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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Master of Science in Engineering and Technology Management program or approval of graduate program director. Describes how to apply advanced processes to move a project from start to finish utilizing the project proposal created in Project I. Covers risk analysis, effective communication, and response to problems. Emphasizes financial and project management concepts to compliment a technical background. Describes how to implement optimized project standards of innovation promotion and leadership in product and/or project launch.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys the institution of theatre and its creation, including the history of theatre, dramatic structure, play texts, and various roles in theatre production, including playwright, actor, director, producer, dramaturg, designer, production staff, house staff, technical crew, and publicist. Incorporates lectures, readings, play texts, live theatre attendance, individual projects, and group projects. Focuses on career paths and professional skills in majors-only sections. Focuses on appreciation of theatre through understanding its components in non-majors and Concurrent Enrollment sections. Emphasizes playwriting, as a writing-enriched course. Requires students to write and rewrite a ten-minute play.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed to develop the analytical skills necessary for understanding the motion picture - not only as an art form, but as a tool for the statement of ideas. Explores the visual and aural elements employed by movie-makers to influence audiences. Studies context--the historical, social, political, cultural, and artistic situation which produced the film and how it reflects ourselves and our society. Combines lecture, screening, and demonstration with critical discussions of assigned readings and films. Requires a weekly lab.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    For theatre arts majors and anyone interested in developing acting skills. Covers basic acting terminologies and definitions, techniques of movement, voice, and script analysis with a strong emphasis on performance ethics.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides student actors with tools for increasing vocal ease and expressivity, with an emphasis on cultivating free and spontaneous breath impulse. Introduces the range of human speech sounds experientially, as a prelude to detailed phonetics and accent work. Provides a framework for developing a personal practice of voice and speech outside the classroom and applying learning through in-class performance. Please note, this is a course in acting, not public speaking.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduction to character makeup application for stage and screen with emphasis on corrective, age, and period with some stylized applications. Studies include the development of physical characterization for scripted characters.. Course fee of $23 for materials applies.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Pre- or Corequisite(s): THEA 1514. Surveys all elements of theatre and film production including sets, lighting, sound, properties, and costumes. Offers experience in the construction, painting, dressing, and striking of sets and props; the hanging, focusing and gelling of lighting instruments; the preparation of sound effects; and the operation of sound and lighting control equipment. Utilizes lecture, demonstration, films, and observation of working production facilities and personnel.. Course fee of $30 for equipment applies. Corequisite:    THEA 1514
  • 1.00 Credits

    Pre- or Corequisite(s): THEA 1513. Laboratory component to THEA 1513. Provides experience in the construction, painting, and dressing of sets for current academic productions. Includes work with School of Arts Staff in the Scene Shop to develop basic set construction skills.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Provides the opportunity for students to earn college credit for supervised backstage crew positions on departmental productions. Includes assignments to wardrobe, deck crews, board operations, props and any additional positions a specific production might require. Requires participation for the entire technical rehearsal and production run to receive credit. May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credits toward graduation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces students to the analysis of story-based texts across a range of media. Focuses on the application of narrative and semiotic theory to dramatic literature from various periods in theatre history. Involves lecture, discussion, script and text analysis, film viewing, and live production attendance.