Drama (Drama)
15. Dramatic Arts Laboratory (1-2; max total 6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Group laboratory experience
in presentation of major productions for public performance. (4-8 hours
arranged)
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
131. Fundamentals of Playwriting (3; max total 9)
Exercises in plotting, characterization, exposition, and stage business,
critical analysis, and revision of manuscripts.
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.
134. Advanced Theatre Craft (3)
(Same as Ind A 134) Prerequisite: Drama 34. or permission of instructor.
Advanced training in the crafts of technical theatre; preparing plays for
major public performance.
135. Make-up for Theatre (3; max total 6)
Theory and practice of make-up for theatre; techniques for characterization,
style, and technical processes. Emphasis on basic techniques; introduction
to prosthetics. Preparing plays for major public performances.
137. Creative Dramatics (2; max total 6)
(Same as T Ed 137.) Basic techniques for the use of dramatization in elementary
education; sociodrama, dramatization of school subjects, creative dramatic
play; simplified staging techniques.
138. Children's Theatre (A-3) (B-3; max total 6)
Theories of children's theatre and application to problems in production;
preparing plays for major public performance.
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)
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 theaTtrical representation.
194. Major Writers: Shakespeare (4)
(See Engl 194T.)