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  • THEA 312: Intermediate Acting

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Deepens the student actor's understanding of playing objectives, script analysis, characterization, and emotionally heightened circumstances. Scene work includes exploration of early realistic works as well as contemporary authors. Actors will expand their understanding of the professional audition process and respond to performances on and off campus.
    ShareTHEA 312 - Intermediate Acting

  • 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.
    ShareTHEA 318 - Creative Drama

  • 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.
    ShareTHEA 340 - Playwriting

  • 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.
    ShareTHEA 371 - Scenic Design & Tech

  • 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.
    ShareTHEA 372 - Makeup Design Tech

  • THEA 373: Sound 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 aural storytelling.
    ShareTHEA 373 - Sound Design Tech

  • 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.
    ShareTHEA 374 - Lighting Design Tech

  • 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.
    ShareTHEA 377 - Costume Design Tech

  • 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.
    ShareTHEA 401 - Career Seminar II

  • THEA 405: Explor of Cont 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.
    ShareTHEA 405 - Explor of Cont Thtr
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