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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides practical experience for students interested in participating in college-sponsored theatre activities and production. Students enrolled in this course will be responsible for active participation in mounting a full-scale theatrical production. Each student will be responsible for fulfilling one or more roles in the production. Roles may vary from performance to production team and from management to technical work. Students will be required to work a minimum of 90 lab hours for this course. Course may be taken up to six times for credit. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will continue to use "you" (yourself) as the source and foundation of true emotion and behavior. Skills of relaxation, trust, observation, substitution, sense memory, emotional memory, imagery, inner objects, professionalism, concentration, actor scoring, script analysis, and believability will be examined more thoroughly than in Beginning Acting through participation in class acting exercises, monologue and scene work, analysis and improvisation. Emphasis will be placed on learning multiple approaches to organic character development and relationship. Specific topics of study include: energy, connection, breath, spatial awareness, inner objects, endowing, the "moment before", centers, physicality, animal work and other image based characterization, and improvisation. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a research-based survey of the history of Western Dance in Europe and America. Emphasis is on the history of ballet and modern dance since the Renaissance. Students will also explore vernacular dance forms and the contributions of dance traditions form various cultures to reveal the richness of the subject. Students will engage with major stylistic trends, cultural influences and principal artists and their work. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will provide a more thorough study and application of a musical theatre performer146s tools. Students will learn to perceive and project detailed aspects of vocal, physical, and psychological performance energies in musical theatre contexts. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will prepare the student to understand the fundamentals of scenic design and how computer technology can help with the design process. This study will start with the research process and work through the entire design process. Following that, the course will cover the responsibilities of the scenic designer throughout the build and rehearsal process. Finally this course will help students learn the collaboration process as well as the communication required in theatre. Topics will include research process, concepts, design elements, computer drafting, renderings, model making, and technical rehearsals. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 2.00 Credits

    This course emphasizes techniques for costume construction, both machine and hand sewing, and sergers. Students will learn pattern layout and alterations, basic costume alterations, taking measurements of an actor to successfully build a costume, and making a basic item of clothing. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a practical study of the art of stage management. Techniques necessary for efficient theatre production and a conceptual overview of the rehearsal and performance process will be stressed. This course will prepare the student to work as a stage manager in any performing arts setting, including preproduction work, how to run the rehearsal process and the responsibilites of the stage manager during a performance. Finally the course will cover human behavior within a theatre organization and will help develop the student's ability to manage such an organization. Topics will include production research, planning, organization, auditions, rehearsal rules, managing rehearsals, information distribution, technical and dress rehearsals, preperformance preparation, running a show, organizational structure and human behavior. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 2.00 Credits

    This class is designed to teach students fundamental techniques in stage make-up design and application. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an analysis and application of the techniques of theatrical directing. The course will be divided into two parts: working with actors, and the interpretive process. Topics include creating ensemble, rehearsal methods, director values and concept, casting, staging, script selection, analysis, and factors of preparing a production. Upon completion, students should be able to plan, execute, and critically discuss student-directed scenes. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will prepare the student to understand the fundamentals of costume design starting with the research process and working through the entire design process. Following that, the course will cover the responsibilities of the costume designer throughout the build and rehearsal process. Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available