Course Descriptions
DA 100 INTRODUCTION TO DANCE HISTORY 3.0 Credit(s)
A survey of the purposes, functions, and manifestations of dance forms from early civilization to the present. Relationships are examined between dance and cultural developments.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 101 BALLET I 3.0 Credit(s)
A practical, beginning level ballet class designed for the student who wishes to develop the basic foundation and technique of ballet. The primary focus is to develop appropriate alignment (placement of the spine and pelvis), good movement habits, and core strength. Students will also hone their ability to retain extended and continuous movement phrases and examine aesthetic principles as technical demands increase.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 102 BALLET II 3.0 Credit(s)
A practical, intermediate level ballet class designed for the student who has a working knowledge of ballet and wishes to continue to strengthen his or her technique. Emphasis is placed on increasing physical awareness, core strength, flexibility and balance as well as coordination and phrasing. A strong focus is placed on the individual artistic and physical expression of each student. Prerequisite: Take DA-101
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 103 JAZZ I 3.0 Credit(s)
A practical, beginner level Jazz dance class designed for the student who wishes to develop a basic foundation of kinetic and social elements of Jazz dance technique.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 106 DANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATER 3.0 Credit(s)
A practical open level dance class designed to familiarize the student with the styles of dance most frequently used in Musical Theatre. Students will be given an overview of the various expectations and roles that may be required in the Musical Theatre Industry.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 203 JAZZ II 3.0 Credit(s)
A practical, intermediate- advanced level Jazz dance class designed for the student who has the basic knowledge of Jazz dance technique and wishes to strengthen his or her technique and performance quality in the Jazz dance idiom.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 206 DANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE II 3.0 Credit(s)
Study and directed practice of advanced individual and group dance in modern musicals. Students will also practice learning choreography under time constraints to better prepare them for the musical-theatre audition process.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
DA 250 CHOREOGRAPHY I 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 260 CHOREOGRAPHY II 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 299 SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE 3.0 Credit(s)
These courses capitalize on timely topics, a faculty member's particular interest, an experimental alternative to existing courses, etc. The specific special topic will show on the student's transcript.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 301 DANCE COMPANY PRODUCTION 1.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on the development of technical proficiency and performance elements in various dance forms including but not limited to; classical ballet, modern dance, jazz dance, tap dance and contemporary dance forms. Classes and choreography will model advanced level technique within these disciplines. Audition is required for participation in this course. This course can be taken multiple times for credit.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
DA 303 IRISH STEP PRODUCTION 1.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on the development of technical proficiency and performance elements in Irish dance. Classes and choreography will model advanced level technique within this discipline. Audition is required for participation in this class. This course can be taken multiple times for credit.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
DA 304 HIP HOP PRODUCTION 1.0 Credit(s)
This is an open level course which will explore a wide array of styles that comprise and influence the ever-evolving movement of Hip Hop dance. Students will work to learn the kinetic, social and cultural elements of hip hop. This course can be taken multiple times for credit.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
DA 310 SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH DANCE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores various current events and historical, social, and political issues as represented through dance. Through this course students will have a deeper understanding of a range of social issues as well as knowledge of how greater global awareness can be achieved through dance.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 396 DANCE INTERNSHIP 3.0 Credit(s)
Dance Internship is an opportunity for qualified students in the Dance minor to gain practical experience in dance production and management.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA ELEC DANCE ELECTIVE 1.0-9.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA ELECF DANCE FOUNDATIONAL ELECTIVE 1.0-9.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 101 INTRODUCTION TO OPERA 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces the student to the history of Opera from its conception to modern day.
Offered: As Needed All Years
MU 102 HISTORY OF JAZZ 3.0 Credit(s)
This course features a study of jazz styles from historical African sources to the contemporary era. Focus is on the creators of the various styles and the prominent performers.
Offered: Fall & Late Spring Semesters All Years
MU 103 FROM BACH TO BEETHOVEN 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on famous compositions and composers primarily from the Baroque and Classical eras, 1600-1825. Highlights include classics and well-known works by Bach, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. The music of these composers reflects the era in which it was created, but continues to provide contemporary meaning and inspiration to people around the world.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 104 FROM BRAHMS TO BERNSTEIN 3.0 Credit(s)
Highlights of this course include exciting pieces by Romantic and twentieth-century composers from 1825 to the present. These composers created music that reflects the various cultures in which they lived, but additionally shows inspiring creativity, individuality, and uniqueness in an everchanging world.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 105 BLENDED HEARTS A CAPPELLA 1.0 Credit(s)
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 106 INTRO TO IRISH TRAD MUSIC 3.0 Credit(s)
Students will survey the development of Irish Music from pre-Christian times through to the present, attend live performances, and learn to play the Irish whistle.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 109 HISTORY OF ITALIAN OPERA 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores Italian Opera from its conception to modern day.
Offered: Spring Semester Contact Department
MU 110 WOMEN IN MUSIC 3.0 Credit(s)
This class will give a general overview of women's involvement in the world of music from Medieval roots to current American popular music, including composers, performers, educators, and conductors.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
MU 112 MUSIC IN AMERICA 3.0 Credit(s)
U.S. folk, jazz, popular, and fine-art music are studied in this course. Emphasis is on aural analysis and placing historical and contemporary music in its cultural context.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 113 SHUPERMEN 1.0 Credit(s)
This is a selected choral ensemble that performs standard repertoire for accompanied and unaccompanied voices.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
MU 114 MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA & CARIB 3.0 Credit(s)
This course traces the development of the most important Latin American musical styles from their historical folk origins to the present. Focus is on music from Cuba and Brazil and the creators and important performers of the styles.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 115 SIGHT SINGING AND EAR TRAINING I 1.0 Credit(s)
Course designed for basic music reading and aural perception. Students learn the necessary skills to sing musical intervals and simple melodies at sight. A prerequisite to MU 116
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 116 SIGHT SINGING AND EAR TRAINING II 1.0 Credit(s)
This course continues the development of music skills begun in Sight Singing I, including more advanced intervals and melodies. A prerequisite to MU 235 Prerequisite: Take MU-115
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 117 GOSPEL CHOIR 1.0 Credit(s)
This course is a university choir performing various styles of Gospel music: Spirituals, Anthems, Contemporary and Traditional Gospel music. Within this nurturing environment students will learn music, healthy-singing techniques, tradition and context, and will build a sense of community.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 119 HISTORY OF BROADWAY 3.0 Credit(s)
Students study several classic Broadway musicals as well as several current shows.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 121 MUSICIANSHIP I 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 122 MUSICIANSHIP II 3.0 Credit(s)
This course continues the development of musical skills through further practice with music notation, musical analysis, and aural perception. The construction and function of triads, harmonic motion, rhythm, texture, and writing are covered. Prerequisite: Take MU-121
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 123 MUSICIANSHIP III 3.0 Credit(s)
This course continues the development of musical skills through further practice with music notation, musical analysis, and aural perception. Emphasis will be on four-part writing and analysis. Prerequisite: Take MU-121, MU-122
Offered: As Needed All Years
MU 124 LISTENING TO LUXEMBOURG 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will investigate representative music of Luxembourg and its relation to the country's cultural and social life. An emphasis will be placed on the development and practice of observation, listening skills, peer work, and daily writing so that the student can meaningfully experience, appreciate, discuss and evaluate Luxembourg's musical culture by attending performances, taking tours, along with listening to music as a local would. Observations will then be linked to readings and discussions about how music and culture relate, and how they relate to the musical culture of the United States.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
MU 125 MUSIC IN THE PERFORMING ARTS 3.0 Credit(s)
A study of music and artists in the dramatic and performing arts, both past and present. Focus is on chamber music, opera, and musical theatre.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 126 KEYBOARD SKILLS FOR PIANO PROFICIENCY I 1.0 Credit(s)
This course serves to provide a comprehensive introduction to piano performance, with a particular emphasis on requirements for music majors on piano proficiency by NASM, National Association of Schools of Music.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 129 Vocal Performance 1: Art Song 1.0 Credit(s)
This course is the first in a 4-semester rotation of seminars in Vocal Performance, with each semester focusing on Art Song from a different nationality/language group (I. British & American, II. German, III. French & Spanish, and IV. Russian & Scandinavian). The goal of this course is for students to gain a love and mastery of the subject material, and improve the level of their performance as singers. Students will work on all aspects of vocal performance, including diction and declamation of text, musical styles, physicality of performance, intersection of musical interpretation and vocal technique, and bringing historical context into the concert hall. Open to undergraduate and graduate singers who have taken, or are taking concurrently, at least one semester of Private Voice Lessons (MU-131 or MU-132), or by audition. The course is also open to advanced pianists by audition only. The course is heavily based on participation, and it is expected that singers and pianists are able to read, learn, and practice their music outside of class time. The semester is divided by nationality (British Song followed by American Song), and within each group moves roughly chronologically by the dates of the composers. This helps students to trace influence and changing musical styles over time. Prerequisite: Take MU-131 or MU-132
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 131 PRIVATE LESSONS 1.0 Credit(s)
Individual instruction in selected instruments or voice. One half-hour lesson per week. Fee required. Students receive 10 lessons per semester.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 132 PRIVATE LESSONS 2.0 Credit(s)
Individual instruction in selected instruments or voice. One-hour lesson per week. Fee required. Students receive 10 lessons per semester.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 133 SHU LOVE 1.0 Credit(s)
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 134 INSTR. CHAMBER ENSEMBLE 1.0 Credit(s)
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 136 UNIVERSITY BAND 1.0 Credit(s)
This course develops students' talents and musicianship through participation in a performing instrumental group. The ensemble presents a wide variety of interesting and significant repertoire arranged and written for concert band, in both on-and-off campus concerts and events.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 137 CHORUS 1.0 Credit(s)
This course develops students' talents and musicianship through participation in a larger vocal ensemble. The choir focuses on the training in and performance of interesting and significant choral works from many different cultures and historical periods. Participants perform in concerts and events both on and off campus.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 138 JAZZ ENSEMBLE 1.0 Credit(s)
This course develops students' musicianship and musical talent in a contemporary musical art form. The jazz workshop approach develops stylistic and improvisatorial skills with the goal of presenting concerts and performing.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 139 GUITAR ENSEMBLE 1.0 Credit(s)
This course develops students' talents and musicianship through participation in a performing instrumental group. The ensemble presents a wide variety of repertoire arranged and written for guitar in both on- and off-campus concerts and events.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 140 MOVEMENT FOR MUSICIANS 1.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to introduce student musicians to the fundamentals of traditional and contemporary dance. This class will provide an overview of terminology, technique and showmanship for non-dancers with an emphasis on basic ballet, jazz and modern dance movement.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 141 THE BEATLES' LEGACY 3.0 Credit(s)
Students will study the music and cultural impact of The Beatles. Focus will be on the innovativeness in their songwriting, lyrics, recording techniques, and how they changed history.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 144 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 1.0 Credit(s)
The Symphony Orchestra is a performance ensemble designed for in-depth study of music through the preparation and performance of literature for orchestral strings, winds and percussion from a variety of styles and genres. This is a creative opportunity that allows for not only individual, but also group musical learning and sharing. As with any organization, a commitment must be made for all participants to achieve a genuine musical and educational experience. The goal is to continually seek musical excellence through the rehearsal and performance process.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 148 WIND ENSEMBLE 1.0 Credit(s)
The Wind Ensemble is a select performance ensemble that will help prepare students (music major and non-major) to be dynamic leaders and advocates for the arts. Wind Ensemble offers students the extraordinary experience of shaping the future of the large ensemble art form by premiering new works, highlighting underappreciated music, and engaging in exciting new collaborations. The Wind Ensemble is intended to be a showcase ensemble that performs wind music that challenges students technically and artistically. It's expected that members of the wind ensemble spend significant time outside of the class meeting time preparing their parts on their own.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 181 DIGITAL AUDIO PRODUCTION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed for students to develop skills in digital audio engineering and production. Students will utilize MIDI keyboards and computers to record music, working alongside their instructor and using professional level gear.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 198 LITURGICAL CHOIR 1.0 Credit(s)
This ensemble is open to all singers and instrumentalists by audition who wish to participate in the music of the Sunday evening liturgy. Students meaningfully experience and appreciate the vibrant heritage of the Catholic music tradition. Both contemporary and traditional styles of music are offered in the spirit of prayer. Through practice and presentation of appropriate music, musical skills are utilized, encouraged, and further developed.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 226 KEYBOARD SKILLS FOR PIANO PROFIENCY II 1.0 Credit(s)
In this course students will continue with their studies of keyboard technique, harmonization, improvisation, sight reading and solo repertoire. Prerequisite: Take MU-126
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 233 4 HEART HARMONY 1.0 Credit(s)
This advanced mixed chamber choir performs a wide variety of significant and interesting music, including a capella, jazz, pop, show tunes, multicultural, and classical choral repertoire. Participants perform in concerts and events both on and off campus. Members are experienced choral singers and the ensemble is open by interview and vocal audition.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
MU 235 SIGHT SINGING & EAR TRAINING III 1.0 Credit(s)
This course further develops the musical skills achieved in Sight Singing I and II, including advanced melodies and basic harmonic recognition. A prerequisite to MU 236 Prerequisite: Take MU-116
Offered: As Needed All Years
MU 236 SIGHT SINGING IV 1.0 Credit(s)
This course concludes the musical skills that were achieved in Sight Singing I, II, and III, including advanced melodies outlining advanced harmonies. Prerequisite: Take MU-235
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 244 JUNIOR RECITAL 1.0 Credit(s)
For those students within the performance concentration, two recitals are required, one during the junior year and one during the senior year. The approximate length of the recital should be a minimum of 60 minutes. In consultation and with the final approval of faculty, the students are required to select repertoire, choose accompanyning musicians, create a program and send out invitations. The purpose of the recitals is for the stundent to demonstrate their theoretical and practical music skills but should also demonstrate the student's understanding of how to present himself or herself in a concert setting as well as how to organize and promote an event.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 281 AUDIO FIELD PRODUCTION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed for students to develop the necessary skills to record professional audio outside the recording studio, at various locations for live performances. Students will be introduced to the craft of field recording, including gear, technique and tricks to use in the field.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 282 MULTITRACK STUDIO AUDIO PRODUCTION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to provide the students with the knowledge and skills associated with multitrack recording, which are essential building blocks in the field of Digital Audio Production.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 299 TOPICS IN MUSIC 3.0 Credit(s)
Designates new or occasional courses that may or may not become part of the department's permanent offerings. Courses capitalize on a timely topic, a faculty member's particular interest, an experimental alternative to existing courses, etc. Prerequisites established by the department as appropriate for the specific course. Course title is shown on the student's transcript. Consult the current course schedule for available topics and current prerequisites.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 300 TOPICS IN MUSIC PRODUCTION 3.0 Credit(s)
This repeatable special topics course focuses on particular genres or areas of music production or post-production. The course capitalizes on timely audio production topics and a faculty member's particular expertise.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 344 SENIOR RECITAL 1.0 Credit(s)
For those students within the performance concentration, two recitals are required, one during the junior year and one during the senior year. The approximate length of the recital should be a minimum of 60 minutes. In consultation and with the final approval of faculty, the students are required to select repertoire, choose accompanying musicians, create a program and send out invitations. The purpose of the recitals is for the student to demonstrate their theoretical and practical music skills but should also demonstrate the student's understanding of how to present himself or herself in a concert setting as well as how to organize and promote an event.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MU 381 MUSIC PRODUCTION PORTFOLIO 3.0 Credit(s)
Offers qualified students a supervised mentorship experience with a working professional or faculty member in the student's area of interest. Students are required to deliver public presentations of their completed portfolios.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 399 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MUSIC 1.0-6.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU ELEC MUSIC ELECTIVE 1.0-9.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU ELECF MUSIC FOUNDATIONAL ELECTIVE 1.0-9.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 101 INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE 3.0 Credit(s)
The purpose of Introduction to Theatre is to increase students' understanding, appreciation, and critical perceptions of the theatrical art form. Readings and lectures will focus on the elements of theatrical practice, artists, and innovators of theatre throughout history and on the theatre's development as an art form and a social phenomenon. Participation in class forum discussions and sharing of critiques and short reports will offer avenues to explore students' individual theatrical interests, and attendance at theatrical events will offer firsthand experience in theatre arts.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 102 BLACKBOX PRODUCTION 1.0 Credit(s)
Participation in TheatreFest, improve, and other approved student-driven theatrical activities. All events are overseen by the Director of Theatre.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 103 MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION 1.0 Credit(s)
Participation in the spring mainstage musical in one of the areas of theatrical discipline. All events are overseen by the Director of Theatre.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 110 ACTING I 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 111 ACTING II 3.0 Credit(s)
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
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 112 HISTORY OF THEATRE I 3.0 Credit(s)
History of theater from antiquity through early nineteenth century. Students will also learn the foundational concepts and theories of theatre.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 120 VOICE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE I 3.0 Credit(s)
Voice for Musical Theatre I introduces students to skills on speech, diction, pitch, analysis, and interpretation through various styles of period and contemporary musical theatre works. Solo and ensemble application of singing techniques, preparation, and presentation.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 121 VOICE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE II 3.0 Credit(s)
Voice for Musical Theatre II develops students' skills on speech, diction, pitch, analysis, and interpretation through various styles of period and contemporary musical theatre works. Solo and ensemble application of singing techniques, preparation, and presentation.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 130 STAGECRAFT 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 140 DIRECTING 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 141 DIRECTING II 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 150 INTRODUCTION TO COSTUMES 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of costuming including a socio-historical understanding of the role of costumes in theatre.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 201 SCENE STUDY 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 202 SCRIPT ANALYSIS 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 210 ACTING FOR MUSICAL THEATER I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on basic acting skills as they apply to musical theater. In particular, students will focus on working with elevated text and the transitions from scene into song.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 211 ACTING FOR MUSICAL THEATER II 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on advanced acting skills as they apply to musical theater. In particular students will focus on working with elevated text and the transitions from scene into song as well as musical interludes, dance breaks, and reprises.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 212 HISTORY OF THEATRE II 3.0 Credit(s)
History of theatre from the nineteenth century to the present. Students will also learn advanced concepts and influential theories of theatre.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 230 CHILDREN'S THEATER I 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 231 CHILDREN'S THEATER II 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 240 PLAYWRITING I 3.0 Credit(s)
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
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 241 PLAYWRITING II 3.0 Credit(s)
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
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 250 COSTUME DESIGN 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of costume design including basic design elements, script, and character analysis and historical period and genre research.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 260 CONTEMPORARY DRAMA 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines significant developments in drama and performance in the 21st century by focusing on characters in scripts, and the playwrights, actors, directors, and designers, who help bring those characters to life and have influenced theater practice, theory, and scholarship.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
THR 280 ACTING STYLES 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 299 SPEC. TOPICS IN THEATRE 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 301 ADVANCED SCENE STUDY 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 392 THEATRE INTERNSHIP 1.0-6.0 Credit(s)
An opportunity for qualified students in the theatre arts to gain practical experience in theatre production and management.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 399 CAPSTONE PRODUCTION LAB 3.0 Credit(s)
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.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR ELEC THEATRE ELECTIVE 1.0-9.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR ELECF THEATER FOUNDATIONAL ELECTIVE 1.0-9.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department