This course teaches the audio skills and design concepts that underpin many industries in sound. Voiceover recording, dialog and effects editing, sound design and fx processing, mixing, music creation and virtual instruments will all be taught in support of three major sound projects: a podcast episode, design and score for a film excerpt, and an original sound art piece.

Learning how to market oneself and one's work is vital to building a successful career as a performing artist. This course uses the Department of Theater's season as the real-life basis to look at marketing in a performing arts context. Students will work as a team with the Department of Theater Public Relations Director to develop and execute marketing strategies, including copy writing, promotional campaigns, working with social media, and unique performance-related outreach.

This graduate level course will revisit and build on the foundations of professional scenic design practice such as dramaturgical and visual research, flexibility of methods and solutions in pursuit of a vision in support of a performance event, creative problem solving, model building, drafting, budgeting, and collaboration skills though actual production assignments in the department. Assignments will be determined by the needs and competence of the individual student. Special attention to portfolio development.

Theory and practice of stage direction; attention to work with actors and stage space for conveying theatrical in-formation. Assigned scenes and exercises.

Students will explore set/scenic design for live performance in a studio format. What is a performance space? We will investigate the idea of performance spaces where theatre can happen, as well as create some of our own. The main objective is to introduce the language, tools, and technical skills involved in the discipline of scenic design and to lay the foundation for further study while empowering students to actively engage as set designers in productions on campus after taking the course.

Theater movements of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans, and the body of literature by contemporary playwrights of color within a historical context. (Gen.Ed. AL, DU)

This course provides a hands-on introduction to the basics of studio music recording and music mixing in Logic Pro X. Students will learn how to select the right microphone for their project, execute multitrack recordings and use techniques in mixing and audio processing to produce their own recordings. It is recommended that students have some ability to sing or play an instrument so that they are able to record their own music, and eachother's, whether original songs or covers.

Training of the actor's voice using a progression of psycho-physical exercises developed by Kristin Linklater. Emphasis on freeing the body and voice from habitual tensions and patterns. Prerequisites: THEATER 140, consent of instructor.

This course introduces the basics of acting for students without theater training and for experienced performers. Games, exercises, and readings develop the skills necessary to present monologues and scene work.