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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be
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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and  improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through  short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten  observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment
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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be
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Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Whose class is this anyway? Yours! Improv is for everyone—just like life, it’s all about making it up as we go.

In this course, we’ll explore the fundamentals of improvisation through high-energy theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, and ensemble-building activities. We’ll dive into character, object, and environment work while staying grounded, truthful, and

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Theatre and the Arts for Peace and Reconciliation — MED4102.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How can Theatre, Visual Arts, Music and Dance build international peace, or help youth in at-risk situations, or help victims of genocide, or heal the environment?  Guest artists will discuss their particular projects, and students will investigate various efforts, both local and international, that involve the Arts for peace or social action.  Students will write
CAPA Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

There Is Always a Clock — DRA4384.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
The hero has till sundown to get out of Dodge. The heroine has to take the full course of cancer treatments. The polar vortex is coming. The iceberg is waiting for its date with the Titanic. They say that the main character of every story is time. In timebound art forms, there are two times running in parallel: the story’s, and the audience’s. Almost all works for the stage
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There Is Always a Clock — DRA4384.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The hero has till sundown to get out of Dodge. The heroine has to take the full course of cancer treatments. The polar vortex is coming.  The iceberg is waiting for its date with the Titanic. They say that the main character of every story is time. In timebound art forms, there are two times running in parallel: the story’s, and the audience’s. Almost all works for the
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Time, Memory, and Meaning Making — DRA4309.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.    -Delmore Schwartz They say that time is the main character of every story.  In time bound art forms, there are two times running in parallel--the story's, and the audience's. This class will investigate 
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Time, Memory, and Meaning Making — DRA4309.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. -Delmore Schwartz The true territory that we create for the audience of a play or film is not the story we tell, or the characters we create, but the memories that the audience makes and processes about those stories and characters
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Tom Stoppard — LIT4376.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
Exemplified by works like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, and Arcadia, the plays of Tom Stoppard perform dazzling high-wire acts of language and theatricality. Jumping between literary erudition and vaudevillian hijinks, Stoppard’s plays use meticulous technical precision to chart the enigmas of the brain and the chaos of the heart. As the playwright
Drama Literature

Topping It Off — DRA4115.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn a variety of millinery techniques through the making of buckram, wire framed, and felt hats.
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Topping it Off — DRA2138.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal or embellish like a hat. Students in the course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.
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Topping It Off — DRA2138.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal, or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.
Dance Drama

Transformation: an Approach to Character — DRA4149.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Oliver Wadsworth
Credits: 4
Whether Meryl Streep transforms into an old male Rabbi in Angels in America or Mark Rylance becomes a whisky swilling cult leader in Jerusalem, actors transforming into characters can be inspiring. It not only challenges the actor’s instrument – vocally, physically and emotionally – it can be artistically fulfilling in a deeply personal way. Walt Whitman said, “I contain
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Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are
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Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are
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TV Comedy Pilot I — DRA4393.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
In this course, I will be working with a small group of students to explore the process of writing a comedy pilot for television. We’ll be reading and watching pilots from some of the best comedies of the last decade or so (Detroiters, Community, What We Do In The Shadows, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc.) to learn how they function and what makes a great pilot. Each week students will
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Twentieth-Century American Women Playwrights — DRA2183.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course examines the ways in which American female playwrights of the twentieth century engaged with modernity, feminist and civil rights movements, concepts of national and cultural identity, and a wide range of theatrical genres and styles--from the realist problem play and “Golden Age” Broadway comedy through modernism and the avant-garde. Exploring the diversity
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Viewpoints - Exploring a Play and its Characters — DRA4226.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is an improvisational movement technique used to train actors and create movement for the stage. In this class students will work as an ensemble, training together in order to create a common physical language. The first third of the term will be dedicated to building the ensemble. Each class will include a warm up, detailed exploration of the individual Viewpoints
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Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the
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Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on
Dance Drama

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the
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Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on

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Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the
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