THEA 245 - Secrets of Backstage Production

Units: 3
Artistic and production processes of show business. The progression from concept to rehearsal to performance. Creative exercises to explore technology like sets and costumes. How literature or ideas are translated into visual aspects of a show.

Equivalent Quarter Course: THEA 1006.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

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.
Explain the value, in the community, both of visual elements to meaning in performing arts and of the arts to society
Create a performance synthesizing the concept that production elements communicate meaning.