Theatre and Electronic Media Performance—BA Courses

This course provides the means for gaining a foundational knowledge of Western musical theory principles. The course includes study in improvisation, aural skills, composition using industry standard notation software and functional harmony within the framework of Western tonal music.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

The fundamentals of speech and singing including information about the vocal instrument, the vocal process, vocal technique, and how to learn and perform simple solo songs.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand

An introduction to hands-on creative and technical work in sound. Work covers script analysis, storytelling approaches, dialog direction and editing, sound effect and ambiance design, music integration and DAW based mixing.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring

An examination of dramatic literature with an emphasis on theatre production. Students will examine a selection of plays each semester. Students can repeat the course up to four times; each semester examines different plays.

• Credits: 1.0; Repeatable to a Max of 4
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-3)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, Summer
• Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Major(s): Technical Theatre, Sound Design, Audio Production & Technology, Theatre & Entertain Tech (BS), Theater Arts, Theatre & Electr. Media Perf.; May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman

A practical guide to the theory and practice of makeup for the stage. Students will study basic techniques including corrective, aging, character makeup, and special effects.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years

Surveys western art and architecture from Paleolithic (30,000BCE) to the Renaissance (1500CE). Class focuses on city building, cave painting, glass, ceramics, frescoes, and metal casting, Students will interpret the visual arts as historical evidence and expressions of cultural beliefs.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand

Surveys Western art from the Renaissance (1500CE) to today. Focused on painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Students study art in relation to national, international, social, cultural, and historical contexts.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand

A survey of major works in American Literature from origins to the present. Focuses on historical trends in the development of literature and culture in the Americas with particular emphasis on the United States.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years

Survey of transnational or transatlantic literary traditions, highlighting select historical periods such as Romanticism, and/or movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Reading, reflecting on, and responding to age-appropriate adolescent literature. Works include authors from different races, cultures, historical periods, and genders. Discussion may be supplemented with films. Appropriate for students who plan to be parents, community volunteers, and teachers.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand

Comparative approach to world literatures and cultures. May include literary works, critical essays, films, music, and other representations of world culture.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Survey of the major mythological systems of the world with particular attention to those areas of commonality among various civilizations. Films may provide contextual background.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, Summer, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Examination of the novel in world literature with special attention to the historical, cultural, and personal contexts within which the author is writing. Film versions may be examined.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

This course examines one or more literary forms, genres, and modes such as tragedy, satire, romance, science fiction, fantasy, comedy, epics, novels, short stories, poetry, and/or creative nonfiction.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

An intensive study of the life and works of one or more significant literary figures. This course will also focus on the social and historical contexts that shaped the author's reputation and standing in the literary, theatrical, or cinematic canon.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

An advanced study of a specific transnational or trans-Atlantic historical period or aesthetic movement that illustrates the development of literary and/or cinematic traditions. Courses will include relevant theory and criticism.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

In-depth study of a limited number of Shakespearean plays with special attention to dramatic structure, character development, theme presentation, and theatre history. Includes extensive study of Renaissance influences, possibly film versions of selected plays, and examination of current critical theories.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

A consideration of a variety of theoretical and critical approaches and methods of literary research in the study of British and American literature.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Close study of significant works in science fiction and fantasy. Examines genre features and usage and attends to a writer's style and methods. Regularly focuses on historical fiction and fantasy using film to help establish literary context.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Study of literary genres, themes, and movements, with emphasis on comparing and contrasting perspectives reflected in literatures from Western and non-Western cultures. Topics may focus on historical, social, aesthetic, and cultural factors as they influence these literatures. Films may be used.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Developments in western classical music from the 1770s to 1970s in Europe, Russia, and America. Concentrates on music, style, aesthetics, culture, and biographies of major composers from the Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth-Century periods.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, Summer

Study of the Cultural History of Theatre from is likely beginnings through the contemporary period, including traditions of both eastern and western theatre.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

A study of costume fashion, emphasis on the western world, from antiquity through the 20th Century. Including: basic characteristics of each period, environmental & cultural influences, specific costume terminology. Comparative analysis of historic costume choices found in film & theatre.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Performance in a stage production or electronic media project. The project must be approved by the instructor either through audition or written contract of planned project.

• Credits: 1.0; May be repeated
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-1)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required

Provides students the opportunity to attend professional events which contribute to the development of their careers. Students will experience seminars, workshops, performance opportunities, competitions, and may perform services and interact with professionals at such events as KCACTF and USITT.

• Credits: 1.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-1)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
• Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Major(s): Sound Design, Theatre & Entertain Tech (BS), Theatre & Electr. Media Perf., Audio Production & Technology

Students work to develop stronger, more vibrant and articulate speech, including vocal projection for the stage. Students will also develop physical flexibility and strength, beginning with discovery of the body's physical center. The student will also learn to create distinct physical characterizations.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years

Teaches basic techniques of acting to include script and character analysis, internal and external approaches to performance, and basic use of voice and body.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

Introduction to recording, editing and mixing audio and video for different genres of voice acting and an exploration of hiring entities in the voice acting industry. Students will learn the basics of reading copy for various genres, and finding materials for producing auditions.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand, in even years

Students explore acting through analytical and theoretical study of script and characters. Understanding of characters in the context of a play or or film will prepare students to apply advanced acting techniques such as Meisner and Stanislavski.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
• Pre-Requisite(s): THEA 1400 and UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Provides knowledge and experience reading, analyzing and performing period works, with a special focus on Shakespearean verse and prose.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): (FA 2820 or THEA 1000) and (FA 2600 or THEA 1400) and THEA 2400 and (FA 3600 or THEA 3400(C))

Provides specialized experience in performance styles of the musical theatre through scene-study and process from sheet music to the stage.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Focuses on critical engagement with cinematic form and its relationship to cultural, historical, and/or theoretical contexts.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (2-0-3)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

This course focuses on mainstream and/or independent films in their historical and sociocultural contexts from selected regions such as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Focus on film style and genre with an emphasis on study of directors, movements, and aesthetics and their technological, theoretical, and socio-cultural contexts. Includes small lab projects.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-3)
• Semesters Offered: Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

This experiential learning course engages students in the theory and practice of community journalism through immersive participation in the Michigan Tech Lode alongside the study of best practices in journalistic process and craft.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-3)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Examines the development of modern international communication systems, the rise of transnational media industries and technologies, and debates about their global impacts.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Considers surveillance practices and the surveillance imaginary through films that take surveillance as their principal feature. Covers perspectives such as those of the watchers and the watched; kinds and purposes of surveillance; and the relationship between filmic surveillance and our sense and practices of freedom versus control.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Considers technical, theoretical, aesthetic and ethical dimensions of documentary media through analysis and production.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-3)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)

Production-intensive focus on how media producers use audio, video, and digital platforms to tell a story, realize a creative vision, and engage an audience.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-3)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2324

Professional private music instruction on brass, woodwind, string, piano, organ, guitar, harp, and voice. Guitars available for rental. School harp and pianos may be used. No string instruments available.

• Credits: 1.0; May be repeated; Graded Pass/Fail Only
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-1)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

A select ensemble made up of student and community singers studying and performing traditional choral literature ranging from chant to avant-garde compositions. Activities include campus and community performances and occasional international tours. Audition required.

• Credits: 1.0; May be repeated
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-3)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Participation in the Chamber Choir provides opportunities for students to explore and perform music written for small choir. Repertoire from varied styles and time periods (from antiquity to the present) will be prepared and presented in formal and informal performance settings. Audition required.

• Credits: 1.0; May be repeated
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-3)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

A comprehensive, in-depth study of mounting a theatre production with an emphasis on directing. Through script analysis, students study the necessary production elements, how they interrelate, and directing techniques to create a unified production from the director's vision.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required

Provides knowledge and experience reading, analyzing and performing period works, with a special focus on Shakespearean verse and prose.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): (FA 2820 or THEA 1000) and (FA 2600 or THEA 1400) and THEA 2400 and (FA 3600 or THEA 3400(C))

Provides specialized experience in performance styles of the musical theatre through scene-study and process from sheet music to the stage.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)