Acting Concentration

Focuses on basic acting skills including the development of imaginary circumstances, improvisation, and creative development. Students are introduced to skills in script analysis, character identity, emotional reality, and objective-driven structure through monologues and scene study.

Focuses on acting skills including the advance development of imaginary circumstances, improvisation, and creative development. Students will develop skills in script analysis, character identity, emotional reality, and objective-driven structure through monologues and scene study.
Prerequisite: Take THR-110

History of theater from antiquity through early nineteenth century. Students will also learn the foundational concepts and theories of theatre.

An introduction to the basic materials and techniques used in scene, painting, costume, and lighting production. Intended to equip the student with the skills required to work on productions. This course will also hold discussions of basic terminology, shop organization, job descriptions, maintenance procedures, and safety. Other jobs such as run crew, wardrobe, front of house, board operator, or other duties will be discussed.

This course will cover an overview of both the responsibilities of a director and the various relationships a director has with designers, playwrights, stage manager, tech staff, actors, and dramaturges. This course will also explore various directional strategies and identify the different styles of theatre, stage types, floor plans, script interpretation, directional research and resources, concepts, conceptualization of a play, and interpretation. Finally, this course will introduce elements of directing and strategies for working with actors, staging short scenes, and using a minimum of technical elements in a final scene.

Students explore in-depth a series of assigned scenes and plays. Students will be required to complete close readings, discussion, and analysis of specific scenes and plays. Students will also apply their analysis to the performance of at least three different scenes in different styles.

Students will develop their ability to analyze texts by reading a number of plays in the context of acting and directing. Students will learn different approaches to script analysis through readings, discussions, projects, and presentations through a close examination of representative texts from the dramatic canon.

History of theatre from the nineteenth century to the present. Students will also learn advanced concepts and influential theories of theatre.

This course is an introduction to the craft of playwriting and the role of the playwright. Students will analyze works of significant playwrights in order to experience the process of the playwright. Students will participate in various writing exercises in order to develop their own one-act plays.
Prerequisite: ENG-110 or FYS or FYWS 125

Students learn different genres and styles of acting from different historical periods. Students will study classical and contemporary acting techniques focusing on vocal and physical clarity, textual analysis, and scenic interpretation, diction, movement, imagery, and tone.

Students continue to read, analyze, and explore a series of assigned theatre scenes. The focus will be on developing the skills needed to perform classic scenes from traditional to avant-garde works.

Provides students with a practical intensive experience in one or more aspects of production during the fall or spring semester of their senior year. Each student is assigned a specific production role depending on his or her concentration and career goals.

An introduction to writing for fiction and nonfiction film and television. Topics include basic dramatic theory, narrative structure, characterization, dialogue, adaptation, and the unique demands of the audio/visual media, as well as pragmatic matters of format and the marketplace.
Prerequisite: Take ENG-110 or FYS or FYWS 125 and CM-101

This class is designed to help students build the ability to move freely and create movement vocabulary. Students will work, not within a specific technique of dance, but use the somatic and kinesthetic principles of movement to create movement. Dynamics of movement will be explored through use of external directives. The student's mastery of creative expression with their body is the center of the work.

This course is comprised of creative work including choreography and performance. Choreography is approached through exploration of collaboration, resources, use of ideas, knowledge of forms and development of craft. Students improvise and choreograph their own variations on dance forms. Work develops with an emphasis on the relationship between manipulation of musical phrases and choreography as well as the completion of dances. Completed student works may be showcased in one or more of the dance programs annual performances.

This course focuses on the development and enhancement of musical skills through music reading and notation, rhythmic and tonal perception, and analysis. Other areas covered include the construction and function of scales, intervals, and triads. Open to all students.

Individual instruction in selected instruments or voice. One half-hour lesson per week. Fee required. Students receive 10 lessons per semester.

Individual instruction in selected instruments or voice. One-hour lesson per week. Fee required. Students receive 10 lessons per semester.

Participation in TheatreFest, improve, and other approved student-driven theatrical activities. All events are overseen by the Director of Theatre.

Participation in the spring mainstage musical in one of the areas of theatrical discipline. All events are overseen by the Director of Theatre.

This course will provide students with practical understanding of advanced stage directing strategies including conceptualization, interpretation, casting, and cast and crew interaction. Students will also explore thesimilarities and differences between directing for theatre, film, and television.

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of costuming including a socio-historical understanding of the role of costumes in theatre.

This course examines the fundamentals of children's theater including dramatic structure, audience needs, directing, and acting techniques that are employed in the production of theater for children. Students will explore, analyze, and produce children's plays.

This course introduces students to advanced approaches to children's theater production. The course further builds upon foundational concepts such as dramatic structure, audience needs, directing, and acting techniques as well as focuses on material adaptation, auditions, rehearsal, technical support, and promotion. In addition, students will explore, analyze, produce, and perform children's plays and create accompanying educational curricula.

In this course students will hone their playwriting abilities through the development of advanced techniques. Students will engage in peer critique in order to develop their original works. Students will also learn the role of the playwright in the production process through the staging of an original one-act play.
Prerequisite: Take THR-240

Designates new or occasional courses that may or may not become part of the program's permanent offerings. Courses capitalize on timely topics, a faculty member's particular interest, an experimental alternative to existing courses, etc. Prerequisites are established by the program as appropriate for the specific course. Course title is shown on the student's transcript. Consult the current course schedule for available topics and prerequisites.