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  • THEA 1550: Scenography

    5.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    For Theatre Majors and Minors. Theatre Core Requirement. An introduction to the art of scenography, including the ways in which theatre artists communicate visually, and the way audiences read information in a theatrical design. This course has a lab component.
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  • THEA 1551: Scenography Lecture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    For Theatre Majors and Minors. An introduction to the art of scenography--a performance-art design practice that focuses on visual elements to promote audience reception and engagement in storytelling. Scenographers study the text, develop ideas with a director, address performers' needs, and analyze how audiences read these elements, in order to create the imaginative and appropriate environments of set, properties, costumes, lighting, and sound.
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  • THEA 1552: Scenography Lab

    2.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Theatre core requirement for Theatre Majors and Minors. This is a lab experience in the areas of scenic, lighting, sound, properties, and technical direction. Students will learn basic terminology, tools, and design skills for scenography as an integral part of the storytelling and performance process.
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  • THEA 1713: Script Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    For Theatre Majors and Minors. Theatre Core Requirement. In-depth analysis of play scripts in their historical and cultural contexts, with a special emphasis on the rhetorical and structural elements common to most plays. Prerequisites: Full Major or Minor status in Theatre OR Instructor Consent.
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  • THEA 1714: Music Theory I for MTP

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course is the first class in a series of two in which students learn the fundamentals of music theory in order to improve their ability to read and write musical notation; and develop their ability to recognize, understand, and describe the basic materials and processes of music that are heard or presented in a score. In this introductory course, the instructor will address fundamental aural, sight-singing, and compositional skills using listening and written exercises. Building on this foundation, the course will progress to include more creative and analytical tasks. Prerequisites: Admission to Emphasis in Musical Theatre OR Emphasis in Stage Management OR Instructor Consent.
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  • THEA 1715: Music Theory II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course is the second class in a series of two in which students learn fundamentals of music theory in order to improve their ability to read and write musical notation; and develop their ability to recognize, understand, and describe the basic materials and processes of music that are heard or presented in a score. In the second semester of study, the instructor will address more advanced aural, sight-singing, and compositional skills using listening and written exercises, as well as performance and examination. Building on foundational skills learned in Music Theory I, the course will progress to include more advanced creative an analytical tasks. Prerequisites: "C" or better in THEA 1714 OR Instructor Consent.
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  • THEA 1740: Musical Theatre

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Musical theatre is an exciting, highly collaborative, and constantly evolving art form that is quintessentially American. This course is a survey of the creation and development of American musical theatre from its roots in early European comic opera and operetta to the contemporary Broadway musical. Students will learn the history and basic forms/styles of musical theatre; explore the aesthetic and philosophical attitudes of those who create(d) musical theatre; and examine the political climates and prevailing social attitudes of the eras in which musical theatre was and is currently created and how these climates and attitudes have inspired and influenced the subject matter, artists, and productions.
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  • THEA 1760: Amer Political Theatre

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Open to all students. A political play depicts individuals who, by dint of being identified as part of a social group, receive unfair treatment based upon a generally accepted system of laws, values, or way of doing things. The "system" may be legal, bureaucratic, ideological, nationalistic, religious, racial, gender-based, or the reflection of communal values, but it is usually unchallenged. The plays studied are written by U.S. playwrights, largely in the 21st century, and include, among others, such subjects as the rise of the Alt-Right, women in the workplace, anti-Muslim discrimination, and racially segregated housing.
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  • THEA 1770: Black Theatre

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Open to all students. This course explores perspectives of historical and contemporary American society from a minority viewpoint through reading and analyzing plays written by Black authors from antebellum times to the present. The course examines works by African-American dramatists, and it compares these with a body of plays that shaped the popular image of Black life in America and in many cases perpetuated negative stereotypes of African-Americans.
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    General Education Course

  • THEA 2000: Prod Design Film/TV

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    PADP Program requirement. Production design for Film and TV is a survey course for majors and non-majors who are interested in learning about the design and production of scenery, costumes and lighting for film and television productions. The course reviews the history of American film design and current trends in film/TV production design techniques. Film and documentary viewing is included with weekly lectures. Prerequisites: "C" or better in (THEA 1550 OR THEA 1551) OR Instructor Consent.
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