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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course objective is to provide each student with fundamental knowledge and skills for their continuing enjoyment and further study of music. This course will develop the student's musical understanding and awareness through an investigation of the acoustical, historical, stylistic, expressive, and rhetorical elements of music. Specifically, music notation, aural and written intervals, meter, rhythm, scales, chords, basic keyboard skills, melodic and rhythmic dictation and sight singing will be introduced. Emphasis will be on the fundamentals of "Western European" music.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: THEA1040
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3.00 Credits
The students will develop a practical knowledge of the basic techniques for acting for the camera. Familiarity with the specialized vocabulary of film and video production, blocking for individual scene and shot work and the differences between stage and screen acting will for the core of the class objectives. Each student will assemble a 'reel' of camera work that will include reporting, interviewing, commercial and scene work.
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3.00 Credits
this course will provide students with opportunities to hone their skills as tellers of stories, both fictional and factual, using the media of live theater, radio or readers of theater, and film or video. Students will use a variety of appropriate script formats and will be introduced to rhetorical methods of invention as they apply to the creative arts, including invention based on theoretical models of dramatic writing and performance. The course will emphasize a process-oriented approach to writing and a sensitive
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3.00 Credits
This course examines contemporary dramatic literature of the last 30 years and how that literature has been interpreted on the commercial and college stage. Students read a wide range of dramatic literature including musicals, dramas, and comedies with special attention given to Tony and Pulitzer Prize winners. Students also study movements in theatre such as audience interaction, puppetry, improvisation and dramatic adaptations of literature or film. Students investigate production histories, design concepts, playwrights and write literary research essays in MLA format.
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3.00 Credits
This course safely delves into creating the illusion of violence. Basic instruction in unarmed stage combat and quarterstaff stage combat will be addressed. Emphasis will be placed on safe execution of stage combat choreography, partnering and character development though stage combat choices. This course is taught completely through hands-on work with partners.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the role of the director and how that position functions within the collaborative theatre art form. Topics addressed includes the nature of Drama and action, play analysis, casting techniques, working with designers, working with actors in the search for character, visual aesthetics for the theatre, flow theory, and organizing and running rehearsals. The course is taught through lecture, discussion and hands-on directing of projects. Prerequisite: THEA1040 or THEA2040
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3.00 Credits
In this course the students will improve their jazz dance technique acquired in Jazz Dance II through warm-ups, exercises and combinations. The technical exercises will strengthen and lengthen muscles, build coordination and develop dance skills in the students. The combinations will expose students to more advanced musical theater repertory applications that are useful for audition and performance purposes. Prerequisite: THEA1070
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3.00 Credits
The students will consolidate their jazz dance technique acquired in Jazz Dance I-III through warm-ups, exercises and combinations. Technical exercises to build strength, coordination and skill will become second nature. The combinations will expose students to the most advanced musical theater repertory and parepare them to audition and perform in the professional area. Prerequisite: THEA2160
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: THEA2170
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