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2013-2014 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 28-6154 Negotiation Strategies

    This course focuses on a variety of negotiation techniques used in business and personal life. Topics covered include diversity issues, conflict resolution, cultural sensitivity, styles of negotiation; preparation needed prior to negotiations, and negotiation tactics. there will be ample time to practice negotiations. [Elective] [Core course AYCD]

    1 Credits
  

  • 28-6155 Partnership Building

    This course will prepare participants to understand the underpinnings needed to develop and sustain successful partnerships. Students are instructed in applying asset-based methodologies, articulating common goals, roles and responsibilities of all project participants, creating flexible timelines and exploring conflict resolution techniques.

    2 Credits
  

  • 28-6161 Project Management

    1 Credits
  

  • 28-6180 Internship

    Internships are an integral part of the AEMM major, bringing together theoretical concepts with real world situations. In cooperation with leading organizations in the Chicago area, qualified students have the opportunity to acquire hands-on field experience, confidence, and contacts, which help students gain an edge in the competitive job market. Students become more aware of what is involved in their chosen career by actually working in a professional organization. The student, internship coordinator, faculty advisor, and sponsoring organization work together to make the internship experience one of the most important experiences in the student’s education.

    1-3 Credits
  

  • 28-6187 Thesis Proposal Development

    The principal objective of the Master’s Thesis is to demonstrate original scholarship and contribute to the general knowledge of the field of arts, entertainment, and media management. A student may choose to complete a Thesis or Thesis Project as an elective.

    1 Credits
    Requirements Perm. Grad Studies Dir.
  

  • 28-6189 Thesis Continuance

    If a degree candidate does not submit a completed thesis by the thesis deadline in the semester following the semester of thesis enrollment, the student must enroll in Thesis Continuance in the next semester.

    1 Credits
  

  • 28-6195 Directed Study

    Directed Studies are learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses, or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade. Subject to department approval.

    1-6 Credits
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 28-6198 Independent Project

    The student with the approval of a supevising faculty member designs a Turorial/independent project to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project to the Chair of the AEMM Department or AEMM Faculty Supervisor. Student can also take course 28-6199.

    1-3 Credits
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  

  • 28-6210 Exhibition Management

    3 Credits
  
  

  • 28-6270 Museum Management

    This course explores the changing dynamic of contemporary museums, trends in the field, and challenges facing museum managers in all areas and levels of the institution. This course familiarizes potential professional museum managers with all the major functions and structures of the contemporary museum, large and small, general or specific. It will equip students for dealing with a broad range of managerial issues.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6275 Gallery and Art Market Management

    This course explores different business models in the arts marketplace including galleries, auction houses, art fairs, independent art dealers and advisors, direct sales by artists, and the use of the on-line marketplace. It looks at the interrelationship of these models on the local, national and international levels and investigates current issues and future trends in the industry.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6310 Grant Proposal Planning and Writing

    This is a writing intensive course that focuses on strenghthening the skills necessary for the development of successful grant applications for funding the arts. Skills include knowledge of relevant funding sources, awareness of available research materials, the ability to construct coherent proposals, and the ability to define a total fund-raising strategy for an arts organization.

    3 Credits
    WI
  

  • 28-6315 Fundraising

    This course offers an in-depth study of philanthropy, non-profit organizations, accountability measures, income sources, and types of campaigns. Students will work with existing organizations to develop a portfolio of an organization analysis, case for funding, campaign plans, solicitation materials for individual gifts, and grant applications.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6330 Comparative Cultural Policy

    This course investigates governmental support and services to the arts at municipal, state, and federal levels. Areas of study include rationales for governmental arts support, support other than dollars, governmental censorshop, history and structure of current programs, and policy issues that effect individual artist and arts organizations. [Elective]

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6350 Symposium Practicum I

    The student will participate in a practicum throughout their program. The symposium will provide planned reflection that will allow students to link theory with experience. Symposium sessions will also allow students to deepen their practice through exchange with each other and dialog with guest speakers. The first semester will focus integrating into organization and community.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 28-6360 Introduction to Youth Arts Practicum 
  

  • 28-6351 Symposium on Youth and Community Arts

    This course will focus on an exploration of current topics within the youth and community arts sector, nationally and internationally. The symposium will provide planned reflection that will allow students to link theory with practice.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 28-6350 Symposium Practicum I 
  

  • 28-6352 Symposium Practicum III

    The students will participate in a practicum throughout their degree program. The symposium will porvide for a planned reflection period that will aloow students to link theory with experience. Symposium sessions will also allow students to deepen their experience through exchange with each other and dialog with special guests from around the country. The third semester symposium will focus on management practices.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 28-6351 Symposium on Youth and Community Arts 
  
  

  • 28-6354 Curriculum Development and the Arts

    This course is designed for arts managers, artists & performers who wish to create arts programs within urban community settings. Content includes curricular design for non-school settings, resources, both human & material, community involvement, age appropriate activities, program evaluation, and audience development.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6355 Applied Youth Development

    This class focuses on the stages of development and developmental tasks in the life cycle spanning infancy to adolescence. We will examine growth and development from various perspectives, including cultural differences, neurobiological, cognitive, emotional and social. The focus will also include mental health risk factors specific to adolescence and recommended treatment approaches. Students will present current research on psychosocial topics impacting youth. Discussion will also focus upon how we construct/determine ideas of normal and pathological development. Throughout the course attention is paid to how genetic, relational and environmental factors influence development with an emphasis on the impact of early attunement experiences. Students will also present final projects incorporating a psychosocial understanding through the use of an artistic medium with youth at their placement sites.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6360 Introduction to Youth Arts Practicum

    This course introduces students in the Arts in Youth and Community Development concentration of the Masters in Arts Management to the community-based youth arts organizations that serve as Practicum sites in the program. It provides an overview of Chicago community-based youth arts and commuunity-building exercises. Introduction to the Practicum meetings will occur mostly off-campus in visits to Practicum sites and will include readings, discussion, and analysis.

    1 Credits
  

  • 28-6361 Applied Youth Development

    This course will provide an in-depth analysis of topics and issues in the field of youth development and its relation to youth program development, with special attention to the urban context. Students will read and discuss the emerging literature in youth development in the school, family and community contexts and will explore how this literature is related to the traditional and current practices in youth development and related fields.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6363 Community Organizing: Theory of Social Change

    The course will encourage students to develop their own analysis of the political, social and economic conditions that impact art education, youth development and community transformation. Particular emphasis will be placed on helping students form their own analysis of the role of community based art and arts education in the political and social change process.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6370 The Artist in a Landscape of Change

    This course is a series of lectures and seminars exploring the roles of the artist in contemporary society from the viewpoints of a variety of aesthetic and social theory approaches critical to allowing the manager to shape and sustain the mission of community based organizations.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 28-6363 Community Organizing: Theory of Social Change 
  

  • 28-6405 Criticism in Arts, Media and Entertainment

    Students gain an understanding of the historical aspects of criticism as it relates to arts, media and entertainment, and understand its impact on management within those industries. Instruction focuses on critical cultural analysis and intensive critical arts writing in a succinct style that is accessible to consumers.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6415 New Media Strategies

    This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the production, publication, promotion, and distribution of digital audio, visual, and editorial content. Students investigate current business models and conceptualize future tactics to embrace the convergence of the major media forms being streamed, downloaded, and offered as applications on all devices including tablets, mobile phones, computers and home theaters.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6427L Concepts of Recorded Music in the Entertainment Industry (LA)

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6428 Music Editing: Entertainment Industry

    This course builds on the skills developed in Introduction to Pro Tools for Managers and Music Supervisor: Entertainment Industry and examines the skills and responsibilities of music editors/managers in the entertainment industry. Specific emphasis is placed on understanding the process and technique necessary to: edit appropriate music for film, television, games and other media. Students will also understand negotiations involving contractual fees, the dynamics of working with composers, music supervisors, and other personnel involved in the editing environment, as well as the process of making judgments on music choice.

    2 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 28-6426 Music Supervisor: Entertainment Industry 
  

  • 28-6470 Decision Makers in Music Business

    This course examines the music industry as a business, and the decisions managers make to sustain the industry.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6471 AEMM Record Company Marketing

    3 Credits
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  
  

  • 28-6512 Entrepreneurship and New Business Creation

    This course is the first of the sequence of the courses that students will be required to take as part of the arts entrepreneurship focus area in the graduate program. This course is designed to stimulate entrepreneurial thinking and help students realize that there are opportunities in the arts that can be converted into businesses if entrepreneurial principles are applied. Offered in the fall term only

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6513 Entrepreneurship Strategies in Arts and Culture

    This course uses the Small Business Institute case methodology. Student groups meet with business owners and work on a specific challenge facing the business. As a consulting group with the supervision of the instructor, students design a solution and present it to the business owner for possible implementation.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6513J Venture Management

    This course teaches the fundamental concepts of launching a sustainable new business venture while understanding the basic requirements of self-employment. Topics include business planning, entrepreneurship, financing, budgeting, marketing and legal concerns. This course is for graduate level students and is particularly designed for non-AEMM majors by providing an overview of management topics taught in the department.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6610 Media Management

    This inquiry-driven course requires the application of critical thinking skills to investigate and analyze how changes in technology, economics, business models, consumer behavior, government regulation, and aesthetics are transforming the media landscape in the digital age. Students investigate current media issues and strategies to uncover the management practices and trends shaping the business of media, an enterprise in flux.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6640 McLuhan and Media Literacy: The Manager’s Perspective

    This course is for graduate students in the Media Concentration of the Arts, Entertainment & Media Management (AEMM) department. It provides students with an understanding of media literacy and its value as a management tool. Additionally, it examines how McLuhan’s ideas are thinking tools that provide one with the ability to grasp and consider complex media-related business issues and challenges through nonconventional approaches. This is expected to enhance critical thinking and analysis abilities that should result in more effective and efficient media management practices and practitioners.

    1 Credits
  

  • 28-6670 Decision Makers in Media

    Students will study the strategic decision-making process as applied to the media industry and specific media entities. Creative and management situations that require immediate and long-term decisions will be deconstructed as to how and why such decisions are made in a field characterized by unprecedented change. Meetings with industry professionals will complement in-class discussions.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6680 Media Management Production Practicum

    This course gives AEMM graduate students the opportunity to apply the media management principles, theories, and skills acquired in their academic coursework to the production, marketing, and distribution (if applicable) of a media program or multi-media event. Students will be responsible for the overall production and production management, marketing, and distribution of a media project or multi-media event. Each student will assume a primary role such as: producer, associate producer, production manager, house manager, video/audio tape editor, marketing manager, website manager/editor, distribution manager, content provider (research manager and writer), and other roles as applicable.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6760 Sponsorship & Broadcasting Rights Management

    This class intends to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental sponsorship principles and other advanced marketing techniques applied to live events and present career opportunities therein. Sponsorship is the fastest growing form of marketing promotion in the USA. Far from being a compromising grant, sponsorship offers a unique opportunity, leveraging the sponsor’s marketing might to spread their name beyond their doors and reach new audiences. In return, a sponsor will rightfully expect more than his logo in your program. But, as in any marriage, it can only work if the partners are well matched and if they both commit to the relationship.

    3 Credits
  

  • 28-6815 Revenue Generation Strategies for Live Entertainment

    The difficulty to improve productivity for live events (Baumol Law) will force future managers to investigate new and creative ways to maximize box office revenues and to look beyond for new sources of profit. This course presents all revenue maximization techniques, including box office management/ticketing, yield management, bartering, licensing, concessions, sponsorship, and media contracts, their applications and their functions in the not-for-profit and for profit sectors of the live entertainment industry, including theater, concerts and sport events. [Elective]

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 28-6100 Marketing Principles 
  

  • 31-1200 Acting I: Basic Skills

    This course teaches the discipline of acting through physical, vocal, and improvisational exercises. Course uses some text work consisting of short scenes and monologues from plays to teach beginning actors awareness of their own and others’ needs on stage. Scenes are not presented during performance weeks. Voice Training for the Actor I is recommended as a concurrent course. Required course for all Theatre majors.

    3 Credits
  
  
  

  • 31-1225 Theatre Foundation: Performance

    In ‘Performance’ students will explore presence, the audience/performance relationship and how to shape time, space and energy in work with scripted and devised material. This course is part of the Theatre Freshman Foundation and provides a strong foundation for the theatre artist through an integrated study of movement, voice, design, ensemble and performance. Students will develop technique, strategy and skills, deepen their theatrical vocabulary and create design and performance under the organizing principles of space, composition, time, character and story.

    3 Credits
    Requisites CONCURRENT: 31-1325 Theatre Foundation: Performance Technique  AND 31-1625 Theatre Foundation: Design and Composition 
  

  • 31-1300 Voice Training for the Actor I

    This course is an introduction to the vocal mechanism used in the production of an effective and flexible voice for the stage. Students will learn fundamentals of breathing, resonation, projection, and articulation. Vocal technique will be applied to readings and presentations of theatre monologues. Students will learn a vocal warm-up, record, memorize, and perform. The theory of voice and speech will be addressed in a text chosen for the course.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1305 Body Movement for Actors I

    Course focuses on development of proper physicality, stretch, and strength and on activation and direction of energy. Students develop an individual movement voice and understand how to modify it to respond to emotional and physical needs of a character. Acting I: Scene Study is recommended as a concurrent course.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1310 Feldenkrais: Awareness through Movement

    Course is based on Moshe Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement lessons. Through select breathing and movement sequences, students learn new vocal patterns and make spontaneous acting choices beyond habitual movement. Movement sequences are light and easy and may be accomplished by anyone regardless of age or physical limitations.

    3 Credits
    Repeatable
  

  • 31-1325 Theatre Foundation: Performance Technique

    In ‘Performance Techniques’ students will learn techniques designed to build a dynamic, flexible voice and physicality to support live and on-camera performance. This course is part of the Theatre Freshman Foundation and provides a strong foundation for the theatre artist through an integrated study of movement, voice, design, ensemble and performance. Students will develop technique, strategy and skills, deepen their theatrical vocabulary and create design and performance under the organizing principles of space, composition, time, character and story.

    3 Credits
    Requisites CONCURRENT: 31-1225 Theatre Foundation: Performance  AND 31-1625 Theatre Foundation: Design and Composition 
  

  • 31-1350 Speaking Out

    This interactive performance based course is a workshop format for exploring the dynamics of communication and the skills necessary to become an effective speaker, influencer, and listener. Students will develop and deliver a variety of types of public presentations with strong emphasis placed on increasing vocal skills, body awareness, presentation and interpersonal skills. Regular presentations, listening, critical thinking, feedback, and group discussion are an integral part of the course. This course fulfills the LAS (Liberal Arts and Sciences) SP (Speech) requirement.

    3 Credits
    SP
  
  

  • 31-1405 Musical Theatre History II

    This course is a required class for Musical Theatre Performance majors in the second semester of their first year. Course is the second half of a two-semester course continuing study of the history of the musical begun in Musical Theatre I: From the Beginnings to 1945. Instruction covers development of musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein to the pop-operas and spectacles of the present. Content gives some attention to movie musicals and the introduction of shows and songs from each period through readings, recordings, and videos.

    2 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1400 Musical Theatre History 
  

  • 31-1410 Voice Training I: Musical Theatre

    This course introduces various techniques to aid beginning actors in development and use of their natural voices for the stage. Students practice fundamentals of breathing, resonation, and articulation; learn vocal warm-up in preparation for performance; and study and perform contemporary material.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1430 Musical Theatre Dance I

    This course is a practical approach to the basic techniques of musical theatre dance required of Musical Theatre majors at the beginning level. Each class will include ballet and jazz dance terminology, basic floor combinations, and a variety of musical theatre dance styles.  Students are offered a focused approach to develop performance skills and demonstrate improved flexibility, musicality and strength in ballet and jazz techniques.  Students will be introduced to musical theatre dance combinations and professional musical theatre audition procedures.

    2 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1430 Musical Theatre Dance I COREQUISITES: 31-1225 Theatre Foundation: Performance  or 31-1200 Acting I: Basic Skills 
  

  • 31-1431 Beginning Musical Theatre Tap

    This course is designed to develop dance technique and repertoire within the specialized styles of musical theatre tap and required of majors at the beginning level. Each class will include tap terminology, rhythm progressions, and Broadway style tap combinations. Students are offered a focused approach to develop performance skills and demonstrate improved flexibility, strength, and the ability to execute basic rhythm sequences. Students will be introduced to tap dance combinations and professional musical theatre audition procedures.

    2 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES:31-1430 Musical Theatre Dance I 
  

  • 31-1435 Musical Theatre Dance for the Singer/Actor

    This course emphasizes dance terminology and basic techniques necessary at an introductory level. Executing basic dance terminology will be the focus of this course along with attention to proper nutrition and injury prevention. Students will apply terminology in basic floor combinations in a variety of musical theatre dance styles. Each class session will include strengthening exercises to improve flexibility, conditioning and technique in ballet, jazz and tap.  No prior dance training is necessary.

    2 Credits
  

  • 31-1500 Prod Tech: Crew

    This course requires that students work as backstage crew for Theatre Department productions. Students gain understanding of behind-the-scenes labor that supports on-stage performance. Participants also get the opportunity to observe nuance and change in live performance as it occurs over several performances. Time is required outside of class.

    2 Credits
  

  • 31-1505 Prod Tech: Stagecraft

    This course introduces students, through lecture and hands-on experience, to fundamentals of costume construction, scenery construction and design, and technical aspects of stage lighting.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1510 Drafting for Theatre

    This course introduces mechanical drawing techniques as applied to the performing arts. Students learn to create clear, accurate drawings to be used for the design and construction of scenery, and the preparation and implementation of a lighting design. Course is recommended for those interested in the visual design elements of performing arts and is a prerequisite for all theatre design courses.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1515 Rendering for Theatre I

    This course introduces figure drawing, color, light and shadow, and a variety of rendering materials and techniques. Coursework focuses on rendering of costumes, stage lighting effects, and sets. This is a prerequisite for all costume, lighting, and set design courses.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1510 Drafting for Theatre 
  

  • 31-1520 Lighting Technologies I

    This basic skills course addresses primary information for those interested in the art of stage lighting. Instruction includes purposes, allied techniques, equipment terminology, use of color, and fundamental drafting.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1505 Prod Tech: Stagecraft 
  

  • 31-1525 Costume Construction I

    Course provides introduction to Costume Shop techniques and procedures. Through assigned projects, students learn basic machine and hand-sewing techniques, pattern development with special emphasis on drafting and draping, and all aspects of costume building from rendering to finished project. Content provides overview of related subjects such as millinery, costume props, and formal wear.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES:  
  

  • 31-1530 Scenic Construction I

    This course introduces set construction in the Classic and New Studio Theatres utilizing the component pieces of the available studio kits. Students work with reading and interpreting ground plans, designing and assembling simple sets, and analyzing the construction of sets both on campus and in the professional world. Basics of studio lighting and sound systems are covered.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1505 Prod Tech: Stagecraft 
  

  • 31-1540 Stage Management I

    This lecture/demonstration course meets three hours per week in addition to required time spent working on a theatre production. The course will introduce students to the practices and techniques of Stage Management in the professional theatre. Students will assist an advanced stage manager on a project throughout the course of the semester. Regular availability on evenings and weekends is required.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1505 Prod Tech: Stagecraft 
  

  • 31-1599 Directed Study: Crew

    This course provides an opportunity for students to earn credit and satisfy their departmental crew requirement by serving as running crew on faculty and student directed workshops. Not only are crew positions essential to mounting theatre performances, they can serve as important opportunities to learn how different elements are integrated into a theatrical whole and how a production can change from performance to performance. Students earns one hour of crew credit for serving as running crew on any workshop production.

    1-6 Credits
    Repeatable
  

  • 31-1600 Intro to Design for the Stage

    This course allows students to gain a better understanding of theatrical design as a whole and learn terminology and principles basic to all aspects of theatrical design. Students explore theatrical design through selected readings and individual and group projects. Course is a prerequisite for all theatre design courses and is a recommended general introduction to production process for all Theatre majors. Course requires no special vocabulary, experience, or art skills.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1605 Makeup for the Performer

    This course gives actors the knowledge and skills needed to communicate character through makeup. A solid foundation of materials, tools, skin care and techniques will be discussed. Corrective, aging, and character makeups will be covered in detail and practiced in class. Basic three-dimensional materials will be introduced to further develop character designs. Students will learn how to prepare for a production, design their own characters and apply their designs for different types of stages.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1610 Set Design I

    This course will introduce the student to the art of Set Design. Focusing on the synthesis of text and space, students will learn to understand spatial relationships in the theatre, actor to actor, audience to actor. They will learn to manipulate the emotional and visual space of the theatre. The students will be introduced to the process of designing scenery for the stage.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1625 Theatre Foundation: Design and Composition  OR 31-1600 Intro to Design for the Stage  
  

  • 31-1615 Costume Design I

    An entry level class that introduces the student to costume and fashion history and the use of costume in the current world of theatre. Students will study costume as an art, discussing topics such as collaboration, parsing a script, style, color, character and other topics which illuminate the function of costume in theatre, film and television. The class will also discuss the business aspects of Costume Design.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1625 Theatre Foundation: Design and Composition  OR 31-1600 Intro to Design for the Stage 
  

  • 31-1620 Lighting Design I

    This course will introduce students to the artistic side of creating a live entertainment lighting design, focusing on its application in the theatre. Students will explore the use of light as tool to create space, emphasis, and rhythm in performance. This class will emphasize the artistic process of theatrical lighting design. The emphasis will be on honing our ability to see and experience light and then use it to create a theatrical design, including conceiving the design idea and communicating it to others. They will explore theatrical texts and how to connect the text to the design idea. The focus will be on exploring how light creates and enhances a physical environment.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1625 Theatre Foundation: Design and Composition  OR 31-1600 Intro to Design for the Stage  
  

  • 31-1625 Theatre Foundation: Design and Composition

    In ‘Design and Composition’ students will learn the elements of design and use them to shape choices in response to scripted and devised material. This course is part of the Theatre Freshman Foundation and provides a strong foundation for the theatre artist through an integrated study of movement, voice, design, ensemble and performance. Students will develop technique, strategy and skills, deepen their theatrical vocabulary and create design and performance under the organizing principles of space, composition, time, character and story.

    3 Credits
    Requisites CONCURRENT: 31-1225 Theatre Foundation: Performance  AND 31-1325 Theatre Foundation: Performance Technique 
  

  • 31-1650 Site Specific Design and Performance

    Students will have the opportunity to study, explore, experiment and develop site specific art directly in response to locations on the school campus that the group decides they want to alter, transform and transport.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1655 Beginning Puppetry

    Course teaches students to construct a variety of puppets and their environments, using various materials. The class will offer an overview of puppetry, hands-on demonstrations, and performance and puppet creation workshops. Students will create original performances exploring the intersection of movement, sound, text and puppetry. Course will specifically teach Shadow and Rod puppetry.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1680 Foundations of Makeup

    This introductory course focuses on the basic language and materials necessary in makeup for all media. Students will gain an understanding of basic painting, blending, and color mixing through the use of various materials. Kits for the makeup artist, skin care, color theory, and lighting concerns will be covered through hands-on experience. The multi-faceted art of beauty will include straight, corrective, and commercial looks.

    3 Credits
  

  • 31-1700 Director’s Tool Kit

    Course asks Directing majors to begin to consider the tools needed to become successful directors, by exploring acting exercises, talking and listening to advanced and professional directors, seeing and analyzing productions, and reflecting on their own experiences.

    2 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1205 Acting I: Scene Study  and 31-1600 Intro to Design for the Stage  COREQUISITES: 31-2120 Text Analysis 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • 31-2210 Improv Tech II

    Course bridges the gap between improvised and scripted work by focusing on an approach to acting through improvisation. Content includes study in performance skills, Second City techniques, characters, playing, and improvisational games based on the teachings of Viola Spolin.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1210 Improvisational Techniques I 
  

  • 31-2211 Improv Tech III

    Course bridges the gap between improvised and scripted work by focusing on an approach to acting through improvisation. Content includes study in performance skills, Second City techniques, characters, playing, and improvisational games based on the teachings of Viola Spolin.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-2210 Improv Tech II 
  

  • 31-2271 Puppet Workshop: Toy Theatre

    This course will introduce students to the rudiments of puppetry through the lens of toy theatre. Working from a basic model, students will design and build their own toy theatres and execute simple performances to animate them. Students will explore how design elements of scale and environment can be used to generate action and conflict in a microcosmic theatre.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES:  31-1200 Acting I: Basic Skills  and 31-1600 Intro to Design for the Stage  
  

  • 31-2300 Voice Training for the Actor II

    Course is a continuation of Voice Training for the Actor I. A more proficient use of the techniques for respiration, phonation, resonation, projection and articulation are explored. Skills in pronunciation and variety and expression are introduced. Technical knowledge is demonstrated in contemporary and classical monologues from theatrical repertoire. Students learn a vocal warm-up, record, memorize and perform. An extended study of voice and speech for the stage is addressed in a text chosen for the course.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1200 Acting I: Basic Skills  and 31-1300 Voice Training for the Actor I  
  

  • 31-2301 Rehearsal and Performance I

    Performance or Creative participation (including Choreography, Assistant to Choreographer, Music Direction, Assistant Music Direction or Assistant Director) in a Main Stage, Faculty Workshop or Student Directed Musical production. Class required for BFA in Musical Theatre Performance.

    0 Credits
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 31-2305 Body Movement for Actors II

    This course continues study of Body Movement for Actors I. Students use their more conscious, able body to develop characterization. Acting II: Character and Ensemble is recommended as a concurrent course with Body Movement for the Actor II.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1205 Acting I: Scene Study  and 31-1305 Body Movement for Actors I 
  

  • 31-2315 Stage Combat I

    Beginning course teaches how to create the illusion of violence for stage and screen including basic instruction in Unarmed (feet, fists, slaps, punches, kicks, falls, and rolls) and Rapier and Dagger (Parries, cuts, thrusts and more!). The emphasis is on safe and realistic violence for the stage. Midterm scenes will be performed in the classroom. Final scenes will be performed on the main stage during Performance Week.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1205 Acting I: Scene Study  and 31-1305 Body Movement for Actors I 
  

  • 31-2316 Stage Combat II

    Course offers continued study of safe and realistic violence for the stage and screen. The emphasis is on Advanced Unarmed and Rapier and Dagger; new weapon skill- Broadsword added. Midterm scenes will be performed in the classroom. Final scenes will be performed on the main stage during Performance Week. Adjudication of Skills Proficiency by a Fight Master of the Society of American Fight Directors and the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat will be integrated into the final performances

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-2315 Stage Combat I 
  

  • 31-2325 Accents and Dialects

    This course asks students to examine and practice the 10 most commonly used English and foreign language dialects encountered in English-speaking theatre. Content emphasizes technical aspects of dialect, such as vowel and consonant pronunciation, lilt, rhythm, and vocabulary, and how they affect a theatrical character’s personality.

    3 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1300 Voice Training for the Actor I 
  

  • 31-2330J Topics in Actor Training

    This series of rotating physical theatre and movement practices introduces acting students to seminal techniques which will awaken the body and mind of the actor in performance. Students will learn and apply the techniques of Suzuki, Viewpoints, Laban, LeCoq, and Red Nose Clown State in concentrated sessions to increase core strength, enhance characterization and facilitate the development of a more plastic, flexible body for rehearsal and performance.

    2 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-2305 Body Movement for Actors II 
  

  • 31-2370 Physical Comedy Workshop

    Course offers opportunity for performing arts students to explore and develop their personal approach to physical comedy through exposure to a variety of comedy styles and techniques with an emphasis on continuous creation, rehearsal, and performance followed by analysis.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES:  31-1200 Acting I: Basic Skills  and 31-1305 Body Movement for Actors I 
  

  • 31-2372 Basic Viewpoints Workshop

    This course examines Viewpoints, a movement philosophy that explores the issues of time and space. In theatre, it allows a group of actors to function spontaneously and intuitively; to generate bold new work quickly by developing flexibility, articulation, and strength in movement; and to use writing and other resources as steps to creativity. Students will learn the vocabulary and basic theory by applying Viewpoints to creating new compositions as well as using them with existing theatrical texts.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES:   or 31-2700 Directing I 
  

  • 31-2373J Meisner Technique Workshop

    Technique workshop course focuses on an approach to acting through the work of Sanford Meisner. Three-week immersion course will use repetition exercises, activity exercises, and scene work to develop the actor’s ability to simultaneously be in the moment with other actors, his/her environment and the text.

    2 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-2200 Acting II: Adv Sc Study 
  
  

  • 31-2400 Musical Theatre II: Scenes and Songs

    In this multi-disciplinary course in acting and singing for the musical theatre, students will prepare and perform material from several genres of the musical theatre canon and use dramaturgical research and text analysis in characterization. Students work to bring characters to life through complete physical, vocal and emotional transformation. Performance Style will be introduced and strong musicianship and vocal technique will continue to be integrated. Emphasis will be placed on material that requires an ensemble style.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-2201 Musical Theatre Scene Study  and 32-1700 Introductory Private Voice  COREQUISITES: 31-2120 Text Analysis 
  

  • 31-2430 Musical Theatre Dance II

    This course is designed to expand the technical skills in musical theatre dance styles required of Musical Theatre majors at the intermediate level. Each class will include ballet and jazz dance terminology, floor combinations, a variety of musical theatre dance styles and mock auditions.  Students are challenged with more complicated material, and greater demands are placed on speed of learning and retention of choreography for audition purposes.  Significant attention is paid to audition practices and professional discipline.

    2 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1430 Musical Theatre Dance I 
  

  • 31-2431 Intermediate Musical Theatre Tap

    This course is designed to develop technique, performance, and repertoire within the specialized styles of musical theatre tap required of Musical Theatre majors at the intermediate level. Each class will include tap terminology, rhythm progressions, Broadway style tap combinations, and mock auditions. Emphasis will be placed on speed of learning and retention of choreography for audition purposes. Significant attention is paid to audition practices and professional discipline.

    2 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-1431 Beginning Musical Theatre Tap 
 

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