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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Students enrolled in this course study and practice methods and activities in creative dramatics for the classroom, parish, business, and family. Special emphasis is placed on activities designed to help students to express their own natural creativity and for these students, as future leaders of groups, to help others to express their own natural creativity as well.
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4.00 Credits
Through improvisation, monologue, and scene work, students learn and develop the basic techniques for approaching the acting process. These include relaxation, imagination, spontaneity, concentration, character analysis, and using the voice, face, and body to assist in creating a complete and complex character.
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4.00 Credits
This course is for theatre and non-theatre students who have an interest in exploring a sampling of Shakespeare's plays in production. The class will examine elements of production and visioning the plays through watching videos, reading plays, attending live performance, and working in small groups with selected scenes from acting, directing, and design perspectives. No prerequisite.
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2.00 Credits
This course is suitable for students who wish to increase their proficiency in spoken Standard American English for personal or professional reasons. Foundations of a healthy vocal technique based on breath, relaxation of the body and proper support are established. Students learn elementary physiology of the vocal mechanism leading to sound production. Creation of consonants and vowels is undertaken with the purpose of proper production, placement and clarity.
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4.00 Credits
Students will analyze a variety of performance texts from differing perspectives. A traditional approach incorporating literary analysis to understand the internal workings of the text on paper, will be combined with an examination of the text as it may be translated into performance, from the perspectives of the designer, director and actor.
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4.00 Credits
The course provides an introduction to the scope, tools, materials and practices of stagecraft and technical management in the theatre today. The course utilizes formal lectures, group discussion, outside projects, attendance at outside theatre productions and practical lab sessions to cover the material presented.
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2.00 Credits
Fundamentals of two and three-dimensional stage make-up through character analysis, design and application. Extensive practical experience through laboratory and possible crew work on departmental productions. Each student will be required to purchase his or her own makeup materials.
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2.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the concepts, principles, and practices of stage management in the contemporary theatre. Students will receive classroom instruction on the theory and practice of stage management, participate in workshop application of stage management techniques, and participate in departmental productions. Students will study a major text in stage management as well as develop a stage manager's portfolio.
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2.00 Credits
Students are introduced to the basic movements, concepts, and technique of modern dance with a focus on breath, strength, alignment, and flexibility. Students learn about the pioneers of modern dance (Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham) as well as the current contributors to the dance form, regarding their stylistic contributions and differences. Reading assignments and quizzes are given in addition to the technique class. Students learn and perform a modern dance piece during the semester and perform in a final student showcase.
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces and practices the basic movement, dance terminology and style of jazz dance technique, focusing on stretch, strength, body awareness, rhythmic ability, and coordination. An appreciation and study of the origins and evolution of jazz dance, along with its major contributors, is emphasized. The technique class focuses on jazz dance vocabulary and steps, isolations, center combinations, and across the floor patterns. Students learn a choreographed jazz dance and perform in a final student showcase.
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