PLA Portfolio Assessment Course Subjects

Stage

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Play Production II   (THA-396)   3 credits  

Course Description
Advanced theoretical and practical experience in technical theater; stage-managing, lighting design and staging leadership responsibility will be required.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the creative process involved in play production from casting to opening;
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the managerial aspects of stage managing a play production;
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of how professional performances are budgeted and marketed to the public.

 

Recording Techniques II   (MUS-286)   3 credits  

Course Description
Emphasis on signal processing equipment and how it relates to live recording from the concert stage. Includes experience recording live concerts.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Signal processing and its relationship to live recording on a concert stage
• Identify and discuss the relevant concepts of concert stage recording
• Articulate the mechanics of concert recording
• Explain the acoustic principles relevant to concert recording
• Discuss recording hardware and software specific to concert recording
• Explain recording procedures that you follow, specific to live concerts, and why

 

Secondary Reactor Systems   (NUC-332)   3 credits  

Course Description
Covers secondary plant fluid cycle system, main steam system, moisture separator reheaters, condenser and air removal system, condensate system, and the feedwater system. The first component consists of an overview of the secondary plant steam and water cycle as a Rankine cycle. The remaining components each describe the functions, design, and operation of a major system in the secondary fluid cycle and the interrelationships and interfaces between those systems.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Describe the components of the simple Rankine cycle and their functions
• Describe additional components utilized to increase the efficiency of the simple Rankine cycle, such as turbine stages, condensate heater stages, feedwater heater stages, and condenser hoggers
• Explain the difference between circulating water pumps and service water pumps
• State the difference between essential service water and non-essential service water. List essential service water and non-essential service water heat loads
• Describe the turbine generator system and explain how it is synched to the grid
• List emergency power systems and sources on site (diesels, dams, station batteries) the loads transferred to them, and the conditions for load transfer

 

Avant-Garde Performance   (DAN-370)   3 credits  

Course Description
A course in contemporary theater and movement techniques exploring the interface of dance, drama, and spectacle. Includes: interpreting stories, scripts, poetry, and personal journals through drama and movement; and techniques of improvisation and composition

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Understand relaxation techniques and purposes as they relate to stage movement
• Determine how to reveal the significance of a character's action through stage movement
• Increase physical freedom, range of motion and release of tension through various exercises and movement explorations
• Understand kinesthetic skills for actors as they apply to performance: use of space, time, weight.

 

History of Film III   (FIL-356)   3 credits  

Course Description
Advanced study of the background and development of the motion picture from its earliest stages to the present, specifically documentary films.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• analyze the history and development of documentary films
• analyze how documentaries have developed and adapted to technological advances
• analyze how the business of documentaries has evolved economically, socially and politically
• critique documentaries as entertainment
• critique documentaries as instruments of social change

 

Training and Development   (HRM-365)   3 credits  

Training and development highlights the organization's commitment to its employees. The course looks at training needs analysis; the nature, types and methods of training, career stages, paths and planning; retraining outdated workers; outplacement, evaluation of training effectiveness; long-term development programs; and processes of organization development. 

Musical Theater   (MUS-315)   3 credits  

Course Description
Practical experience in musical and technical aspects of a major operative production and an additional music performance: vocal performance, acting, costuming, makeup, publicity, stage craft and orchestral accompaniment.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Demonstrate an understanding of how music/songs are integrated into the book of a unified musical production;
• Demonstrate an understanding of "the approach to a song" including acting a song, characterization, and creating the emotional connection of a character;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the evolution of musical theater as an important American art form.
• Demonstrate the history behind the musical, noting specific examples through the 20th century of well-known musicals.
• Demonstrate an understanding of costume, makeup, and stage design.
• Demonstrate an understanding of both instrumental and vocal performance in a musical.

 

Production II - Crew   (THA-252)   3 credits  

Course Description
Continued participation both on and off the stage in various aspects of play production with a goal of understanding theatre as a synthetic art, and the impact of a variety of play production crew assignments on the performance. Production crew participation is interpreted to mean involvement in the crew's activities from the planning stages through the final performance, including final strike.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Articulate proper shop and theater safety rules as part of a production team
• Identify theater shop tools used in the construction of scenic elements/ lighting design/sound design/costume construction and/or make-up
• Identify examples of a director's or stage manager's script breakdown, lighting plots, sound design with explanation of design outcomes, or costume designs
• Demonstrate proper technical knowledge and backstage conduct in the process of performing running crew duties for productions
• Present an analysis of a scene or production through the lens of one of the crew positions (noted at the end of this list)
• Discuss key factors in location scouting
• Identify historical figures and benchmarks in Western theatre, and theatre /entertainment arts in terms of commercial vs. art -- what constitutes each, and where their own personal aesthetic falls.
• Articulate the value of production credit
• Relate the significance of theatre as a collaborative art form and as a “mirror” of the society that produces it
• Provide evidence of skills required in the different technical areas in terms of ability to work as part of a crew, and an ability to work collaboratively towards a common goal

Students should show this through exemplification of performance, design, analytical or technical skills leading to performance in the capacity of at least one of the following roles in at least one production: Director, Stage Manager, Set/Light/Sound/Costume/Make-Up Designer, or Stage Technician.

 

Stage Techniques: Combat   (THA-340)   3 credits  

Course Description
Stage use of sword-play, hand-to-hand combat and combat choreography with broadsword, epee, cudgel, and staff among others.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Analyze a script or score for combat choreography needs and requirements, and develop a workable design concept
• Generate a combat choreography and the associated paperwork common to a production based on the design concept and an evaluation of the performers' spatial relationships and movement necessities in the production
• Design a theatrical production or musical that reflects the above criteria

 

Play Production I   (THA-395)   3 credits  

Course Description
Study of the artistic, technical, managerial, and financial elements of a dramatic production.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the creative process involved in play production from casting to opening;
• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the managerial aspects of stage managing a play production;
• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of how professional performances are budgeted and marketed to the public.

 

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