SSC120 PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP 3 credits This course explores the role and function of leadership and its application practice. Traditional and contemporary leadership theories and current issues in research including emerging topics in gender, culture, and ethics will be covered. Prerequisites: ENG098, FYE101, RDG098, or placement. THE101 FUNDAMENTALS OF ACTING 3 credits This is a study in the fundamentals of acting with emphasis on the principles of observation, concentration, sense-memory, and dramatic action. These skills will be developed through voice exercise, pantomimes, improvisations, monologues, short scenes, and plays. Students will be required to rehearse and perform several scenes in order to develop skills in serious and comic characterizations. Prerequisites: ENG098, FYE101, RDG098, or placement. Fall. THE103 INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE 3 credits This is an overview of the art of theatre and drama beginning with an inquiry into the nature of the dramatic experience. Dramatic expression, tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and tragicomedy will be examined. Students will analyze the roles of the artists of theatre: actor and director; designer and architect; playwright and critic. Prerequisites: ENG098, FYE101, RDG098, or placement. Spring. THE106 FUNDAMENTALS OF ACTING II 3 credits Building on the skills learned in THE101 Fundamentals of Acting, this course focuses on script analysis and its application to scene study. Through scene work, students take a script from "page to stage" culminating in class projects presented for the public. Prerequisites: ENG101, THE101.
THE113 SPEECH 3 credits This course introduces students to basic skills of extemporaneous speaking through directed practice. Emphasis is placed upon selection and organization of material, diction, and methods of delivery. Students deliver, evaluate, and participate in several basic types of talks: speeches to inform, to persuade, and to demonstrate; panel discussions; symposia and others. Prerequisite: ENG101. THE207 STYLES OF DRAMA 3 credits This course is an examination of the major world playwrights of every important theatrical period from the Greeks to today from a literary, historical, and theatrical point of view. Prerequisite: ENG102. Offered occasionally. THE281 SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEATRE 1 credit Specific course content will vary from semester to semester. Details will be included in pre-registration materials. Prerequisite: ENG102. Offered occasionally. THE283 SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEATRE 3 credits Specific course content will vary from semester to semester. Details will be included in pre-registration materials. Prerequisite: ENG102. THE284 TECHNICAL THEATRE PRACTICUM I 3 credits This practicum is designed to allow students to receive hands-on experience in theatrical production by working on Theatre at the Mount productions. Students will be exposed to scenic design, construction, painting, lighting, sound, and props techniques. Maintenance of the physical theatre and its machinery, as well as theatre safety, will be addressed. Prerequisites: ENG098, FYE101, MAT092, RDG098, or placement. THE285 TECHNICAL THEATRE PRACTICUM II 3 credits This is a continuation of THE284 Technical Theatre Practicum I. Prerequisite:THE284. 246
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