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SOC 421 - Contemporary Social Analysis in the Southwest
A seminar in the application of theories of social change, social knowledge, and research into regional issues in the Southwest. Topics may vary but will critically address issues of water, energy, agriculture, urbanization, inequality, public morality, politics, education, and community.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
Permissions Required: Instructor
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SOC 496 - Senior Seminar
Advanced study and research in selected topics. The student will prepare and submit a senior seminar research paper to qualify for graduation.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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SOC 499 - Independent Study
Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department Chairperson and Dean.
Credits: 1-6
Hours: 50 hours are the equivalent of one credit hour.
Notes:
No more than eight credits in any combination of departmental 299/499 courses may apply toward a degree.
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THEA 100 - Theatrical Production I
This course involves initial participation in theatrical production. It includes involvement in various areas of theatre from inception to presentation. Students with little or no theatre experience will gain a working knowledge of performance.
Credits: 1-4
Repeatable: This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.
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THEA 101 - Introduction to Theatre
This course offers a general introduction to the theatre and to performance in the human experience. Students view and discuss films and live performances, and perform scenes in class. The course emphasizes an understanding of the processes of creating theatre, and of the role of theatre and performance in the context of cultures and contemporary society.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
gtPathways: AH1
Notes:
There is a strong participatory component to the course.
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THEA 126 - Introduction to the Dance
This course offers an exploration of the historical/theoretical basis of dance and its many variant forms. In addition to gaining an historical and theoretical knowledge of dance, this course includes the practical/technical overview of traditional and contemporary dance forms including African dance, folk dance, ballet, jazz dance, musical theatre, and dance improvisation. Students will gain a general knowledge of technical skills as well as a broad knowledge and appreciation of the art and history of dance.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
gtPathways: AH1
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THEA 135 - Acting Techniques I
This course introduces students to basic performance techniques including a study of basic techniques in movement, voice, characterization, and text analysis as they are applied to performance. It includes body work, improvisation skills development, performance of dramatic text and literature, and introductory scene work.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-2)
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THEA 156 - Guest Artist Series
This course gives both theatre and non-theatre students the opportunity to work with and learn from guest artists – directors, designers, and performers – who are visiting from professional theatre venues of world renowned status. Students may choose to participate in some or all of the guest artist series depending on the schedule and the number of registered credit hours.
Credits: 1-3
Repeatable: This course is repeatable up to 8 times.
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THEA 200 - Theatrical Production II
This course constitutes involvement of the intermediate level student in theatrical production. Students with a developing dedication to theatre participate in selected areas including but not limited to dramaturgy, technical theatre, theatre administration, stage management, and performance. Repertoire includes classical, modern, musical theatre, and dance.
Credits: 1-4
Repeatable: This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.
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THEA 230 - Stage Technology
This course provides students with a basic working knowledge of the technical aspects of theatre including scenery construction, costume construction, prop construction, lighting equipment and its uses, and introductory knowledge of the aspects of stage design.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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THEA 238 - Acting Techniques II
This course involves advanced training in application of acting techniques of the voice and body including techniques of: freeing the body and voice, body language, movement in the development of characterization, advanced text analysis, and other actor techniques.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-2)
Prerequisites: THEA 135
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THEA 240 - Ancient and Classical Theatre
This course is the first in the theatre criticism/dramatic literature sequence (THEA 240 , THEA 340 , and THEA 342 ). Students taking this course attain a breadth and depth of foundational knowledge of western theatre/dramatic literature and culture by examining various styles and traditions of performers, playhouses, plays, and playwrights to1800. Focus is placed on attaining insight into the thinking and theatre conventions of times and places at a greater distance from our own including: Classical Greek and Roman, Medieval, Italian Renaissance, Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline, Spanish, French Neo-classic, Restoration and Enlightenment.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
gtPathways: AH1
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THEA 270 - Acting for Camera
Students will be introduced to techniques for auditioning and performing to camera and other electronic media. Explorations include appropriate voice and body work that would enable students to grow in confidence and emphasize attention to appearance and voice. Scripts from commercials, television and film will be utilized.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-2)
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THEA 274 - Make-up and Costume Design
The study and application of the production elements, materials, methods, and principles of design as applied to stage costume and make-up. Emphasizes costume history and texts in analysis and interpretation. Presented in a studio format and project driven. Explores concept development, style selection, and extensive practice in a variety of techniques for costuming and make-up.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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THEA 296 - Sophomore Seminar
Theatre majors must take Sophomore Seminar after the completion of 14 theatre credits. This course addresses various facets of the theatre discipline, self evaluation, professional skill-sets, leadership, and career planning.
Credits: 2
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (2-0)
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THEA 299 - Individual Study
Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department Chairperson and Dean.
Credits: 1-6
Hours: 50 hours are the equivalent of one credit hour.
Notes:
No more than eight credits in any combination of departmental 299/499 courses may apply toward a degree.
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THEA 300 - Theatrical Production III
This course involves participation in a theatrical production, including various areas of technical theatre, performance, stage management, and theatre administration. The maturing student is actively involved in theatre production(s) during the semester.
Credits: 1-4
Repeatable: This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.
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THEA 310 - Scenic Design and Technology
This course examines the process of theatrical scene design from early conception to realization. Course work is project-based. Students are introduced to the crafts of script analysis, conceptualization, design expression, drafting, and 3-D model building. Involves projects in theatrical scene design and provides intensive practice in sketching, rendering, drafting, and model-building.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
Prerequisites: THEA 230 (minimum grade of C)
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THEA 322 - Creative Dramatics
Creative Drama uses a student’s innate ability to “play” in the developmental process of becoming a productive well adjusted human being. This course focuses on using drama as a teaching tool in multiple disciplines, using drama as a socializing tool for children and adults, and understanding drama as an art form.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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THEA 323 - Youth Theatre/Peer Theatre
This performance-based course focuses on creating, rehearsing, and producing theatre for youth that is designed for educational purposes and appropriate for youth and peer-oriented presentations. The course may involve touring area schools as well as on-site Fort Lewis College programming. Four hours of instruction with one hour of individual/group practical application.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-2)
Repeatable: This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.
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THEA 335 - Styles in Acting
This course further develops the acting student’s performance skills through the theory and practice of various styles of acting. At this level, the students will focus on styles specific to temporal periods including, but not limited to, Greek, Roman, Classical French, English Renaissance, Restoration Comedy of Manners, Enlightenment, Realism, and Anti-realism.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-2)
Prerequisites: THEA 135
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THEA 336 - Creating Performance/Directing
This course concentrates on the conceptual and practical application of performance in the form of creating a production from initial concept to closure. Students will develop and use the skills of analysis, strategic planning, directing, creating movement, organization, and administration.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
Prerequisites: THEA 240
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THEA 340 - Modern Theatre
This course, the second in the dramatic literature sequence (THEA 240 , THEA 340 , and THEA 342 ) surveys developments in theatre practice and dramatic literature from the beginning of the 19th through the mid-21st century. The development of modern drama and the concurrent philosophical thinking in Western theatre history will be the focus of the course.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
Prerequisites: THEA 240
Notes:
May be taken as a “Topics” course for English majors.
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THEA 342 - Asian Performance
The purpose of this course is to facilitate knowledge, discussion, and critical thought of Asian performance forms including those from Japan, China, India, and Southeast Asia (Malaysia and Indonesia). The exploration of Asian performance gives students a greater breadth of knowledge and clearer understanding of non-Western perspectives as valid and important to our current culture and expression of meaning.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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THEA 356 - Guest Artist Series
This course gives both theatre and non-theatre students the opportunity to work with and learn from guest artists – directors, designers, and performers – who are visiting from professional theatre venues of world-renowned status. Students may choose to participate in some or all of the guest artist series depending on the schedule and the number of registered credit hours.
Credits: 1-3
Repeatable: This course is repeatable up to 8 times.
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THEA 366 - Dance Technique
Students will learn and practice the technique of a specific style while concentrating on personal abilities, awareness, and ways to correctly train his or her body. The type of dance technique taught each session will vary each term.
Credits: 2
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (2-0)
Repeatable: This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits in any combination from THEA 166 and THEA 366.
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THEA 369 - Playwriting
In Playwriting, students develop their own creativity in writing for theatre. Students examine dramatic plots, characters, dialogue, exposition, setting, theme, new and traditional forms and other elements of drama through a series of exercises and writing practices. They will read a number of contemporary plays and attend local performances.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
Notes:
All students will write a producible one-act play.
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THEA 372 - Stage Management
Covers stage management from the inception of a production concept through the process of mounting a production, focusing on the interrelationships of the various artists involved, management and scheduling of time, and the psychology of handling a wide range of personalities.
Credits: 2
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (2-0)
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THEA 374 - Lighting and Sound Design
Introduces the craft of stage lighting design and sound technology through experiential projects, lecture/demos, hands on production experience, and theoretical projects. Subject matter includes aesthetics of sound and light, color theory, lighting and sound for performance, electricity, acoustics, equipment, design graphics, and basic sound and light technology.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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THEA 400 - Theatrical Production IV
This course involves in-depth involvement in theatrical production, performance, and technical theatre. The advanced theatre student will have the opportunity to build on his/her theatre skills in areas such as performing, dance, technical theatre, costuming, dramaturgy, stage management and theatre administration.
Credits: 1-4
Repeatable: This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.
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THEA 415 - Devised and Performance Art
This course traces the history, tradition, practice and aesthetics of 20th and 21st century performance, live, multimedia, and devised art. Examining new ways of authoring performance with multiple artists (designers, writers, performers, etc.), students will be exposed to a variety of creative processes in solo and ensemble performance and incorporate the tools necessary in the creation of original work.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
Prerequisites: THEA 340 AND THEA 342
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THEA 460 - Internship in Theatre
This course provides students the opportunity to take a forward step in their career development through active internship partnerships with professional and not for profit theatre organizations. Specific internships are determined by partner organizations, supervising faculty and the student.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: THEA 296
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THEA 496 - Senior Seminar
This course gives senior theatre majors the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities in connecting the analytical academic research process to performance. Significant research, on an approved topic, will result in a substantial paper. Each student’s research combined with insightful performance knowledge, problem-solving techniques, and creative thinking, results in a public presentation.
Credits: 2
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (2-0)
Prerequisites: THEA 336 OR THEA 415 AND THEA 340 AND THEA 342
Notes:
Concurrent enrollment in THEA 336 or THEA 415 .
THEA 496 is a full course and must be taken in the fall, followed by THEA 497 in the spring.
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THEA 499 - Independent Study
Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department Chairperson and Dean.
Credits: 1-6
Hours: 50 hours are the equivalent of one credit hour.
Notes:
No more than eight credits in any combination of departmental 299/499 courses may apply toward a degree.
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TRS 82 - Introduction to Algebra
This course provides review and instruction in elementary algebra and offers the opportunity to apply these skills to word problems and critical thinking exercises.
Credits: 3
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
Prerequisites: Computed Math Placement Score M0082
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TRS 90 - Reading for Ideas
This course is intended for students who need additional practice in reading and analysis before attempting a college-level composition class. It focuses on written texts, with an emphasis on comprehension skills necessary for TRS 91 . It also develops college-level reading and vocabulary skills through pre-reading exercises and the concept of reading rhetorically through analyzing purpose, audience, and point of view.
Credits: 3
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
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TRS 91 - Introduction to Academic Writing
This course is intended for students who need additional practice in composing before attempting a college-level composition class. The course emphasizes writing as a recursive process by focusing on prewriting, analyzing audiences, drafting, revising, and editing. It also focuses on development of college-level reading and writing skills through topic, thesis, and stylistic development, culminating in a well-developed essay.
Credits: 3
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
Prerequisites: Successful completion of TRS 90 (minimum grade of C-) OR FLC Writing Placement Score C089 OR FLC Writing Placement Score C091
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TRS 92 - Intermediate Algebra
Designed to provide review and instruction in college preparatory mathematics for students with deficiencies in or apprehensions about required entrance level mathematics courses. The course will cover such topics as algebraic expressions, manipulation of signed numbers, solving equations and inequalities, algebraic fractions, polynomials, exponents, radical expressions, and graphing.
Credits: 3
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
Prerequisites: TRS 82 (minimum grade of C-) OR Computed Math Placement Score M0092
Notes:
Students who wish to enroll in this course should have successfully completed at least the equivalent of Algebra I.
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