19 courses with the subject PPC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Goals: To engage the student in a range of production activities to develop communication abilities and technical skills required in the performing arts. Content: Assistant stage management, board operation, and running crew for a mainstage show.
Goals: To introduce students to the art of theatre production. To gain an understanding of both the facets of theatre production as well as theatre’s role in society and community. To develop critical skills in analysis of dramatic text and performance review. Content: Exploration of dramatic aesthetics and theory applicable to theatre. An overview of theatre arts which includes historical and socio-political survey of audience relationships to theatre and theatre-making. This course is intended for the general student and required of all majors and minors. Taught: Each semester
Goals: To demonstrate an understanding of basic modern and jazz dance techniques through proper warm-up, the performance of across-the-floor combinations, a sensibility to music and/or rhythmic structures, and proper use and alignment of the body in terms of mechanical functioning. To acquire an awareness of movement relative to the use of space, time, and weight. To participate in structured improvisation as a vehicle for individual movement expression. To develop an understanding and awareness of modern and jazz dance as a performance art. To acquire an understanding of dance relative to its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Content: An introduction to modern and jazz dance technique. Performance of fundamental elements which comprise warm-ups, center floor sequences and combinations, and across-the-floor combinations. Basic elements of dance composition and improvisation. Taught: Each semester
Goals: To explore creativity through a hybrid of dance and physical theater. The course will develop students’ technical skills, strength, flexibility, endurance and coordination using dance technique to explore rhythm and movement phrasing as well as introduce different techniques to increase kinesthetic awareness such as Yoga, improvisation and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA). Content: The course is designed to create an atmosphere that encourages students to become aware of feelings and images which shape the creative process. Students will explore the process of collective and personal creation and develop skills to create performance pieces that communicate ideas and express oneself. Taught: Periodically
Goals: To improve body mechanics; develop mental focus and control; reinforce positive body image and language; and introduce yoga philosophy and experiential anatomy. Content: Work with structural alignment, flexibility and strength technique to improve body mechanics and injury prevention through yoga poses; examination of how yoga philosophy relates to day-to-day living through written material and written reflections. Taught: Periodically
Goals: This introductory course invites students to develop a comprehensive vocabulary and set of methodologies for the critical analysis of narrative film. Content: Landmark films and theoretical paradigms will be discussed along with significant trends in technology, production and reception. Taught: Fall term
Goals: To build on prior training and acting experience. To establish a shared performance vocabulary employed in further acting courses as well as in department production work. Content: The first class in the performance training sequence in the theatre major/minor. With focused work, geared towards students with prior acting training, experience, and/or interest, students engage in various acting methodologies. Students will engage in textual analysis in partnered or group scene work, audition preparation, and/or group exercises. Intended for majors, minors, and those with specific interest and/or experience in acting. Taught: Annually
Goals: To introduce the theories and practical skills of technical production in theatre. To develop a basis for further work in theatrical design and to qualify the student for theatrical production work. Content: Materials, methods, and planning skills used in scenery, lighting, costumes, and properties. Projects in basic drafting, computer-aided design, construction, electricity, and electronics. Taught: Annually
Goals: To engage the student in a range of production activities to develop communication abilities and technical skills required in the performing arts. Content: Directing, designing, performing, and stage managing in a mainstage show.
Goals: To develop a strong foundation in script analysis with an emphasis on practical application through assignments geared to exercise the student’s ability to engage the dramatic text from a performance, a design, and a historiographic perspective. Content: Seven plays covering major historical periods and genres—including a focus on a variety of dramaturgical approaches—will be analyzed through close reading and experiential activities. Taught: Periodically
Goals: To study the broad and diverse history and literature of the theatre through special topics determined by genre, theme, and historical significance. Content: Topics may include Musical Theatre History, Theatre and Military Combat: From the Greco-Persian Wars to Current Conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East, Queer Identities on Stage: Then and Now, Experimental Visions: Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway, etc. Taught: Alternate years
Goals: To become familiar with the broad and diverse history and literature of the theatre over the last 150 years; the practical theories of acting, design and directing; the latest research in dramatic criticism; and the ways in which the study of theatre encourages cross-disciplinary thinking. Content: Representative texts from 1870 to the contemporary moment with special focus on women, people of color, and LGBTQ theatre artists. Taught: Spring term
Goals: To explore in some depth a specific film genre. Content: Landmark genres and theoretical writings will be discussed along with significant trends in technology, production, and reception. Taught: Alternate years
Goals: To improve physical communication through gesture, body language, and movement. Students will also develop critical analysis skills. Content: Physical training in different somatic modalities including Feldenkrais, Laban Movement Analysis, dance, and yoga, which will explore the unique relationship between physical movement and text. Taught: Periodically
Goals: Building on Acting I, this course is designed to further deepen understanding and mastery of the techniques of acting and to help prepare students for working in the field. Content: Intermediate level acting training focused on script analysis and application in engaged scene study. Students will perform in a variety of scenes, from a variety of performance genres and time periods. Taught: Periodically
Goals: To develop an awareness of the principles and techniques of the scene and lighting designer’s art. To qualify the student with appropriate skills for work as a beginning designer. Content: Script analysis, concept development, visual research, and the use of design elements in the service of coherent and unified production. An exploration of the variety of design styles and the development of rendering, drafting (construction and light plot), collage, and model making skills. Taught: Periodically
Goal: To provide performance experience in contemporary concert dance. To learn modern and jazz technique and repertoire work from professional choreographers in the Twin Cities area and explore the choreographic process. Students will perform two concerts during the academic year. Content: Intermediate and advanced modern and jazz technique will be taught which will be comprised of warm ups; strength training; yoga; center floor sequences; across floor combinations; and partnering techniques. Emphasis will be placed on rehearsals for development of professional and student dance works.
Goals: To train the student in the essential principles of directing through play analysis, practical exercises, and scene staging. Content: Emphasis on practical application through the staging of selected scenes from the modern theatre and exercises in composition, interpretation, and movement. Serious and comic texts, staging for traditional and open-stage forms, and working with script, actors, and designers. Taught: Alternate years
Crosslisted: Also listed as ART 3590 A seminar course crafted to support students in the arts (broadly) in professional development, career preparation, and most importantly in articulating the strengths gleaned from focused study in the arts. Through readings in theory and praxis we explore how we carry the arts, in practice and epistemology, into a variety of career paths. Readings, portfolio review, attending performances and gallery shows throughout the local arts scene in the Twin Cities all contribute to charting how we understand our thinking, our education, our experience in the construction of self as an artist in our contemporary landscape. Intended for juniors and seniors in Digital + Studio Arts, and Performance, Practice, & Community.
Source: Hamline University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
