*Statewide Guaranteed Transfer Courses
Course # |
Course Title and Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|
THE 105 |
Introduction to Theatre Arts *GT - Includes discussions, workshops, and lectures designed to discover, analyze and evaluate all aspects of the theatre experience: scripts, acting, directing, staging, history, criticism and theory. | 3 |
THE 111 |
Acting I - Covers basic acting techniques and approaches including scene study, improvisation, and script analysis. It includes practical application through classroom performance. | 3 |
THE 112 |
Acting II - Continues to explore basic acting techniques and approaches including scene study, improvisation, and intermediate script analysis. It includes practical application through classroom performance. | 3 |
THE 116 |
Technical Theatre - Introduces hands-on methods of constructing and painting scenery and properties and operating stage lighting. Students also learn the proper procedures of using shop equipment and serving on stage crews. | 3 |
THE 141 |
Improvisation I - Helps students learn improvisation skills for performance and character development. Emphasis is placed on “Second City” style of improvisation. | 3 |
THE 142 |
Improvisation II - Helps students continue developing improvisation skills learned in THE 141. Exercises are more advanced and difficult. Level of instruction is appropriate for experienced and/or advanced actors. | 3 |
THE 211 |
Development of Theatre I *GT - Surveys the history and evolution of drama from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance, emphasizing all aspects of the art from period values to analysis of dramatic literature and performance. | 3 |
THE 212 |
Development of Theatre II *GT - Surveys the history and evolution of drama from the Renaissance to the present, emphasizing all aspects of the art from period values to the analysis of dramatic literature and performance. Introduces film studies and surveys the American film industry as an art form, as an industry, and as a system of representation and communication. This course explores how Hollywood films work technically, aesthetically, and culturally to re-enforce and challenge America’s national self image. | 3 |