2910 History/Appreciation of Theatre/Film/Video/Media
This course is for students who desire knowledge in the history of drama, plays, theater, and writers. The course may include the study of outstanding examples in the fields of motion pictures, radio, and television. The course includes instruction in reading, writing, critique processes, and research.
2908 Media/Film/Video/Television Production
This course emphasizes study in the techniques of television, film, and/or video production. Instruction includes history of the media, its technology, and its art. Students write, act, announce, direct, and produce to tell stories or narratives, create movies or videos (documentaries, shorts, or music) in one or various media. Concepts include camera operation, framing and composition, use of time and space, sound and lighting, editing and emotional impact. The course includes application of the elements and principles of the arts, a study of historical and contemporary media arts from a worldwide perspective, and instruction in the critique process. Course may be individual or combined genres.
2905 Technical Theatre/Stagecraft
In this course, students learn the theory and practice of skills in set production, stage design, lighting and sound, costuming, theater management, and makeup with emphasis on procedures and techniques in all these areas. Students study these elements from a historical and contemporary perspective and learn the critique process. Students act as technical artists involved in staging and presentation of school productions and drama class performances.
2901 Theatre/Creative Dramatics (elementary school standards)
Students create plays or scenes and perform them from original scripts or with improvised dialogue and action. Students may take part in pantomime, dialogue, monologue, improvisation, and role-playing. The course includes application of the elements and principles of drama/theater, a study of historical and contemporary theater from a worldwide perspective, and instruction in the critique process.
2900 Theatre/Play Production (secondary school standards)
This course provides a balanced theater arts program that emphasizes dramatic literature and/or musical theater activities that lead to the formal presentation of a scripted play. The class emphasizes awareness and practice in theater production, performance, direction, stage technique, voice, stage design, costuming, properties, and theater history. Students develop language skills and appreciation through reading dramatic literature from a worldwide perspective and writing critiques, character analyses, and play reports.
2904 Advanced Theatre
This course is designed to enable the student to explore a particular theatrical form in more detail and in depth. The class emphasizes production, performance, stage technique, voice, stage design, costuming, properties, and theater history. The course emphasizes polishing talent, building confidence for professional or apprenticeship auditions, and gaining experience in public performance. Course prerequisites are 2900, 2901, or 2905.
2998 Other Drama/Theatre Course (including combinations of above)
This designation is for any drama/theater course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.
