Lecture/seminar—4 hours. Prerequisites: DRA 160A; and
Consent of Instructor. Analysis of dramatic structure;
preparation of scenarios; the composition of plays.
Lecture/laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Analysis and practice of acting skills required for camera work
and digital media. May be repeated eight times for credit when
different instructor is assigned.
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: consent of
instructor. Lecture and intensive workshop teaching small-scale
film production. Appointments as a(n) director, director of
photography, actor, writer, lighting designer, sound designer and
other critical positions are used to produce and submit a short
film to a film festival.
Prerequisite: upper division standing and course 25, or consent
of instructor. Projects in acting, production, scene design,
costuming, lighting, directing, and playwriting. Participation in
departmental productions. May be repeated for credit.
Project; lecture/discussion—1 hour. Open to Dramatic Art Majors
who have completed 135 or more units. Capstone experience for
majors. Examination, reflection and synthesis on development.
Discussion of professional development and translatable skills.
Individual project and development of portfolio. (P/NP grading
only.)
Discussion/laboratory—6 hours; project; term paper. Prerequisite:
consent of instructor. Introduction to traditional systems for
body movement, development of critical approaches to them, and
experiments in how they inform training and practice in theatre,
dance, and performance. May be repeated five times for credit.
Offered irregularly.
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Innovative theories of creating performance spaces,
establishing a sense of place, and communicating the concept of
time explored through collaborative interaction. Research
includes traditional principles, site-specific spaces and
consideration of various tempi from music and movement.
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Historical and contemporary theories of constructing
stage identities. Discussion and project collaborations based on
theories. Questions of identity related to ethnicity, gender or
sexual orientation.
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Examine manner in which specific elements utilized by
actors, dancers, directors, choreographers, and designers are
combined or related to form a whole in space and time, as well as
methods of sequencing used by each discipline to produce artistic
products. May be repeated one time for credit.
Advanced Voice and Speech (3) Laboratory–4 hours. Open to
advanced undergraduates with consent of instructor. Voice
production and speech related to specific acting problems in
classical plays, particularly in verse. May be repeated for
credit.
The Department of Theatre and Dance advances the knowledge of the
practice, history, and the contemporary range of the diverse
repertoire of drama and choreography in its Dramatic Art major.
Students will gain understanding of both creative power and
different kinds of knowledge, interpretation, and communication
using voice, body, and gesture, spatial and material
visualization and implementation, sociocultural media, and
academic exploration, and argumentation.
