THE 115
Moving Our Minds
4 credits

Explores critical and creative thinking through the art of dance. Studies how dance has affected societies and individual lives through history, including consideration of folk, cultural, and art dance. Analysis, research, synthesis of information, and other critical thinking skills are explicitly addressed. General Education: Fulfills Creativity and the Arts. Introductory.

THE 123
Public Speaking
4 credits

Explores basic principles, techniques of effective speaking. Develops communication, discussion, speech writing, interpretation, delivery, critical analysis skills. General Education: Creativity and the Arts. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Arts. Introductory.

THE 126
Introduction to Theatre
4 credits

Introduces theatre as collaborative art form. Surveys history of Western theatre. Explores theatre art, practice. Requires participation in Wheelock Family Theatre. General Education: Creativity and the Arts. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Arts. Introductory.

THE 203
Improvisation
4 credits

Explores ways of expressing creative potential within theatre discipline. Develops self-awareness. Strengthens problem-solving skills through individual and group exercises in gesture, movement, mime, dialogue. General Education: Creativity and the Arts. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Arts. Intermediate.

THE 205
Acting
4 credits

Explores basic acting techniques. Uses exercises in observation, concentration, emotional recall, imagination as basis for character development. Develops voice and body as tools for creating a role. Culminates in performance of monologues and scenes. General Education: Creativity and the Arts. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Arts. Intermediate.

THE 215
Modern Drama
4 credits

Studies the works of such playwrights as Ibsen, Chekhov, Hellman, Miller, Wilson, Kushner. Textual analysis focuses on dramatic structure, character development, thematic content. General Education: Creativity and the Arts OR Languages and Literatures. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Arts OR Literature. Intermediate

THE 220
History of Musical Theatre
4 credits

Studies music, lyrics, texts written for European and American stage. Focuses on opera and the mature musical. Includes participation in/observation of Wheelock Family Theatre musical production. General Education: Creativity and the Arts. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Arts. Intermediate.

THE 225
Readers Theatre
4 credits

Explores theatre techniques to illuminate literature. Uses poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays. Emphasizes textual analysis for group presentation. Culminates in performance of student-generated scripts. General Education: Creativity and the Arts. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Arts. Intermediate.

THE 235/MUS 235
Jazz Dance
4 Credits

Performance Class for the intermediate dancer focusing on proper alignment, refining style, enhancing phrasing and developing strength. Studies jazz's influential people and its history, including African-American influences, Jack Cole, Alvin Ailey, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Hollywood, and Broadway. General Education: Creativity and the Arts. For students entering prior to September, 2010: General Education Arts. Intermediate.

THE 238
African-American Theatre
4 credits

Surveys history of African-American theatre from time of Ira Aldridge to present day. Includes study of Harlem Renaissance playwrights and African-American actors, actresses, directors. General Education: Fulfills Perspectives on Diversity. Also fulfills Creativity and the Arts or Languages and Literatures. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Multicultural AND Arts OR Literature. Intermediate.

THE 240
Storytelling and Folklore
4 credits

Introduces participants to the fields of storytelling and folklore. Looks at common story themes and the role of the Storyteller in traditional and contemporary culture. Students will research stories and fables and examine how they shape and document culture. Students will learn storytelling techniques to use in a variety of settings. General Education for students entering prior to September 2010: Arts. Intermediate

THE 242
Shakespeare
4 credits

Studies Shakespeare's plays through character analysis, evaluation, performance. Emphasizes his views on life, death, love, politics, evil, ambition; his insight into human nature, his relevance today. Texts include Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Twelfth Night. General Education: Creativity and the Arts or Languages and Literatures. For students entering prior to September, 2010: Arts OR Literature. Intermediate.

THE 245
Theater Design and Production
4 credits

Uses the sequence of events that move a play from a script to live performance to explore the theatrical design and production elements of scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, makeup, and properties involved in mounting a play. Students will participate in building and running a production. General Education: Creativity and the Arts. Intermediate.

THE 277
Movement and Drama for Children
4 credits

Explores value of creative drama for primary-aged children in varied settings. Develops skills, techniques needed to implement, evaluate drama activities that enhance self-expression, build self-esteem, community. Investigates drama's role as vehicle for teaching, learning. Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Status. Offered: Spring. Intermediate.

THE 310
Story Theatre
4 credits

Prepares, tours, and presents dramatizations of children's literature in a variety of settings. Explores aspects of theatre management such as booking engagements, public relations. Prerequisites: one theatre performance class, permission of instructor. Advanced.

THE 350
Directing Plays
4 credits

Explores the role of the theatre director from interpreting a script to working with designers, blocking the play and coaching actors. Observe professional directors at work, cast, stage and rehearse scenes. Select from classic and contemporary plays. Prerequisite: one Theater course, permission of instructor. Advanced.

THE 351
Learning and Teaching through the Arts
4 credits

Analyzes the creative processes through the visual arts, music, movement, drama, and dance. Examine current literature in creativity, multiple intelligences theory, and the arts. Bridge the gap between theory and practice in order to effectively integrate the arts into a classroom or workplace setting. Combines experiential learning with readings, reflective assignments, and discussions.

THE 352
Immersion and Integration through Drama
1 credit

Covers movement, the use of drama to develop speaking and listening skills, and the use of drama as an alternative assessment tool in 15 hours of workshop sessions with the Wheelock Family Theatre. Participants learn drama-based student observation and assessment skills and connect drama to leadership skills through scene work, improvisation, and observation.

THE 374
Children's Theatre
4 credits

Studies history, literature of children's theatre. Explores all aspects of mounting children's productions through scene work, participation in Wheelock Family Theatre. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Advanced.