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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
(Also ENH 212) 4 hours; 4 credits An introduction to the variety of forms and themes of dramatic literature. Major problems treated by dramatists will be examined, as well as genres: tragedy, comedy, farce, melodrama, tragicomedy, and the thesis play. (literature) (arts & com.) Prerequisites: ENG 111, ENG 151
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4.00 Credits
(Also COM 217) 4 hours; 4 credits Concentration on pronunciation, enunciation, accent reduction, diaphragmatic breathing, relaxation techniques, and body alignment. Especially good for anyone considering a career in the public arena, including politics, management, theater, education, and communications. (Can be repeated for credit.)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A study of the interdisciplinary issues that intersect with the play currently being directed by a member of the theater faculty. Students may also study alternative or updated versions of the play, and experiment with related performance genres. Plays will be chosen specifically for the richness of their historical and cultural scope. The instructor for this course and the director of the play, if they are not the same person, will work together on materials for this course. All students taking this course will be involved in some way in the production itself: as actors, assistant designers, carpenters, lighting technicians, or technical crew. Prerequisite: DRA 140
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Principles and practices of contemporary stage management. Interprets the function of the stage manager in the entire production process. Identifies the relationship of the stage manager to the director, designers, technical director, actors, stage hands, and costume and properties managers. Specifies responsibilities and practices. Prerequisite: ENG 111
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Performance of a play. Students will be involved in various aspects of theatrical presentation. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 hours, 4 credits Survey of historical performance forms from Egyptian, Sanskrit, and Greek, through the European Medieval theater, Asian theater through 1600, the European Renaissance, and the Spanish Golden Age. Performance will be considered in this class as an integral and vital part of social, political, and cultural dynamics. This survey will put the Western theater tradition in perspective as only one of many traditions that exist, or have existed, across the world at different times. Students who wish to continue in the major should earn a B- or better in the course. Prerequisites : DRA 140
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A survey of the English Restoration, French Neo-Classicism and the comedies of Molière, and the ensuing century of diverse theatrical forms during the 1700s in England and France. Students will also study Asian and African forms of performance and then the emergence of theater in the U.S., including populist entertainments like the Wild West show, minstrelsy, and melodrama, and move back to Europe for the beginnings of realism and naturalism with Ibsen and Chekhov. Performance will be considered in this class as an integral and vital part of social, political, and cultural dynamics. Students who wish to continue in the major should earn a B- or better in the course. Prerequisite: ENG 151 or DRA 140
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3.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A survey of the range of 20th-century performance beginning with the historical avant-garde movements in Europe and the U.S. after World War I. It also includes South Asian Indian, Asian, and/or South Asian performance forms, especially including cross- or intercultural experimentation. It may include the Harlem Renaissance, feminist theater, the experimental theater of the 1960s and ’70s, Latino theater, Gay theater, political street theater, performance art, image theater, and puppetry. Performance will be considered in this class as an integral and vital part of social, political, and cultural dynamics. Students who wish to continue in the major should earn a B- or better in the course. Prerequisite: ENG 151 or DRA 140
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Work on scenes, encouraging the actor to explore a variety of characters and to perform them before an audience. Prerequisite: DRA 210
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3.00 Credits
(Also COM 314) An examination of the actor/director relationship as it applies in the various media: stage, film, and television. Students will have an opportunity to work both as actors and directors. New work from writing classes will be encouraged for student projects. Prerequisite: COM 210
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