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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the tradition of the actor as storyteller and challenges students to increase their ability to express their own experience and the experience of others. It involves improvisation, monologue, and scene work, technical methods in voice, physical action, and text analysis. Satisfies the core curriculum fine arts requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on contemporary dramatic scripts and actor transformation, this course teaches students to work creatively within a structure and to develop an acting process that balances and integrates text analysis and creative imagination. Prerequisite: THEA 230.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces theatrical costume construction techniques, procedures, and overall process. Students develop basic machine and hand-sewing skills, become familiar with costume-shop tools and equipment, pattern development, and all aspects of costume building. Also involves costume history, millinery, costume props, and accessories. Extra class laboratory hours for semester theatrical productions are required. Prerequisite: THEA 111, 220, or 230.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course covers the primary technical process, the behind-the-scenes work, necessary to mount a theatrical production. It involves stagecraft vocabulary, set construction, lighting and sound technology, stage management, production organization, and theatre architecture. In the technical theatre lab portion of this course, students learn how to put theory into practice in the support of the semester's theatrical productions. It involves the construction and installation of sets, hanging and focusing lights, and the installation and configuration of the sound system. Hours outside scheduled class time will be required, including some weekends.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A course for majors and minors only. Students serve on a faculty-supervised running crew for a minimum of 30 crew hours (most productions and projects will require more hours). This course is repeatable for up to 3 units.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an advanced study of theatrical set design. It involves script analysis, research, sketching, model building, drafting and presentations. Students are required to attend theatrical productions, both on and off campus. Prerequisite: THEA 220.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an advanced study of the process of costuming a theatrical production. It involves how the social impact of clothes translates to theatrical costuming, visual and textual research, play analysis, costume history, rendering, design elements, production procedures, and collaboration with other artists. Prerequisite: THEA 220.
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3.00 Credits
This course will integrate various vocal training approaches and methods in order to encourage vocal growth in the areas of breath support, clarity of speech, diction, and range. It is specifically designed for actors, but can benefit anyone interested in public speaking or in communicating with more clarity and confidence. It involves cultivating vocal potential and performing monologues, scenes, and poetry. Prerequisite: THEA 111 or 230.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on physical communication through exploring personal habit, body language, character development, transformation, and style through physical action. Prerequisite: THEA 111 or 230.
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3.00 Credits
Centering on the contributions of theatre in mirroring cultures, this course examines the roots and development of world theatre, from ancient Greece to modern realism. It involves, along with the reading of plays, the historical approaches to studying the creation of theatre. Prerequisite: THEA 111.
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