Course Descriptions

STP 496 - Individual Study

STP 497 - Honors

STP 498 - Special Topics

STP 499 - Seminar

SCM 298 - Special Topics

SCM 299 - Seminar

SCM 302 - Supply Chain Bootcamp

• Describe the entitles associated with a particular industry supply chain.
• Identify the key relationship and performance factors that affect the performance of industry supply chains.
• Discuss the role of particular organizations and organizational processes affecting the performance of industry supply chains.
• Diagram the interactions among organizations in an industry supply chain.
• Analyze the impact of individual organizations on overall supply chain dynamics.

SCM 310 - Supply Chain Management

• Describe the typical structure and processes associated with supply chains in different product and service oriented industries
• Explain the concept of “Supply Chain Orientation” and how it is relevant to decision making throughout organizations
• Select appropriate quantitative and qualitative models used to make decisions related to forecasting, inventory management, production planning, service and other supply chain related activities
• Diagram and explain processes associated with lean and six sigma operations improvement practices
• Propose the most appropriate  general supply chain strategy based on product, market, service and operational consideration
• Construct basic process maps for different supply chain related processes related to purchasing, operations, distribution and customer relationship activities
• Discuss current events affecting local, national and global supply chain operations and organization performance
• Evaluate the impact of demand variation on operations and performance in different supply chains
• Compare how different supply chain operating alternative affect service and financial performance of an organization.
• Estimate the impact of different supply chain related operating tradeoffs on service, operational performance and financial performance

SCM 310A - Enterprise Sales and Distribution Systems Lab

• Diagram the sales planning and implementation process commonly applied in an enterprise system environment
• Diagram the order management and distribution process commonly applied in an enterprise system environment
• Diagram the invoice to pay processes commonly applied in an enterprise system environment
• Perform the actions necessary to create and modify customer records, quotations and orders in an enterprise system environment
• Perform the actions necessary to create and modify distribution, delivery and invoice transactions in an enterprise system environment

SCM 396 - Individual Study

SCM 397 - Honors

SCM 398 - Special Topics

SCM 399 - Seminar

SCM 420 - Lean/Six Sigma Processes

• Demonstrate the use of process maps for a new process.
• Design a data collection plan, collect and measure the data and analyze the data.
• Design a poster to encapsulate the lean / six sigma project.
• Select a viable solution amongst many alternatives and logically defend it.

SCM 425 - Procurement and Supply Management

• Discuss the stages and activities involved in supplier evaluation and selection.
• Identify and classify the different types of purchases necessary to support organizational and supply chain operations.
• Distinguish among the different approaches to quality management and their role in procurement and supply management decisions.
• Assess the appropriateness of alternative purchasing and supply management strategies.
• Organize the stages and activities involved in supplier evaluation and selection.
• Apply tools and methods associated with the strategic sourcing process.
• Describe a framework used to help organize supplier negotiations and will be familiar with important elements that influence the negotiations process.
• Explain the primary elements contained in a supplier contract.

SCM 425A - Enterprise Purchasing and Materials Management Systems Lab

• Diagram the new vendor creation process commonly applied in an enterprise system environment.
• Diagram the purchase requisition to purchase order process commonly applied in an enterprise system environment.
• Diagram the order receipt to vendor payment processes commonly applied in an enterprise system environment.
• Perform the actions necessary to create and modify vendor information in an enterprise system environment.
• Perform the actions necessary to create and modify purchase requisitions and purchase orders in an enterprise system environment.
• Perform the actions necessary to create and modify order receipts and vendor payment transactions in an enterprise system environment.

SCM 435 - Supply Chain Operations

• Apply common quantitative methods for the analysis of operations related to purchasing, inventory, management, manufacturing, distribution and related functions.
• Employ existing models designed to solve more complex problems related to purchasing, inventory management, manufacturing, distribution and related functions.
• Explain how different operational tools and management concepts may be used to address real world problems associated with common case scenarios in product and service supply chains.
• Identify and discuss current issues affecting operational decisions in product and service-related industries.

SCM 435A - Enterprise Production Planning and Execution Systems Lab

• Diagram the new materials transaction process commonly applied in an enterprise system environment.
• Diagram the bill of material creation process commonly applied in an enterprise system environment.
• Diagram the materials requirements planning processes commonly applied in an enterprise system environment.
• Diagram the reorder point generation processes commonly applied in an enterprise system environment.
• Perform the actions necessary to create and modify a bill of materials in an enterprise system environment.
• Perform the actions necessary to create and modify and implement a material requirements plan in an enterprise system environment.
• Perform the actions necessary to create and revise reorder point system data based on new information.

SCM 450 - Logistics and Transportation

• Describe the activities most commonly associated with logistics and transportation processes in firms.
• Compute and interpret common performance measures associated with transportation and inventory management.
• Distinguish among the capabilities, operating requirements and costs of the various transportation modes and warehousing options.
• Choose the most effective operations configuration among alternatives based on tradeoffs related to transportation modes, inventory options, customer service requirements and financial goals.
• Rate the best facility locations based on quantitative and qualitative characteristics associated with logistics and transportation activities.
• Explain the purpose and requirements associated with various forms of logistics and transportation documentation.
• Describe the different types of systems used for managing logistics and transportation processes more effectively.
• Assess how logistics and transportations decisions and tradeoffs will change when considering larger supply chain related objectives.
• Calculate inventory and distribution requirements needed to achieve specific service objectives.

SCM 475 - Global Trade and Supply Chain Management

• Distinguish between alternative modes of transportation for global commerce given a set of circumstances including geography, infrastructure requirements, market factors, and service requirements.
• Select alternative methods to enter an international market given scenarios related to market conditions, corporate strategy, product requirements and support structure.
• Apply the appropriate methods of payment for international transactions given scenarios related to risk, financial conditions, and transaction requirements.
• Organize the various documents required to support the global movement of products and service between countries.
• Explain the particular market, economic, governmental, demographic, infrastructure, and other factors related to a particular country or regional area.

SCM 480 - Supply Chain Strategy

• Assess and make a preliminary diagnosis of potential management and operational challenges.
• Employ analytical and decision support tools to evaluate complex business scenarios.
• Communicate their approach to analysis and recommendations involving complex case scenarios.
• Demonstrate their ability to develop appropriate policies to guide operations and supply chain management activities and decisions.

SCM 490 - Supply Chain Management Internship

• Apply learning in professional workplace environment
• Demonstrate professional behavior in the workplace
• Substantive discipline-based outcomes developed by individual students in consult with faculty advisor

SCM 492 - Lean Six Sigma Practicum

• Apply the DMAIC process to a business process improvement project.
• Define a business problem, improvement activity, opportunity for improvement and project goals associated business process improvement project.
• Measure the performance of a process.
• Analyze a process to determine route causes of poor performance and variation.
• Propose process changes that may be implemented to eliminate root cause performance deficiencies.
• Design the control factors that will help to evaluate and control for on-going process improvement.
• Apply various lean and six sigma analysis and management techniques that can result in the improved performance of one or more business processes.

SCM 493 - Supply Chain Boot Camp

• Prepare a research brief on each organization participating in the boot camp
• Exhibit professional behavior and appropriate business skills in industry setting.
• Establish a professional network within the industry professionals
• Illustrate an awareness of the organization(s) participating in the boot camp.

SCM 496 - Individual Study

SCM 497 - Honors

SCM 498 - Special Topics

SCM 499 - Seminar

SUST 301 - Introduction to Sustainability

• Outline difficulties and challenges in developing sustainable practices using the variety of definitions for sustainability.
• Interpret the impacts of waste streams on campus and/or the greater community.
• Justify inclusion of sustainability initiatives to campus and community based projects.
• Evaluate impact of sustainability-centric projects can have on a variety of scales including campus and the greater community. 
• Construct environmental impact goals to which their proposed projects align.

SUST 309 - Sustainability Civic Engagement Experience

• Identify and describe a sustainability issue that exists in the campus and/or community.
• Design and propose an academic service learning project that addresses a sustainability issue in the campus and/or community.
• Apply principles of sustainability to a campus or community based academic service learning project.
• Relate sustainability program coursework to their academic service learning project.
• Evaluate impact of sustainability academic service learning project on campus and/or community partner/issue using appropriate measures. 

SUST 487 - Sustainability Project Capstone

• Synthesize the creative work students formulated in association with a community partner
• Analyze and appraise peer presentations to formulate better approaches to deliver creative work
• Apply higher order critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Synthesize the knowledge and skills they gleaned from their experiential learning experiences
• Demonstrate clear communication strategies and techniques in oral, written, and expressive form.

TH 101 - Appreciation of Theatre and Film

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of fundamental concepts within theatre arts and film.
• Demonstrate knowledge of scholarly and creative methods used within theatre arts and film.
• Acquire appropriate vocabulary and engage in discourse about aesthetic expression and/or experience.
• Demonstrate an understanding of aesthetic activities within their historic, artistic, and cultural traditions.
• Apply aesthetic judgment and critical thinking by experiencing and evaluating works of theatre and film.
• Demonstrate knowledge of aesthetic expression from diverse perspectives.
• Apply principles of being respectful audience members.

TH 107 - Introduction to Theatre

• Identify the fundamental concepts within theatre arts.
• Demonstrate the scholarly and  creative methods used in theatre arts
• Acquire appropriate vocabulary and engage in discourse about aesthetic expression and/or experience.
• Discuss and justify aesthetic activities within their historic, artistic, and cultural traditions.
• Apply aesthetic judgment and critical thinking by experiencing and evaluating works of art.
• Articulate the methods of aesthetic expression from diverse perspectives.

TH 115 - Class Piano I

• Name and recall the notes on the piano in various ranges
• Demonstrate a piano proficiency by playing the Major scales up and down one octave from 0 sharps and flats to 4 sharps and flats
• Demonstrate piano proficiency by playing various pieces from the text
• Demonstrate a piano proficiency by playing the chord progression of: I, V7, I in Major and minor keys up to 4 sharps and 4 flats

TH 116 - Class Piano II

• Demonstrate a piano proficiency by playing the harmonic minor scales up and down one octave from 0 sharps and flats to 4 sharps and flats
• Identify and demonstrate a piano proficiency by playing a five finger pattern in all 12 Major and minor keys
• Demonstrate piano proficiency by playing various pieces from the text
• Demonstrate a piano proficiency by playing the chord progression of: I, IV, I, V7, I in Major and minor keys up to 4 sharps and 4 flats
• Demonstrate a piano proficiency by playing various pieces from the text that utilize chord symbols

TH 117 - Class Piano III

• Demonstrate a piano proficiency by playing Major, minor, Dominant and diminished chords in Root, 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd inversions
• Demonstrate piano proficiency and expansion of repertoire by playing various pieces from the text that utilize chord symbols to harmonize a melody line

TH 140 - Introduction to Theatre Design

TH 143 - Private Voice Lessons

• Identify key signatures, time signatures, rhythmic patterns, musical symbols, notes, vocal ranges, common musical terms, etc.
• Analyze and interpret music and lyrics from several different musical styles.
• Identify and select music according to their appropriate vocal range and type.
• Participate in private musical theatre vocal training sessions.
• Identify and implement the fundamentals of musical theatre vocal style and technique.

TH 144 - Foundations of Acting

• Demonstrate an understanding of acting principles and the actor’s tools.
• Demonstrate a working vocabulary of basic terms and concepts used in the acting process.
• Demonstrate the ability to create and build self- confidence and trust within an acting framework.
• Synthesize personal awareness, knowledge of Stanislavski based acting techniques, and analysis of a role through the creation of a fully realized character (including the use of subtext, playing of actions, listening and responding, appropriate physical and vocal choices, and so forth).
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 145 - Foundations of Acting II

• Demonstrate an intermediate level of understanding of acting principles and the actor’s tools.
• Demonstrate an intermediate level working vocabulary of basic terms and concepts used in the Stanislavski System of acting.
• Demonstrate intermediate level of ability to create and build self-confidence and trust within an acting framework.
• Synthesize personal awareness, knowledge of Stanislavski based acting techniques, and analysis of a role through the creation of a fully realized character (including the use of subtext, playing of actions, listening and responding, appropriate physical and vocal choices, and so forth).

TH 148 - Actor Conditioning - Monologue

• Practice using the actor’s basic tools of voice, body, and imagination.
• Develop and use basic acting craft vocabulary and basic acting techniques.
• Demonstrate and practice using the Stanislavski 10-system steps in scene and monologue analysis.
• Successfully perform stage monologues.
• Identify their monologue “type”.
• Recognize and use on line and printed resources for finding “type” monologues.
• Recognize effective audition monologues.
• Practice cutting and shaping audition monologues to suit time constraints.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 161 - Intro to Technology 1: Costumes and Makeup

• Demonstrate basic skills, theory and practice of costume construction, through creative application of skills learned in the course.
• Identify the costume shop operating procedures, organizational structure, and personnel.
• Demonstrate skill in team work and collaboration.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the materials, techniques, and skills involved in makeup for the theatre and TV.
• Work effectively and safely using creative problem solving and application skills.
• Demonstrate microphone wearing and basic care.

TH 162 - Intro to Technology 2: Scenery and Lighting

• Use tools, machines and hardware in a safe and proper fashion to build a piece of theatre scenery.
• Demonstrate proper use and care for painting tools.
• Demonstrate how to operate the counterweight fly system while following proper safety protocol.
• Identify the common materials used in theatre scenery construction.
• Identify and employ the various tools, fixtures, and accessories frequently used in lighting design.
• Identify and define the various parts and sub-systems within a theatrical lighting system.

TH 166 - Theory of Play Production

• Develop knowledge and competent use of the theories, styles, and protocol of the theatre profession.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weaknesses of theatre models, as well as how they might best adapt into a theatre career.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 201 - Dance Production Application

• Analyze a choreographed dance piece in order to create a design concept.
• Apply the steps of the lighting design process as it relates to dance production.
• Use the principles of color theory and cueing on stage.
• Set meetings with collaborators and manage time to meet deadlines on a large project.

TH 202 - Performance Studio

• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team through participation in a theatrical production, and find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of performance as a part of the production process, an understanding of the dramatic text, and methods of translating text into a stage production.

TH 215 - Music Fundamentals I

• Identify, treble and bass clef, the grand staff, note and rest values, simple time signatures, whole and half steps, major and minor pentascales, triads, harmonic and melodic intervals, correct notation of music, analysis and musical terms.
• Identify intervals, major and minor ascending and descending scales, and various rhythm patterns.

TH 216 - Music Fundamentals II

• Identify technical degree names, chromatic scales, augmented and diminished intervals, interval inversions, triads, cadences, transposition, whole tone, pentatonic, blues and octatonic scales, music terminology.
• Aurally identify intervals, major and minor ascending and descending scales, and rhythmic dictation.

TH 217 - Music Fundamentals III

• Identify Alto and Tenor clefs, technical degree names, chromatic scales, augmented and diminished intervals, simple and compound interval inversions, dominant and diminished seventh chords, transposition from minor to minor, whole tone, pentatonic, blues and octatonic scales, modes, simple compound and hybrid time, analysis of musical scores, and Italian terms.  Ear training, interval singing, and rhythmic and melodic dictation.

TH 243 - Singing for Actors

• Identify key and time signatures analyze and interpret lyrics and music
• Identify and choose music according to appropriate vocal range
• Demonstrate singing technique designed for musical theatre performance in the presentational style
• Prepare to audition at the collegiate level

TH 244 - Basic Acting I

• Have an understanding of and practice using the actor’s basic tools of voice, body and imagination
• Develop and use basic acting craft vocabulary and basic acting techniques
• Identify demonstrate and practice understanding of basic American and European acting methods and schools including Stanislavski, Adler, Strasberg and Meisner
• Demonstrate and practice using the Stanislavski 10 system steps in scene and monologue analysis
• Successfully perform stage monologues and dual scenes
• Identify, discuss, demonstrate and practice stage movement techniques, including viewpoints of time (tempo, duration, kinesthetic response, repetition) and space (shape, gesture, architecture and topography) with composition work
• Practice working as an ensemble, developing kinesthetic connection through movement
• Create new works through movement and improvisation
• Apply the collaborative process through theatre work
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers

TH 245 - Basic Acting II

• Demonstrate a basic acquaintance with the Michael Chekhov acting technique as it applies to the physical instrument: awareness of the human body as an expressive instrument, and its relationship to space; principles of physical creation such as form, rhythm, tempo, repetition, contrast, objectivity, qualities, radiation and imagination.
• Demonstrate a basic acquaintance with the Michael Chekhov acting technique as it applies to character: Learning and applying the principles of characterization including Center, Personal Atmosphere. Archetype, Imaginary Body, and Psychological Gesture.
• Demonstrate a basic acquaintance with the Michael Chekhov acting technique as it applies to independent yet interrelated tools of the rehearsal process: techniques that allow the actor to realize Who is playing the Actions, and How they should be played.
• Use physical acting techniques with text
• Apply the above techniques and synthesize them using Stanislavski’s IO system steps.in the analysis, preparation, rehearsal and performance of a scene.
• Apply the above techniques and use them in the creation of a Fictional Character and the performance of an original monologue for the Character.
• Demonstrate and practice basic Meisner improvisation techniques which lead to: connecting with scene partners, listening, following impulses, pursuing objectives, creating arcs, raising stakes and making active choices based on personal and partner objectives coupled with given circumstances.
• Devise and rehearse an active organically connected progression of movement choices based on written stage direction and music; demonstrating an understanding of shape, tempo, architecture and topography integrated with character and objective.
• Apply the collaborative process through theatre work.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 246 - Basic Acting III

• Demonstrate a basic acquaintance with the Rasaboxes acting technique as it applies to the physical instrument: identification of the nine rasas plus breathing and movement technique as they relate to the rasas
• Demonstrate a basic acquaintance with the Rasaboxes acting technique as it applies to character: applying the rasas to character objective and subtext, using the rasas as an exploration method
• Demonstrate a basic acquaintance with the Rasaboxes acting technique as it applies independent yet interrelated tools of the rehearsal process: analysis mid use of the rasas with text
• Apply the above techniques in improvisational work
• Use physical acting techniques with text
• Use text to identify and articulate beats, the character’s interior monologue, objectives and subtext as they relate to Stanislavski’s IO-system steps
• Synthesize bold physical choices, full physical commitment, adopting another’s point of view, engaging the audience while listening and responding to the audience in a fully realized solo performance
• Apply the collaborative process through theatre work
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers

TH 248 - Vocal Conditioning for the Actor

• Apply various vocal production techniques which will include emphasis on support, placement, articulation, use of resonators, and tone focus. Methodologies may include various recognized systems of voice for the actor.
• Apply various physical techniques supporting vocal production such as relaxation, stillness and focus of movement, flexibility, strength, balance, coordination, posture, alignment, and expanding methods of expression through a body-mind-voice collaboration.
• Develop effective and relevant quarterly goals for vocal production specific to the student’s individual needs.

TH 249 - Vocal Conditioning for the Actor II

• Apply various vocal shaping techniques which will include emphasis on support, placement, articulation, use of resonators, and tone focus. Methodologies may include Lessac, Berry, Linklater, Mayer, and other recognized systems of voice for the actor.
• Apply various physical techniques supporting vocal shaping like relaxation, stillness and focus of movement, flexibility, strength, balance, coordination, posture, alignment, and expanding methods of expression through a body-mind-voice collaboration.
• Develop effective and relevant quarterly goals for vocal shaping specific to the student’s individual needs.

TH 252 - Stage Dance

• Demonstrate dance terminology based on the fundamental terminology of ballet.
• Demonstrate the terminology and the movement associated in putting together a dance combination in an audition situation.
• Competently perform and execute a stage dance piece.

TH 256 - Sound and Mixing - Aesthetics and Essentials

• Demonstrate competency on a digital and analog mixing board
• Display an ability to mix a multi-source input into a coherent and fluid mix.
• Display fundamental skills on how to maintain and dress microphones on an actor
• Display basic audio connection and hardware skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully mix live microphones.

TH 261 - Costume Technology

• Demonstrate basic skills, theory and practice of costume construction, through creative application of skills learned in the course.
• Comprehend the costume shop-its operating procedures, organizational structure, and personnel.
• Demonstrate skills in team work and collaboration.

TH 266 - Theatre Drafting

• Ability to produce theatrical drafting, utilizing hand drafting and computer drafting techniques.
• Identify and utilize basic graphic standards and USITT graphic standards for scenery and lighting.
• Draft a scenic floor plan, CL section, elevations, Isometric, 3D Model and Rendering.

TH 267 - Scene Technology

• Discuss the Safety procedures appropriate to Theaters in general and our Theatre in particular.
• Identify, discuss and follow the safety rules for the tools and machines used in the scene shop.
• Identify and operate the standard tools and machines used in the Theatre scene shop.
• Identify the basic hardware used in the theatre and state its proper use.
• Identify and describe the basic theatrical construction techniques used in the construction ·of flats, platforms and free form scenery.
• Build a scenic unit (stage flat, studio flat, or a platform) as requested by the instructor.
• Identify the types of paints and textures used in the Theatre, and discuss their application techniques in reference to stage scenery.
• Perform five painting and texturing techniques assigned by the instructor.
• Identify and discuss the difference between pin and rail, and a counterweight fly systems.
• Perform and describe the safe operation of the counter weight fly systems, including the safe loading and unloading of the systems.

TH 268 - Lighting Technology

• Identify and employ the various tools, fixtures, and accessories frequently used in lighting design.
• Work effectively as a valuable and productive member of a lighting crew.
• Read and create paperwork that describes a lighting design and use the information to describe and/or execute a design.

TH 270 - Stage Makeup

TH 278 - Creative Drama in the Classroom

• Create and evaluate children’s theatre.
• Integrate theatre, other art forms, and subject areas.
• Apply theatre in academic settings.
• Improvise and create original plays from poetry, stories, and similar sources.
• Reflect on the strengths and challenges of using drama activities in academic settings.

TH 290 - Cooperative Education Portfolio

• Apply theory to practice.
• Implement skills learned in the classroom in an actual working situation.
• Demonstrate positive work habits.
• Demonstrate accountability and professionalism.

TH 294 - International Theatre Experience Preparation

• Recognize processes of travel itinerary creation and the documents required for travel in the destination country
• Demonstrate understanding of the steps required to procure travel documents
• Demonstrate understanding of itinerary creation process
• Recognize safe practices as related to international travel
• Describe significant cultural practices and influences in the travel destination country

TH 295 - Theatre Education Portfolio

• Compile and mount artifacts on LiveText demonstrating their competency in State certification standards.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 298 - Special Topics

TH 299 - Seminar

TH 300 - Rehearsal and Performance

• Articulate, orally and in writing, the duties associated with assigned job.
• Fulfill assigned job, as specified in job description and through specific supervisor directive, with a positive and professional attitude.
• Accurately transfer information from one team member to another.
• Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate the proper application of health and safety rules associated with the job description.
• Competently use the tools, materials, equipment, and techniques associated with the job description.
• Demonstrate knowledge of theatre protocol through participation in a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team through participation in a theatrical production, and find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of design unity, an understanding of the dramatic text, and methods of translating text into a stage production.

TH 301 - Production Application

• Articulate, orally and in writing, the duties associated with assigned job description.
• Fulfillment of assigned job, as specified in job description and through specific supervisor directive, with a positive and professional attitude.
• Follow written and verbal instructions accurately.
• Accurately transfer information from one team member to another.
• Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate the proper application of health and safety rules associated with your job description.
• Competently use the tools, materials, equipment, and techniques associated with your job description.
• Demonstrate knowledge of theatre protocol through participation in a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team through participation in a theatrical production.
• Find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a · theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of design unity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dramatic text and methods of translating said text into a stage production.

TH 302 - Performance Application

• Articulate, orally and in writing, the duties associated with assigned job description.
• Fulfillment of assigned job, as specified in job description and through specific supervisor directive, with a positive and professional attitude.
• Follow written and verbal instructions accurately.
• Accurately transfer information from · one team member to another.
• Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate the proper application of health and safety rules associated with your job description.
• Competently use the tools, materials, equipment, and techniques associated with your job description.
• Demonstrate knowledge of theatre protocol through participation in a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team through participation in a theatrical production.
• Find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a · theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of design unity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dramatic text and methods of translating said text into a stage production.

TH 303 - Management Application

• Articulate, orally and in writing, the duties associated with assigned job description.
• Fulfillment of assigned job, as specified in job description and through specific supervisor directive, with a positive and professional attitude.
• Follow written and verbal instructions accurately.
• Accurately transfer information from one team member to another.
• Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate the proper application of health and safety rules associated with your job description.
• Competently use the tools, materials, equipment, and techniques associated with your job description.
• Demonstrate knowledge of theatre protocol through participation in a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team through participation in a theatrical production.
• Find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of design unity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dramatic text and methods of translating said text into a stage production.

TH 313 - Writing for Theatre for Young Audiences

• Apply the collaborative process through theatre work
• Identify and apply the process of generating dramatic literature and techniques for producing and creating plays for different age groups
• Identify and apply elements, processes and tools within playwriting
• Create new works through the playwriting process employing the principles of creation discuss
• Create new works for a variety different age groups and diverse populations
• Critically comment on techniques of adapting children’s literature for the stage in existing plays and scripts
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers

TH 329 - Directing I

• Employ metaphor in storytelling
• Analyze and identify structure and story components in a play
• Identify climactic moment in a scene
• Practice basic elements of visual and oral communication for the stage
• Develop and use a ground plan implementing Hodge’s principles
• Demonstrate appropriate principles of picturization and composition for the stage
• Practice the director’s role in communicating with other theatre artists in preparing a dramatic production
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers

TH 330 - Introduction to Playwriting

TH 333 - Stage Combat Fundamentals

• Identify and implement a basic vocabulary used for stage combat.
• Demonstrate basic safety techniques and their application to stage combat.
• Perform automatically basic stage combat techniques taught for each weapon.
• Develop confidence in the movement potential of the actors’ body.
• Develop physicalized acting skills.

TH 335 - Movement for the Actor

• Identify and implement a vocabulary used for the Suzuki Method.
• Demonstrate correct techniques used for each exercise learned.
• Memorize & perform automatically each exercise learned.
• Develop confidence in the movement potential of the actors’ body.
• Develop physicalized acting skills.
• Develop awareness of personal physical strengths & weaknesses.

TH 342 - Dialects for Stage and Screen

• Apply the phonetic alphabet to the study of dialects, through readings, demonstrations, testing, and scene work, students will be able to translate written text into phonetic equivalents.
• Develop skills in both oral and written dialect work of those studied, including: British, Standard, Cockney, Scottish, New York, Irish; through exercises, demonstrations, quizzes, practice and performances.
• Create a dialect resource library by constructing a journal that features resources for each dialect studied. Sources include movies, television, CD’s, DVD’s, dialect tapes/CD’s, magazine and newspaper articles, books, play scripts, internet.

TH 343 - Singing for Actors II

• Identify key and time signatures analyze and interpret lyrics and music
• Identify and choose music according to appropriate vocal range
• Demonstrate singing technique designed for musical theatre performance in the presentational style
• Prepare to audition at the collegiate level

TH 344 - Intermediate Acting I

• Analyze at least one play for structure, content, and character.
• Play actions and objectives in monologues and scenes.
• Practice active listening during scene and/or monologue work.
• Practice the physicalized use of subtext during scene and monologue work.
• Practice physical and vocal characterization in the creation of character(s).
• Demonstrate professional rehearsal and critique methods, both in giving and receiving critique.
• Demonstrate personalization and honesty in scene and monologue work. This will include the use of sense memory and emotion memory.
• Record notes (in a journal) on performance work (both when participating and observing), critiques (when giving and receiving), rehearsals, and exercises.

TH 345 - Intermediate Acting II

• Analyze text in order to discover the comic intention and style of the author
• Incorporate coaching/direction and employ exercises work in scene work
• Memorize materials with complete accuracy and rehearse sufficiently both during class and outside of class to present polished, professional scene work
• Come prepared to class and work well with scene partner
• Discover and demonstrate the basic components of style and perform them in three different scenes with consistency and honesty

TH 350 - Theatre and Arts Management I

• Create an arts company with effective vision statements, mission statements, goals, structure.
• Spend 15 hours service learning with an arts organization on a project– approved by the instructor in advance.
• Make presentations demonstrating fiscal requirements for effective art management.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 351 - Theatre and Arts Management II

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the types and use of various marketing tools as they relate to arts marketing and be able to comment on the strengths and weaknesses of various marketing approaches
• Develop a working budget for a marketing campaign
• Document various career paths available within the context of art marketing
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers

TH 352 - Stage Dance II

• Articulate and demonstrate dance terminology based on the fundamentals of jazz and ballet.
• Demonstrate improvement dance technique throughout the course of the quarter and learn to perform with confidence.
• Articulate the terminology and technique of dance steps learned in class.
• Describe and demonstrate “how” to learn choreography quickly and accurately in order to perform with confidence, accuracy and proper audition/callback etiquette.
• Reflect on and demonstrate how to clean and improve a dance. There is much more to dancing than learning the sequence of choreography.

TH 353 - Stage Properties

• Provide a forum in which to discuss the needs for properties in a theatrical production.
• Provide an environment where students can explore the role of props designer.
• Provide a venue where students can acquire practical theatre-related skills.
• Establish a conceptual foundation for understanding the props design process.
• Develop proficiency in analyzing the play for thematic content and physical requirements.
• Develop immediate visual responses to a text.
• Explore the ramifications of properties design choices on the work of the actor and the director - to understand properties as they affect character interaction.
• Establish the importance of research in the design process.
• Familiarize the student with an array of visual communication tools utilized by the props designer.
• Broaden the student’s knowledge of accepted industry standards applied to the properties design.
• Identify a personal approach to effective design development and communication for the student.
• Further develop written and oral communication skills through practice with written design concepts, classroom discussion, and verbal presentation of design projects.

TH 354 - Scene Painting

TH 356 - Stage Sound

• Identify the pieces of equipment in a typical sound reinforcement system and discuss what they do using terms common to sound reinforcement and theatre sound design
• Demonstrate and diagram the signal flow in a typical sound reinforcement system Trouble shooting a troubled sound reinforcement system
• Analyze a theatrical script in order to create an audio design concept

TH 357 - Entertainment Rigging

• Demonstrate an understanding of geometry and rigging math.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the application of entertainment industry rigging practices and standards.
• Identify components used for entertainment rigging, their normal applications and limitations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of safety practices and procedures.

TH 360 - Stage Management

• Develop knowledge of the theory and skill in the practice of Stage Management.
• Develop in the role of the Stage Manager.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 361 - Stage Costuming

• Demonstrate an understanding of construction standards as they relate to durability, stage-worthiness, and aesthetic quality of theatrical costumes.

TH 362 - Costume Crafts

• Demonstrate knowledge of the theory and skill in the practice of fabric manipulation, using preexisting pieces to create different looks
• Demonstrate an ability to change the color or texture of fabric using dye, bleach, and distressing techniques
• Produce a book of technique samples including new techniques developed individually
• Demonstrate knowledge of millinery techniques, and jewelry manipulation
• Produce a series of soft caps, buckram hats, and found object jewelry
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers

TH 363 - Theatre History I

• Interrogate history as a critical/cultural engagement rather than a fixed set of facts.
• Apply knowledge of texts, genres, and periods covered in class to major theoretical and historiographical concepts and discuss the ways they might be “translated” to contemporary performance.
• Comprehend and critically evaluate primary texts, plays, and secondary literature relating to the practice of theatre arts in the specified historical moments
• Develop and use critical thinking and analytical skills as it pertains to theatre history and historiography.

TH 364 - Theatre History II

TH 365 - Theatre History III

TH 366 - Theatre Rendering

• Demonstrate a variety of rendering techniques for theatre design
• Demonstrate rendering in a variety of media
• Demonstrate the difference in rendering for various areas of theatre design
• Critically asses their work and work of their peers

TH 367 - Stage Scenery

• Articulate the standards of OSHA regulation, OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, Federal Hazardous. Substance Act, Fire codes, general theatre safety, & scene shop safety as they pertain to the theatre and scene shops
• Demonstrate their knowledge of these safety regulations by following them in class
• Demonstrate how to use a wire feed welder
• Demonstrate basic welding skills
• Identify the basic drafting symbols and their conventions
• Draw a basic technical or shop drawing of a project to be built
• Discuss the relationship between time/money/personnel management
• Develop a materials list, develop a cost estimate from that list, develop an estimate of the manpower needed to build the project on the drawing, and develop a construction calendar for the project
• Properly develop a rigging system to fly a load/item on the single purchase counterweight fly system
• Properly and safely load and unload an item on the counterweight fly system
• Discuss the uses, advantages, disadvantages & strengths of materials commonly used in the construction of theatre scenery

TH 368 - Stage Lighting

• Identify and employ the functions of light and industry standard lighting symbols.
• Synthesize information about angle, intensity and color into a design idea.
• Accurately trouble-shoot common problems during the lighting production process.
• Use elementary research techniques and creative problem solving to create solutions to lighting problems.
• Use cuing to create a dynamic visual environment.

TH 374 - Introduction to Acting for the Camera

• Illustrate and implement accepted industry techniques for acting in front of the camera
• Create believable characters for television and film
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic techniques of television production, including camera operation, basic camera direction, lighting, videotaping and sound recording as proven through practical application

TH 375 - Asian Drama

TH 377 - Staging Gender