A directed study in playwriting offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Application of lighting design and technology in production. May be repeated up to 4 credits.

This course explores how to turn everyday spaces into stages. Discover how ordinary rooms, streets, parks, vehicles, and other spaces of daily life can be transformed by story-telling and creative performance!  We will study different principles for designing spaces for immersive, site-specific, environmentally aware, and other kinds of performances. Open to all students who are interested in storytelling in different spaces.

In this class, students will discover methods to design projects on CAD (computer-aided design) applications for total control of the result, and we will develop scenic design from software (mainly Vectorworks) to take advantage of the ability to digitally create 2D drawings and 3D models of real-world products before they're ever manufactured. Open to all students who have basic design knowledge and are interested in digital creation.

This is a hands-on course in which students work closely with the instructor to research and develop creative design solutions for performing arts and theatrical productions. It provides students a working forum to collaboratively and independently experiment with and apply principles, methods, and elements of design and design process to specific projects. May be repeated up to four credits.

The goal of this class will be to identify the values and worldviews that drive change-oriented artistry, and for students to identify the values and worldviews that drive their own artistry. The course will explore the forms of community-based performance including ensemble, devised, religious, activist, educational and autobiographical performance.

Studies the development of the scenic design as theatrical environment, from script analysis through research to completed scenic design.

A directed study in theatre design offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Students will produce short films generated by the Department of Drama's Filmmaking classes, Writing the Short Film and Directing the Short Film. Each producer will be paired with a director and work closely with them on casting, scheduling, procuring locations and film gear, on set management, editing support, and budgeting.

Allows upper level students to pursue advanced creative and/or scholarly research in dance as an independent project. Students can identify their area of focus for in depth investigations including, but not limited to: Choregraphy, Screendance, Performance, Performance Studies, Dance Pedagogy, etc.