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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Simek Content: Increasing the power of the voice and improving oral presentation skills. Exploration of breath, training in enunciation, presentations of literary and nonliterary texts. Culmination in an outdoor public performance. Voice training includes the methods of Cecily Barry and Konstantin Stanislavsky. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Olich Content: Introduction to the expressive principles, elements, and processes of design. Projects and exercises exploring conceptualization of story-based ideas as well as introducing the challenges and rigors of collaboration. Introduction to visual communication and expressive form for theatre practitioners, but the skills involved are widely applicable to all design disciplines. Foundation course for advanced work in the history, theory, and aesthetics of theatrical design. Prerequisite: None Taught: Annually, 4 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Olich Content: Exploration of the graphic techniques necessary for successful communication within the design and production areas of theatre. Projects and exercises in drawing, rendering, model building, color theory, and drafting, both by hand and computer-assisted. Introduction to visual communications and expressive form for theatre practitioners, but the skills involved are widely applicable. Foundation course for advanced work in the theory and aesthetics of design. Prerequisite: None Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Understanding the physical properties of light, the technologies used to light the stage, and the principals and practices of lighting design. Topics include optics, color, electrical theory, lighting instruments, control systems, design concepts, light plots, script analysis for lighting. Readings, writing assignments, research projects, demonstrations, creative projects in light design. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Special topics in design and technical theatre. Course content and prerequisites vary by topic. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 2 semester credits. May be taken twice for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Contemporary theatre in New York including traditional and experimental work, American plays, plays from the international repertoire. Attending and discussing productions. Meeting with playwrights, actors, directors, designers, producers to investigate current trends in theatrical writing, production, criticism. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, on New York program, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Contemporary theatre in London including traditional and experimental work, American plays, plays from the international repertoire. Attending and discussing productions. Meeting with playwrights, actors, directors, designers, producers to investigate current trends in theatrical writing, production, criticism. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, on London program, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Davis Content: Performance of original dance pieces developed by student choreographers. Work critiqued at regular intervals throughout semester. Approximately 10 weeks of rehearsals held twice a week and three performances. Prerequisite: Audition. Taught: Annually, 1-2 semester credits. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Faculty-supervised rehearsal and performance of selected one-act plays and senior thesis projects, organized in various formats: student written, student directed; professionally written, student directed; professionally written, guest artist directed. Limited scenic support. Prerequisite: Audition. Taught: Annually, 1-3 semester credits, credit-no credit.
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3.00 Credits
Weeks Content: Introduction to dramatic writing. Examination of dramatic action, dialogue, characterization, and structure; emphasis on writing for the stage. Reading assignments from classical, modern, and contemporary plays as well as from commentaries on the playwright's art, Aristotle to the present. Students write scenes and exercises throughout the semester, culminating in a final project. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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