Drama (Drama)
1. Fundamentals of Voice and Articulation (3) (Former Spch,
1, 20)
Primarily for majors and minors in the speech arts. Principles of voice
and articulation with demonstration in various aspects of oral communication.
15. Dramatic Arts Laboratory (1-2; max total 6)
Group laboratory experience in presentation of major productions for public
performance.
22. Fundamentals of Interpretation (3)
Discovering and communicating intellectual and emotional meaning of the
printed page through preparation and presentation of selected readings from
prose, poetry, and drama.
32. Stage Techniques (3)
Coordination, gesture, and stage business training for student actors, singers,
and directors; development and improvement of creativity, awareness, and
body control.
33. Fundamentals of Acting (3)
Fundamental techniques and theories of acting; development of individual
insight, skill, and discipline in the presentation of dramatic materials.
34. Theatre Crafts (3)
Introduction to the crafts in technical theatre scene construction, scene
painting, property selection, stage lighting, sound production; costume
construction, and make-up; laboratory experience in preparing major plays
for public performance.
62. Theatre Today (3)
Not open to theatre arts majors. Perspectives on contemporary theatre forms
and productions.
115. Advanced Dramatic Arts Laboratory (1-2; max total 9)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Group laboratory experience in presentation
of major productions for public performance. (4-8 hours arranged)
122. Oral Interpretation of Literature (3)
Analysis and communication of selected readings from prose, poetry, and
drama.
123. Oral Studies in Poetry (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Drama 25. Appreciation and communication of types of poetry,
lyric, narrative, dramatic, emphasizing their differentiation for oral presentation;
problems of content, structure, and style.
128. Oral Studies in Prose (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Drama 22. Appreciation and communication of types of prose,
emphasizing problems of content, structure, and style as they relate to
oral presentation.
129. Oral Studies in Drama (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Drama 22. Appreciation and communication of types of dramatic
literature, emphasizing problems in structure and content from the point
of view of the oral interpreter.
130. Choral Reading (3)
Selection and presentation of literature appropriate For choral reading
on various educational levels; role of choral reading in speech teaching.
131. Fundamentals of Playwriting (3; max total 9)
Exercises in plotting, characterization, exposition, and stage business,
critical analysis, and revision of manuscripts.
132. Oral Intepretation of Individual Literary Styles (3) (Former
Spch 132)
Prerequisite: Drama 22. Intensive, critical study of selected writings of
one or two significant literary figures in terms of the oral presentation.
133. Advanced Acting (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Drama 33. Advanced techniques of emotion, timing, characterization,
and style developed by study and evolution of characters from the classic
plays through the body of contemporary literature.
139. Fundamentals of Play Direction (3)
Prerequisite: Drama 33. Fundamental techniques and theories of stage direction;
function, responsibility, movement, analysis, style; practice in directing
scenes.
140. Advanced Play Direction (3)
Prerequisite: Drama 139. Advanced techniques of play direction: prerehearsal
problems and procedures; structural analysis of plays, composition, picturization,
pantomimic dramatization, movement, rhythm.
150. Theatre Management and Promotion (3)
Principles of organization, operation, and administration of educational,
community, and professional theatre; box office operation, accounting procedures,
ticket manipulation, house management, find raising, promotional media.
Supervised practical experience in dramatic art area production.
155. Sound in the Theatre (3)
Theory, techniques, and procedure necessary to develop and integrate sound,
music, and effects in theatre production; hearing, acoustics, environment,
sources, transducers, control, systems, equipment; organization and planning.
Laboratory experience in preparing plays for a major public performance.
157. Theatre Graphics (3; max total 6)
Development of rendering technique and other graphic skills essential to
design for the theatre. (Computer lab fee, $15)
174. Seminar in Theories of Oral Interpretation (3) (Former Spch
174)
Prerequisite: at least 6 upper-division units of oral interpretation courses.
Mechanical and natural schools of oral interpretation, their backgrounds
and influence upon modem teaching and performance.
176. Workshop in the Oral Presentation of Original Literature (2; max
total 4) (Former Speh 176).
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Oral presentation of literature
(prose, poetry, drama) written by students in the class.
178. Oral Studies of Shakespeare (3)
Prerequisite: Drama 22. Appreciation and communication of representative
histories, comedies, and tragedies; problems of content and structure from
the point of view of the oral interpreter.
179. Readers' Theatre (1-2; max total 6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Directed study of spoken literature
for presentation resulting in a major public performance.
180A-B. Scene Design for Theatre (3-3;
180B max total 6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (A) Styles, techniques, and methods
of scene design; history. Laboratory application, material for major public
performance. (B) Scenery design; design problems of a complicated play;
experimental ideas; new materials. Laboratory application, material for
major public performance.
181A-B. Costume History for Theatre (3)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (A) A survey of historical periods
of dress from early Egyptian civilizations to present day with an emphasis
on application to stage usage. (B) A chronological series of design projects
from the classical Greeks to contemporary Pinter with an emphasis on the
synthesis of script, research material, character analysis, and design elements.
182A-B. Stage and Television Lighting (3-3)
Prerequisite: Drama 34 or 134A-B. (A) Instruments, control, color, electromechanical
factors and simplified design and planning lighting leading to and resulting
in a major public performance. (B) Lighting as an art, design concepts;
lighting plots, projections, sequential cue relationships. Laboratory application,
material for major public performance.
184. Readings .in Dramatic Literature (3; max total 6)
Open to upper-division students of all departments. Prerequisite: permission
of instructor. Reading and discussion of great plays of history.
185. History of the Theatre and Drama I (3)
Prerequisite: Drama 163. History of European theatre and component arts
from ancient Greece through the mid-19th century; analysis of representative
examples.
186. History of the Theatre and Drama II (3)
Prerequisite: Drama 163. From Ibsen to the present; analysis of representative
examples.
187. History of the American Theatre (3)
Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Prerequisite: upper division standing.
History of the theatre in America from colonial times to the present; analysis
of representative examples.
188T. Topics in Dramatic Arts (1-6; max total 9)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Selected topics may include acting,
children's theatre, creative dramatics, play direction, technical theatre,
theatre history, dramatic literature.
189. Projects in Production (1-3; max total 9)
(See Drama 89.)
190. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study.
191. Undergraduate Seminar in Dramaturgy (3; max total 9)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Selected areas from the art of dramatic
composition and theatrical representation.
194. Shakespeare (4)
(See Engl 189.)