Theatre (THA)

Cultivates students judgment, perception, and creative response to theatre, emphasizing what and how theatre communicates through examining both processes and products of theatre. Lecture: 3 credits (45 contact hours).

Explores a broad spectrum of skills in the creative process of acting ensemble. Includes improvisation, movement disciplines (including theatre games, modern dance, and characterization), emotional and sensory awareness, and the process of integrating these into a clearly defined stage technique. Lecture: 3 credit hours.

Uses movement exercises, sensory work, theatre games and basic stage combat exercises to heighten physical awareness, release personal blocks, and discover the experience of being truthful with fellow actors. Continues with students moving on to individual work to establish physical techniques they will use when working on a production. Provides an exploration of physical and emotional awareness and development of a more creative use of their imaginations.Lecture: 1.0 credit hour (15 contact hours) Lab: 2.0 credit hours (90 contact hours).

Develops an understanding of the basic elements of costume and make-up design and application. Lecture: 2.0 credits (30 contact hours). Lab: 1.0 credit (45 contact hours).

Includes a comprehensive study of the basic organizational structure, processes and techniques involved in theatre design, technology and management. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).

Provides study and practice of production techniques through rehearsal and performance. May be repeated to a maximum of 2 credits. Practicum: 1.0 credit (45 contact hours).

Provides study and practice of acting and directing through rehearsal and performance. May be repeated to a maximum of two credits. Practicum: 1.0 credit hour (45 contact hours).

Provides study and practice of production techniques through rehearsal and performance. Practicum: 1 credit (45 contact hours).

Provides study and practice of acting and directing through rehearsal and performance. Practicum: 1 credit (45 contact hours).

Includes studies in the theory and application of acting, directing and production principles supplemented by written assignments to be determined by the college Theatre program. Admission by audition or selection by director/college staff. Open to apprentice students in a Summer Theatre program. Lab: 1 - 3 credit hours (45 - 125 contact hours).

Provides a study of representative dramatic literature from Greek Antiquity to the present. Lecture: 3 credits (45 contact hours).

Concentrates on several components of the acting process: preliminary study in modern acting theories, Stanislavski to the present; textual analysis, character study and scene work; studio exercises aimed at refining rehearsal skills for the actor. Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours). Laboratory: 1 credit (15 contact hours).

Introduces the actor to a performance style other than realism while continuing to develop the actor's skills in analysis and rehearsal. Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours). Laboratory: 1 credit (15 contact hours).

Provides a comprehensive study of sound production and stage lighting in principle and practice. It concentrates on the fundamentals of circuits, instrumentation, and operation of stage lights and sound. Lecture: 1.0 credit (15 contact hours). Lab: 2.0 credits (90 contact hours).

Provides a study of theory, principles and techniques of scenic design and construction. Includes assignments in practical applications. Lecture: 2.0 credit hours (30 contact hours). Lab: 1.0 credit hour (75 contact hours).

Surveys American theatre history, giving particular emphasis to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining both theatre practice and dramaturgy and placing them within an historical, social, and cultural context. Lecture: 3 credits (45 contact hours).