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3.00 Credits
Synthesizes short- and long-form improvisation techniques and scene practice. Interprets an overview of improvisation styles and practitioners. Analyzes how social mores, world events, and prevailing attitudes shaped and continue to shape the world of improvisational theater throughout theater history. Culminates in final improvisation performance project.
Prerequisite:
THTR 140 or instructor permission
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes dramatic texts and performances conceptually and critically. Integrates textual analysis with performance skills to audition pieces of varied performance genres/styles. Creates dramatically effective audition performances.
Prerequisite:
THTR 240
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of the study of Stanislavski system, focusing on his primary texts, towards a development of individual student techniques. Emphasis will be on scene study through applying techniques to scene rehearsal and role problems, and exploring the relationships between psychological states, physical action and truth in acting.
Prerequisite:
THTR 240
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3.00 Credits
An advanced acting studio which will prepare students to perform in Shakespeare's plays. Provides a background overview of the Elizabethan period in addition to various methods towards approaching the movement, language, and verse forms from an actor's point of view.
Prerequisite:
THTR 240, 340 or instructor permission
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3.00 Credits
A practical exploration of the craft and process of playwriting. Focuses primarily on the practical, hands-on experiences approximating the developmental process currently in use in the American theater. The student is guided from the initial concept through synopsis, outlines, working drafts, and completion of an original one-act play and a staged reading of this project. Note: Cross-listed as THTR 347. Either of these courses may be substituted for each other and may be used interchangeably for D or F repeats, but may not be counted for duplicate credit.
Prerequisite:
THTR 111 or instructor permission
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to basic directing skills: casting, floor plans, blocking, rehearsal procedures, and the applications of scene and character analysis. Students will prepare short scenes for class presentation.
Prerequisite:
THTR 111, 240, or instructor permission
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3.00 Credits
Enhances interpersonal communication with patients, clients, and colleagues using an interactiveand hands-on approach based on Performance Studies. Builds skills in empathetic response,verbal and nonverbal communication, and active listening applied directly to scenarios from arange of disciplines. Engages in performative role-playing to explore collaborative problemsolving,practice de-escalation techniques, and navigate challenging situations in the workplace.Applies performance tools and Applied Theatre methods for enhanced interpersonalcommunication skills in simulations tailored to specific disciplines.
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3.00 Credits
Explores how performance can be a tool for social transformation within a global context fromsocial media campaigns to organized protests. Engages in deep inquiry on diverse cross-culturalperformance and learn tools to create social change through interdisciplinary collaboration.Uses the performance methods of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, address issues of power, privilege, social identity, and systems of oppression. Covers the political, cultural, and historical contexts of contemporary global movements for social change and key theoreticalframeworks with which to analyze and create performance. Applies performance tools forcreative and non-violent action for social change through dialogue, interactive exercises,community-based performance, and identity awareness projects. Includes Equity/Diversity/Inclusion (EDI) pedagogy through the lens of multicultural performance awareness and facilitatortraining for engaging in community dialogue.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the development of musical theater as a performing art form in America. Examines the ways musicals both reflect and embody values, tastes, and trends from their respective historical eras. Explores musical theater from historical, political, social, and aesthetic perspectives. Focuses on the beginnings of musical theater to the present with emphasis on the cultural development and impact of the art form.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to introduce the study of audition techniques for musical theater, music, scene, and lyric analysis, and characterizations addressed. Enhances and improves audition and performance skills as well as the ability to find and choose appropriate audition material.
Prerequisite:
THTR 240 or permission of instructor
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