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• THEA 318: Creative Drama

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the use of creative drama techniques, including theatre games, improvisation, and in-role storytelling, to engage and to teach young people. Students will learn about the role of the creative drama teaching artist in the classroom and in professional theatre environments. Prerequisite:    THEA102 OR THEA112
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• THEA 340: Playwriting

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores dramatic structure, types and styles of drama, and the activities of professional playwrights. Provides students opportunities to write scripts for the stage and to explore them through exercises and performed readings of the scripts. Students analyze plays scripts and critique live performances on and/or off-campus. Prerequisite:    THEA102 OR TAR102 OR TAR103 OR TAR112 OR TART110 OR TART134 OR THEA103 OR THEA112
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• THEA 371: Scenic Design & Tech

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the elements, technology, and methods involved in the development of scenic designs for the stage. Offers extensive active opportunities to practice the creative and collaborative process resulting in viable, engaging, and dynamic products. Reinforces the importance of design work for effective storytelling by all theatre artists, regardless of focus, as well as others interested in various forms of media dependent on visual storytelling.
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• THEA 372: Makeup Design & Tech

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the elements, technology, and process involved in the development of makeup designs for the stage. Offers extensive active opportunities to practice the creative and collaborative process resulting in viable, engaging, and dynamic products. Reinforces the importance of design work for effective storytelling by all theatre artists, regardless of focus, as well as others interested in various forms of media dependent on visual storytelling.
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• THEA 373: Sound Design & Technology

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the elements, technology, and methods involved in the development of scenic designs for the stage. Offers extensive active opportunities to practice the creative and collaborative process resulting in viable, engaging, and dynamic products. Reinforces the importance of design work for effective storytelling by all theatre artists, regardless of focus, as well as others interested in various forms of media dependent on aural storytelling.
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• THEA 374: Lighting Design/Tech

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the elements, technology, and process involved in the development of lighting designs for the stage. Offers extensive active opportunities to practice the creative and collaborative process resulting in viable, engaging, and dynamic products. Reinforces the importance of design work for effective storytelling by all theatre artists, regardless of focus, as well as others interested in various forms of media dependent on visual storytelling.
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• THEA 377: Costume Design/Tech

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the elements, technology, and process involved in the development of costume designs for the stage. Offers extensive active opportunities to practice the creative and collaborative process resulting in viable, engaging, and dynamic products. Reinforces the importance of design work for effective storytelling by all theatre artists, regardless of focus, as well as others interested in various forms of media dependent on visual storytelling.
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• THEA 401: Career Seminar II

  2.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the pathways from university career to post-graduation career. Students investigate their experiences and values to learn about and to pursue job and further education opportunities available to them locally, nationally, and globally. Resume, portfolio, and presentation skills, as well as capstone proposal development are cultivated in this course. Prerequisite:    THEA101 OR TAR101
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• THEA 405: Explorations of Contemp Thtr

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the works, production techniques, and styles of selected examples of world theatre traditions in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the cultural, sociopolitical, artistic, and historiographical contexts that shape them. Areas of focus may vary in response to urgent trends within the field of theatre history and student interest in topics of advanced study. The course builds upon foundational research and analysis skills developed in earlier Theatre History/Criticism sequence courses. Prerequisite:    THEA105 AND THEA205 AND THEA305
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• THEA 411: Directing

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the principles and techniques of directing and the role of the play director in the collaborative process of pre-production, auditions, rehearsals, and performance. Provides students opportunities to develop directing skills through in-class exercises and a culminating project in which students stage short plays for an audience. Students also see and critique performances on and off-campus. Prerequisite:    THEA112 AND THEA270 OR TAR112 OR TAR270 OR TART134
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