PRACTICUM PERFORMANCE SHOW 1
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Department through audition required. Students cast as actors in a departmental stage production register for this course; course emphasizes the collaborative nature of production, and appropriate research and reading required in addition to artistic assignments. Auditions for each semester's stage productions held 6pm on the first Tuesday and Wednesday class days of each semester. For required details, consult "Auditions" on the Barnard Theatre Department website in advance:
theatre.barnard.edu/auditions
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Instructor:
Tea Alagic
Info - 1-3 points
PRACTICUM PERFORMANCE THESIS 1
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Department through audition required. Students cast as actors in a Senior Thesis in Directing register for this course. Auditions for each semester's stage productions held 6pm on the first Tuesday and Wednesday class days of each semester. For required details, consult "Auditions" on the Barnard Theatre Department website in advance:
theatre.barnard.edu/auditions
- MTWRF 7 p.m.-11 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Banta
Info - 1-3 points
PRACTICUM PERFORMANCE THESIS 2
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Department through audition required. Students cast as actors in a Senior Thesis in Directing register for this course. Auditions for each semester's stage productions held 6pm on the first Tuesday and Wednesday class days of each semester. For required details, consult "Auditions" on the Barnard Theatre Department website in advance:
theatre.barnard.edu/auditions
- MTWRF 7 p.m.-11 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Banta
Info - 1-3 points
PRACTICUM PERFORMANCE THESIS 3
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Department through audition required. Students cast as actors in a Senior Thesis in Directing register for this course. Auditions for each semester's stage productions held 6pm on the first Tuesday and Wednesday class days of each semester. For required details, consult "Auditions" on the Barnard Theatre Department website in advance:
theatre.barnard.edu/auditions
- MTWRF 7 p.m.-11 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Banta
Info - 1-3 points
ACTING ENSEMBLE DIRECTING II
Students may participate as actors in Directing II as a 1-credit course; these students will comprise the Acting Ensemble. Actors will be cast in all four student-directed scenes and will participate in the feedback process following the showings. Actors must be available for both days of the week the course meets, but are only required to attend when they are performing; they are welcome to attend additional classes that may be of interest. Actors will be graded on their in-class performances (moment-to-moment work, collaboration with on-stage partners, memorization) and ability to respond and adjust to notes. Actors who are responsible and collaborative will succeed as part of the Acting Ensemble. Grading is Pass/Fail.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alice A Reagan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 1 points
PRACTICUM SCENIC PAINT
PRACTICUM PROPS & PAINT
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical props and/or scenic painting work on Departmental mainstage productions.
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Instructor:
Michael Banta
Info - 1-3 points
PRACTICUM LIGHTS & SOUND
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical lighting and/or sound work on Departmental mainstage productions.
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Instructor:
Gregory Winkler
CULPA: 3 Info - 1-3 points
PRACTICUM WARDROBE & RUN CREW
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Costume Shop Manager Kara Feely (kfeely@barnard.edu). Training and practical costume construction and fitting work on Departmental mainstage productions.
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Instructor:
Kara M Feely
Info - 1-3 points
PRACTICUM STAGE MANAGEMENT
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: permission of Theatre Department Production Manager, Michael Banta (
mbanta@barnard.edu
). Training and practical stage management work on Departmental mainstage productions.
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Instructor:
Michael Banta
Info - 1-3 points
PRACTICUM DESIGN THESIS FESTIVAL
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: permission of the Senior Thesis Festival coordinator. Training and practical work as student designer on the Senior Thesis Festival.
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kara M Feely
Info - 1-3 points
PRACTICUM DESIGN & PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
PRACTICUM DESIGN ASSISTAN
May be retaken for full credit.
Prerequisites: permission of the Senior Thesis Festival coordinator. Training and practical design work assisting student designers for the Senior Thesis Festival.
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Instructor:
Michael Banta
Info - 1-3 points
ACTING I
Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Course develops physical, vocal, and imaginative range and skills needed to approach the text of a play: text analysis, speech exercises, non-verbal behavior, improvisation designed to enhance embodiment, movement, and projection.
Gateway course to advanced courses; transfer students who have previous college-level course may be exempted with approval of Chair
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May be retaken for full credit.
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Elena Zucker
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Instructor:
David L Skeist
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Instructor:
Crystal Finn
Info - 3 points
ACTING II
ACTING II: SUZUKI
Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit. All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tina C Mitchell
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ACTING II
ACTING II: CTMP MUS THTR
Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit. All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mana Allen
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ACTING II
ACTING II: CHEKHOV/VIEWPOINTS
Prerequisite: Open to all Barnard and Columbia undergraduates. Permission of Instructor required; students admitted from Waiting List. Students must have taken Acting I or equivalent to be eligible for Acting II sections. Acting II will offer several different sections, focusing on a specific range of conceptual, embodiment, and physical acting skills. Please check with the Theatre Department website forspecific offerings and audition information. May be retaken for full credit. All sections of Acting II fullfull the “Arts and Humanities” Foundations requirement at Barnard College.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gisela D Cardenas Ojeda
Info - 3 points
PERFORMING GREEK TRAGEDY ON THE MODERN S
PERF GREEK TRAGDY ON MOD
This course aims to explore performing Greek tragedy on the modern stage. It will include an introduction to original performance practices in ancient Greece (space, masking, choral performance, costume, acting techniques) and an examination of how artists from different contemporary theatrical traditions have adapted ancient texts in modern performances and new versions of the plays. The bulk of the course will be focused on the problems of acting, interpreting, and reinterpreting parts of three plays on the stage, Sophocles’
Antigone
, Euripides’
Medea
, and Sophocles’
Ajax
along with a new version by Ellen McLaughlin, who teaches playwriting at Barnard,
Ajax in Iraq
. Students will view all or parts of particularly interesting recent productions from various theatrical traditions, which will help them to tackle challenging issues such as choral performance and choral rhythms, masking, character work, dialogues and presenting formal political debates.
For contemporary actors training in Greek tragedy offers a unique opportunity to improve their performance on stage through ensemble work and representing character through speech. It enhances dramaturgical capacities that a contemporary theater practitioner must exercise in exploring theory in practice and vice versa.
This class is directed to students particularly interested in dramaturgy, directing, designing, translation, and Greek tragedy as well as acting.
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
CRITICAL PERFORMANCES
This course occupies the intersection of two practices: making theory and making theatre. It presents theatre as a distinctively theoretical and material activity, one in which the stage practices of training and performance are understood to articulate theoretical and ideological attitudes about the world, and in which theoretical texts are understood to summon modes of theatrical being into presence. In the course, students will undertake four distinctive activities: they will read plays; they will read theoretical texts, often having to do with performance; they will make several brief experimental critical performances; and they will write about performance as a mode of theoretical critique. The course is broken up into four main units, each of which opens with a critical response to a problem in the history of performance—the impact of realism, or of politics as theatre, for example—followed by a studio class, in which students experiment with the interaction between performance and conceptualization, and then returns to the seminar room for an accounting of how, how well, or whether this interaction was materialized. Plays have been selected in order to bring critical issues directly into focus. All students will participate in 4 experimental critical performances; write briefly about them, and undertake both a final performance and a longer critical essay analyzing the challenging interface between theoretical critique and critical performance. (This course counts as a lecture/seminar “studies” course for the Theatre major.)
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
- 4 points
CRITICAL HISTORIES OF DRAMA, THEATRE, AN
CRIT HIST DRAMA, THTR & P
This course undertakes a dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre, interrogating the ways writing inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance in the modern era. Course undertakes careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative performances in theatres globally; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Topics include the sociology of theatre, the impact of print on conceptions of performance, representing gender and race, the politics of intercultural performance, and the dynamics of emerging forms and critical practices of performance analysis. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) lecture requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Abby N Schroering
Info - 3 points
TRADITIONAL INDIAN PERFORMNCE
Course provides a perspective on traditional forms of Indian performance from classical theory to contemporary traditional practices. Course covers Sanskrit drama, Kathakali, Ramlila, and Chhau; extensive video of performances and guest practitioners. Course fulfills lecture/seminar "studies" course requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
POSTCOLONIAL DRAMA:THE CANON & ITS OTHER
This class is a close reading of postcolonial plays, both as they form a recognizable canon, and as counters to it. Through a grounding in postcolonial theory, students will explore how the colonial encounter leaves a lasting impact on language and performance. How do these playwrights tackle questions of authenticity, influence, inspiration and agency? What stories do they adapt, translate or reimagine? Also, we read in equal measure male and female playwrights, attending to the ways in which power and authority are negotiated by them. This class looks both at plays that are seminal to postcolonial writing and also newer ones that unsettle the position of the greats. Do we then understand postcolonialism as a historically bound literary trend or an ongoing process of exploration? Fundamentally we ask, in our efforts to decolonize the theatre, how do we find new ways or reading? Course fulfills lecture/seminar in drama studies, theatre studies, performance studies requirement for Theatre major.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
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- 4 points
DIRECTING I
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Exploration of the evolution of the director's role in Europe and the US, including the study of important figures. Emphasis on text analysis, and varied schools of acting in relation to directing practice. Students gain a foundation in composing stage pictures and using stage movement to tell a story. All students will direct at least one fully-realized scene.
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shannon M Sindelar
Info - 3 points
DIRECTING II
Prerequisites: Students required to have taken THTR UN3200 Directing I or THTR UN3203 Collaboration: Directing and Design, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 14 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Course focuses on developing an individual directorial style, placing emphasis on visual research, and the use of different staging environments: end-stage, in the round, environmental. Class is structured around scene-work and critique, and each student will direct at least three fully-realized scenes. Material typically drawn from European avant-garde.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alice A Reagan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
PLAYWRITING LAB
Students will develop original dramatic scripts. Students will also read drafts of writers currently produced on New York stages to understand why changes and rewrites were made. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Bragen
Info - 3 points
COSTUME DESIGN
Studio course exploring designing costumes for the stage. Students become familiar with textual and character analysis, research, sketching and rendering, swatching and introductory costume history.
Application Instructions: E-mail the instructor with the title of the course in the subject line. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will admit them as spaces become available.
- M 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Soule Golden
Info - 3 points
LIGHTING DESIGN
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Focuses on both the technical and creative aspects of theatrical lighting design. Students will learn the role of lighting within the larger design and performance collaboration through individual and group projects, readings, hands-on workshops, and critique of actual designs.
Application Instructions: E-mail the instructor (
acasey@barnard.edu
) with the title of the course in the subject line. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will admit them as spaces become available.
- T 9:35 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Autum Casey
Info - 3 points
PROBLEMS IN DESIGN
Prerequisites: Some design experience is helpful, though not required. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Studio-based course explores the main elements of theatrical design: sets, costumes, lighting, and sound through objects, materials, theatrical and non-theatrical environments. Students examine these design elements as both individual and interrelated components within a performance. Fulfills one course in Design requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: design.
- F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sandra Goldmark
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: ACTING
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gisela D Cardenas Ojeda
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: DESIGN
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sandra Goldmark
CULPA: 4
Info
- 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: STG MGT
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Banta
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: DIRECTING
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shannon M Sindelar
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: PLAYWRITING
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Bragen
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: SOLO PERF
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kyle Decamp
Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN PERFORMANCE
SR THESIS/PERF: DRAMATURGY
Prerequisites: Appropriate coursework and substantial production experience, including a major crew assignment in the junior year. Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. Students register for this course to pursue approved theses in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, solo performance, or stage and production management.
Students will act in, direct, design, stage manage or dramaturg a play in the Barnard Department of Theatre season, or write a short play or solo performance piece that will be produced (according to departmental guidelines) in the Senior Thesis Festival. Collaboration is expected and students will meet weekly with faculty and other seniors. A written proposal must be submitted in the spring of the junior year and be approved. In addition to the performance, an extensive written Casebook is required: see departmental guidelines.
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alice A Reagan
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS IN RESEARCH
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. In-depth research project culminating in a substantial written thesis on any aspect of drama, performance, or theatre research.
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Instructor:
William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
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- 4 points