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A studio/performance-oriented acting course that provides for training, analysis and experience with the performance of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Emphases are on acting techniques, monologue presentation, and scene study performance.

An advanced studio performance-oriented course that provides exercises and performance techniques with a focus on historical periods and performance. Emphases include research of the period, manners and conventions, language and physicality.

This intensive survey course requires students to engage in deep critical engagement with recognized masterworks of the contemporary stage, to examine the history of their significant productions, to analyze the socio-political and cultural contexts that contributed to their literary creation and their staged interpretations.  The course employs a dramaturgical approach to uncovering evolving theories of and ways of thinking about theatre.

Studies the basic tasks of the director: play selection, analysis, casting, rehearsing and mounting the production. Each student is responsible for directing the performance of a one-act play or equivalent dramatic scene.

A studio/performance course designed for graduating students with a major in theatre, and intended to demonstrate their development as performers and theatre artists. In this course students will devise and present a group capstone project as a showcase of their skills and performance abilities for industry professionals. This capstone project serves as a means for career development. All theatre majors will be required to enroll in this course for the completion of their program of study.