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THEA 225 - Individual or Group Projects HC ARHU
2 credits
Intended for intermediate or advanced-level work by individuals and small groups not easily covered in the private reading option. Projects must be approved by the sponsoring faculty member before registration.
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THEA 232 - Costume Design FC ARHU
4 credits
This course is an introduction to the art of designing costumes for the theater, with a primary focus on the process of creating the visual world of a play in both aesthetic and practical terms. Ranging from basic art concepts, through text and character analysis, research and design development to finished designs, the course will emphasize the conception of ideas that help project the style and meaning of a production. Readings, lectures, discussions, design exercises and projects will comprise the material for this course, which demands high student initiative.
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THEA 236 - Scene Design 1 FC ARHU
4 credits
In this course you will be introduced to, and begin developing, many fundamental skills that are necessary in creating sets for plays, musicals, and operas. Emphasis will be on both basic manual skills and craftsmanship, as well as interpreting texts and music visually. These tools will help you discover how best to translate and articulate your creative ideas both visually and verbally to directors, fellow designers, technical staff, and audiences.
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THEA 240 - Arts Management I FC ARHU
4 credits
Students will be introduced to and develop an understanding of the critical areas that comprise Arts Management including; Organization Structure, Management Theory, Budgeting and Fiscal Theories, Marketing and Audience Development. They will also begin to develop the ability to understand and navigate the challenges of competing priorities in today?s world, specifically, reconciling aesthetic, managerial and economic considerations.
This course is cross-listed with DANC 240
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THEA 241 - Emergency Preparedness and Management in the Performing Arts FC ARHU
4 credits
The frequency of natural disasters, terrorist attacks, data breaches and other global events that are beyond the ability of performing arts organizations and performers to control, combined with the numerous daily situations that we, in our inherently dangerous industry, find ourselves in, demand that emergency plans, hazard assessments, proper and specific training, and mitigation protocols be developed and routinely updated for all areas of the performing arts. This course provides an overview of actions and reactions to disasters, emergencies and accidents, as well as a customized planning approach for arts managers and artists in preparing for those situations.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is appropriate for new students.
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THEA 241OC - Emergency Preparedness and Management in the Performing Arts FC ARHU
4 credits
The frequency of natural disasters, terrorist attacks, data breaches, and other global events that are beyond the ability of performing arts organizations and performers to control, combined with the numerous daily situations that we, in our inherently dangerous industry, find ourselves in, demand that emergency plans, hazard assessments, proper and specific training, and mitigation protocols be developed and routinely updated for all areas of the performing arts. This course provides an overview of actions and reactions to disasters, emergencies, and accidents, as well as a customized planning approach for arts managers and artists in preparing for those situations.
This course is a part of the Resilience in the Arts StudiOC Learning Community.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is appropriate for new students.
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THEA 245 - Queer and Trans Performance Practice FC ARHU
4 credits
In this course, we examine drama and performance art from queer and transgender artists in the United States. What makes art queer? What lessons can all artists learn from LGBTQ+ performance? We will examine the work of playwrights and performance artists including Tarell Alvin McRaney, Diana Oh, Taylor Mac, Cassils, and Muriel Miguel among others, We will place these works in dialogue with queer theory, transgender studies, and queer of color critique. The class will culminate in a showcase of scenes and original performances.
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THEA 250 - Artistry and Economics of Creative Placemaking FC ARHU
4 credits
For this class, we will examine and learn basic business and entrepreneurship practices that will allow artists and communities to engage in meaningful creative placemaking endeavors that have the potential to shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, city, or region around arts and cultural activities. Field Trips required.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
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THEA 250OC - Artistry and Economics of Creative Placemaking FC ARHU
4 credits
For this class, and in conjunction with the Creative Placemaking class taught by Louise Zeitlin, we will examine and learn basic business and entrepreneurship practices that will allow artists and communities to engage in meaningful creative placemaking endeavors that have the potential to shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, city, or region around arts and cultural activities. Field Trips required.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
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THEA 252 - Foundations of Theater FC ARHU
4 credits
A lecture course tracing the links between theater and ritual performance from the earliest human civilizations through Elizabethan England. We will focus on theatrical texts, performances spaces, and theoretical treatises from various world cultures. European, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Hopi, and Mayan performances will be studied in relation to the social and intellectual history of each major era and culture.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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THEA 253 - Global Theater Histories: Early Modern to Contemporary FC ARHU
4 credits
A lecture course tracing the links between theater and ritual performance from the English Reformation to the current day. We will focus on theatrical texts, performances spaces, and theoretical treatises from various world cultures. American, European, Indian, Nigerian, Chinese, Japanese, and Native American performances will be studied in relation to the social and intellectual history of each major era and culture.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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THEA 260 - Lighting Design FC ARHU
4 credits
This class studies the theories and techniques of lighting design for the performing arts. Lectures cover the design process, which includes space, script, music and movement, script analysis, design collaboration, and design execution. Lectures on composition, color, and drafting are supplemented with lighting design projects undertaken by members of the class. Final project is a realized design in the Little Theater or other appropriate Oberlin College venue. Students are required to serve as lighting design assistants to mainstage lighting designers throughout the semester.
Prerequisites & Notes: THEA 174
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THEA 264 - African American Drama FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This class surveys plays written by Black Americans from the post-slavery period through the late 20th century. An overview of the history of African-American performance is followed by reading and discussion of current criticism and a wide selection of plays by writers such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Adrienne Kennedy, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, and George Wolfe. Requirements include papers, journals and scene work.
This course is cross-listed with AAST 264
This course is appropriate for new students.
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THEA 265 - Playwrighting Workshop FC ARHU
4 credits
This workshop builds skills in writing for theater and performance, from developing an idea, to editing scenes based on feedback, to preparing a play for for the process of production. This class can be a chance to start a new project or develop existing material. Bringing in scenes to read aloud each week, students learn the process of writing a completed work. Examples of theatrical work and experimental performance are offered throughout, with a focus on queer, trans, and BIPOC artists.
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THEA 268 - Black Arts Workshop FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The Black Arts Workshop combines theory and performance in African American cultural styles. Readings and discussions encompass Afrocentric philosophy, history, religion and aesthetics, dance, music, visual arts and drama. Classroom exercises focus on meditation, movement, dance and acting skills. In the latter part of the semester there is a focus on Black theater including scene work. Written work is required. Final projects are to be creative in nature.
This course is cross-listed with AAST 268
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THEA 269 - Voice for the Actor HC ARHU
2 credits
This course introduces basic principles of voice production for actors: breathing, relaxation, coordination, resonance and centering. Exercises are designed to integrate mind/breath/sound/body in the act of purposeful communication: daily progression from pure sound to text work. Emphasis on freeing the students’ natural range and expressiveness.
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THEA 271 - Staging Consent and Intimacy in Theater FC ARHU
4 credits
This practical and theoretical course will be an introduction to the potential of consent as a tool for resiliency in theater. Students will study efforts within the theatrical field from #NotInOurHouse/Chicago to #CLEanHouse in Cleveland to combat sexual violence and harrassment in theater and promote more sustainable techniques for performers. This course will be a practical introduction to intimacy directing, choreographic approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes, and to theater as an intervention in the wake of societal trauma. To supplement our theatrical work, we will have conversations with Title IX about efforts to promote consent in education and popular culture. We will also examine art works from theater and performance art that center intimacy and consent. We’ll explore performances that tested the limits of audience participation and decipher what they can teach us about informed risk-taking in performance.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is appropriate for new students.
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THEA 271OC - Staging Consent and Intimacy in Theater FC ARHU
4 credits
This practical and theoretical course will be an introduction to the potential of consent as a tool for resiliency in theater. Students will study efforts within the theatrical field from #NotInOurHouse/Chicago to #CLEanHouse in Cleveland to combat sexual violence and harrassment in theater and promote more sustainable techniques for performers. This course will be a practical introduction to intimacy directing, choreographic approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes, and to theater as an intervention in the wake of societal trauma. To supplement our theatrical work, we will have conversations with Title IX about efforts to promote consent in education and popular culture. We will also examine art works from theater and performance art that center intimacy and consent. We’ll explore performances that tested the limits of audience participation and decipher what they can teach us about informed risk-taking in performance.
This course is part of the Resilience in the Performing Arts StudiOC Learning Community.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is appropriate for new students.
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THEA 277 - American Drama FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Selected works of major American playwrights. Emphasis will be placed on close reading, as well as on the significance of each play in regard to political and social movements of the time and the evolution of the American theater. Among the playwrights to be considered: Odets, O’Neill, Williams, Hellman, Albee, Shepard, Baraka, Bullins, Fornes, Kushner. Please note: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 365.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent. Not opened if student took ENGL 365 Counts toward Critical Inquiry portion of Theater Major
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 277
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THEA 278 - Playwrighting and Performance in the Time of the Black Lives Matter Movement FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In this exciting time in the fight for social justice centered on the Black Lives Matters Movement, students will write/create their own original plays and performance pieces responding to current and historical events.Students from all backgrounds are invited to explore how the worlds of theater and performance are making work steeped in the quest for Black equality in a climate of other great challenges-including works on virtual platforms.Student work in this class may be recorded or performed in the Summer Term show, “The Word and the Beat.”
This course is cross-listed with AAST 278
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THEA 281 - Rehearsal and Performance HC ARHU
2 credits
Intermediate and advanced level work in preparation and public performances of a production directed by a member of the theater faculty.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated once only for credit. P/NP grading.
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THEA 281F - Rehearsal and Performance-Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Intermediate and advanced level work in preparation and public performances of a production directed by a member of the theater faculty.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated once only for credit. P/NP grading.
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THEA 281H - Rehearsal and Performance-Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Intermediate and advanced level work in preparation and public performances of a production directed by a member of the theater faculty.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated once only for credit. P/NP grading.
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THEA 282 - Shifting Scenes: Drama Survey FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course will study the development of drama from the ancient Greeks to the present with the aim of promoting understanding and analysis of dramatic texts. By studying the major forms of drama – tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy – within their historical and cultural contexts, we will explore the elements common to all dramatic works, as well as the way in which those elements vary and evolve from one time and place to another.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent. Counts towards Critical Inquiry portion of Theater Major.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 282
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THEA 300 - Acting 3: Advanced Scene Study FC ARHU
4 credits
This course builds on skills learned in THEA 200 and focuses on the plays of American Masters.
Prerequisites & Notes: THEA 100, THEA 200.
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THEA 301 - Acting 3: Shakespeare FC ARHU
4 credits
This course will introduce skills needed to perform Shakespeare: imaging, phrasing, scansion, and rhetorical analysis.
Prerequisites & Notes: THEA 200
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THEA 305 - Interpreting Tom Tom: An Epic of Music and The Negro FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This seminar will examine the groundbreaking opera of Oberlin Conservatory alumna, author, composer, and musicologist Shirley Graham Du Bois (1934). In 1932, she was commissioned to compose and direct “Tom Tom,” the first opera by a Black woman that chronicles the Negro experience across a centuries-long history from the transatlantic slave trade to the Harlem Renaissance.This course invites students to comprehensively explore the contexts in which “Tom Tom” resides through ethnomusicological and dramaturgical research methods.We will interpret the score and libretto with significant attention to Graham’s construction of Africana vernacular music, literary and performance traditions within an emergent American classical music scene, and her implementation of ritual and Pan-Africanist ideologies.Activities will include comparative readings between music, theatre, and cultural studies, stylistic and textual analysis, research papers, class presentations, and discussion.Particular emphasis will be given to developing individual research projects.
Prerequisites & Notes: Consent of the instructor required.
ETHN 305: At least one course in MHST or ETHN at the 200 level, with MHST 290/91 especially advantageous.
AAST/THEA 305: Preference will be given to students who've taken AAST/THEA 264, 268, 278, or THEA 309.
This course is cross-listed with AAST 305, ETHN 305
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THEA 307 - Directing III FC ARHU
4 credits
Students will be introduced to different modes of textual analysis and how these lead to key artistic choices in rehearsal. Assignments will focus on careful play reading, staging, and coaching actors. Classes will monitor the progress of student-directed one act plays to be performed.
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THEA 309 - Theater of the Millennium FC ARHU
4 credits
This class will explore dramatic literature written by living American playwrights: Tony Kushner, George Wolfe, Anna DeVeare Smith, Emily Mann, Horton Foote, Jose Rivera, Oliver Mayer, Eve Ensler, August Wilson, Caryl Churchill, Maria Irene Fornes, Adrienne Kennedy, Amiri Baraka, Kia Corthron, and Suzann Lori-Parks among others. Plays will be contextualized and complemented by critical and historical readings. In addition to discussions and written assignments, scene work will be an important component of the class.
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THEA 312F - Stage Management Practicum FC ARHU
4 credits
For student stage managers currently working on Main Stage productions sponsored by the Theater and Dance Departments. THEA 212 and consent of instructor required.
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THEA 312H - Stage Management Practicum HC ARHU
2 credits
For student stage managers currently working on Main Stage productions sponsored by the Theater and Dance Departments.
Prerequisites & Notes: THEA 212 & consent of instructor required.
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THEA 313 - Advanced Acting: Heightened Movement, Heightened Text FC ARHU
4 credits
A good actor must know how to effectively engage in heightened verbal and non-verbal conversations on stage. This course goes in depth to perfect a student’s ability to fully engage and use their voice and body as a tool for creative expression of character, emotion, and relationship onstage. Students will use unique exercises to increase balance, strength, confidence, and range of motion while also learning advanced techniques in stillness, gesture, rhythm, and movement that will inspire creative delivery of emotionally charged and/or poetic texts.
Prerequisites & Notes: Any 200-Level THEA course
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THEA 315 - Acting III: Black and Brown Playwrights FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In this class, we will work on and explore scenes written by African-American and Latino playwrights such as Lynn Knottage, August Wilson, Suzanne Lori-Parks, Jose Rivera, Ntozake Shange, Nilo Cruz, and Alice Childress. While staging scenes, students will develop their method of acting, as well as discuss the issue of cultural awareness on the actor’s process specifically, what role race and culture play in the shaping of character and relationship. Student assignments include reading plays, writing in a journal, as well as reading plays, writing in a journal, as well as performing scenes.
Prerequisites & Notes: THEA 200.
This course is cross-listed with AAST 315
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THEA 316 - Modern Drama II: Brecht to Pinter FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course will study the development of drama from World War II to 1975 from both a literary and a theatrical point of view. Playwrights will include Brecht, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Churchill, Pinter, Fornes, and Adrienne Kennedy. Post-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 328
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THEA 317 - Directing 2: Texts and Concepts FC ARHU
4 credits
This class will engage students in the detailed analysis, and research of dramatic texts, in order to develop advanced skills in interpretation and conceptualization. Extensive readings will introduce formal, transactional, behavioral and psychoanalytic modes of analysis. Plays examined will include major works by Shakespeare, Williams, Chekhov, and Pinter. Weekly response papers and research assignments will culminate in a final twenty-page concept term paper and oral presentation. This is a non-performance, reading intensive seminar.
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THEA 319 - Acting for the Camera FC ARHU
4 credits
In this advanced studio class, students will be introduced to the fundamental demands of acting for the camera. Weekly on-camera assignments will focus on the differences between stage, commercial, television, and film acting, as well as grow the students’ comfortability behind the lens and their understanding of physical and emotional continuity and nuanced performance. The course will focus on the different genres and what is required of the actor to successfully audition and perform in front of the lens. Students will collaborate to hone their audition skills as well as produce on-camera individual and partnered scene work.
Prerequisites & Notes: THEA 200; or, for declared CINE majors, THEA 100 and CINE 298.
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THEA 320F - Special Projects - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Written Proposal and consent of the instructor required.
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THEA 320H - Special Projects - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Written Proposal and consent of the instructor required.
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THEA 325 - Advanced scene study: Non-traditional Approaches to Classic Texts FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This is an advanced acting class that uses canonized playwrights such as Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Chekov to allow students to explore the history, process, and implications of re-casting roles in regards to race and gender. In class we will read, rehearse, and perform scenes. Special attention will be paid to identifying actions while embracing heightened language, as well as discussing the implications of incorporating race and gender into the construction of character within the world of any given text. Though Acting 100 and 200 are recommended, students may receive consent by emailing the professor their interest and background.
Prerequisites & Notes: THEA 100/200.
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THEA 328 - Musical Theater FC ARHU
4 credits
A studio class introducing the fundamental techniques of musical theatre performance. The course will cover song interpretation, as well as action-driven acting technique through scene study of classic and contemporary American musical theatre masterworks.
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THEA 336 - Scene Design II FC ARHU
4 credits
Scene Design 2: This class is a continuation of Scene Design 1 and explores how Scenic Design addresses the challenges of multi-set plays, musical theater and dance. Students will develop analytical, conceptual, communication, and artistic skills by creating Scenic Designs for a variety of styles and theater genres. Collaboration and creative problem-solving techniques are developed through an iterative design process. Final designs are expressed through sketches, 3-dimensional scale models, scale drawings and color renderings and will result in portfolio-worthy projects.
Prerequisites & Notes: Scene Design 1 (Thea 236) OR Intro to Theatrical Design (Thea 222)
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THEA 340 - Arts Management II FC ARHU
4 credits
Students will be introduced to and develop an understanding of the critical areas that comprise Arts Management including; Organization Structure, Management Theory, Budgeting and Fiscal Theories, Marketing and Audience Development. They will also begin to develop the ability to understand and navigate the challenges of competing priorities in today’s world, specifically, reconciling aesthetic, managerial and economic considerations.
Prerequisites & Notes: THEA 240, Arts Management
This course is cross-listed with DANC 340
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THEA 341F - Directing III - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Individual study in directing. Student directors will meet weekly with a faculty advisor to discuss and monitor their projects through the various stages of production: script analysis, concept, design, casting, rehearsals, tech and performance.
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THEA 341H - Directing III - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Individual study in directing. Student directors will meet weekly with a faculty advisor to discuss and monitor their projects through the various stages of production: script analysis, concept, design, casting, rehearsals, tech and performance.
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THEA 348 - Modern Drama: Ibsen to Pirandello FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course explores the different ways in which ‘reality’ was staged by playwrights including Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, and Pirandello. We will consider how modern theatrical movements such as realism, naturalism, expressionism, and metadrama sought to represent ‘reality,’ focusing on evolving stagecraft. Emphasis will also be placed on the historical and cultural contexts surrounding the early stages of modern drama. Diversity, 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 348
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THEA 349 - Contemporary Drama: 1980-Present FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course will study the developments mainly in British and American drama during the last ten to fifteen years. Plays will be discussed from both a literary and theatrical point of view, with attention to their historical, cultural, and political context. Among the playwrights we will be reading, a tentative list might include Tony Kushner, David Henry Huang, Maria Irene Fornes, Caryl Churchill, Edward Albee, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and Yasmina Reza. Diversity, Post-1900.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 349
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THEA 368 - Black Arts Workshop II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course continues the inquiry begun in AAST/THEA 268 focusing on the Western Hemispheric inheritance from traditional African cultures. This course will focus on performance in sacred and secular cultures of the African diaspora in the mid-to-late 20th century. The class will hone performance skills through in-class exercises and assignments, and intellectual and critical skills through reading, discussions, presentations, journals and critical papers examining aesthetic and cultural performance theories. The course will culminate in a final performance.
Prerequisites & Notes: AAST/THEA 268 or other AAST Fine Arts classes taught by Professors Coleman or Sharpley.
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THEA 371 - Consent and Sexuality in Theater FC ARHU
4 credits
How do we tell stories of intimacy in the aftermath of the #MeTooMovement? What are the strengths and limitations of consent discourse for addressing sexual violence? This course investigates these questions of consent and sexuality through the lens of theatrical performance. In this creative and critical course, we will examine intimacy and power in contemporary plays, and will also learn best practices for staging intimacy in theater and film, know as “intimacy choreography.” Students will gain an understanding of queer, intersectional, and postcolonial frameworks for sexual justice.
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THEA 372 - The Word and The Beat HC ARHU CD
2 credits
A first module class in which students will produce and perform original work. Preference may be given to students who have taken previous courses in Black Culture and Performance, but newcomers are welcomed as well.Students will be consented, not auditioned. This class may count toward the Performance requirement in the Theater Major and/or Fine Arts requirement in the Africana Studies major.
This course is cross-listed with AAST 372
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THEA 375 - Playwriting and Theater-Making in Time of Crisis HC ARHU
2 credits
In this course, students will create their own plays and performance pieces exploring ways that theater artists respond to times of crisis. Each student will be expected to create three short pieces and one longer piece, all of which will be read by the class as well as the professor. There will also be assigned readings and responses.
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THEA 410 - Senior Capstone in Acting: Professional Aspects of Acting FC ARHU
4 credits
Seminar course covering broad field of topics pertinent to the pursuit of a career in theatrical and media performance. Particular emphasis placed on the development of a portfolio of audition materials and the acquisition of audition skills.
Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites: THEA 100, THEA 200
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THEA 420F - Honors - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Intensive independent work in theater on a research thesis or creative project to be decided upon in consultation with an advisor.
Prerequisites & Notes: Admission to the Honors Program.
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THEA 420H - Honors - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Intensive independent work in theater on a research thesis or creative project to be decided upon in consultation with an advisor.
Prerequisites & Notes: Admission to the Honors Program.
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THEA 425F - Senior Project-Full FC ARHU
4 credits
For those students approved for Senior Projects that are NOT designated as Honors. Approval process begins in the spring prior to the senior year. Interested students must complete an application form and submit it by the last day of classes of fall semester of their junior year. Those students approved will be notified by the faculty and a project advisor will be assigned.
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THEA 425H - Senior Project-Half HC ARHU
2 credits
For those students approved for Senior Projects that are NOT designated as Honors. Approval process begins in the spring prior to the senior year. Interested students must complete an application form and submit it by the last day of classes of fall semester of their junior year. Those students approved will be notified by the faculty and a project advisor will be assigned.
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THEA 995F - Private Reading - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via PRESTO. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
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THEA 995H - Private Reading - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via PRESTO. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
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ATHL 400 - Varsity Basketball-Men CC
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ATHL 401 - Varsity Cross Country-Men CC
1 credit
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ATHL 402 - Varsity Football-Men CC
1 credit
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ATHL 403 - Varsity Soccer-Men CC
1 credit
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ATHL 404 - Varsity Swimming-Men CC
1 credit
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ATHL 405 - Varsity Outdoor Track-Men CC
1 credit
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ATHL 406 - Varsity Baseball-Men CC
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ATHL 407 - Varsity Tennis-Men CC
1 credit
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ATHL 408 - Varsity Lacrosse-Men CC
1 credit
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ATHL 409 - Varsity Indoor Track-Men CC
1 credit
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ATHL 451 - Varsity Cross Country-Women CC
1 credit
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ATHL 452 - Varsity Field Hockey-Women CC
1 credit
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ATHL 453 - Varsity Volleyball-Women CC
1 credit
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ATHL 454 - Varsity Swimming-Women CC
1 credit
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ATHL 455 - Varsity Basketball-Women CC
1 credit
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ATHL 456 - Varsity Outdoor Track-Women CC
1 credit
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ATHL 457 - Varsity Lacrosse-Women CC
1 credit
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ATHL 458 - Varsity Tennis-Women CC
1 credit
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ATHL 459 - Varsity Indoor Track-Women CC
1 credit
Varsity sport.
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ATHL 460 - Varsity Soccer-Women CC
1 credit
Varsity sport.
Prerequisites & Notes: P/NP grading.
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ATHL 461 - Varsity Softball-Women CC
1 credit
Varsity sport.
Prerequisites & Notes: P/NP grading.
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WRCM 100 - Academic Writing for the American Classroom FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course is designed for multilingual and international students interested in exploring the writing process in English, with particular focus on American academic conventions and expectations of inquiry, argument, and attribution of sources. The class will serve as a writing community in which students read and discuss the work of classmates. Students will write often, reflect on their individual writing process, and meet regularly with the instructor to discuss progress.
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WRCM 101 - College Writing: Argument and Inquiry FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course introduces students to rhetorical theories and concepts in order to write effectively for the college academic community. Students concentrate on the use of primary and secondary sources as evidence in research-based arguments and will explore issues of interest and co
This course is appropriate for new students.
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WRCM 102 - Writing for College & Beyond FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course will immerse students in the practice of writing for college and beyond. Students will explore a number of forms, analyze and create arguments, work with sources, and develop greater flexibility and ease in their writing
This course is appropriate for new students.
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WRCM 103 - Re-envisioning Writing: Connection, Negotiation, and Empowerment FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
We all face myriad situations in which we speak or write to connect with others, whether that involves writing an academic paper, crafting an email, or talking at a public gathering. This course maintains that students have many more resources for this work than they’ve been taught to recognize; our work in this course will help students intentionally and strategically mobilize these resources for various purposes and audiences. Using a “multilingual orientation” that sees the many “languages” we write and speak as assets, we will contemplate the notion of many Englishes, explore the possibilities of “code-meshing,” and play with the possibilities of translation. The course welcomes multilingual writers as well as students who consider themselves monolingual speakers of English and will strive to create a supportive learning community.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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WRCM 105 - Writing to Learn & Participate FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course is about writing to accomplish something. Class activities emphasize strategies used in college papers and how non-academic writing requires similar skills in research, argument, and composition. Students write weekly drafts of several short papers, which are workshopped in class meetings and discussed in individual appointments with the instructor. P/NP Grading
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WRCM 106 - Writing and Creativity FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
In this writing-intensive, 100-level course, we
will consider the ways that creativity works and operates in our
professional, personal, and social worlds, and will explore various
habits and practices in order to develop our own creative capacities,
through and alongside the writing practice. Along the way, we will
examine the role of creativity in various contexts, including but not
limited to higher education, inclusivity, social change, and advanced
research.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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WRCM 110 - Speaking and Writing FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
In this course, students will develop skills needed to construct and deliver effective speeches by recognizing the role of communication in cultivating engaged participation in public life and encouraging an audience-centered approach to speaking, persuasion, and rhetoric. While theoretical foundations of public speaking methods and techniques will be discussed, this is a practice-oriented course. As such, students will develop effective writing and speaking techniques through classroom discussions, activities, and assignments. Students will develop speeches and presentations based upon their own socio-political interests.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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WRCM 120 - Journalism Basics FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course will cover basic reporting, news and features writing, and ethics in journalism. In addition to course writing assignments, students will be encouraged to produce articles for student and local publications.
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WRCM 201 - Writing in the Sciences FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
A course designed for students interested in developing their composing/revising skills for writing in natural science and mathematics disciplines or interpreting science topics for readers of general science issues.
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WRCM 203 - Writing Medical Narratives HC ARHU WINT
2 credits
This course will be structured around drafting the personal statement for a career in healthcare, a particularly challenging but surprisingly dynamic genre of writing. Crucial to crafting the personal statement is the “story” one tells; as an applicant, you are essentially telling thestory of how you arrived at the decision to pursue a career in medicine and healthcare. As such, the course will also focus on understanding how stories quite generally are structured and how they function. We will read medical narratives of fiction and nonfiction from writers such as Amy Hempel, Susanna Kaysen, Atul Gawande, Oliver Sacks, Leslie Jamison, Laura Hillenbrand, Anne Fadiman, among many others. Like the best healthcare providers, the best writers are empathetic towards their readers. In this way, writing and medicine share a common goal: human connection.
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WRCM 205 - Rhetorics of Gender Non-Conformity FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Meant for sophomores, juniors, and seniors who wish to continue developing academic skills stressed in First Year Seminars (critical reading, writing, and research). Course members will examine how artistic, activist, journalistic, and historiographic rhetorics are used in film and television to portray transgender and gender non-conforming people. Materials and assignments will be rooted in an intersectional approach including diverse perspectives of economic class, race, ability, nationality, regionality, and religion. Students will work on a variety of multimodal writing tasks, including essays and scripting for audio, video or public exhibition.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 204
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WRCM 207 - Literary Journalism FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
From New Journalism to the personal essay, literary techniques are reshaping the way journalists write about sports, nature, politics, science, and the arts. This course will explore the way journalists use the tools of fiction and poetry in their writing while remaining true to the standards of reporting. Students will balance the reading of literary journalism and essays with time spent crafting their own writing.
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WRCM 210 - Rhetoric and Social Protest FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course is dedicated to exploring the various theories, contexts, and rhetorical strategies of resistance. Through both a historical and a contemporary perspective, we delve into the limitations and possibilities of protest rhetoric. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of rhetoric to enact advocacy, students will read rhetorical theory and criticism, primary texts, and complete written and oral assignments. Students will develop an understanding of the rhetorical underpinnings of social activism and the role it plays in societal change.
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WRCM 301 - Research and Scholarly Writing Across the Disciplines FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
In this collaborative environment, students pursuing diverse majors will research, compose and revise research-based prose aimed at contributing to a chosen field. The course will be process-focused; coursework will include research skills presentations, peer reviews and workshops. Students will research and read journals in their selected academic area, explore how knowledge is constructed in that field, and explore the dynamics of publication within it.
Prerequisites & Notes: This course is aimed especially for juniors and others in preparation for senior projects. Closed to first-years.
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WRCM 303 - Writing about Travel: Composing as Reflection on Time Abroad FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
Students returning from study abroad are often asked: “How was Peru/London/Tibet/Zanzibar?” Frequently, after such students have replied “fine,” “great,” or “really tough,” the conversation stops. How might students make sense of their journeys? How might we fashion our travels into coherent and compelling writing? This course creates a community of writers and travelers in which we will both read and create various genres of writing about travel.
Prerequisites & Notes: Travel experience; not open to first-years.
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WRCM 305 - Organization Grant Proposals FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
Sooner or later many professionals need to apply for grants. This course covers the basics of writing grant proposals or fellowship applications and researching funding sources. Students will learn to use the Cleveland Foundation Center’s database and work on a proposal to fund a community-based project or fellowship proposal in their area of interest. Instruction includes individual attention to fundamental college-level writing skills. Especially useful for artists, scientists, and community activists.
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WRCM 306 - Writing and Language Diversity FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
Whether it involves stereotypes based on accents, insistence on “Standard English” in academic settings, or prejudice against certain varieties of English, many of us are steeped in questionable attitudes about language. This course explores issues in language diversity and examines what some refer to as “standard language ideology” - the idea that there is one superior form of language for academic and professional settings. We will delve into key sociolinguistic approaches to language diversity as we consider anti-racist work in language, the concept of World Englishes, the possibilities of codemeshing, and what this all means for the practice and teaching of writing. This course considers students’ diverse linguistic backgrounds as resources; in their writing, speaking, and multimodal projects for the course, students will explore ways to tap into the wealth of their linguistic experiences for expression. This course will be of special interest to WAs and students interested in education and language pedagogy.
Prerequisites & Notes: Closed to first-year students. This course will be of special interest to WAs and students interested in education and language pedagogy.
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WRCM 310 - Indigenous Rhetorics: Native American Narratives of Survivance FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
From early rhetorical practices to contemporary modes of expressing Indigenous life, practices of storytelling have served as anti-colonial tools for Native Americans since first contact with Europeans. Storytelling exerts forms of intellectual sovereignty that disrupts settler colonial knowledge production and asserts survivance. Engaging with a variety of texts (including novels and films), we will explore the narrative methods used by rhetors to address historical and contemporary Native American issues. Students will undertake discourse analysis, theoretical interventions, close textual reading, and visual analysis of Indigenous narratives to examine the possibilities of a rhetoric of survivance.
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WRCM 320 - Community News Reporting FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
In this course students will undertake advanced projects of pitching, researching, writing and producing news stories about the Oberlin town community. Ethical treatment of sources, balanced and contextualized reporting, verification of facts and multiple modes of producing will be stressed. Previous work as a news journalist, either in high school or college, is preferable for students enrolling in this course. At least one field trip will be required, conditions permitting.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
Community Based Learning
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WRCM 401 - Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
In this course, students study composition theory and pedagogy and at the same time learn to work with their peers as writing associates. In the process of helping to educate others, students work toward a fuller understanding of their own educational experiences, particularly in writing.
Prerequisites & Notes: Experienced students of all majors who write well are encouraged to apply. Closed to first-years and to seniors in their final semester. Students must apply to take this course before early registration; applications are linked from the Writing Associates Program’s webpages.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 399
Community Based Learning
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WRCM 402 - Tutoring Lab HC ARHU
2 credits
A course in which students develop their presentation and public speaking skills by conducting in-class workshops across campus. While studying oral communication theory and pedagogy, students will gain a broader understanding of the value of public speaking and recognize their own educational experiences with the discipline.
Prerequisites & Notes: WRCM 401
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WRCM 995F - Private Reading - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via PRESTO. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
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