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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the tremendous changes in dramatic and performance theory, entertainment culture, and theatrical production during the early modern period in Europe. Beginning with the Italian Renaissance, the course investigates the drama and theatre of the major theatre cultures of the early modern era - Italy, England, Spain, and France -- in the context of the rapidly changing culture of European nationalism, mercantilism, and colonialism. Course readings combine primary sources (textual, iconographic, miscellaneous), secondary analyses, and drama and theory texts. Sophomore-Junior-Senior status.(4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores dramatic and performance theory, entertainment culture, and theatrical production during the modern era from the rise of romanticism in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century to the theatre forms that characterized the post-WWII period. Course readings combine primary sources (textual, iconographic, miscellaneous), secondary analyses, and drama and theory texts. Sophomore-Junior-Senior status.(4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the history of performance, dramatic and performance theory, entertainment culture, and theatrical production from prehistoric and oral evidence in pre-Columbian cultures to the popular theatre/performance traditions of contemporary North and South America and the Caribbean. Particular attention is paid to the development of drama and theatre in the United States. Course readings combine primary sources (textual, archeological, iconographic, miscellaneous), secondary analyses, and drama and theory texts. Sophomore- Junior-Senior status.(4 credits)
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2.00 Credits
A production workshop and directed study in which the student serves as Assistant Director for a departmental theatre production.(2 credits)
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2.00 Credits
A production workshop and directed study in which the student serves as the Stage Manager for a departmental theatre production.(2 credits)
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3.00 Credits
A workshop course in the writing of drama. The course will involve the reading and discussion of assigned play texts and peer-student writing. Each student will work on a major creative project throughout the semester. Evaluation of a student's work will be based on this project, participation in workshop performance and discussion, and a portfolio of drafts and revisions. The course will conclude with staged readings or performances of the major projects. Prerequisites: THTR 290 or ENGL 237 or CINE 328 or consent.(4 credits)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
A general category used only in the evaluation of transfer credit. (1-4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study of a major playwright, genre, form, or context of dramatic literature; of historical, cultural, aesthetic significance of theatre production during a specific period or particular movement in the history of the theatre; or, of specific movements or artists in design, acting, directing, or other fields of theatre production and performance. The seminar topics will vary. Repeatable. Junior- Senior standing and consent of instructor.(4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Special Topics in Theatre
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3.00 Credits
An advanced playwriting workshop conducted by the Reynolds Playwright-in-Residence. The Jonathan R. Reynolds Playwright-in-Residence endowment provides for a visiting playwright of national or international renown to teach in the Department of Theatre for one semester, every other academic year. The course's content is dependent upon the visiting artist, but the course will typically involved explorations into technique and form and the writing of a major creative project. Past Reynolds Playwrights have included Arnold Wesker, Lee Blessing, Jeffrey Hatcher (DU '80) and Caridad Svich. Prerequisite: 290 or consent.(4 credits)
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