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FTCA 6170 Seminar Lighting Design
3 cr.
Studies and practice in modern lighting techniques, which will
include portfolio preparation, contemporary techniques in design,
and a survey of current job practices and marketability. May be
repeated once for credit.
FTCA 6200 Seminar in Playwriting
3 cr.
Prerequisite: FTCA 4200 or consent of department. Studies and practice
in writing plays for the live theatre stage. Students should
have written at least one play before enrolling in this class. May be
repeated for credit.
FTCA 6207 Intense Seminar Playwriting
3 cr.
Prerequisite: FTCA 4200 or consent of department. Studies and practice
in writing plays for the live theatre stage, taught in an intensive
(short term) format in residence. Students should have written
at least one play before enrolling in this class. May be repeated for
credit.
FTCA 6209 Remote Seminar Playwriting
3 cr.
Prerequisite: FTCA 4200 or consent of the department. Studies in
practice in writing plays for the live theatre stage taught via distance
learning techniques. Students should have written at least
one play before enrolling in this class. May be repeated for credit.
FTCA 6250 Seminar in Screenwriting
3 cr.
Prerequisite: FTCA 4500 or 4251 or consent of department. Studies
and practice in writing scripts for film and television. Students
should have written at least one screenplay before enrolling in this
class. May be repeated once for credit.
FTCA 6257 Intense Seminar Screenwriting
3 cr.
Prerequisite: FTCA 4200 or 4521 or consent of department. Studies
and practice in writing scripts for film and television taught in an
intensive (short term) format in residence. Students should have
written at least one screenplay before enrolling in this class. May
be repeated for credit.
FTCA 6259 Remote Seminar Screenwriting
3 cr.
Prerequisite: FTCA 4200 or FTCA 4521 or consent of department.
Studies and practice in writing scripts for film and television,
taught via distance learning techniques. Students should have written
at least one screenplay before enrolling in this class. May be
repeated once for credit.
FTCA 6330 Acting
3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Designed for students in the
MFA Performance Program. Intensive training in characterization
and performance techniques. Content of course varies per offering.
May be repeated up to three times for credit.
FTCA 6380 Directing
3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Designed for students in the
MFA Performance Program. Intensive training in directing techniques.
May include technical assignments in department productions.
Direction of one-act or full length play in laboratory production.
May be repeated twice for credit.
FTCA 6420 Prob in Performing or Vis Arts
3 cr.
The application of mise-en-scene analysis techniques to theatre
film or video productions.
FTCA 6460 Aesthetics of Script Analysis
3 cr.
Intensive study of selected scripts as the basis of forming aesthetic
theories of analysis. Students are required to compare written
scripts with productions in theatre or film.
FTCA 6580 Directing for Media
3 cr.
FTCA 6600 Mass Communications
3 cr.
Study of the meaning and impact of mass communications on
selected areas of human activity.
FTCA 6601 Mass Communications
3 cr.
Study of the meaning and impact of mass communications on
selected areas of human activity.
FTCA 6690 Internship in Research
3 cr.
This course is designed to give graduate students direct experience
in conducting research under the guidance of a faculty supervisor.
The student will apprentice in a directed research project designed
for a specific outcome such as a conference paper, a publication, or
the pre-production research for a documentary film. The student is
expected to devote 12 hours per week in research tasks for a total of
180 hours per semester. The course can be repeated once for credit.
Offered fall and spring semesters.
FTCA 6830 Seminar in Stage Movement
3 cr.
An examination and practice of various techniques of stage movement
for the performer. May include dance, gymnastics, and stage
combat. Material varies each semester. May be repeated once for
credit.
FTCA 6900 Graduate Internship
3 cr.
This Graduate Internship is offered within the Department’s film
and theatre programs. Candidates serve in a leadership capacity
in production or administrative activity directly related to the
Department’s MFA production program. The student is expected to
devote 12 hours per week in production related responsibilities. The
course can be repeated once for credit.
FTCA 6910 Studio I
3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Independent work in theatrical
or media production.
FTCA 6911 Studio II
3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Independent work in theatrical
or media production.
FTCA 6912 Studio III
3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Independent work in theatrical
or media production.
FTCA 7000 Thesis Research
1-9 cr.
Creative or written project. To be repeated for credit until thesis
is accepted. Section number will correspond with credit to be
earned.
FTCA 7040 Examination or Thesis Only
0 cr.
Open to students in a thesis program who have only (other than
application for degree) the final typing and acceptance by the
Graduate School of their thesis or dissertation or to students in
a non-thesis program who have only (other than application for
degree) to pass the final examination to complete graduation
requirements.
Geography
GEOG 1001 World Regional Geography
3 cr.
Offered each semester. The nations of Europe (including the Soviet
Union) and the Americas; emphasis on the analysis of physical
and cultural relationships and interactions between countries in
time and space.
GEOG 1002 World Regional Geography
3 cr.
Offered each semester. The nations of Asia and Africa; emphasis on
the analysis of physical and cultural relationships and interactions
between countries in time and space.
GEOG 1500 Elements of Geography
3 cr.
A survey of the basic concepts in physical and cultural geography.
GEOG 1600 Environmental Geography
3 cr.
An analysis of the interactions between humankind and the
world’s physical environments which have led to present-day
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