explores visual and aural elements, which contribute to the art of narrative cinema. Early films, fictional and non-fictional, are used to study the origins of modern cinema. Each student makes short projects exploring filmic principles chosen from those presented in class. As a group student produce a lengthier project and then arrange and promote a public screening. Students create a coherent visual style understand the logistics of production, and gain an overview of the marketplace. Offered every other years.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced reading in theories of media & identity. Students explore the ways in which media texts, industries, and practices work to construct and challenge notions of identity. Readings may focus on issues of nationalism, globalism, race, class, gender, sexuality, ritual, or other elements of media identities. Prerequisite: Communication Arts course at the 300-level, or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced Topics in Communication and Diversity An advanced exploration of contemporary controversies within communication and cultural studies.Topics may include multiculturalism, post/anti- colonialism, globalization, queer theory, gender studies, or identity politics. The course centers on the questioning of representation and received understandings of key concepts such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and religious difference within the discipline of communication.Prerequisite: Communication Arts course at the 300-level, or permission of the instructor. instructor.
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2.00 Credits
Credit: Two or four semester hours. Internships sponsored by the Communication Art department require the joint approval of a faculty liaison person and the host agency. Information on internship positions is also available from ACCEL. Internships with Public and Commercial Television/Radio Stations Liaison: Professor Keeley Students may choose to work in one or more of the following areas of public and commercial television; publicity and public relations; fund raising and development in public television accounting and business management; continuity writing; and broadcast writing. Past interns have worked with WQLN, Erie; WSEE-TV, Erie; WJET-TV, Erie; WICU-TV, Erie; KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh; WPXI, Pittsburgh; WQED, Pittsburgh; WEWS, Cleveland, and NBC headquarters, New York. Internship in Graphic Arts, Public Relations, and Advertising Liaison: Professor Keeley The internship is designed as a practicum in the areas of graphic arts, preparation of audio-visual materials, copy writing, photography, promotion planning, radio commercial preparation, and educational program production. Interns follow a general orientation program, which will involve contact with commercial and service organization clients. The culminating point of the internship experience will be a client-oriented project for which the intern is the primary researcher and producer. Internship in Cable Television System Liaison: Professor Keeley A practicum in the areas of cable television program production, management, community relations, and special problems in the cable system operation, subject to the approval of the host agency. Internship in Arts Administration Liaison: Professor Cosdon The intern works in the administration of a professional arts organization in one or more of the following areas: fund raising and development; promotion, publicity, and public relations; touring and booking; financial administration; house management; rehearsal management; community relations and education outreach programs. Past interns have been with the Pittsburgh Alloy Dance Theatre; the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival; Meadville Council on the Arts; The Pittsburgh Foundation; and the Trumbull (Ohio) Council on the Arts. Internship in Theatre Arts Liaison: Professor Cosdon The student may choose to work in a theatre organization in one or more of these areas: scene, sound, lighting design, house management; box office and publicity; costume design and management; stage management; financial administration; rehearsal and production responsibilities; properties; and scenery, sound, lighting, and costume construction.
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4.00 Credits
For one-time internships, the expectations of the site supervisor and the faculty member must be negotiated in advance. A critical function of these negotiations is to ensure that the students experiences are directly relevant to an academic content. All one-time/infrequent internships must be preapproved by the department and by the Dean of the College.
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