Course Description
Stage use of sword-play, hand-to-hand combat and combat choreography with broadsword, epee, cudgel, and staff among others.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Analyze a script or score for combat choreography needs and requirements, and develop a workable design concept
• Generate a combat choreography and the associated paperwork common to a production based on the design concept and an evaluation of the performers' spatial relationships and movement necessities in the production
• Design a theatrical production or musical that reflects the above criteria

• Signal processing and its relationship to live recording on a concert stage
• Identify and discuss the relevant concepts of concert stage recording
• Articulate the mechanics of concert recording
• Explain the acoustic principles relevant to concert recording
• Discuss recording hardware and software specific to concert recording
• Explain recording procedures that you follow, specific to live concerts, and why

• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the creative process involved in play production from casting to opening;
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the managerial aspects of stage managing a play production;
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of how professional performances are budgeted and marketed to the public.

• Understand relaxation techniques and purposes as they relate to stage movement
• Determine how to reveal the significance of a character's action through stage movement
• Increase physical freedom, range of motion and release of tension through various exercises and movement explorations
• Understand kinesthetic skills for actors as they apply to performance: use of space, time, weight.

• Demonstrate an understanding of how music/songs are integrated into the book of a unified musical production;
• Demonstrate an understanding of "the approach to a song" including acting a song, characterization, and creating the emotional connection of a character;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the evolution of musical theater as an important American art form.
• Demonstrate the history behind the musical, noting specific examples through the 20th century of well-known musicals.
• Demonstrate an understanding of costume, makeup, and stage design.
• Demonstrate an understanding of both instrumental and vocal performance in a musical.

Course Description
Continued participation both on and off the stage in various aspects of play production with a goal of understanding theatre as a synthetic art, and the impact of a variety of play production crew assignments on the performance. Production crew participation is interpreted to mean involvement in the crew's activities from the planning stages through the final performance, including final strike.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Articulate proper shop and theater safety rules as part of a production team
• Identify theater shop tools used in the construction of scenic elements/ lighting design/sound design/costume construction and/or make-up
• Identify examples of a director's or stage manager's script breakdown, lighting plots, sound design with explanation of design outcomes, or costume designs
• Demonstrate proper technical knowledge and backstage conduct in the process of performing running crew duties for productions
• Present an analysis of a scene or production through the lens of one of the crew positions (noted at the end of this list)
• Discuss key factors in location scouting
• Identify historical figures and benchmarks in Western theatre, and theatre /entertainment arts in terms of commercial vs. art -- what constitutes each, and where their own personal aesthetic falls.
• Articulate the value of production credit
• Relate the significance of theatre as a collaborative art form and as a “mirror” of the society that produces it
• Provide evidence of skills required in the different technical areas in terms of ability to work as part of a crew, and an ability to work collaboratively towards a common goal

Students should show this through exemplification of performance, design, analytical or technical skills leading to performance in the capacity of at least one of the following roles in at least one production: Director, Stage Manager, Set/Light/Sound/Costume/Make-Up Designer, or Stage Technician.

• The rationale of play selection, considering venue, environment, and budget;
• Various styles of scripts beyond the realistic;
• Textual interpretation;
• Conceptualization of an entire production;
• Effective actor/director communication techniques.

Course Description
The business side of acting; auditions, pictures and resumes, agents, and showcases. Students work on finding and preparing appropriate monologues for professional auditions.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Create a viable resume and headshot;
• Research and choose a monologue depending on the medium (TV, stage, film)
• Obtain and effectively work with an agent;
• Understand and work within the union framework.
• Present a short, mid, and long-term marketing program for the actor

• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the creative process involved in play production from casting to opening;
• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the managerial aspects of stage managing a play production;
• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of how professional performances are budgeted and marketed to the public.

Course Description
Studies the practical function of the costume shop and the techniques and crafts used in the execution of costumes for the stage. Production works included.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Analyze a script or score for costume needs and requirements, and develop a workable design concept
• Generate costume sketches and the associated paperwork common to a production based on the design concept and an evaluation of the performers' spatial relationships and movement necessities in the production
• Design costumes for a theatrical production or musical that reflects the above criteria