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TH 1391 - BFA Acting I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Acting. prereq: Accepted into BFA acting program

TH 1395 - BFA Acting II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Continuing the process of interpreting dramatic material. prereq: 1391

TH 2391 - BFA Acting III

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Applying concepts of first year of training to an ensemble performance project. Beginning of Shakespeare foundation unit. prereq: BFA student in theatre arts

TH 2395 - BFA Acting IV

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Application of process towards performance. Emphasizes Shakespeare. prereq: BFA-Acting sophomore

TH 3391 - BFA Acting V

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiencing a foreign theater culture/history. Applying process of interpreting dramatic material to plays of that culture.

TH 1392 - BFA Voice and Speech I

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Study/practice in breath centering/expansion; vocal resonance, musicality, placement; ear training; strengthening and making more flexible the muscles of speech. prereq: Accepted into BFA acting prog

TH 1396 - BFA Voice and Speech II

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Building a foundation for further work in the program. Emphasizes practicing the sounds of good American speech and of the written phonetic alphabet. prereq: 1392

TH 2392 - BFA Voice and Speech III

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Continuing to build a strong, healthy voice. Mastering written phonetics, sounds of good American speech for stage. Students begin to explore speaking of heightened verse, particularly Shakespearean text. prereq: BFA student in theatre arts

TH 2396 - BFA Voice and Speech IV

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Continuing to build a strong, healthy voice. Mastering written phonetics and the sounds of good American speech for the stage. Students begin basic dialect acquisition work for the stage. Emphasizes English/Irish dialects. prereq: BFA-acting, sophmore

TH 3392 - BFA Voice and Speech V

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Experiencing a foreign theater culture/history. Applying voice training to dramatic material of that culture.

TH 1393 - BFA Movement I

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Focuses on building a foundation for further work in program. prereq: BFA-acting major

TH 1397 - BFA Movement II

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

May include sections such as African dance, yoga, movement for actors, and circus techniques. Focuses on building a foundation for further work in the program. prereq: 1393

TH 2393 - BFA Movement III

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Deepens/refines foundation laid in BFA Movement I/II. prereq: BFA student in theatre arts

TH 2397 - BFA Movement IV

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

May include sections such as jazz dance, partner dances, and movement for actors. prereq: BFA-acting sophmore

TH 3393 - BFA Movement V

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Experiencing a foreign theatre culture/history, applying training to dramatic material of that culture. prereq: BFA student in theatre arts

TH 1501 - Introduction to Design for the Theatre

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to Design for the Theatre explores the collaborative process of theatre making with a focus on theatrical design. Students will investigate scenic, costume, lighting, and sound design in an active environment through lectures, discussions, reading assignments, writing exercises, workshops, and experiential projects. This course aims to challenge students as creative thinkers and problem solvers along with preparing them for a future as collaborative theatre makers.

TH 3521 - Introduction to Scenic Design for Theatre and Performance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course explores the role of the scenic designer in imagining theatre in space and time. We will shape the arena of dialogue between performer and audience. We will propel action through spatial composition. We will make concrete the tensions and conflicts of the play. We will investigate the composition of emotional and visual space of the theatre. We will communicate ideas by honing skills of drawing, drafting, rendering, modeling, and presentation.

TH 3531 - Introduction to Theatrical Costume Design

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Costume design process, including, researching, script analysis, the costume designer's role throughout the production process, and design problems. prereq: TH 3571

TH 3541 - Introduction to Lighting Design for the Theatre

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles and processes in lighting design and lighting technology. Collaborative process of the lighting designer through individual and group projects in a theater, including script analysis and visual literacy through sketching, drafting, and light lab projects. Individual and group projects in composition, color theory, instrumentation, control (dimming), and programming as they apply to theater, opera, and dance.

TH 3571 - Introduction to Technology for the Theatre

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is constructed to help each student experience the processes of theater production by working hands-on with production technologies & methodologies. Students will be divided into three teams for the entire semester which will move through several production disciplines & instructors; Scenic, Costumes, & Lighting in rotations of eight class sessions each, and Audio for two class sessions. These classroom projects are reinforced with 4 hours per week of Lab [ practical application and practice ] in one of the shops. We will explore the interrelationship of Production Practice through three key elements; Production Processes & Modes of Communication - [ Visual, Narrative, Data Sets ]. Production Space Systems & Equipment - [ Large Tools, Permanent Infrastructure, Auxiliary/ Temporary Infrastructure ]. Production Skills & Techniques - [ Small Tools, Proprietary Theater Equipment, Construction/ Installation Techniques ].

TH 4532 - Makeup for the Actor

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics vary. May include functions/aesthetics of stage makeup, application techniques, prosthetics, and facial hair.

TH 3395 - BFA Intensive I

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Incorporating disciplines of acting/voice/movement. prereq: BFA-acting jr

TH 4391 - BFA Intensive II

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Applying first three years of training toward performance. Seventh in sequence of eight. Acting, voice, and movement. Integrating the disciplines. prereq: BFA student in theatre arts

TH 4395 - BFA Intensive III

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Incorporating the disciplines of acting/voice/movement. prereq: BFA-acting sr

TH 3398 - BFA Rehearsal & Performance I

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Continuing the application of process towards performance. prereq: BFA-acting jr

TH 3399 - BFA Rehearsal and Performance II

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Continuing the application of process towards performance. prereq: BFA-acting jr

TH 4393 - BFA Rehearsal and Performance III

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Acting, voice, movement. Application of process toward performance. prereq: BFA student in theatre arts

TH 4394 - BFA Rehearsal and Performance IV

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Acting, voice and movement. Application of process toward performance. prereq: BFA student in theatre arts

TH 4399 - BFA Rehearsal and Performance VI

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Acting, voice, and movement. Continuing the application of process towards performance. prereq: BFA-acting sr

ENGL 1181W - Introduction to Shakespeare (LITR, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course explores the richness and variety of the playwright William Shakespeare through intensive study of representative plays and poems. Although Shakespeare died over 400 years ago, he is now more popular than ever. In his own day, Shakespeare was able to entertain, shock, amuse, and inform his audiences. Today, his work continues to have a global influence in nearly every corner of the world. Through class lectures, discussions and written work, students will be challenged and inspired by the many complexities and connections that we still have with the world's greatest playwright.

ENGL 3007 - Shakespeare (LITR)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 3007/EngL 3007H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

For over four hundred years, William Shakespeare has remained the most quoted poet and the most regularly produced playwright in the world. From Nelson Mandela to Toni Morrison, from South African playwright Welcome Msomi to Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam, Shakespeare's works have continued to influence and inspire authors and audiences everywhere. This course examines representative works of Shakespeare from a variety of critical perspectives, as cultural artifacts of their day, but also as texts that have had a long and enduring vitality. This is a required course for English majors and minors, but it should also interest any student who wants to understand why and how Shakespeare continues to be one of the most important literary figures in the English language. English majors/minors must take this course A-F only grading basis.

ENGL 3007H - Honors: Shakespeare (LITR)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 3007/EngL 3007H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Plays from all of Shakespeare's periods, including at least A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, the history plays, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, and The Winter's Tale. prereq: Honors or instr consent

TH 3171 - Western Theatre & Performance Historiography: Part I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

What does it mean to represent? By focusing on a critical examination of this and similar questions, this course will investigate how performance events from the Ancient Greece to the French Revolution are brought to our attention, how they are made worthy of notice, and how they are rationalized as significant for theatre and performance history. By studying the theories of the Western origins of theatre and drama, the censoring of creative activities in the Ancient Rome or in the Renaissance England, the appearance of female actors and playwrights in Restoration, and the fashioning of a new economic type the eighteenth century, this course will ask: what are the consequences today of using or promoting these and not other representational practices?

TH 3172 - Western Theatre & Performance Historiography: Part II (HIS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

?Dare to Think? is the motto for a critical examination of representational practices from the Age of Enlightenment until the Postmodern Condition today. We will discuss how theatre makers and thinkers responded to this call by offering playtexts and performance practices which challenged mainstream theatre in the era of the revolutions in time and space?Naturalism, Symbolism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism; Agit-Prop, Theatre of the Oppressed, Theatre for Social Change; Black, Feminist, Queer Theatres; and Pixelated Revolutions. We will investigate histories, politics, and aesthetics of theatre and performance in a variety of cultural and ideological contexts. While reviewing these representational practices, which materialize as play-texts, performances, theatre architecture, theatre rebellions and regulations, theoretical writings, etc., we will discuss how they were produced, given intelligibility, and disseminated. One may ask: what are the consequences of using or promoting these and not other representational practices? How are performance events brought to our attention by the past and present imaginations? How are they made worthy of notice are rationalized as significant for theatre history.

LNDN 3239 - Theatre in the City

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Plays are written to be appreciated in performance, not only to be read; a play does not truly come to life until it appears on a stage. The course will introduce students to the current variety of theatre being produced in London. The course aims to provide multiple levels of theatre appreciation, and is therefore open to students who both have a background in theatre and those who have a general interest in expanding their knowledge.

TH 3152W - Global Avant-Gardes: Theatre, Music, Modernity (HIS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3152W/Th 3152W/Th 5152W/
Typically offered:	Every Spring

What does it mean to be an avant-garde artist in the Global South? In postcolonial Africa and Asia, where arts were linked to national modernization projects, artists have played a key role in shaping citizens? identity, alongside schools and universities. While participating in modernizing projects, avant-garde artists maintained independence from state institutions and voiced criticism of dictators. This course examines avant-garde performance in several locations of the Global South, analyzing dramas of national history, modernist music, activist theater, cosmopolitan dance, transnational cultural circuits, and politically radical performances. Reading historical, social, and performance studies, we will develop methods for analyzing performances that aim to make transformative social interventions. These include textual analysis, ethnography, performance analysis, and tracking transnational cultural exchange. You will apply select methods in your final research paper, which centers on an avant-gardist cultural phenomenon in the contemporary Global South.

TH 4177W - Analysis of Dramatic Literature (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course trains students in the analysis of dramatic literature and develops their research skills in theatre studies, helping them understand plays within their contexts of origin and production. Taking a single theme (ex. madness, or death and mourning) the class brings together contemporary and historical plays from around the world, exploring how theatre offers a unique site to stage differences, understand marginalized experiences, and imagine alternative visions of the world. Assignments break down the writing process into its component parts, and guide students in developing a sustained interpretation of a play of their choice.

TH 5179W - Text and Performance (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How to read texts toward performance in various dramatic/nondramatic material. Method of unlocking metaphoric energy of texts. Vocabulary/techniques of analysis that transform text from page to stage. prereq: [1322, [3171 or 3172]] or grad student

TH 5182W - Contemporary Black Drama and Dramaturgies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5182W/Th 5182W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is an exploration of the impact and evolution of Black Theatre in America, covering the period rising from the Black Arts Movement to the present. The exploration will entail an understanding of cultural and socio-political issues as they are reflected in key and significant plays written and produced from the late 1950?s to the present. The plays and essays will be read against the background of significant cultural, social and literary movements - the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War politics, the Women?s Movement, Gay Liberation, the Culture Wars, post-modernism, deconstruction, multiculturalism, afro-futurism, etc. as well as the evolution of identity nomenclature and racial classification from Colored to Negro to Black to African American. In addition to play analysis and criticism, students will garner a knowledge of significant Black cultural institutions and their impact on the ever-changing American theatre landscape.

AFRO 5182W - Contemporary Black Drama and Dramaturgies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5182W/Th 5182W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is an exploration of the impact and evolution of Black Theatre in America, covering the period rising from the Black Arts Movement to the present. The exploration will entail an understanding of cultural and socio-political issues as they are reflected in key and significant plays written and produced from the late 1950's to the present. The plays and essays will be read against the background of significant cultural, social and literary movements - the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War politics, the Women's Movement, Gay Liberation, the Culture Wars, post-modernism, deconstruction, multiculturalism, afro-futurism, etc. as well as the evolution of identity nomenclature and racial classification from Colored to Negro to Black to African American. In addition to play analysis and criticism, students will garner a knowledge of significant Black cultural institutions and their impact on the ever-changing American theatre landscape.

LNDN 3210 - Historical Backgrounds of English Literature

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course

LNDN 3211 - Terror and the Witch: Fictions of Witchcraft from Shakespeare to Harry Potter

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course

LNDN 3212W - Travel Writing: Topics in Composition (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3213 - 20th and 21st Century Art

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Art movements and major artists of Modern period, 1900-1970. Various visual media in relation to theories, historic events, scientific/technological changes, and literature. Emphasizes European art. Influences from other cultures.

LNDN 3215 - British Theatre Now and Then

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3217W - Writing the City: London (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3218 - Contemporary British Film

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course

LNDN 3219 - London Across History, Literature and Film

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad.

LNDN 3220W - Contemporary World Architecture in London (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3221W - Writing a Play (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3222 - Detective Fiction: Crime and the City

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3223 - Special Studies in Economics: Globalization Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3226 - Religion in Modern Britain: A Comparative Perspective

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3230 - The Aesthetics of Power, Prestige and Social Change: A Survey of Renaissance through Modern Art Hist

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course

LNDN 3232 - Modern Art in London: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course

LNDN 3233 - Queer Studies and LGBTQ Life in London and the Global World

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course

LNDN 3235 - Witchcraft and Magical Performance in London

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course

LNDN 3236 - The Law of Wrongful Convictions

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Wrongful convictions are a universal problem that in recent years has received a great deal of attention from the media, legislatures, and courts around the world. From the Netflix series "The Making of a Murderer" to the NPR podcast "Serial" there is a growing fascination with how people are wrongfully convicted and the processes and procedures used to right these wrongs. This course is taught by a law professor who has spent his career litigating wrongful conviction cases and directing the California Innocence Project. It is designed to provide students with an overview of the issues and case law related to wrongful convictions through the use of interactive exercises, lectures, readings, videos, and case studies.

LNDN 3237 - International Comparative Studies of Issues Impacting Education Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

The course provides students with an introduction to the school system in their study location and that of the other CAPA study locations. There will then be opportunities to compare it to the American system and to other learning communities in the world to better understand how they reflect and perpetuate the cultural values and identity of a country. Students will explore current educational issues from an intercultural perspective and develop their own informed views. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired a basic knowledge and understanding about the structure and content of contemporary school systems and a capacity to use this knowledge for cross-national comparisons. The insights gained will allow students to consider a key question: how can we all contribute to the school of the future? This course is designed as a CAPA Globally Networked Programme (GNL) connecting CAPA students in different study locations in order to examine issues from a transnational perspective. It will provide a unique opportunity to broaden critical understanding of the school system role in the identity building process at an individual, social, political, and national level. Through collaborative and comparative learning processes in both local environments and transnational communities, students will develop a deeper understanding of the school system role in shaping values, societies, and cultures.

LNDN 3238 - Literature and the Environment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course examines the ways in which writers in English have engaged with the natural environment. We will read a range of authors, from the advent of industrialization in the late eighteenth century up to the present age of climate change, to consider how they have celebrated the ?natural world,? and looked critically at human effects on ecosystems. Throughout, we will be attentive both to the literary qualities of writings about the environment and to their historical and political contexts. We will be studying a range of genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, websites and photographic texts. The course will be organized chronologically, with units on key ideas in the study of literature in relation to the environment: pastoral, wilderness, pollution, apocalypse, and ecosystems. Since the course will be set in London, we will also consider the design and representation of ?urban nature,? including parks, gardens, zoos, riverbanks, and art exhibits. There will be some out-of-class visits and walks (with attention to accessibility, as needed).

LNDN 3242 - Global Perspectives on Human Rights in Action

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

The notion of human rights has become central to global politics today. It is not a single subject but a broad field of potential investigation: this intensive seminar provides a multi-disciplinary introduction to the topic, critically examining the politics of human rights, their contentious nature and uneven global implementation. Throughout, the focus will be on practical issues and the contested politics of human rights in action through a range of topical case studies. Students will evaluate key debates about the politics and morality of human rights, analyze and explore the theoretical foundations of human rights concepts and topical issues relating to human rights from a variety of global, regional and local perspectives. The course critically examines the history and development of concepts of human rights and the philosophies underpinning them, as well as current frame-works of international human rights law and the relationship among current debates in human rights, political power and social injustice. Topics to be covered will include human rights and international relations; humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect; postcolonial and feminist critiques of human rights; the intersection of human rights with gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class; the relationship between human and civil rights; women's, children's and indigenous peoples' rights; and the practical implementation and enforcement of human rights.

LNDN 3243 - London Museums: Introduction to British Museology, Society and Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In the early twenty-first century, museums are becoming increasingly more relevant to all parts of society, exhibition displays are often controversial and politically charged. This course is an introduction to both British society, culture and museology. The course considers museums as reflections of the British psyche, unique cultural constructs that help us understand "Britishness". We will also be looking at museums as institutions of "global" heritage in the context of a global city, with a unique British perspective. As an introduction to museology, the course will look at the development of the modern museum and its operation, as well as interrogate the different types of museums. We will look at the impact British history, society and politics have had on London museums, their creation and their day to day operations and audiences. Taking advantage of our location, we will do field work in eight different museums, from the famous and vast "global" British Museum to the small and privately-owned Saatchi Gallery. Students will analyze the ways in which imperialism and its legacy, as well as Britain's global relationships have influenced museum development and how this gives rise to the politics of patrimony. We will look at questions of cultural appropriation and the political debate on repatriation versus protection. This debate has recently been energized by the depredations of IS on what many would call the global heritage of Iraq and Syria. We will also be looking at material culture and what it says about individuals and society. Students will examine the choices, ethics and political and social meanings of both creating material culture and collecting it, and the ethics of preservation and restoration. While the creation of material culture has specific psychological, social and often political meanings; collecting, preserving and displaying one particular object involves a very complex decision-making process which is influenced by the cultural values of the decision maker. We will examine, for example, the impact of the Classical period on British society in the past and present, its importance to class and education in Britain, and how this is reflected in museum collections. Students will also look at the complex decision making of conservators and restorers. These decisions have social and political impact, choosing to emphasize one period and use over another. The course will also look closely at decision makers and their role in the museum industry, the origins of museums from individuals to trade exhibitions and current museum professionals, as well as the impact museum audiences have on the work of museums. Students will also examine the impact of communities on museum development, on exhibition creation, how engaged museums are with their communities, and how the unique diversity of London is reflected (or not) in its museums.

LNDN 3245 - Comparative Health Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Health care systems are having to respond to a number of competing challenges. The pressures of globalization, aging populations, increasing patient demands and the rising costs of research and medical treatments are forcing us to look more critically at how healthcare is delivered to devise changes for the future. Changes made to health systems are often based on economic and political rationale and with many countries currently experiencing significant changes to the way in which health care systems have historically been funded and delivered. This course will introduce students to the healthcare system in the UK and the context within which it operates. It will start by looking at the introduction of the National Health System (NHS) in 1948 and take students through the key changes that have taken place right up to the present day. Drawing on a series of cases studies, students will be able to compare the UK model of healthcare with other healthcare systems such as in the USA, France, Sweden and/or from low and middle-income countries. Students will explore a range of key concepts and themes in comparative healthcare from a multidisciplinary perspective. They will also develop critical appraisal skills to assess the quality of evidence used to support developments in healthcare policy and practice and help students to look critically at the role that governmental and non-governmental organizations play in healthcare. Throughout this course, special attention will be paid to comparisons between the UK, USA and low and middle-income countries to allow students to directly relate their learning to their own educational and healthcare setting and contrasting health systems worldwide. Emphasis will be placed on the multiple factors that determine health at the individual and population levels. By comparing patterns of health across different demographic groups, immigration status and so on, students will explore a range of different intersections to expand their understanding of impacts of health inequalities on different populations, and how different countries have sought to address these inequalities.

LNDN 3249W - Experiencing Globalization: Society, Space and Everyday Life in London (SOCS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

What is globalisation? How is it transforming the world and everyday life, and why has it become so controversial? Who are the winners and losers in a globalising world and what are the implications for our shared global future? How do developments in London relate to major shifts in the workings of the world over the last four decades? As a city with complex global connections, London has been enmeshed in deepening global social, political and ecological crises, as well as becoming an important arena of conflict over efforts to address them. This course critically explores these issues by examining the city?s complex relationship with the forces of globalisation and the ways in which everyday life and experience in London, as well as its people, institutions, and organizations, have been shaped by - and are contributing to - global change. Emphasis will be placed on critically examining the effects of neoliberal globalisation, the growing (though uneven) global dominance of projects promoting increasing freedoms for capital under the banners of ?free markets? and ?free trade.? This course also highlights a variety of collective challenges to these projects, some of which operate largely within the confines of London, others organized along trans-local and transnational lines. Their economic, political, cultural, and ecological aspects will be analyzed, examining the importance of class dynamics and their intersection with gender, ethnicity and other processes of hierarchical ordering. Theoretical and conceptual concerns will also be addressed, such as relations between the local and the global, the workings of power and contestation under neoliberal conditions, the interplay of space, class, and gender, and questions of responsibility within and beyond the limits of community and place.

LNDN 3251 - Strategic Communication and Social Media: Theory and Practice (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This class combines theoretical analysis, case studies, and hands-on practice to understand and execute traditional and online communications strategies. The course will begin with a literature review of theories and principles relevant to the practice of strategic communication and social media practices including media effects, Internet effects, and uses and gratification theory. Second, cases studies will be utilized to investigate the effectiveness of messaging strategies employed by not-for-profit and commercial organizations as well as individual actors such as businesses, politicians, and influencers. Finally, students will work for a real-world client and their own portfolios to formulate an overarching communication strategy inclusive of recommendations for messaging strategies across all platforms (traditional messaging, website, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, press releases, e-blasts, and speeches.)

LNDN 3253W - Contemporary Issues through Community Engagement: Social Dynamics of London (CIV, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This is an interdisciplinary course with a sociological focus, as well as a unique opportunity to become directly involved in the realities of community engagement and grassroots politics. It is designed to stimulate critical thought and reflection on urban inequalities in London and to introduce students to topical debates about how best to manage the challenges of a diverse city. The course will explore the historical, sociological, and political context of community and service in the United Kingdom (UK). It will also examine in depth forms of social, economic, and political exclusion, such as uneven access to health care, education, financial resources and political representation, and analyse the social dynamics within and between the multiple communities which co-exist in London. The course therefore combines classroom learning with practical exposure in placements to foster knowledge and understanding of community service in the UK today. Weekly seminars and readings enable participants to understand contemporary social dynamics and illuminate such issues as the history of welfare provision, urban regeneration, political power, social deprivation, and the interplay of class, gender, and ethnicity in the city. Three key interrelated themes will be followed throughout the semester in order to provide a structured reflection on questions which affect society today: urban life?including topical issues such as social polarization and neighbourhood change; super-diversity?multiculturalism and the impact of immigration on identity politics and community relations; welfare and exclusion?marginalized groups, uneven access to services, the changing role of the state, poverty, housing, and homelessness.

LNDN 3254W - Introduction to Science Fiction (LITR, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

What lies beyond ?The Final Frontier?? Why does it matter if androids dream of electric sheep? What will our future look like and who will be there to enjoy it? What role do technology, ethics, and/or politics play in imagining our future? Why has science fiction become such a central metaphor for our daily, lived experiences? Introduction to Science Fiction discusses them all. This course is designed to expose students to a broad spectrum of science fiction. We will examine representative texts from each of the modern, roughly defined as the 20th and 21st Centuries, ?periods? of the genre. The class will discuss the ongoing debate surrounding the ?work? performed by the genre, as well as its themes, and stylistic movements.

LNDN 3255 - Moving Images Editing: Theory and Practice (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Moving images are ubiquitous. As one of the most pervasive manifestations of the digital age, they broke out with the confines of the cinema theatre and show up on the multitude of screens around us. Just as we are surrounded by many forms of the audio-visual, we also encounter a multitude of editing practices. From blockbusters to YouTube videos, we experience images that are carefully selected and artfully cut in a way that is entertaining, persuasive, or simply moving. The course is designed to introduce students to the theory, practice, and art of editing. It intertwines historical accounts of editing practice with media analysis and hands-on exercises. Each of the first nine sessions is devoted to one of the key concepts that illuminates intersections between media and culture: conversation, gaze, action, persuasion, story, beat, humour, metaphor, and voice. Each session is then divided into three distinctive parts. The first uses film excerpts to showcase editing devices employed in relation to the theme of the class. The second introduces a theoretical understanding of the pertinent editing procedures and instigates a discussion around them. In the last part of the session, students will use a pre-selected set of clips to create their own edit. The course is based on an innovative approach to editing techniques that sees them in a close dialogue with the underlying cultural phenomena that shape the current media landscape.

LNDN 3256 - Digital Media Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Digital media permeate most social and economic interactions of today. Still and moving images not only serve entertainment but also inform the way we communicate, learn about the world, purchase goods, and express our identities. This course focuses on digital media as a contemporary means of communication placing them in the context of remix culture. It will take students through the core themes of narrative, rhetoric, remix, and voice, exploring them through two areas of practice-based investigation: composition and audio-visual techniques. This intensive and comprehensive course will allow students to create their own portfolio, including a selection of digital media techniques used in a wide range of settings, from marketing videos to audio-visual essays. Quickly and efficiently students will learn how to produce videos for social media, conduct interviews, and present themselves in front of the camera. The course will offer basic skills in digital photography, camerawork, editing and podcast production. Students will also be able to choose one of the four specialised areas which include VR production, social media advertising, audiovisual essay filmmaking, and digital journalism. The content of the students? portfolios will be produced as part of weekly assignments throughout the course, as students develop their skills, with a final project in their area of specialisation. While the emphasis is on practice, each class includes a theoretical discussion that provides a critical framework for working with visual media. Topics explored include copyright and political aspects of the online, as well as its business and marketing side. This will allow students to both understand the cultural context of digital media and use them effectively.

LNDN 3323 - Shakespeare in London

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Representative sampling of Shakespeare, including the four major tragedies. Some attention to English Renaissance period and Shakespeare's time.

LNDN 3324 - 20th Century British Fiction

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Responses to colonialism, impact of World War I, changing conditions for women and for contemporary multicultural Britain. Literary movements/styles (realism, modernism), narrative techniques/perspectives (1st/3rd person, limited point-of-view, stream of consciousness). Use of symbolism, imagery, irony, etc. Role of author/reader. Problems of interpretation.

LNDN 3328 - British Cinema

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Major works of 20th century British drama. Focuses on postwar period. Students read/see plays.

LNDN 3333 - Understanding Modern Britain

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to social/cultural differences between Britain and the United States. British class/culture, monarchy/aristocracy, education system, media.

LNDN 3342 - European Economic History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

European economic history, 1000 AD to today. Industrial revolution, development of capitalism from feudalism. Reasons Europe took world technological lead during Middle Ages. Factors affecting economic growth, prosperity, and technological change.

LNDN 3343W - Post War Popular Culture (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

London as center for international popular culture, from WWII to present.

LNDN 3432 - Western European Government and Politics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Comparative framework. Assumes that West European states maintain types of institutions/processes in common (e.g., legislatures, parties, elections) but that country-to-country institutions/processes are distinct. Reasons for differences, impact that such diversity has on course of politics as east/west divisions dissolve. Focuses on Great Britain.

LNDN 3500 - CAPA Seminar in London

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Study abroad course

LNDN 3530 - Ethical Issues and the Media

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Principal ethical issues facing print/broadcast journalism. Practical dilemmas, moral framework. Real time arguments that arise in media coverage of matters of public controversy. Regulation, codes of practice. Case studies, visits, guest lectures.

LNDN 3531 - Advertising and Marketing in Britain

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Forms of advertising and public relations techniques used by organizations to communicate with stakeholders. Consumer motivation/appeal. Media structures, effectiveness. Target audiences. Print/broadcast production, budgeting and promotion mix planning. Students design, cost, and implement an advertising campaign, and project the likely success rate.

LNDN 3532 - Visualizing Britain: Film and Television Documentaries

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Canon of British film/television d00ocumentary from end of the 19th century to beginning of 21st Century. Drama-documentaries tackling/attracting major public controversies.

LNDN 3533 - Women in Britain in the 21st Century

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Momentous changes in women's lives during 20th Century. Impact of two world wars, economic dislocation/recovery, revolutions in colonial states, super power rivalry, proxy wars, end of cold war, new international alliances/collectivities.

LNDN 3534 - Criminal London: Aspects of Crime and Criminal Justice in Britain

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Late Middle Ages, Tudor/Stuart periods. Eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Evolution of courts/criminal procedure. Debates, including death penalty and jury system. Visits to courts and places of interest.

LNDN 3536 - Child Development in a British Context

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Scio-cultural approach to contemporary issues of children?s development. How life in the UK shapes children?s development. Early attachments. Development of the self. Emergence of consciousness. Role of play. Origins of disturbing behavior.

LNDN 3613 - Analyzing and Exploring the Global City: London--Modernity, Empire, and Globalization

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3614 - Citizenship and Gender in Modern Europe

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3615 - Urban Underworlds in Medieval and Early Modern London: A Literary Exploration

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3733 - International Finance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Focuses on Europe. International marketing strategies of European companies. Special features of European Common Market, business environment.

LNDN 3752 - International Marketing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Focuses on Europe. International marketing strategies of European companies. Special features of European Common Market and business environment.

LNDN 3753 - International Economics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Comparative advantage, classical/neoclassical models, distribution consequences of trade. Resource endowments, technological gaps, economies of scale, product differentiation, location. Tariffs, quotas, other forms of intervention. Preferential trading arrangements.

LNDN 3754 - Creative Writing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Creative writing course for the Study and Internships in London program.

LNDN 3756 - Topics in London

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics course for the Study and Internships in London program.

LNDN 3757 - British History in the 20th Century

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

British history course for the Study and Internships in London program.

LNDN 3758 - International Business Environment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course on Study and Internships in London program.

LNDN 3759 - Islam, Politics, and Britain: A Case Study of London's East End

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Study abroad course.

AAS 3311 - Asian American Theater

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3311/Th 3311
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Through submerging students in both theater history and practice, this class brings students closer to the history, experiences, and politics of Asian Americans. Why are Asian American stories needed and how do we tell them? What are the artistic and social agendas driving the making of Asian American theater? How have the styles of performance shifted? While we will be actively working on readings and original theater projects, you don't need to be a theater expert to enjoy this class. Topics will include reading plays by Frank Chin, David Henry Hwang, Wakako Yamauchi, Naomi Iizuka, and others; looking at the history of Asian American theater companies; discussing creative approaches to casting, acting, directing, and design; and building collaborations among companies, audiences, and communities.

TH 3100 - Theatre Lab Practicum

Credits:	1.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is for the student to gain more experience, develop new skills, or possibly hone current ones through practical application in the Theatre Arts Shops. Students will complete hours in the Scenery/Properties shop, Costume Shop, Sound/Media Lab, or Light Lab throughout the semester. Registration in TH 3100 is also available for students using show hours to serve in a production capacity on a main stage show, such as technical direction or master electrician.

TH 3115 - Introduction to Playwriting

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Study of traditional play structure, characterization, dialogue, dramatic action, and theme. Final project is a one-act play.

TH 3120 - Theatre: Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introdution to diverse ways of thinking about theatre and its representational practices. Students explore traditional/non-traditional modes of performance through readings, discussions, and hands-on performance projects. Seminar-style course. prereq: 1101

TH 3152W - Global Avant-Gardes: Theatre, Music, Modernity (HIS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3152W/Th 3152W/Th 5152W/
Typically offered:	Every Spring

What does it mean to be an avant-garde artist in the Global South? In postcolonial Africa and Asia, where arts were linked to national modernization projects, artists have played a key role in shaping citizens? identity, alongside schools and universities. While participating in modernizing projects, avant-garde artists maintained independence from state institutions and voiced criticism of dictators. This course examines avant-garde performance in several locations of the Global South, analyzing dramas of national history, modernist music, activist theater, cosmopolitan dance, transnational cultural circuits, and politically radical performances. Reading historical, social, and performance studies, we will develop methods for analyzing performances that aim to make transformative social interventions. These include textual analysis, ethnography, performance analysis, and tracking transnational cultural exchange. You will apply select methods in your final research paper, which centers on an avant-gardist cultural phenomenon in the contemporary Global South.

TH 3316 - Voice for the Actor

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Anatomy/physiology of vocal/respiratory mechanisms. Abdominal breathing, forward tonal placement, articulation of consonants, vocal projection. IPA phonetic transcription and vowel standardization for American Standard Stage Speech. Techniques applied to performance of monologues. prereq: 1101, 1321, 1322

TH 3321 - Acting I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Acting I explores the acting process using the canon of 20th century realism. The class will cover the basics of embodiment for the actor, observation as the root of character creation, analysis of text from an actors perspective, and rehearsal techniques. The core of the course is the preparation of scenes and monologues in class. Students will also complete a variety of class compositions, readings, and will see and analyze live performances.

TH 3322 - Acting II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Acting II explores the acting process using scripts from primarily heightened or non-realistic texts. This can include a range of genres from Shakespeare to absurdism to contemporary performance and plays. This course covers the basics of embodiment for the actor, creativity and observation as the roots of character creation, analysis of text from an actors perspective and rehearsal techniques. The core of the course is the preparation of scenes and monologues in class. Students will also complete a variety of class compositions, readings and will see and analyze live performances.

TH 3330 - Physical Approaches to Acting

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Dynamic physical approach to acting. Expanding expressiveness/creativity. Strengthening connections between physical/vocal expression. Uniting instinct and intellectual analysis. Techniques as advanced by Delsarte, Meyerhold, Grotowski, Kantor, Suzuki, Barba, etc., and structured improvisation, are incorporated in solo/collaborative performance projects. prereq: 1322, [3314 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 3314], audition, instr consent

TH 3332 - Circus Performance

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Strength/conditioning, aerial techniques. Acrobatics to improve timing/muscular structure. Juggling to improve hand-eye coordination and showmanship.

TH 3361 - Introductory Musical Theater

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

History of American musical theater. Videos/discussions, basic music theory, voice, dance, acting, audition techniques. Solo/ensemble presentations for public class performance.

TH 3381 - Theater Storytelling and Solo Performance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Live storytelling and solo performance as theatrical art form. How to turn personal experiences into stage stories. Guests perform, discuss their work, and critique student work. Students develop short monologues/performances and conclude with original solo theater performance/story.

TH 3521 - Introduction to Scenic Design for Theatre and Performance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course explores the role of the scenic designer in imagining theatre in space and time. We will shape the arena of dialogue between performer and audience. We will propel action through spatial composition. We will make concrete the tensions and conflicts of the play. We will investigate the composition of emotional and visual space of the theatre. We will communicate ideas by honing skills of drawing, drafting, rendering, modeling, and presentation.

TH 3531 - Introduction to Theatrical Costume Design

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Costume design process, including, researching, script analysis, the costume designer's role throughout the production process, and design problems. prereq: TH 3571

TH 3541 - Introduction to Lighting Design for the Theatre

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles and processes in lighting design and lighting technology. Collaborative process of the lighting designer through individual and group projects in a theater, including script analysis and visual literacy through sketching, drafting, and light lab projects. Individual and group projects in composition, color theory, instrumentation, control (dimming), and programming as they apply to theater, opera, and dance.

TH 3559 - Introduction to Sound Design for the Theatre

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Basics of audio design for theatre. Script analysis, audio editing, music research, basic system design, paperwork, cue building. Basic components of audio design. Final project will involve applying skills to partially realized design. prereq: 1501

TH 3571 - Introduction to Technology for the Theatre

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is constructed to help each student experience the processes of theater production by working hands-on with production technologies & methodologies. Students will be divided into three teams for the entire semester which will move through several production disciplines & instructors; Scenic, Costumes, & Lighting in rotations of eight class sessions each, and Audio for two class sessions. These classroom projects are reinforced with 4 hours per week of Lab [ practical application and practice ] in one of the shops. We will explore the interrelationship of Production Practice through three key elements; Production Processes & Modes of Communication - [ Visual, Narrative, Data Sets ]. Production Space Systems & Equipment - [ Large Tools, Permanent Infrastructure, Auxiliary/ Temporary Infrastructure ]. Production Skills & Techniques - [ Small Tools, Proprietary Theater Equipment, Construction/ Installation Techniques ].

TH 3711 - Beginning Directing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The goal of this class is to introduce you to the basic work and process of the stage director. We will emphasize the practical tasks of analysis, casting, rehearsing, and staging. Our stylistic focus will be on contemporary realistic/naturalistic theater (rather than experimental forms or verse plays). The classwork will invite you to explore many aspects of the craft of directing, including the following: � Defining the role of the director: responsibility & relationships to playwright/actors/audience. � How to think and conceptualize like a director. � What is blocking? How does it work? Who creates it? Staging actions and events. � Understanding the building blocks of life on stage through composition & scene work. � Analysis of dramatic text from the director?s point of view (and expressing it in writing). � Preparation in the role of the director ? historical/textual/visual research. � Rehearsing and working with actors - What makes a good rehearsal? What is the relationship between actors and director?

TH 3716 - Stage Management

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Production process, pre-production to maintaining/closing. Managing rehearsals, communication, conflict resolution. Individual/group projects: promptbook building, blocking notation, Cue placement/execution, scene breakdowns, creating/maintaining checklist, building a form library. prereq: 1501 or instr consent

TH 3950 - Topics in Theatre

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

TH 4115 - Intermediate Playwriting

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New methods of play construction. How characteristic plays from particular contemporary styles create original theatrical effects by using/breaking dramatic conventions. Writing exercises, workshoping of student plays. prereq: 3115 or [writing sample, instr consent]

TH 4177W - Analysis of Dramatic Literature (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course trains students in the analysis of dramatic literature and develops their research skills in theatre studies, helping them understand plays within their contexts of origin and production. Taking a single theme (ex. madness, or death and mourning) the class brings together contemporary and historical plays from around the world, exploring how theatre offers a unique site to stage differences, understand marginalized experiences, and imagine alternative visions of the world. Assignments break down the writing process into its component parts, and guide students in developing a sustained interpretation of a play of their choice.

TH 4321 - Career Preparation for the Theatre Artist

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

From personal reflection to real-world insights and hands-on experiences, this course will delve deeply into the skill sets and mindsets important for arts professionals in theater and related fields. I envision our time together as a combined exploration of philosophical, political, and practical questions, thinking through who you want to BE as an artist, what you want your art to DO, and the TOOLS you'll need to manifest that vision in the world. The course will connect you with resources on and off campus, introduce you to professionals working in various facets of the field, engage you in readings and hands-on workshops to deepen your thinking and expand your toolkit, and will culminate in a portfolio project that you can take with you as you transition to life after college. Most importantly, I want this course to be useful and valuable to you, so I will be seeking your input about what you most need, and we'll shape the course accordingly.

TH 4322 - Acting for the Camera

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Differences between stage acting and acting for camera. Hands-on experience with film equipment. Scenes/monologues rehearsed/performed for camera. Videotape playback for class critique. prereq: 1301 or 3321

TH 4380 - BA Studio Production: Creative Collaboration

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Creative Collaboration is the cornerstone class for BA Performance, turning research into practice through scripted and devised performance paradigms. Each semester students will work with practitioners from eclectic backgrounds to develop original or scripted work focused in one of the six areas of performance; directing; physical theater; realism, playwriting, music driven theater, and object/puppet theater. Classes will culminate in a formal or workshop performance, depending on the goal of each specific collaboration. Non-performers such as designers, dramaturgs and technicians may take the course for credit and serve as part of the collaborative team. The course is open to any University of Minnesota student through the audition or interview process.

TH 4555 - Audio Technology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Sound as science. Technology to create/manipulate sound. Recording techniques. Effects/signal processing. Microphone/mixing techniques. prereq: 1501 or instr consent

TH 4711 - Intermediate Stage Direction

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

The goal of the class is to introduce you to the basic work and process of the stage director with particular focus on directing of non-realistic theatre and performance. We will be focusing on analysis, casting, rehearsing, and composing moments and performances working from written plays, non- theatrical material and personal story. The class will invite you to take on the following: ? Thinking and conceptualizing like a director ? Understanding analysis for non-realistic texts ? Staging actions and events ? Honing critical analysis of performances from directors point of view ? Analysis of dramatic text from the director?s point of view (and expressing it in writing) ? Rehearsing and working with actors ? Researching and communicating with designers ? Confronting the assumptions about what theatre is and choosing to keep or discard them

TH 4905H - Honors: Tutorial Seminar in Theatre Arts

Credits:	2.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Independent reading/research in preparing honors thesis or selected creative project. prereq: Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: 4905; honors, theatre arts, dept consent; limit [2 cr for [cum laude or magna cum laude], 4 cr for summa cum laude]

TH 5100 - Theatre Practicum

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Individual creative projects in production of approved plays as an actor, director, dramaturg, or playwright. (See 5500 for design practicums.) prereq: instr consent, dept consent; 4 cr of 3100 for undergrads

TH 5117 - Performance and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Reading, writing, research, presentations and workshops explore activist performance projects. Theories of social formation and ideology provide framework to discuss/animate theater's potential for social change. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student

TH 5179W - Text and Performance (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How to read texts toward performance in various dramatic/nondramatic material. Method of unlocking metaphoric energy of texts. Vocabulary/techniques of analysis that transform text from page to stage. prereq: [1322, [3171 or 3172]] or grad student

TH 5183 - Critical Literacy, Storytelling, and Creative Drama

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CI 5483/ TH 5183
Typically offered:	Every Summer

This course examines and embodies how storytelling and creative drama can be used as tools to help develop students? critical literacy and to assist them in becoming more fluent readers and writers. Critical literacy is the focus; theater and storytelling are the vehicles. Key topics to be covered include: 1) A historical background on fairy and folk tales, legends, fables, myths, and the different oral traditions; 2) Tools for developing a critical view of diverse tales; 3) Practical instruction on how to use storytelling and story genres in the classroom to develop critical literacy; 4) Assessing storytelling work in the classroom. Students will meet in the first week at the University to learn tools of the Neighborhood Bridges program and in the second week will practice and observe each other?s teaching with local school classrooms. In the past we have worked with 4th graders and 6th graders, though we will also discuss how course content applies to high school students. The class meets for two intensive weeks in person, however, we additionally assign pre-readings and post-class reflections and papers.

TH 5330 - Comedy: Advanced Physical Performance Studio

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Mechanics of creating physical comedy. Focuses on process using clown, Comedia dell'arte, Bouffons, or improvisational comedy. Exercises on how comedy is born from tragedy and state of conflict within one's self. prereq: 3330, audition

TH 5340 - Advanced Acting Studio: Tragedy/Poetry

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Specific training paradigms in actor training employed by Stanislavski, Grotowski, Brecht, Lecoq, etc. Psychological, emotional, technical, and physical work. Tragic action in Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, Melodrama, operatic characterization, Brecht. Original tragic/poetical work for embodying dramatic text effectively.

TH 5355 - Puppetry: Techniques and Practice in Contemporary Theater

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of puppet and object theater/performance are introduced through traditional/contemporary puppetry forms. Focuses on object theater, toy theater, hand puppets, and shadow/Bunraku-style puppets. Readings, in-class screenings of videos/slides. Students build/create series of short works for in-class performance. prereq: [[3513 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 3513], instr consent] or grad student

TH 5500 - Theatre Design Practicum

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 20.0]
Prerequisites:	Th 3521, 3531, or 3541
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Individual projects in production of approved plays as a designer of scenery/properties, costumes, lighting, or sound. (See 5100 for other creative practicums.) prereq: Th 3521, 3531, or 3541

TH 5510 - Drawing, Rendering, and Painting for the Theatre Designer I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	1501 or grad
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Development of skills necessary for presentation of theatre scene/costume designs. Materials, layout, and techniques in scene painting. Basic drawing/graphic skills. prereq: 1501 or grad

TH 5520 - Scene Design

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Prerequisites:	3521
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Conceiving/communicating design ideas in both two-dimensional sketches and three-dimensional models for theatre and allied venues. Drafting. prereq: 3521

TH 5530 - Costume Design

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Theory and process of costume design for theatrical productions (e.g., dance, opera, film) through hypothetical productions. prereq: 3531

TH 5540 - Lighting Design for the Theatre

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Prerequisites:	3541
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Design aesthetics and exploration of design for various stage forms and venues. Development of the lighting plot and paperwork; use of the computer in lighting design. prereq: 3541

TH 5545 - Stage Lighting Technology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

The lighting technician's skills and crafts: equipment, techniques, control operation, wiring, and maintenance. prereq: 3515 or grad or instr consent

TH 5559 - Sound Design for Performance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Audio technology/psychology, their impact on audience in a performance. Communication, design process, psychoacoustics, script analysis. prereq: 4555 or instr consent

TH 5560 - Drawing, Rendering, and Painting for the Theatre Designer II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Development of skills necessary for presentation of theatre scene/costume designs. Materials, layout, and techniques in scene painting. Rendering and scene painting skills. prereq: 5510

TH 5570 - Properties/Scenery Technology

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Management, structures, upholstery, mask-making, furniture construction, stage mechanics, soft properties, faux finishes. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3515 or grad or instr consent

TH 5580 - Costume Technology

Credits:	3.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fabric enhancement techniques, masks, wig-making, millinery, makeup prosthetics, pattern drafting, and draping. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3571 or grad or instr consent

TH 5590 - Theatre Technology Practicum

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Individual creative project in technology/craft area of theatre. Practical work in costume, lighting, makeup, props, scenery, sound, or theatre management. prereq: 3515, instr consent, dept consent; 4 cr max for undergrads

TH 5711 - Advanced Stage Direction

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Realistic/nonrealistic dramatic forms. Theory/technique of rehearsal. Production problems. Includes directing of three one-act plays. prereq: [4711, instr consent] or grad student

TH 5716 - Stage Management for the Theatre

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Theories, practicalities, and techniques for rehearsal/performance. Organizing/managing various types of performance venues. prereq: [1101, 1321, soph] or grad

TH 5760 - Advanced Stage Management

Credits:	2.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

TH 5760 is practical experience in stage management for specific productions of the University Theatre with emphasis on rehearsal and performance. In addition to rehearsals, design meetings, and performances, the students will meet with the Production Stage Manager weekly. The purpose of this weekly meeting (class) is to mentor a lead Stage Manager of a TAD Mainstage. The Mainstage Stage Manager and PSM will meet weekly for 90 minutes. Each weekly meeting time will be determined based on the individual students? schedule. Weekly meetings will begin two weeks prior to their first rehearsal and end one week after the final project performance. Attendance of individual weekly meetings are required and expected. Please be on time. Always bring your promptbook and laptop. Be prepared for weekly discussion. PSM will visit rehearsals weekly.

TH 5950 - Topics in Theatre

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 80.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

TH 5182W - Contemporary Black Drama and Dramaturgies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5182W/Th 5182W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is an exploration of the impact and evolution of Black Theatre in America, covering the period rising from the Black Arts Movement to the present. The exploration will entail an understanding of cultural and socio-political issues as they are reflected in key and significant plays written and produced from the late 1950?s to the present. The plays and essays will be read against the background of significant cultural, social and literary movements - the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War politics, the Women?s Movement, Gay Liberation, the Culture Wars, post-modernism, deconstruction, multiculturalism, afro-futurism, etc. as well as the evolution of identity nomenclature and racial classification from Colored to Negro to Black to African American. In addition to play analysis and criticism, students will garner a knowledge of significant Black cultural institutions and their impact on the ever-changing American theatre landscape.

AFRO 5182W - Contemporary Black Drama and Dramaturgies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5182W/Th 5182W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is an exploration of the impact and evolution of Black Theatre in America, covering the period rising from the Black Arts Movement to the present. The exploration will entail an understanding of cultural and socio-political issues as they are reflected in key and significant plays written and produced from the late 1950's to the present. The plays and essays will be read against the background of significant cultural, social and literary movements - the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War politics, the Women's Movement, Gay Liberation, the Culture Wars, post-modernism, deconstruction, multiculturalism, afro-futurism, etc. as well as the evolution of identity nomenclature and racial classification from Colored to Negro to Black to African American. In addition to play analysis and criticism, students will garner a knowledge of significant Black cultural institutions and their impact on the ever-changing American theatre landscape.

DNCE 1001 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 1

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

First course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Introductory modern dance technique training. Dance form varies according to instructor.

DNCE 1010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 3

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Third course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Beginning modern dance technique training. Dance form varies by instructor. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 1020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 4

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fourth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Beginning modern dance technique training. Dance form varies by instructor. prereq: 1010, dept consent, audition

DNCE 1040 - Modern Dance Partnering Technique

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Technical demands, approaches, and skills needed for partnering in modern dance. prereq: Dance major or instr consent

DNCE 1110 - Ballet Technique 3

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

First of two-semester sequence of beginning ballet technique. Level 3 in eight-level sequence of ballet technique. Practical application of ballet principles. Barre work needed for center work. Center work will consist of adagio, basic turns, petit, grand allegro. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 1120 - Ballet Technique 4

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Second of two-semester sequence in beginning ballet. Practical application of ballet principles. Barre/center work. Ever-changing combinations/steps learned in previous level. prereq: 1110, dept consent, audition

DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Third of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Vocabulary. Technical skills using variety of jazz dance styles while increasing flexibility, groundedness, strength. Increase understanding of musicality, dynamics, style, improvisation. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 1302 - Tap Technique 2

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fundamental terms, basic rhythms and syncopation, stock steps, and standard time steps; clarity of sound and rhythm. prereq: 1301 or instr consent

DNCE 1331 - Yoga

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Theory/practice of Yoga. Standing postures, forward bends, twists, balancing, seated postures, inversions, back bends, guided relaxation/meditation. Proper alignment, weight placement, body awareness, relaxation, breathing techniques. Midterm paper, movement demonstration final.

DNCE 1343 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 1: Introduction

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

We study the origins of Hip Hop dance and how it has evolved to the current incarnations of the form. There is also a focus on Hip Hop culture as a whole and we have many discussions about issues of identity, relation to power, appropriation, and youth culture. The specific forms of movement in this course are toprocking, rocking, breakdancing (breaking), New Jack Swing, and house dance. Some questions to focus on: What is Hip Hop dance? Where does it originate? Who created Hip Hop artistic expressions? What voices/bodies are heard/seen or not heard/not seen in the films assigned?

DNCE 1345 - Alexander Technique for Movement Artists

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Increased kinesthetic awareness of habitual movement patterns in order to improve dance/movement technique and prevent related injuries.

DNCE 1349 - Contact Improvisation

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Safe, clear introduction to principles of contact improvisation. Rolling point of contact, supporting/being supported, falling/recovering, connecting with center as source/support for movement. Classes include warm-up.

DNCE 3110 - Ballet Technique 5

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Stretch, strength, balance, musicality. Longer phrases in adagio/allegro work. More complex elevations in petit allegro. Practical work conducted in context of study of technical development of ballet. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 3120 - Ballet Technique 6

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Continuation of 3110. Ballet technique. Stretch, strength, balance, musicality. Longer phrases in adagio/allegro work. More complex elevations in petit allegro. prereq: 3110, dept consent, audition

DNCE 3220 - Jazz Technique 6

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Continuation of 3210. Jazz technique. Rhythm structures, longer phrases, greater physical speed, attack/control. prereq: 3210, dept consent, audition

DNCE 5110 - Ballet Technique 7

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Continuation of ballet technique. Musicality, performance, stylistic differences. Practical work conducted within context of choreographic/aesthetic development of ballet. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 5120 - Ballet Technique 8

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Continuation of 5110. Musicality, performance, stylistic differences. Practical work conducted within context of choreographic/aesthetic development of ballet. prereq: 5110, dept consent, audition

PE 1007 - Swimming For Beginners

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to basic aquatic safety, fundamentals of swimming and hydrodynamics. Principles of hydrodynamics and stroke mechanics; five basic strokes; basic rescue techniques with use of pool equipment; hydrotherapy for disabilities and other conditions, opportunities for competitive activities, lifetime enjoyment of aquatics.

PE 1012 - Running for Beginners

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This physically active class will expose students to the joys of running. Course topics and physical activities will explore technique, equipment, safety, etiquette, injury prevention, full-body conditioning, endurance, mobility, strength, and long-term training and goal setting. This course is designed for novices who aspire to run 5K.

PE 1014 - Conditioning

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of personal fitness. Principles of fitness; health and motor skill components of fitness; principles of training/conditioning programs; nutrition; weight control; common fitness injuries; motivation and consistency in fitness programs; stress management.

PE 1015 - Weight Training

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to weight training. Basic aspects of weight training including exercise selection and technique, charting workouts, program design, nutritional considerations, and safety.

PE 1016 - Posture and Individual Exercise

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Good posture techniques, individual exercises, fitness concepts, and mental techniques. Specific overall sound body and mind techniques to include flexibility exercises, cardiovascular fitness, resistance training, nutrition management, weight control, stress management, and self-thought.

PE 1031 - Sabre Fencing

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Basic sabre techniques, movement, an overview of fencing as a recreational sport and an Olympic sport, and the history of fencing.

PE 1032 - Badminton

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Fundamentals including etiquette, terminology, game rules for singles and doubles, footwork, shot selection, and strategy.

PE 1033 - Foil Fencing

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fending fundamentals, including basic foil techniques, movement, a general overview of fencing as a recreational sport and an Olympic sport, and the history of fencing.

PE 1035 - Karate

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to Traditional Japanese Shotokan Karate. Students learn to punch, block, strike, & kick with a focus on proper form, posture, & body mechanics. Students also learn a Kata (choreographed form), techniques with partners, & practical self-defense. Non-contact - no pads, hitting, or throwing.

PE 1036 - Racquetball

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of racquetball, including equipment; safety and etiquette; terminology; game rules of singles, doubles, and cutthroat; grips; basic strategies; serves and shots.

PE 1037 - Squash

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Entry-level technique, basic equipment, international dimension courts, and fitness.

PE 1038 - Tennis

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamental strokes, including forehands, backhands, volleys, lobs, overheads, and serves; introduction to doubles play; terminology, rules, and etiquette.

PE 1044 - Self-Defense

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Physical, psychological, and de-escalation skills for acting in crisis situations. Distance, body language, and tone of voice are addressed. Physical skills include striking, kicking, shifting, blocking, releasing techniques, floor defenses, and applications to armed attackers and multiple attackers.

PE 1045 - Rock Climbing

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Safety, knots, equipment, techniques, and anchor systems used in climbing. Course includes all necessary equipment. prereq: Good general health, no [neck or back] problems

PE 1046 - Tae Kwon Do

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of Tae Kwon Do. Principles of martial arts, body mechanics of Tae Kwon Do, practical self-defense.

PE 1048 - Bowling

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals, including stance, approach and delivery, scoring, bowling terminology, and etiquette.

PE 1053 - Ice Skating

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Basic turns, basic stops, balance techniques, and various other skills from both the forward and backward positions. Equipment, safety issues, ice skating terminology.

PE 1055 - Golf

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Proper grip, stance, ball address, swing, club selection, psychological management, rules, and etiquette. Basic instruction in analyzing, assisting with, and coaching golf.

PE 1057 - Skiing

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Alpine skiing. How to stop, turn, and use lifts. Safety, etiquette, and purchase of equipment. Class held at Highland Hills ski area in Bloomington.

PE 1058 - Snowboarding

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Snowboarding is an exciting winter sport that is engaging and approachable to the true novice, which this course is designed for. This course is a beginning level, physically active course designed for students of all abilities. Students will develop a working knowledge of the etiquette, sportspersonship, rules, safety concerns, safe/healthy techniques, sports culture, and regulations of the international winter sport of Snowboarding. Physical literacy will be developed through in-class activities and drills that support the development of techniques and agilities in relation to the sport that students will be able to utilize in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person. The pursuit of this lifelong activity is the ultimate goal, so students will have out-of-the-classroom opportunities to engage in this sport culture. This will expose students to the exciting local, national, and international competitive and basic engagement opportunities for individuals interested in this physical activity. This course is ideal for students interested in learning more about a growing and inclusive physical activity and a unique way to encourage a physically active lifestyle. This course takes place off-campus at an area ski hill so students need to make arrangements for their own transportation. Snowboarding equipment is available to rent at the facility for those who need it. Cold weather gear will be essential as class will take place as long as the ski hill is open.

PE 1067 - Basketball

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamental skills and rules of basketball, with emphasis on basic court movement and different offensive and defensive strategies.

PE 1071 - Beginning Cricket

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of Cricket. Laws of Cricket, bowling/batting techniques, competitive/recreational Cricket opportunities.

PE 1072 - Soccer

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of soccer including sporting behavior both on and off the field, game rules, soccer terminology, participation and competition drills, fundamental soccer skills, practical instruction in strategy.

PE 1074 - Beginning Volleyball

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Basic skills, team play, rules, officiating, and strategy.

PE 1076 - Flag Football

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Introduction to flag football, techniques, field positions, rules/regulations. Students will participate in vigorous exercise activities including running, throwing, kicking, and catching.

PE 1205 - Scuba and Skin Diving

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Diving equipment, physics, physiology, decompression, emergencies, recreational dive planning, oceans, currents and aquatic life, snorkeling/SCUBA equipment usage, buoyancy control, entries, emergencies. prereq: Ability to swim 400 yds comfortably or instr consent

PE 1262 - Marathon Training

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Physical challenge achieved through physiological/psychological adaptation. Goal setting that fosters adaptation in many facets of life. Marathon history. prereq: No pre-existing medical condition that would prevent finishing a marathon, instr consent

PE 1720 - Special Activities in Physical Education

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Activities or related opportunities not normally available through regular course offerings.

TH 3993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -6.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. prereq: 6 Th cr, instr consent, dept consent, college consent

TH 5993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. Prereq 6 Th cr, instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

TH 4398 - BFA Rehearsal and Performance V

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Acting, voice and movement. Continuing the application of process towards performance. prereq: BFA-acting sr

LNDN 3212W - Travel Writing: Topics in Composition (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3217W - Writing the City: London (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3220W - Contemporary World Architecture in London (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3221W - Writing a Play (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Study abroad course.

LNDN 3249W - Experiencing Globalization: Society, Space and Everyday Life in London (SOCS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

What is globalisation? How is it transforming the world and everyday life, and why has it become so controversial? Who are the winners and losers in a globalising world and what are the implications for our shared global future? How do developments in London relate to major shifts in the workings of the world over the last four decades? As a city with complex global connections, London has been enmeshed in deepening global social, political and ecological crises, as well as becoming an important arena of conflict over efforts to address them. This course critically explores these issues by examining the city?s complex relationship with the forces of globalisation and the ways in which everyday life and experience in London, as well as its people, institutions, and organizations, have been shaped by - and are contributing to - global change. Emphasis will be placed on critically examining the effects of neoliberal globalisation, the growing (though uneven) global dominance of projects promoting increasing freedoms for capital under the banners of ?free markets? and ?free trade.? This course also highlights a variety of collective challenges to these projects, some of which operate largely within the confines of London, others organized along trans-local and transnational lines. Their economic, political, cultural, and ecological aspects will be analyzed, examining the importance of class dynamics and their intersection with gender, ethnicity and other processes of hierarchical ordering. Theoretical and conceptual concerns will also be addressed, such as relations between the local and the global, the workings of power and contestation under neoliberal conditions, the interplay of space, class, and gender, and questions of responsibility within and beyond the limits of community and place.

LNDN 3253W - Contemporary Issues through Community Engagement: Social Dynamics of London (CIV, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This is an interdisciplinary course with a sociological focus, as well as a unique opportunity to become directly involved in the realities of community engagement and grassroots politics. It is designed to stimulate critical thought and reflection on urban inequalities in London and to introduce students to topical debates about how best to manage the challenges of a diverse city. The course will explore the historical, sociological, and political context of community and service in the United Kingdom (UK). It will also examine in depth forms of social, economic, and political exclusion, such as uneven access to health care, education, financial resources and political representation, and analyse the social dynamics within and between the multiple communities which co-exist in London. The course therefore combines classroom learning with practical exposure in placements to foster knowledge and understanding of community service in the UK today. Weekly seminars and readings enable participants to understand contemporary social dynamics and illuminate such issues as the history of welfare provision, urban regeneration, political power, social deprivation, and the interplay of class, gender, and ethnicity in the city. Three key interrelated themes will be followed throughout the semester in order to provide a structured reflection on questions which affect society today: urban life?including topical issues such as social polarization and neighbourhood change; super-diversity?multiculturalism and the impact of immigration on identity politics and community relations; welfare and exclusion?marginalized groups, uneven access to services, the changing role of the state, poverty, housing, and homelessness.

LNDN 3254W - Introduction to Science Fiction (LITR, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

What lies beyond ?The Final Frontier?? Why does it matter if androids dream of electric sheep? What will our future look like and who will be there to enjoy it? What role do technology, ethics, and/or politics play in imagining our future? Why has science fiction become such a central metaphor for our daily, lived experiences? Introduction to Science Fiction discusses them all. This course is designed to expose students to a broad spectrum of science fiction. We will examine representative texts from each of the modern, roughly defined as the 20th and 21st Centuries, ?periods? of the genre. The class will discuss the ongoing debate surrounding the ?work? performed by the genre, as well as its themes, and stylistic movements.

LNDN 3343W - Post War Popular Culture (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

London as center for international popular culture, from WWII to present.

TH 3152W - Global Avant-Gardes: Theatre, Music, Modernity (HIS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3152W/Th 3152W/Th 5152W/
Typically offered:	Every Spring

What does it mean to be an avant-garde artist in the Global South? In postcolonial Africa and Asia, where arts were linked to national modernization projects, artists have played a key role in shaping citizens? identity, alongside schools and universities. While participating in modernizing projects, avant-garde artists maintained independence from state institutions and voiced criticism of dictators. This course examines avant-garde performance in several locations of the Global South, analyzing dramas of national history, modernist music, activist theater, cosmopolitan dance, transnational cultural circuits, and politically radical performances. Reading historical, social, and performance studies, we will develop methods for analyzing performances that aim to make transformative social interventions. These include textual analysis, ethnography, performance analysis, and tracking transnational cultural exchange. You will apply select methods in your final research paper, which centers on an avant-gardist cultural phenomenon in the contemporary Global South.

TH 4177W - Analysis of Dramatic Literature (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course trains students in the analysis of dramatic literature and develops their research skills in theatre studies, helping them understand plays within their contexts of origin and production. Taking a single theme (ex. madness, or death and mourning) the class brings together contemporary and historical plays from around the world, exploring how theatre offers a unique site to stage differences, understand marginalized experiences, and imagine alternative visions of the world. Assignments break down the writing process into its component parts, and guide students in developing a sustained interpretation of a play of their choice.

TH 5179W - Text and Performance (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How to read texts toward performance in various dramatic/nondramatic material. Method of unlocking metaphoric energy of texts. Vocabulary/techniques of analysis that transform text from page to stage. prereq: [1322, [3171 or 3172]] or grad student

TH 5182W - Contemporary Black Drama and Dramaturgies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5182W/Th 5182W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is an exploration of the impact and evolution of Black Theatre in America, covering the period rising from the Black Arts Movement to the present. The exploration will entail an understanding of cultural and socio-political issues as they are reflected in key and significant plays written and produced from the late 1950?s to the present. The plays and essays will be read against the background of significant cultural, social and literary movements - the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War politics, the Women?s Movement, Gay Liberation, the Culture Wars, post-modernism, deconstruction, multiculturalism, afro-futurism, etc. as well as the evolution of identity nomenclature and racial classification from Colored to Negro to Black to African American. In addition to play analysis and criticism, students will garner a knowledge of significant Black cultural institutions and their impact on the ever-changing American theatre landscape.

AFRO 5182W - Contemporary Black Drama and Dramaturgies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5182W/Th 5182W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is an exploration of the impact and evolution of Black Theatre in America, covering the period rising from the Black Arts Movement to the present. The exploration will entail an understanding of cultural and socio-political issues as they are reflected in key and significant plays written and produced from the late 1950's to the present. The plays and essays will be read against the background of significant cultural, social and literary movements - the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War politics, the Women's Movement, Gay Liberation, the Culture Wars, post-modernism, deconstruction, multiculturalism, afro-futurism, etc. as well as the evolution of identity nomenclature and racial classification from Colored to Negro to Black to African American. In addition to play analysis and criticism, students will garner a knowledge of significant Black cultural institutions and their impact on the ever-changing American theatre landscape.

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