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Theatre
"We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it. "
— Thornton Wilder
Textbooks for Theatre courses.

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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