Course Descriptions

TED 583 - Multiple Subject Intern Teaching II

1. Apply skills in engaging and supporting all students in learning.
2. Apply skills in creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning.
3. Apply skills in organizing subject matter for student learning.
4. Apply skills in planning instruction and designing learning experiences for all students.
5. Apply skills in assessing student learning, Develop as a professional educator.

TED 585 - Single Subject Field Placement I

1. Apply skills in engaging and supporting all students in learning.
2. Apply skills in creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning.
3. Apply skills in organizing subject matter for student learning.
4. Apply skills in planning instruction and designing learning experiences for all students.
5. Apply skills in assessing student learning, Develop as a professional educator.

TED 586 - Single Subject Field Placement II

1. Apply skills in engaging and supporting all students in learning.
2. Apply skills in creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning.
3. Apply skills in organizing subject matter for student learning.
4. Apply skills in planning instruction and designing learning experiences for all students.
5. Apply skills in assessing student learning, Develop as a professional educator.

TED 587 - Single Subject Intern Teaching I

1. Apply skills in engaging and supporting all students in learning.
2. Apply skills in creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning.
3. Apply skills in organizing subject matter for student learning.
4. Apply skills in planning instruction and designing learning experiences for all students.
5. Apply skills in assessing student learning, Develop as a professional educator.

TED 588 - Single Subject Intern Teaching II

1. Apply skills in engaging and supporting all students in learning.
2. Apply skills in creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning.
3. Apply skills in organizing subject matter for student learning.
4. Apply skills in planning instruction and designing learning experiences for all students.
5. Apply skills in assessing student learning, Develop as a professional educator.

THEA 150 - Improvisation for Life, Stage and Wellbeing

1. apply problem-solving skills in situations that call for creativity and spontaneity.
2. identify multiple possibilities when preparing presentations.

THEA 151 - Fundamentals of Acting

1. Create distinctive characters using body and voice and responding believably.
2. perform for a supportive audience.
3. analyze historical and contemporary works of theatre for intellectual and emotional foundation of a character.

THEA 251 - Stage Voice and Classical Repertoire

1. speak clearly before an audience whether a performer or in another career.
2. utilize appropriate vocal techniques in creation of a character.

THEA 252 - Voice and Movement for Actors

1. exercise an intellectual and physical understanding of basic vocal anatomy and physiology for safe and effective work on stage.
2. utilize a repertoire of physical and vocal exercises for daily use in the development of relaxed and efficient breathing patterns and extended vocal range, pitch, pace and volume.
3. employ variations in movement, gesture and vocal expression to create characters.
4. incorporate elements of style, dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions on stage.
5. apply the principles of effective voice production and articulation, especially when singing.

THEA 255 - Acting on Camera

1. perform with skill and technique on-camera.
2. function in an on-camera production process across the professional landscape of on-camera performance.
3. evaluate personal accomplishment in on-camera auditions and performances.

1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
3. in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.

THEA 341 - Dramatic Activities for Children

1. read, write, and speak well when incorporating fundamental theatre skills that include storytelling and performance in creative work with children.
2. think critically and respond articulately when observing and analyzing theatrical performance works.
3. demonstrate fundamental critical thinking skills and information competency when researching, analyzing and organizing content for teaching that utilizes dramatic activity, especially an understanding of state standards.
4. demonstrate problem-solving skills with a theatrical lens when translating the written word, ideas, and educational content into lively creative endeavors that exhibit one’s personal intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity.
5. work well in teams and with others of diverse backgrounds in cooperative creative endeavors that continue to develop one’s understanding of self and others.
6. model personal and professional responsibility when accountable to children.
7. exercise leadership in their professions and communities by paying attention to and integrating theatre when teaching a variety of content to children.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

THEA 351 - Intermediate Acting

1. Live truthfully within the imaginary circumstances of a character.
2. develop the physical and psychological life of a character.
3. classify and apply psychological and physical actions, objectives and obstacles (acting beats) in rehearsal and performance.
4. Identify the appropriate historical research to uncover the who, what, why, where, when and how of the play and its characters.

THEA 371 - Musical Theatre Techniques

1. Analyze the musical elements of a song that inform performance choices.
2. Analyze a song as an acting piece.
3. Perform solo and ensemble songs with staging and dance.
4. Sing with healthy technique.

THEA 372 - Musical Theatre Rehearsal

1. Analyze the musical elements of a song to inform performance choices.
2. Perform solo and ensemble songs with staging and dance.
3. Choose song repertoire from throughout musical theatre history.
4. Apply healthy singing technique.

THEA 493 - Theatre Capstone

1. Solve problems of production by creating roles, dancing, designing, managing, building, directing, or choreographing performances that address issues of life in striking and remarkable ways.
2. Conduct background research, evaluate scripts, and analyze diverse cultural styles for use in a performance.
3. Reflect on performance techniques and concepts of other performers and apply high standards of reflection to their own production work.
4. Perform an essential role in production, during rehearsal, or on stage.

THEA 498 - Internship

THEA 100 - Theatre: A Spotlight on Life

1. Identify the relationship between culture and theatre and why it differs from other art forms. Analyze style and structure of scripts.
2. Demonstrate the collaborative process necessary to produce theatre.
3. Appraise the role of sets, lights, costumes, props, sound, directing and acting in communicating a message.

1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.

THEA 101 - Doing The Right Thing: Social Justice Theatre

1. apply problem-solving skills, especially translating written instructions to live situations.
2. prepare and make presentations that require clear reading, writing, and speaking; especially presentations that involve monologue, auto-ethnography, oral history, and acting.
3. demonstrate fundamental critical thinking skills and information competency that involve research, analysis, and organizing data from diverse sources.
4. exercise leadership in a profession and community by noticing and integrating the effects of critical social justice contributions of artists in history, American theatre and pop culture.

1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
3. in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.

1. use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
2. describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
3. identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.

THEA 102 - Asian American Theatre

1. distinguish how the theatrical lens illuminates human society and the physical world.
2. connect APIA values to global cultural endeavors and shared humanity.
3. combine APIA culture with theatre techniques like collaboration, expressive monologue, and creating scenes to enhance skills like research, reading, writing, and speaking in professional presentations.

1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

THEA 110 - Discover Acting

1. apply written, oral, non-verbal, and visual skills in making presentations to groups. 
2. employ historical, contemporary, and cultural performance techniques in presentations
3. create characters for presentations that address issues of life in striking and remarkable ways.

1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
3. in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.

THEA 111 - Costume Techniques

1. operate a sewing machine and sew by hand.
2. build a costume from a pattern.
3. explain the role of costumes in a production

THEA 112 - Makeup Techniques

1. interpret a character and their development from a script.
2. apply makeup to create character or enhance features for the stage
3. draw and paint makeup design concepts.

THEA 113 - Stage Lighting Techniques

1. select, hang, circuit, patch, color, accessorize and focus designated stage lighting fixtures.
2. program looks and cues into a computer based control console.
3. use ladders, catwalks and personnel lifts safely.
4. summarize the fundamental aesthetic considerations of stage lighting and fixtures selection.

THEA 114 - Sound Production Techniques

1. analyze a script for sound needs to develop a sound design consistent with the text and production concept.
2. record and edit live and pre-recorded sound files in both digital and analog audio formats.
3. format sound files for performance playback, and run successfully in a performance situation.
4. prepare a basic public address setup for a stage production.

THEA 115 - Safe Scenery and Costume Construction Techniques

1. work safely in the scene shop using basic hand and power tools.
2. work safely backstage using ladders, catwalks, the personnel lift, and counterweight rigging system.
3. work safely in the costume shop using machines for sewing, dying, washing and ironing.
4. use personal protective equipment properly.
5. know where to find safety information for materials and products

THEA 231 - Creating Theatre from Personal Experience

1. prepare and deliver written and spoken presentations, especially those involving monologue, auto-ethnography, oral history, and a group showcase.
2. solve problems with a theatrical lens when making presentations of written text to a live audience.
3. work well in teams and with others of diverse backgrounds.
4. exercise leadership in professional and community activities through use of examples from performing arts, pop culture, and solo artists who practice social commentary.

THEA 232 - Oral Interpretation of Literature

1. create performance from literature that presents human issues in inclusive, exciting, original ways
2. reflect on historical and contemporary works of literature from diverse cultures. 
3. Interpret the written word orally to clarify a message and emotional condition whether for an entertainment or professional audience. 

1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.

THEA 233 - Pilipinix Culture: Theatre Ensemble

1. produce performance by creating or assembling text, images, and gestures that reveal a commitment to community understanding. 
2. utilize images and performance skills to clarify personal insight on human issues.
3. collaborate with members of a project team.
4. hold an audience’s attention in performances and presentations.

THEA 234 - Social Justice Theatre Ensemble

1. produce performance by creating or assembling text, images, and gestures that reveal a commitment to community understanding.
2. utilize images and performance skills to clarify personal insight on human issues.
3. collaborate with members of a project team.
4. hold an audience’s attention in performance and presentations.

THEA 241 - America on Stage

1. use portrayal of sociocultural and political issues in American plays as examples when in discussing contemporary questions
2. speak and write critically about the portrayal of cultural issues and diversity in American drama
3. collaborate with a team to gather background about a play, synthesize the gathered information, and report in a way that is useful to the greater community.

THEA 242 - From Stage to Screen: Dramas and the Films They Inspired

1. explain the influence of a changing world on artistic interpretation of dramatic literature.
2. address the portrayal of life’s problems on stage and in film.
3. discuss ideas, perspectives, and values clearly and persuasively while listening openly to others.
4. apply the lessons of dramatic works to contemporary issues of equity and social justice.

1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
3. in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.

THEA 243 - What’s so Funny? Comedic Genius Since the Sixties

1. decipher the cultural perspectives in comic commentary.
2. explain the value of different perspectives to society.

THEA 244 - The Genre of Horror

1. recognize the influence of early modern literature and film on popular contemporary genres.
2. address complex challenges of technology on everyday problems of life.
3. discuss ideas, perspectives, and values clearly and persuasively while listening openly to others.
4. apply knowledge of evil and fears to promote equity and social justice.

1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.

THEA 245 - Secrets of Backstage Production

1. devise solutions to problems of presentation that draw inspiration from diverse sources and cultures. create interesting and meaningful images that communicate ideas and feelings to others, especially across cultural boundaries.
2. Explain the value, in the community, both of visual elements to meaning in performing arts and of the arts to society
3. Create a performance synthesizing the concept that production elements communicate meaning.

THEA 246 - Women in Performance

1. write about how women in theatre throughout U.S. history have dealt with issues of enduring human concern to create stimulating performance
2. identify important, contemporary women performers, including their work and its effect in shaping and changing attitudes towards women in U.S. society and around the world
3. discuss how women’s issues have arisen, been portrayed, and resulted in change in differing intellectual and cultural traditions

1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
3. in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.

THEA 247 - Culture and Diversity

1. exercise control over one’s artistic and creative voice by considering the role of Native, African, Asian, Latino/a and LGBTQ Americans in shaping the American cultural voice and the impact of these peoples on American theatre and pop culture
2. discuss the shaping of the cultural image of Native, African, Asian Latino/a and LGBTQ Americans and how that process limited artistic expression for all people of color.
3. analyze plays and performance practices for historical and thematic content.
4. collaborate online in creation of videos by making use of scenes and songs from the multimedia universe.

THEA 254 - Acting and Diversity

1. demonstrate greater control over their individual artistic and creative voices by exploring the role that Native, African, Asian, Latino/a and LGBTQ Americans have played in shaping the American cultural voice and how these factors have impacted American theatre.
2. identify how the diverse cultural image of America was shaped and artistic expression for all people limited through theater like minstrelsy and wild west shows. 
3. examine the plays for their historical and thematic content.
4. collaborate in creation of original presentations involving issues of race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation

1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

THEA 260 - Architecture and Costume History

1. locate primary and secondary visual sources for use in design projects, especially design of architectural and costume pieces for theatrical production.
2. identify the period of a primary source painting or drawing based on the dress or architecture style.
3. draw costume figures and buildings.
4. identify clothing and building parts, actual garments, and period names.

1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.

THEA 261 - Stage Management

1. generate properly formatted lists, schedules, rehearsal notes, and meeting notes.
2. read a scale ground plan and transfer it onto the stage and/or rehearsal hall floor in full scale
3. create a stage manager’s prompt book from a printed script, including formatting for blocking and performance cues.
4. enter all sound, light, deck and other cues using a professional format. 
5. call cues accurately in simulated and live performance conditions.
6. determine and execute established emergency procedures, whether technical, medical, or disaster related, on stage, backstage, or in the audience. 

THEA 262 - Pencil and Color Sketching

1. interpret a character and draw them showing the importance within a script.
2. apply drawing techniques that help with character and scenic development.
3. draw and paint with an emphasis on communication with collaborators and the audience

THEA 263 - Wood and Metal Construction

1. Select the correct building materials for a project, including: lumber, plywood, metal stocks, fasteners, adhesives and hardware.
2. fashion projects using the correct tools with efficient and safe procedures for measuring, cutting, and joining.
3. build common scenic pieces, including theatre and TV-style flats; platforms; doors and windows; and, irregular 2D shapes and 3D forms.
4. compare building techniques and trade-offs in choosing one method versus another.

THEA 264 - Non-Western Costume

1. communicate visually and orally when making presentations of research findings.
2. distinguish between primary and secondary sources in visual research.
3. demonstrate sensitivity in the description and use of research findings beyond personal cultural boundaries.
4. analyze the role of non-western influences on the costumes of theatrical productions.

1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
3. in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.

THEA 265 - Fashion History and Design

1. design and construct a fashionable piece of clothing.
2. communicate visually by drawing a fashion plate.
3. Identify historical dress and fashion designers.
4. explain the fundamental practices of the fashion industry.
5. recognize sustainable and organic fashion.

1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.

THEA 293 - Theatre Projects

1. Perform, create, design and/or observe the process of original theatre works being made for the stage and screen using innovative and contemporary methods
2. Engage individuals and build community through meaningful theatre experiences

THEA 321 - History of Black Theatre

1. identify the characteristics of specific styles of African American plays.
2. explain the relationship between African American history and the development of African-American theatre.
3. analyze how images and themes from African and early African American traditions are used, repeated, and misinterpreted in American theatre.
4. discuss the themes of African American plays, placing them in historical context and using theatre terminology.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

THEA 322 - History of Musical Theatre

1. Discuss the complex challenges of everyday life as portrayed by the characters in musical theatre.
2. Analyze the issues, perspectives, and values found in musical theatre stories.
3. Apply the lessons found in musical theatre to promote social justice in the community.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

THEA 323 - Shakespeare on Film

1. Explain the metaphor, symbolism, and meaning in a Shakespearean soliloquy in the context of the play and surrounding scenes
2. Think and write critically about filmed versions of Shakespeare’s works.
3. Apply sociocultural and political aspects of Shakespeare’s works, as adapted on film to contemporary issues and debates
4. Quote Shakespeare dramatically in public presentations.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

THEA 331 - Solo and Devised Theatre Ensemble

1. Produce performance by creating or assembling text, images, and gestures that reveal a commitment to community understanding
2. Utilize images and performance skills to clarify personal insight on human issues
3. Collaborate with member of a project team.
4. Hold an audience’s attention in performances and presentations.

THEA 344 - Interpretation of Women’s and Ethnic Literature

1. Incorporate theatre techniques like collaboration, expressive monologue, and creating scenes from prose, poetry, and essays to enhance reading, writing, and spoken presentations.
2. Apply research, analysis and organization of multiple sources to make women’s and ethnic literature come to life with authenticity.
3. Analyze literature for the purpose of effectively communicating to others the enduring questions and answers of women

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

THEA 345 - How to Watch Plays and Film

1. Understand the work involved in production, especially the roles of performers, designers, and technicians in creation of a performance. 
2. Distinguish the role of text in the process of creating production elements, including how elements of production, aside from any text, reveal issues and themes of value to society.
3. evaluate the ability of the various creative contributors of a performance to communicate issues, cultural perspective, and meaning.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

THEA 350 - Theatre Performance

1. perform for an audience.
2. produce performance by creating or assembling text that reveals a commitment to human issues and understanding. 
3. utilize performance skills to clarify their insight on issues of concern to their community.
4. utilize images that interpret and clarify their insight on human issues.
5. collaborate with members of a project team.
6. demonstrate appreciation for the role of performance in society.

THEA 352 - Acting and Classical Repertoire

1. apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes of human inquiry.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural endeavors and legacies of human civilization in oral and written presentations.
3. Identify research topics by categorizing character, plot, and period issues when analyzing scripts and performances.
4. apply rehearsal concepts and reoccurring period themes to lived experiences and when evaluating world events

THEA 359 - Directing

1. explain the structure of a play and break a scene into beats. 1. develop and adjust blocking. 3. communicate with a cast and designers. 4. formulate a mise en scene for a play.
2. communicate with a cast and designers.
3. formulate a mise en scene for a play.

THEA 360 - Technology and Design Studio

1. Create technical and design solutions to problems that interpret and clarify ones awareness of practical and human issues of a production.
2. Reveal meaning of text with respect for world cultures of the past and present.
3. Utilize performance skills to clarify ones insight on issues of concern to their community.
4. Collaborate with members of a project team.
5. Prepare technical or design aspects of a performance for an audience.

THEA 361 - Scene Painting

1. Make use of painting and color theory in production.
2. Recognize physical compositions, properties and uses of paints and coatings.
3. Apply techniques including scumble, sponge, rag roll, spatter and spray to create common faux textures including wood, brick, stone, and aging and distressing.
4. Enlarge a small scale rendering to stage scale using grid method and projection.

THEA 362 - Computer Aided Design and Model Making

1. Be able to sketch a basic interior model using SketchUP.
2. Create 3D models, plans and elevations of common scenic elements using CAD software.
3. Use plans and elevations as the basis of making traditional 3D models using cardboard, wood and paints.

THEA 363 - Advanced Costume Construction

1. Masters machine and hand sewing skills.
2. Builds an advance costume piece from a pattern.
3. Understands and can explain the importance of costumes construction in a production.

THEA 365 - Masks and Specialized Makeup

1. Learns a variety of new maskmaking techniques.
2. Masters new makeup techniques as they apply to character development.
3. Designs and executes appropriate makeup and mask designs for assigned scripts.
4. Understands and can explain the importance of masks and makeup as they apply to costumes in a production.

THEA 370 - Musical Theater Performance

1. Utilize acting, dance, and singing techniques to interpret and clarify ones awareness of human issues.
2. Reveal meaning of text with respect for world cultures of the past and present.
3. Utilize performance skills to clarify ones insight on issues of concern to their community.
4. Collaborate with members of a production team.
5. Perform for an audience.

THEA 380 - Festival and Touring Participation

1. produce performance by creating or assembling text that reveals a commitment to human issues and understanding.
2. Utilize performance skills and/or images to clarify their insight into established texts and world issues.
3. Communicate professionally in production and at festivals.
4. Evaluate the quality of skill and value to society of performance by others.

THEA 381 - Production Support: Stage, Lights and Sound Shop or Crew

1. Apply appropriate stage technology to assure that stage designs address issues of life in striking and remarkable ways.
2. Collaborate effectively and respectfully with performers, designers, and stage crews.
3. Operate technical aspects of a show in support of performers, designers, and director.

THEA 382 - Production Support: Costume and Makeup Shop or Crew

1. Apply appropriate stage technology to assure that stage designs address issues of life in striking and remarkable ways.
2. Collaborate effectively and respectfully with performers, designers, and shop crews.
3. Employ sustainable practices by conserving resources through building with a plan to reuse materials in future productions.

THEA 398 - Internship

THEA 431 - Exploration of Dramatic Literature Characters

1. Discuss how playwrights through the ages have used character to address important issues of their time.
2. Describe how a playwright uses characters to convey an opinion about these issues.
3. Distinguish the role of text in the process of production, particularly thinking about how elements of production reveal character.
4. Recognize how a character has been created through technique on stage and the difference between performances even though the text is the same.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

THEA 432 - Exploration of Dramatic Literature Themes

1. Distinguish between issues a play raises as they relate to a specific society and universal themes as they relate to all (or most) societies.
2. Explain how playwrights through the ages have used the theatre to address important issues of their time.
3. Distinguish the role of text in the process of production, particularly thinking about how elements of production reveal issues and themes of value to society.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

THEA 461 - Scenery, Lighting and Sound Design

1. Justify ideas about scenery, lighting and sound using written, oral, and visual presentation skills.
2. Identify the aspects of a script that demand support from designers.
3. Conduct background research for use in performance applications that require period, contemporary, and culturally appropriate costumes, as well as in scholarly presentations.
4. Identify production technology appropriate to realizing a design.
5. Reflect on production concepts and the work of collaborators to create designs that address issues of life in striking and remarkable ways.

THEA 462 - Costume and Makeup Design

1. Justify ideas about costumes and makeup using written, oral, and visual presentation skills.
2. Identify the aspects of a script that demand support from designers.
3. Conduct background research for use in scholarly and performance applications.
4. Identify production technology appropriate to realizing a design.
5. Reflect on production concepts and the work of collaborators to create designs that address issues of life in striking and remarkable ways.

THEA 490 - Independent Study

THEA 497 - Issues in Dramatic Literature

1. Distinguish between issues a play raises as they relate to a specific society and universal themes as they relate to all (or most) societies.
2. Explain how playwrights through the ages have used the theatre to address important issues of their time.
3. Distinguish the role of text in the process of production, particularly thinking about how elements of production reveal issues and themes of value to society.

WOST 102 - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

1. Introduction to feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives on culture and society.
2. Introduction to reflect upon their own lives from a feminist perspective.
3. Introduction to the challenges of dismantling sexism and other oppressive beliefs.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

WOST 301 - Women and Work

1. Understand feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives on culture and society.
2. Critically reflect upon their own lives from a feminist perspective.
3. Comprehend the challenges of dismantling sexism and other oppressive beliefs.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

WOST 302 - Women and Families

1. Understand feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives on culture and society.
2. Critically reflect upon their own lives from a feminist perspective.
3. Comprehend the challenges of dismantling sexism and other oppressive beliefs.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

WOST 303 - Violence Against Women

1. Understand feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives on culture and society.
2. Critically reflect upon their own lives from a feminist perspective.
3. Comprehend the challenges of dismantling sexism and other oppressive beliefs.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

WOST 401 - Feminist Theory

1. Understand and apply feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives on culture and society (SLO1; ILO2,6).
2. Have the analytical competency to critique social inequalities founded on the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nation (SLO2; ILO1).
3. Comprehend the challenges of dismantling sexism and other oppressive beliefs (SLO2; ILO1).
4. Demonstrate the ability to access knowledge, design, and carry out individual and group research projects, and present them clearly, logically, and persuasively (SLO3; ILO1,2,4,6).

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

WOST 402 - Women’s Bodies and Health

1. Understand feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives on culture and society.
2. Critically reflect upon their own lives from a feminist perspective.
3. Comprehend the challenges of dismantling sexism and other oppressive beliefs.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

WOST 403 - Comparative Perspectives on Global Feminism

1. Understand feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives on culture and society.
2. Critically reflect upon their own lives from a feminist perspective.
3. Comprehend the challenges of dismantling sexism and other oppressive beliefs.

1. use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
2. describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
3. identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.

WOST 490 - Independent Study

WOST 497 - Issues in Women’s Studies