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THEA 1200 - Stagecraft I
A beginning course in technical production including familiarization with theatrical equipment and materials; the planning and construction of basic stage scenery, costumes, and properties; the fundamentals of stage lighting; and laboratory work on University Theatre Productions. (Lab fee required for materials.)
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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THEA 1300 - Period Styles of Design
A survey of historical periods and design styles as they are applied to the theatre. The study will include an examination of architecture, costumes, furniture, interiors, lighting, ornament and stage scenery.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 1310 - Drafting and Color Media
A methods course for beginning students in lighting, costume, scenic design, and technical production providing instruction and practice in the special techniques of drafting for the theatre and in the use of various color media for design renderings and scale models.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Lab fee required for materials.
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 1410 - Introduction to Acting
An initial approach to the study of dramatic action using scripted and unscripted material, basic acting exercises and improvisational techniques. Emphasis is placed upon use of the imagination, creating ensemble and creative risk-taking while cultivating self-awareness and the ability to critique objectively and nonjudgmentally.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 1420 - Acting I: Action and Personalization
Study and practice of scene-work from a basic Stanislavski point of view.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 1410
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 1480 - Direct Encounter with the Arts
A course that uses a direct approach to introduce students to their cultural world by guiding them through first-hand experiences in a number of areas: cinema, photography, theatre, sculpture, music, poetry, dance and architecture. Classroom discussions are held following the student’s participation in the various art events scheduled each semester, with students expected to write journals and response papers about the major events of the course. There will be a course charge in lieu of textbooks. Cross-listed with DANC 1480, MUS 1480, ART 1480. May be taken only once from College of Fine Arts Departments. (Lab fee required)
Credits: 4 hours
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THEA 1700 - Script Analysis
The study of selected plays from the standpoint of the theatre artist. Emphasis on thorough examination of the play script preparatory to production.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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THEA 1810 - Stage Management
This is a foundation course in the principles, practices, and applications of Stage Management in both educational and professional theatre. Basic and advanced techniques of the stage manager are presented, including the prompt book, production book, audition, rehearsal, performance, and post-production procedures. In addition, stage management forms and formats will be studied to strengthen communication and organizational skills. The course will include production management projects involving the creation of an eight-play repertory season, a production schedule, a production master calendar, a production budget broken into a chart of accounts, a production staff breakdown wherein the student suggests the staff necessary to create the season, and a production salary budget.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
When Offered: Every year.
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THEA 1900 - Summer Theatre
Theatre majors may receive credit for participating in a full season of summer theatre in the performance or production areas. Students must submit a summer theatre application to the Department Chair.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Application approved by Department Chair.
Credits: 1 to 3 hours
Restrictions: Restricted to majors in Theatre or Music Theatre Performance.
Notes: Repeatable for credit up to six hours.
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II
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THEA 2200 - Stagecraft II
A course in technical production including the planning and construction of complex stage scenery, costumes and properties; scenery painting; lighting technology; and laboratory work on University Theatre productions. Lab fee required.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1200 and instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 2300 - Stage Makeup
Study and practice of the basic principles and techniques of stage makeup.
Credits: 3 hours
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THEA 2301 - Computer-Aided Theatre Design
An introduction to the application of computer hardware and software to design for the theatre, including instruction and practice in CAD, color imaging, and 3-D modeling. Lab fee required for printing materials.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1300 and THEA 1310.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 2311 - Theatrical Rendering
A methods course for students in scenic, costume, and lighting design providing instruction and practice in various mediums and styles of rendering used by theatrical designers. Lab fee for materials.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 1310
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 2320 - Scenic Design
A course in scenography covering the design of stage settings and properties expressed through color renderings and/or the scenic models, and including further development of skills in drafting for the theatre.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1200 and 1700.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Lab fee required for materials.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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THEA 2330 - Costume Design
A course in the design of theatrical costumes and accessories expressed through color rendering and including an overview of the history of the costume.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1200 and THEA 1700.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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THEA 2410 - Voice and Movement I
Development and training of the actor’s vocal and physical instrument for theatrical performance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1410, THEA 1420. Corequisite: THEA 2450.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 2420 - Voice and Movement II
Continued development of the actor’s vocal and physical instrument for theatrical performance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 2410, THEA 2450. Corequisite: THEA 2460.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 2450 - Acting II: Character and Action
Integration of theories and practices of Introduction to Acting and Acting I with an emphasis upon character development in the process of scene study.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1410, THEA 1420, and concurrent enrollment in THEA 2410.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 2460 - Acting III: Character, Action, Language
Integration of character development and scene study with an emphasis upon classical texts or other intensive language-oriented texts.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 2410 and THEA 2450.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: Restricted to majors in Theatre and Music Theatre Performance.
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 2600 - Arts Management
A survey of procedures for Arts Management, including ticket office accounting, promotion, marketing, funding and audience development.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring (even years)
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THEA 2700 - Script Analysis for Production
This course will build on skills learned in Script Analysis THEA 1700. The class is focused on developing script analysis skills directly applicable to work in theatre production. Students will work in a collaborative model in various creative capacities on theoretical productions.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 1700 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: Restricted to Theatre majors and minors.
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THEA 2720 - Musical Theatre History and Script Analysis I
An historical overview of the development of musical theatre from its earliest beginnings to 1943. Respective scripts will be analyzed within their historical context.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall (odd years)
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THEA 2810 - Stage Management Production - Studio
Methods of stage management, including rehearsal coordination, prompt book preparation and director/cast/crew relationships from preproduction through performance on the Department of Theatre’s Studio Series productions. Students are assigned as stage managers on the Studio Series productions.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
When Offered: Every semester.
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THEA 2900 - Theatre Practicum
Supervised experience in various areas of theatre in the University Theatre program. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of eight semester hours (only six of which can apply toward major and three toward minor). (Lab fee required.)
Credits: 1 to 8 hours
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II
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THEA 3200 - Stagecraft III
This course is a continuation of Stagecraft II with special emphasis on problem-solving and new technology. This course will involve individualized projects and laboratory work on University Theatre productions. Lab fee required.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 2200 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 3320 - Lighting and Sound Design
A course in the design of theatrical lighting and sound and in the practical application of those designs to the stage, including laboratory work on University Theatre productions.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1200 and 1700.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Lab fee required for materials.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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THEA 3330 - Advanced Design
A course for advanced students in the design of scenery, costumes, properties, lighting and/or sound; the professional drafting of those designs for technical production.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1300, THEA 1310, and one of the following: (THEA 2320, 2330 or 3320); with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall (even years)
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THEA 3430 - New Approaches to Performance
This course will provide an opportunity for students to study innovative approaches to performance by working with visiting artists.
Credits: 1 hour
Restrictions: Restricted to Theatre majors or instructor approval.
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
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THEA 3440 - Acting IV: Period Styles of Acting
Study and practice of acting in plays from selected major periods of theatre activity prior to the twentieth century. Topics may include Greek, commedia dell’ arte, Shakespeare, Moliere, Restoration, and examples from eighteenth and nineteenth century drama.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 2420 and THEA 2460.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 3450 - Acting V: Contemporary Drama
Study and practice of acting in plays from current and 20th century drama.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 2420 and THEA 2460.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 3470 - Voice and Movement Lab
An advanced course in voice and movement with an emphasis on the individual needs of the student actor. This course provides the students with an opportunity to investigate special topics in voice and movement training and to receive individual and small group tutorials.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 2410 and THEA 2420.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: Restricted to majors in Theatre and Music Theatre Performance.
Notes: This course is repeatable for credit under a different topic.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (3 - 4)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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THEA 3510 - Directing I
Functions of the play director as teacher, interpreter, coordinator, and collaborator. Focus is upon principles and problems of directing on the proscenium stage.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1410, THEA 1420, THEA 1700, and junior standing.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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THEA 3520 - Directing II
A continuation of THEA 3510. Focus is upon the principles and problems of directing for the non-proscenium stage and expansion of directorial approaches to production. Students prepare and direct scenes and one short play using non-proscenium staging.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 3510
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 3700 - Theatre History I
Survey of theatre history from the beginnings to 1642. Playwrights, acting styles, theatre production, theatre architecture, and audience taste are studied.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student’s curriculum.
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 3710 - Theatre History II
Survey of theatre history from 1642 to the 20th century. Playwrights, acting styles, theatre production, theatre architecture and audience taste are studied.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 3700
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 3720 - Musical Theatre History and Script Analysis II
A historical overview of the development of musical theatre from 1943 to the present. Representative scripts will be analyzed within their historical context.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 2720
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student’s curriculum.
When Offered: Fall (even years)
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THEA 3810 - Stage Management Production - Mainstage
Methods of stage management, including rehearsal coordination, prompt book preparation and director/cast/crew relationships from preproduction through performance on The Department of Theatre’s Mainstage productions. Students are assigned as stage managers on the Mainstage productions.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
When Offered: Every semester
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THEA 3820 - Advanced Topics in Arts and Stage Management
This course offers portfolio preparation to both the United States Institute for Theatre Technology’s standards and standards employed by top Actors’ Equity Association LORT theatres and U/RTA and ACTF. Standards include: organization, resume, interview/audition procedures, personal marketing and presentation, dress and decorum, job applications, etc. The course will include general management and producing projects involving the creation of production budgets (capital, operating and recoupment), marketing plans, press strategies, venue selection, staffing procedures, and contract negotiations. The course would also include group discussion and individual projects relating to current productions and laws governing Equity agreements. The class culminates in a final portfolio presentation to the University/Resident Theatre Association’s standards and is reviewed by Theatre faculty, staff, and invited guests.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 1810 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated.
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THEA 3900 - Professional Theatre Internship
Advanced theatre majors may receive credit for participating in the Professional Theatre Internship Program with professional theatres. Students must submit an internship application to the department’s Internship Coordinator. The Internship Coordinator will determine the number of credit hours to be awarded.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approval of the Internship Coordinator.
Credits: 2 to 6 hours
Notes: This course may be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II
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THEA 3910 - Performance Practicum
Performance Practicum is designed to provide acting students the opportunity for rigorous, supervised work on university theatre productions. Each student is required to complete two semesters of this course before graduation.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 1420 and instructor approval.
Credits: 2 hours
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THEA 4000 - Special Topics in Theatre
An investigation of topics of special interest related to theatre. Repeatable for credit under a different title. Examples of topics for study may include: dialects, mime, puppetry, script writing, advanced directing, theatre administration, touring theatre, advanced improvisation, stage management, and technical direction.
Credits: 1 to 3 hours
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THEA 4330 - Portfolio Preparation
Instruction and practice in the preparation and presentation of the theatrical designer’s and/or technician’s resume and portfolio with emphasis on applications for professional theatre internships, apprenticeships, employment, and/or graduate schools.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: THEA 2301, and two of the following: (THEA 2320, THEA 2330, THEA 3320); with a grade of “C” or better in all prerequisites.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Every other Fall
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THEA 4410 - Acting Studio
Study and practice of auditioning and cold readings with an emphasis upon preparation for graduate schools, internships, and the professional world of the actor.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Either THEA 2420 and 2460.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 4430 - Acting for the Camera
The study and practice of principles of acting as applied to film and television.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Either THEA 2420 or THEA 2460.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 4700 - Development of Theatre Art
A survey of the development of twentieth century theatre art and its relationship to concurrent developments in other arts and world politics.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: THEA 3710
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 4900 - Individualized Study in Theatre
Designed to enable upper division theatre majors, or students in special programs, to initiate, plan and execute projects in particular aspects of theatre. Must be planned in collaboration with a member of the theatre faculty who will act as supervising teacher. No more than six credit hours may count toward the major. Projects may involve study and research in an area of special interest, special performances or other creative activities.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approval of performance or tech/design area, departmental advisor, and departmental chair.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II
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THEA 4910 - Senior Project in Performance
This course is a capstone experience under the guidance of a theatre performance faculty advisor. The student will design a capstone experience that may include acting in a faculty directed production, directing, independently creating a one-person show, or any other theatrical activity approved by the faculty advisor in consultation with the performance faculty.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: Restricted to Theatre majors with Senior standing.
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THEA 4950 - Music Theatre Performance Workshop III
Students will participate in rehearsal and performance of staged readings from a broad spectrum of music theatre repertoire. Readings will incorporate technique and skills from the prior two semesters of MTP Workshop coursework. Readings will be performed before a public or invited audience. Students will be directed and evaluated by a faculty team from Theatre, Music and Dance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: DANC 4950
Credits: 2 hours
When Offered: Spring
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THEA 4990 - Music Theatre Showcase
The purpose of this course is to prepare students who will soon graduate in Music Theatre Performance to be competitive as they face auditioning for the professional industry they will be entering. The focus of the course is to select and prepare musical audition material. Students will have the opportunity to rehearse and receive staging, vocal, and interpretation coaching on up to three songs, as well as direction and choreography for an ensemble number. In addition, the course will include discussion of the nature of the professional music theatre industry and what is expected of artists entering the field. The small section size will allow students to address their individual needs and issues and receive ample coaching and attention.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Senior status and Music Theatre Performance majors only.
Credits: 1 hour
When Offered: Fall
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THEA 5600 - Audience Development
This course will focus on the goals, functions, and means of audience development, with special attention to audience education in the arts. Topics will include the use of quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to determine bases for creating programs to reach targeted, potential audiences based on demographics; developing master classes, residencies, special presentation, instructional material and post-performance experiences for targeted groups; and methods of evaluating the results of specific programs developed for a specific purpose.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. in Performing Arts Administration program or permission of program director.
Credits: 2 hours
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THEA 5610 - Facility and Ticket Office Operations
This course will address issues in facility management for presenting and producing performances and special events (e.g., handling food service for premieres and openings of shows, fundraisers, rentals, etc.) with consideration for the size of the performance space including an overview of the physical operations of such a facility, and the use of auxiliary spaces (e.g., Miller Auditorium, Gilmore Theatre Complex, Dalton Center Recital Hall, Multi-Media Room, Dance Studio B, etc.). The course will also include basics of setting up and running a ticket office for both manual and computerized systems, as well as special sales, audit requirements and artist payments based on percentages. Personnel requirements will be included in relation to the variable above.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. in Performing Arts Administration program of permission of program director.
Credits: 2 hours
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UNIV 1010 - Freshman Seminar
This course is designed to assist students to encounter experientially, intellectually, and emotionally the various avenues of learning, and to foster the academic, personal, social, and career development of each student. The activities and assignments of the course aid students in the development of an intellectual awareness and provide the skills and self-management required for a successful transition from high school to the University. The course is intended to excite students about learning and living in the new and challenging world of Western Michigan University. For freshmen only.
Credits: 1 to 3 hours
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UNIV 1020 - Career Exploration and Development
This course is designed to help the undecided student assess and develop skills in self-awareness, career awareness, decision-making, and planning. It will include activities to identify and explore the following areas: values, interests, career information, decision-making, and University resources. Assignments will involve written exercises and research in the Career Resource Center.
Credits: 1 hour
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