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Theater

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Introduction to Theater   (THA-101)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Examines knowledge of the fundamentals of theater art. Covers plays and theater practices from the Greeks to the present.

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

  • Understand and explain the different styles of dramatic literature: classical tragedy, Elizabethan tragedy, modern tragedy, comedy, Absurdism, Expressionism, modern social realism;
  • Understand and explain the differences in staging practices of Classical Greek/Roman theatres, Elizabethan public theatres, contemporary proscenium, thrust, and arena theatres
  • Understand and discuss theatre as an art form and how it differs from other art forms
  • Understand and discuss the parts of a modern realistic play
  • Understand and discuss theatre as a collaborative art and the many kinds of artists that make it work

 
Theater II   (THA-102)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Continued study of the art of the theater, covering dramatic literature; types of drama and theatrical events; theater design and play productions; criticism.

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

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the different styles of dramatic literature: classical tragedy, modern tragedy, comedy, Absurdism, expressionism, modern social realism;
  • Demonstrate the differences in staging practices of Classic Greek/Roman theatres, Elizabethan public theatres, contemporary proscenium, thrust, and arena theatres;
  • Demonstrate knowledge of theatre as an art form and how it differs from other art forms;
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the parts of a modern realistic play;
  • Demonstrate knowledge of theatre as a collaborative art form and the many kinds of artists that make it work.

 
History of the Theater I   (THA-400)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Survey of theater history from the beginnings through the baroque period, via close examination of stylistic evolution and influential socio-cultural factors. Particular emphasis upon the styles of classicism, medieval theatre, neo and popular classical commedia del-arte and baroque theater.

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

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the socio/political context of the theatre from the Greeks through the Renaissance
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the major playwrights of this period
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the theatrical practices during this period

 
Off Broadway Plays   (THA-303)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Study of the history of off Broadway plays, including playwrights, theater architecture, and production.

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

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the essential differences between Off Broadway theatres and Broadway theatres, including union conditions:
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the history of the Off Broadway movement;
  • Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of at least three important Off Broadway productions that moved to Broadway.

 
History of the Theater II   (THA-401)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Survey of theater history from romantic period to the present, via close examination of stylistic evolution and influential socio-cultural factors. Particular emphasis upon the styles of romanticism, naturalism, realism, symbolism, expressionism, surrealism, futurism, epic theater and theater of the abs.

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

  • Comprehension of the socio/political factors that influenced theatre of the English Restoration including theatrical practices of the time
  • Comprehension of the socio/political factors that influenced theatre of the Enlightenment, including theatrical practices of the time
  • Comprehension of the socio/political factors that influenced theatre of modern times, including theatrical practices of the time, with special emphasis on Ibsen, Stanislavski, and the rise of Realism.

 
Production II - Crew   (THA-252)   3 credits  
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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.

 
Musical Theater II   (THA-302)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Production styles, techniques and dramatic conventions used in the musical theater in relation to direction, music, dance, and design. The student will study all areas of the musical.

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

  • Demonstrate an understanding of how score and book work together to create a unified whole
  • Demonstrate an intimate understanding of two of the following roles in the mounting of a musical theatre production: Director, Choreographer, Musical Director, Designer

 
Dramatic Workshop   (THA-440)   3 credits  
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Course Description
An advanced course combining students as actors or directors engaged in research and performance of classical and contemporary styles of theatre in a "works-in-progress" atmosphere. Material will be drawn from the full spectrum of theater.

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

  • Analyze and perform a modern script;
  • Analyze and perform a classical script, such as Greek tragedy, Elizabethan, Restoration comedy.

 
Cervantes   (SPA-460)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Life and works of Cervantes; reading of Don Quijote, the Novelas Ejemplares, and his theater; emphasis on their significance to contemporary period.

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

  • Identify relevance of Cervantes' works in the Golden Age of Spain
  • Analyze two of Cervantes' works of prose and poetry
  • Summarize the significance of "Don Quijote" and "las novelas ejemplares" in the contemporary period.

 
Acting V   (THA-320)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Scenes from plays of various periods; studying the manners, mores and theatrical conventions of each selected period in order to create a heightened reality when approaching period scene work. This can be established by the extended development of characterization through a full-length production with multiple performance, or the representation of different characterizations with multiple scene work and character analysis.

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

  • Justify physical, vocal and emotional exercises in the building of strength, flexibility and spontaneity of characterization
  • Apply scriptural analysis and text scoring beyond the introductory level by analyzing the outcomes of integrating the application of the manners, mores and conventions within the production
  • Describe social, political and cultural events that have had effect on the various stages of theater's early development
  • Describe the evolution of the various parts of the theatrical process including architecture, performance and dramatic structure
  • Apply Aristotelian criteria to analysis of texts from each stage of theatre's early development and assess its influence on the development of the structure of plays
  • Develop communication abilities for performance through greater understanding and appreciate of the art of theatre HOW DO WE DO THIS?
  • Describe how theatre reflects the cultural values of society and how drama played a part in each age's enhancement of its culture's growth
  • Analyze and compare contemporary productions of theatrical texts from the Classical through the Elizabethan era with their original productions
  • Articulate the application of research in the manners, mores and theatrical conventions of a time period to a particular production or scene
  • Define the fundamental principles of acting methods commonly used by modern professional acting theorists such as Konstantin Stanislavsky, Uta Hagen and Mikhail Chekhov, and, using one character in a script, clearly demonstrate the application of theory to practice;
  • Articulate a personal theory of acting above the fundamental level
 
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