The purpose of this course is to prepare student athletes to be successful at the University. Classes focus on academic skills, career planning, and personal well being.

The purpose of this course is to prepare student athletes to be successful at the University. Classes focus on academic skills, career planning, and personal well being.

The OASIS Seminar: Moving Forward is a one-credit PASS/FAIL course, specifically designed to assist undeclared, second semester students who are on probation or third semester students returning to the University after serving an academic suspension. The seminar provides opportunities for students to enhance/improve skills, behaviors, and attitudes necessary for success at the University.

The purpose of this course is to prepare student athletes to be successful at the University. Classes focus on academic skills, career planning, and personal well being.

This course explores the art of contemporary theater and the power of live performance through a series of shows the students attend in person, along with theater projects they create in a group. Through engagement with both longstanding and new ways of making theater, students will gain exposure to how live theater is being made in the world today -- an exciting moment of new frontiers and forms. (Gen. Ed. AT)

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.

Exercises in play construction involving characterization, dialogue, and plot development; and completion of a short playscript.

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

Accessible to all students who have completed Theater 160. Students gain basic knowledge in Costume Design, including but not limited to: script analysis, professional research technique, visual communication (especially drawing), and build on experiences from Theater 160 with hands-on work in the costume shop. A student coming to 362 with more advanced design, drawing or construction skills can expect to build on and enhance those skills.