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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Wait List
13305	DRAM 80 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Psychology of Clothes: Motivations for Dressing Up and Dressing Down	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Pamela Bond	Carolina Hall - Rm 0104	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: The course seeks to help students find ways to articulate their own motivations for dress and then apply the ideas they have discovered to the ways in which individuality as well as group attitudes are expressed through clothing. 3 units.
8344	DRAM 83 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Spectacle in the Theatre	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	DAVID NAVALINSKY	TBA	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course examines how the theatrical designer uses scenery, costumes, and lighting to help create a production. Students will apply these techniques in creating their own design projects. 3 units.
17406	DRAM 83 - 002 First-Year Seminar: Spectacle in the Theatre	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	DAVID NAVALINSKY	TBA	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course examines how the theatrical designer uses scenery, costumes, and lighting to help create a production. Students will apply these techniques in creating their own design projects. 3 units.
13285	DRAM 85 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Documentary Theatre	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Aubrey Snowden	Center Dramatic Art - Rm 0102	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course explores the political and social ramifications of documentary theatre in the United States. Students will investigate a local community of their choosing and create an interview-based performance. 3 units.
4090	DRAM 115 - 001 Perspectives in Drama	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	GREGORY KABLE, Emma Holyst, Reez Bailey, Matty Blatt, Matthew Donahue, Benjamin Fink, Jadah Johnson	Hamilton Hall - Rm 0100	238/244 (300 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: A survey of plays from the Greeks to the present, analyzed through such elements of the dramatic text as action, character, structure, and language. 3 units.
4099	DRAM 116 - 001 Perspectives in the Theatre: Page to Stage	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Aubrey Snowden, Heinley Gaspard, Mengwe Wapimewah, Zachary Morrison, Jessica Land, Jillian Gregory, Jack Roark, Nathan Mark, Elizabeth Dye	Hanes Art Center - Rm 0121	Seats filled (171 total)	Seats filled
Description: A survey of the interrelationships of acting, directing, designing, and playwriting through the study of major periods of theatrical expression and representative plays. 3 units.
4100	DRAM 116 - 002 Perspectives in the Theatre: Page to Stage	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Aubrey Snowden, Heinley Gaspard, Nathan Mark, Mengwe Wapimewah, Zachary Morrison, Jessica Land, Jillian Gregory, Jack Roark, Elizabeth Dye	Hanes Art Center - Rm 0121	91/144 (171 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: A survey of the interrelationships of acting, directing, designing, and playwriting through the study of major periods of theatrical expression and representative plays. 3 units.
4104	DRAM 120 - 002 Play Analysis	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	GREGORY KABLE	TBA	43/45 (45 total)	Seats filled
Description: Development of the skill to analyze plays for academic and production purposes through the intensive study of representative plays. DRAM 120 is the first course in the major and the minor in dramatic art. 3 units.
9214	DRAM 120 - 01F Play Analysis	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	MARK PERRY	Center Dramatic Art - Rm 0105	Seats filled (35 total)	Seats filled
Description: Development of the skill to analyze plays for academic and production purposes through the intensive study of representative plays. DRAM 120 is the first course in the major and the minor in dramatic art. 3 units.
4246	DRAM 131 - 001 Writing for the Screen and Stage	Mo 7:00PM - 10:00PM	Howard Craft	Murphey - Rm 0222	1/2 (2 total)	Seats filled
Description: Restricted course. Dramatic writing workshop open only to students in the writing for the screen and stage minor. 3 units.
13306	DRAM 134 - 001 Theatrical Auditions	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	JULIA GIBSON	Center Dramatic Art - Rm 0103	4/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: Permission of the instructor. Practice in the techniques necessary for successful auditions for the theatre. 3 units.
4109	DRAM 135 - 001 Acting for Nonmajors	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Samuel Gates	TBA	Seats filled (14 total)	Seats filled
Description: Introduction to basic processes and techniques of acting for the stage. 3 units.
9202	DRAM 135 - 002 Acting for Nonmajors	MoWeFr 8:00AM - 8:50AM	Adam Valentine	TBA	Seats filled (18 total)	Seats filled
Description: Introduction to basic processes and techniques of acting for the stage. 3 units.
14519	DRAM 135 - 003 Acting for Nonmajors	MoWeFr 8:00AM - 8:50AM	Hayley Cartee	TBA	Seats filled (18 total)	Seats filled
Description: Introduction to basic processes and techniques of acting for the stage. 3 units.
9678	DRAM 140 - 001 Voice Training I	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Gwendolyn Schwinke	TBA	Seats filled (14 total)	Seats filled
Description: Fundamental principles underlying the effective use of voice and speech in performance. 3 units.
12605	DRAM 144 - 001 Acting the Song	Mo 1:25PM - 3:55PM	Sanjana Taskar	TBA	Seats filled (14 total)	Seats filled
Description: The course explores how to gain facility in expression and truthfulness in action while communicating through a dramatic song. Challenges include how to navigate a scene that moves into song and how to manage breath and vulnerability in performance. Permission of the instructor required. 3 units.
4110	DRAM 150 - 001 Beginning Acting for the Major	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Jeffrey Cornell	TBA	5/6 (14 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 120. Introduction to acting tools, emphasizing playing actions and pursuing an objective by personalized given circumstances. Performance work drawn from short scripted, improvised, and contemporary scenes. 3 units.
13191	DRAM 151 - 001 Introduction to the American Stage Musical	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	GREGORY KABLE	Center Dramatic Art - Rm 0105	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: A topical survey of musical theater repertoire from its early inception in 18th-century Europe to current 21st-century incarnations. Various stylistic approaches, historical periods, and creative contributions to the genre will be explored. Examination of case studies through diverse perspectives of class, gender and race will situate the repertoire in a broad artistic and social context. 3 units.
4111	DRAM 191 - 001 Technical Methods: Scenery	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 3:15PM	William Ernst	TBA	11/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: DRAM 191 or 192 required for dramatic art majors. Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Introduction to equipment, procedures, and personnel in the design and execution of plans for scenery, lighting, properties, and sound for theatrical productions. 3 units.
4112	DRAM 192 - 001 Technical Methods: Costume	We 1:25PM - 3:20PM	Sally Rath	TBA	Seats filled (8 total)	Seats filled
Description: DRAM 191 or 192 required for dramatic art majors. Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Introduction to equipment, procedures, and personnel in the design and execution of costumes for theatrical productions. 3 units.
13304	DRAM 220 - 001 Theatre Histories	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Adam Versenyi	TBA	5/35 (35 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 120. This course introduces students to theatre histories and cultures from India, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with reference to Western European/North American traditions. Students will investigate how drama, theatre, and performance develops both within individual cultural milieus and through contact with other cultures. 3 units.
13192	DRAM 230 - 001 Theatre of the Word	Mo 9:05AM - 11:35AM	Jacqueline Lawton	TBA	13/18 (18 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course, with a theatre and social justice theme, is structured to give students an understanding of the role of the speaker before the public, the logical and sequential development of an idea, and the methodology for organizing and presenting materials and information. The course will cover information gathering, speech outlining, small group discussion, and provide extemporaneous, informative, and persuasive speaking opportunities. 3 units.
13388	DRAM 231 - 001 Playwriting I	We 1:25PM - 3:55PM	MARK PERRY	TBA	11/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: Permission of the department. A practical course in writing for the stage with studio productions of selected works. 3 units.
13194	DRAM 245 - 001 Acting for the Camera	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Samuel Gates	Center Dramatic Art - Rm 0102	Seats filled (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 135 or 150; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. The process of acting and its relationship to the technical and artistic demands of television/film production. Problems of continuity and out-of-sequence filming. Concentration and thinking on camera. 3 units.
10013	DRAM 250 - 001 Intermediate Acting for the Major	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Jeffrey Cornell	TBA	Seats filled (14 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 150. A deeper exploration of fulfilled actions prompted by an objective, with emphasis on developing techniques required by more formally structured texts such as Sophocles, Molière, Ibsen, Shaw, and Chekhov. 3 units.
7573	DRAM 277 - 001 Introduction to Theatrical Design	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	McKay Coble	TBA	Seats filled (20 total)	Seats filled
Description: General principles of scenic, costume, and lighting design for the theatre. 3 units.
4116	DRAM 281 - 001 Theatre History and Literature I	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	GREGORY KABLE	TBA	7/36 (45 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 120 and 220. Survey of theatre practice and writing from the Greeks to 1700. 3 units.
14427	DRAM 284 - 001 Studies in Dramatic Theory and Criticism	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	MARK PERRY	TBA	18/24 (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: May be repeated for credit. Seminar in dramatic theory and criticism with emphasis on the modern period. 3 units.
13429	DRAM 287 - 001 African American Theatre	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Kathy Williams	Greenlaw - Rm 0103	Seats filled (20 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course investigates the history and legacy of African American drama through the study of its literary texts, performance styles, and cultural history. 3 units.
13193	DRAM 288 - 001 Theatre for Social Change	Mo 1:25PM - 4:00PM	Jacqueline Lawton	TBA	14/18 (18 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course assesses different models of theatre for social change through change theory, playwriting, and collaboration. Students will be guided through the process of creating new works. 3 units.
4117	DRAM 290 - 001 Special Topics in Dramatic Art	Mo 9:05AM - 11:35AM	Saleemah Sharpe	Center Dramatic Art - Rm 0101	14/15 (15 total)	Seats filled
Description: The study of a topic in dramaturgy, theatrical design, or theatrical production. Content and instructor will vary. May be repeated for credit. 0.5 - 3 units.
4118	DRAM 290 - 002 Special Topics in Dramatic Art	We 1:25PM - 3:55PM	Tao Wang	Swain Hall - Rm 0110	2/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: The study of a topic in dramaturgy, theatrical design, or theatrical production. Content and instructor will vary. May be repeated for credit. 0.5 - 3 units.
14433	DRAM 468 - 001 Lighting Design I	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Tao Wang	Paul Green Theatre - Rm 0229	8/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: Permission of the instructor. General principles of lighting design as applied to the performing arts. Theory and instruction in standard techniques of lighting for the stage. 3 units.
4122	DRAM 470 - 001 Survey of Costume History	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	Pamela Bond	TBA	5/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: A survey of historic costume forms from ancient Egypt to the present time. 3 units.
4123	DRAM 473 - 001 Costume Construction I	Mo 10:15AM - 12:15PM	Triffin Morris	TBA	Seats filled (4 total)	Seats filled
Description: Permission of the instructor. Beginning instruction in pattern making through flat pattern for theatrical costume. 1 - 3 units.
13303	DRAM 486 - 001 Latin American Theatre	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Adam Versenyi	TBA	11/15 (15 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course explores the historical and aesthetic development of Latin American theatre, focusing on particular factors that distinguish this theatre from the Western European tradition. 3 units.
13284	DRAM 589 - 001 Costume Seminars IV: Decorative Arts	WeFr 10:05AM - 12:05PM	Rachel Pollock	TBA	4/6 (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Advanced costume production techniques with an emphasis on decorative arts, with an emphasis on fans and shoes. This class requires permission of the instructor. 1 - 3 units.
4124	DRAM 650 - 001 Costume Production I: Couture Methods	TuTh 8:30AM - 10:00AM	Triffin Morris	TBA	Seats filled (4 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 192. Advanced construction techniques in theatrical costuming with an emphasis on couture methods. This class requires permission of the instructor. 0.5 - 3 units.
13195	DRAM 720 - 001 Acting I	WeFr 9:15AM - 12:10PM	JULIA GIBSON	TBA	Seats filled (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the M.F.A. Acting program required. Intensive professional training for the actor. Must be taken fall and spring. 3 units.
13307	DRAM 722 - 001 Voice I	TuTh 11:20AM - 12:20PM	Tia James	TBA	Seats filled (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the M.F.A. Acting program required. Development of the individual actor's voice and speech. Must be taken fall and spring. 3 units.
13196	DRAM 724 - 001 Movement I	TuTh 9:00AM - 11:10AM	Tracy Bersley	TBA	Seats filled (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the M.F.A. Acting program required. Development of the actor's body as an expressive instrument. Must be taken fall and spring. 3 units.
16487	DRAM 726 - 001 Rehearsal and Performance I	TuFr 1:00PM - 6:00PM	Vivienne Benesch	Center Dramatic Art - Rm 0103	Seats filled (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the M.F.A. Acting program required. Rehearsal and performance of special ensemble projects. Must be taken fall and spring. May be repeated for credit. 1 - 6 units.
11689	DRAM 727 - 001 Rehearsal and Performance II	Tu 1:00PM - 6:00PM	Vivienne Benesch	TBA	0/6 (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the second year of the M.F.A. Acting program required. Practical application of techniques in rehearsal and performance in studio and main stage production. Must be taken fall and spring. May be repeated for credit. 1 - 6 units.
13198	DRAM 728 - 001 Acting Practicum I	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:50AM	Gwendolyn Schwinke	TBA	Seats filled (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the third year of the M.F.A. Acting program required. Intense practicum as a member of the PlayMakers Repertory acting company. Preparation and presentation of assigned projects and work in departmental productions. Work in voice and movement as scheduled. 3 - 12 units.
4126	DRAM 750 - 001 Advanced Special Studies: Costume Production II: Advanced Couture Methods	Fr 10:15AM - 12:15PM	Triffin Morris	TBA	Seats filled (3 total)	Seats filled
Description: Advanced construction techniques with an emphasis on advanced couture methods. Graduate students only. 0.5 - 3 units.
4127	DRAM 760 - 001 Costume Construction III: Advanced Pattern Making	Tu 10:15AM - 12:15PM	Triffin Morris	TBA	Seats filled (2 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 473. Study of pattern making in advanced shapes for the stage. Graduate students only. 1 - 3 units.
17010	DRAM 776 - 001 Period Pattern IV: 19th and 20h Century Men's Wear	Mo 9:00AM - 10:00AM	Triffin Morris	TBA	5/6 (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Study of drafting systems for traditional menswear from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Costume graduate students only. 1 - 3 units.
17378	DRAM 784 - 001 Costume Management III: Costume Shop Management	We 9:00AM - 10:00AM	Triffin Morris	TBA	5/8 (8 total)	Seats filled
Description: Costume graduates only. Overview of organization and personnel management for costume production. 1 - 3 units.
4128	DRAM 790 - 001 Costume Laboratory I	MoTuWeThFr 1:00PM - 5:00PM	Triffin Morris	TBA	Seats filled (2 total)	Seats filled
Description: Practical work in the costume shop though production assignments. Costume graduate students only. 3 units.
4129	DRAM 792 - 001 Costume Laboratory III	MoTuWeThFr 1:00PM - 5:00PM	Triffin Morris	TBA	Seats filled (2 total)	Seats filled
Description: Practical work in the costume shop though production assignments. Costume graduate students only. 3 units.
4130	DRAM 800 - 001 Technical Direction	TuTh 9:00AM - 10:30AM	Michael Rolleri	TBA	1/4 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 491; Permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Study of the technical and engineering problems in production and standard theatrical drafting and construction conventions. Must be taken fall and spring. 3 - 6 units.
4131	DRAM 802 - 001 Advanced Technical Direction	TuTh 10:30AM - 12:00PM	Adam Maxfield	TBA	0/2 (4 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the second year of the M.F.A. Technical Production program required. An advanced study of the management, technical, and engineering problems involved in theatrical production. Must be taken fall and spring. 3 - 6 units.
4132	DRAM 805 - 001 Special Studies: Technical Production	MoWe 9:00AM - 10:30AM	Laura Pates	TBA	1/4 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 192; Permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Advanced scenic construction techniques leading to specific project or production responsibility in the area of scenic construction in Department of Dramatic Art productions and PlayMakers Repertory Company. A minimum of fifteen hours per week is required during the rehearsal period. Faculty evaluation at the close of the production. May be repeated for credit. 0.5 - 12 units.
4133	DRAM 806 - 001 Technical Planning and Production	MoWeFr 10:30AM - 12:00PM	Adam Maxfield	TBA	1/4 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission into the third year of the M.F.A. Technical Production program required. Intensive practicum in production projects for departmental and PlayMakers Repertory Company productions. Must be taken fall and spring. 3 - 6 units.
4134	DRAM 813 - 001 Special Studies: Technical Production	TuTh 10:30AM - 12:00PM	Michael Rolleri	TBA	0/5 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Technical graduates only. Continuation of advanced scenic construction techniques with specific project or production responsibility in the area of scenic construction. 1 - 6 units.
10726	DRAM 820 - 001 Production and Facilities Management	MoWe 9:00AM - 10:30AM	Michael Rolleri	TBA	2/6 (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course will teach the Technical Production Graduate Candidate and those going into administrative leadership of producing theaters a greater perspective and insight into what a Production Manager does during a season at a professional theater. 3 units.
4135	DRAM 830 - 001 Seminar in Professional Practice: Technical Production	TuTh 9:00AM - 10:30AM	Adam Maxfield	TBA	0/3 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Technical Production required. An examination of professional theatre practice through contact with students, staff, faculty, and visiting artists in technical theatre. Generally taken fall and spring. May be repeated for credit. 1 - 21 units.
4136	DRAM 830 - 002 Seminar in Professional Practice: Technical Production	MoWe 10:30AM - 12:00PM	Michael Rolleri	TBA	0/5 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Technical Production required. An examination of professional theatre practice through contact with students, staff, faculty, and visiting artists in technical theatre. Generally taken fall and spring. May be repeated for credit. 1 - 21 units.
4137	DRAM 841 - 001 Design Technical Theatre Practicum I	MoTuWeThFr 1:00PM - 5:30PM	Michael Rolleri	TBA	1/4 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Admission into the M.F.A. Technical program required. Practical work in scene shop. Must be taken fall and spring. 3 - 6 units.
4138	DRAM 843 - 001 Design Technical Theatre Practicum II	MoTuWeThFr 1:00PM - 5:30PM	Michael Rolleri	TBA	0/3 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, DRAM 841. Admission to the second year of the M.F.A. Technical program required. Advanced practical work in scene shop. Must be taken fall and spring. 3 - 6 units.
4139	DRAM 845 - 001 Design Technical Internship	Fr 9:00AM - 12:00PM	Michael Rolleri	TBA	0/5 (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: Intensive practicum in production projects for departmental and PlayMakers Repertory Company productions, with independent studies as assigned on an individual basis. May be repeated for credit. 3 - 6 units.
9079	DRAM 992 - 001 Master's Final Practicum	MoTuWeThFr 1:00PM - 6:00PM	Vivienne Benesch	TBA	Seats filled (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: 3 units.
17011	DRAM 992 - 002 Master's Final Practicum	MoTuWeThFr 1:00PM - 5:00PM	Triffin Morris	TBA	3/4 (4 total)	Seats filled
Description: 3 units.