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Searching for Light — DRA2141.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jiyoun Chang
Credits: 4
Designing lights on stage is not just designing looks for each moment, but determining how lighting changes over time. At which moments do we choose to change it, and what triggers those changes? When do we choose not to change it at all? Students will learn how lighting emotionally affects us in real life, and how we interpret that emotional effect and transfer it to the stage
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Sensory Exploration/Scene Study — DRA4255.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
How do you create imaginary rain or cold or heat? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set and props your character thinks of as real? What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? In this class, we will work with the basic canon of sensory exercises designed to give the
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Sensory Technique — DRA4161.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
How do you create imaginary rain or cold or heat? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set and props your character thinks of as real? What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? In this class, we will work with the basic canon of sensory exercises designed to give the
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Sensory Work: Creating the World of the Play — DRA4368.02

Spring 2026
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This class is fundamentally an advanced rehearsal techniques class for actors and directors with a focus on physical sensory work. The questions investigated include: What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? How do you create the physical, sensory world of the play? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings?

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Setting the Stage — DRA2128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. Students in this course will work through the process of designing a stage set. Basic design principles and conceptualization, play analysis, theatrical style, research, drafting and model making will all be covered. Students will be expected to read
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Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine.
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Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine.
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Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine. Module dates: March 12, 19, 23, 26 30; April 2    
Dance Drama

Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.03

Spring 2021
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine. Module dates: April 6, 13, 16, 20, 23 27    
Dance Drama

Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.03; section 3

Fall 2015
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine. This course is offered during the first seven weeks of the term.
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Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.02; section 2

Fall 2015
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine. This course is offered during the second seven weeks of the term.
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Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.01; section 1

Fall 2015
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine. This course is offered during the first seven weeks of the term.
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Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine. Module dates: September 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20
Dance Drama

Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 1
Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine. Module dates: September 24 27, October 4, 8, 11, 15
Dance Drama

Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances — LIT2392.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Mark Wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In his comedies and in his late so-called "romances," Shakespeare presents us with the stage as a place of transformation and delight, of cognition and recognition.  In forests, islands, glades and gardens, the characters lose and find their lives and loves, and the magic of play-acting, of stage-craft itself, is the medium of discovery.  We will read and look at the
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Shakespeare: The History Plays — LIT2214.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
"An explosion of history plays appeared on the scene in Elizabethan England,” as Marjorie Garber describes England’s transition into a “political power, proud of its absolute monarch.” Of these plays, few offered more multifaceted portrayals of pageantry, tyranny, succession, and causality than the history plays of William Shakespeare. The playwright examined the power
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Shakespeare: The Tragedies — LIT2217.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
We will read the major tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony Cleopatra; view important film productions; and read a range of historical and contemporary criticism. There will be exams, papers, and in-class conferences.
Drama Literature

Solo Performance — DRA4322.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization and personal observation / examination. We may reference the work of solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be
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Solo Performance - Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, and personal examination and observation. We will view solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be tailored
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