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2016-2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
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Graduate Courses


 
  
  • CTAO 592 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAO 679 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAO 680 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAO 681 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAR 501 - Foundations of Dramatic Experience


    A study of dramatic play as intrinsic in human development, this course explores the power of dramatic experience for sharpening imagination, deepening interpersonal relations, fostering creative power, enhancing problem-solving skills, and strengthening individual identity. Integration of such experience for creativity and innovation is emphasized.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Last Updated:
    Title and Course Description Change 10/2011, effective Winter 2012


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  • CTAR 513 - Contemporary Issues in Arts Administration


    The influence of Arts and Entertainment in the economy, education, public policy and regional planning is critical to the growth of this discipline. Contemporary Issues allows students to develop a broad array of skills and knowledge in this diverse field.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Last Updated:
    New Course 06/2011, effective Fall 2011


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  • CTAR 522 - Applied Theatre


    Applied Theatre is a specialized field that uses theatre as a medium for education and social development, and in various non-traditional contexts. This class will address the present state of applied theatre around the world, practice devising original theatre and engage in a community-based theatre project.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Last Updated:
    Title/Credit Hour/Course Description Change 10/2011, effective Winter 2012


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  • CTAR 526 - Fund Raising Topics in the Arts


    This course provides an advanced analysis of what students need to know about securing donations as they prepare for leadership positions in the field of Nonprofit Arts Management. All units studied are informed by the creation of a plausible case statement for giving. Units explored will include: managing the giving process, securing the gift, relationship building, donor research, volunteer involvement, and ethical accountability.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Notes -
    Academic Service-Learning will be required for this class.


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  • CTAR 527 - Grant Proposal Writing and Management in the Arts


    This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to write and effectively manage grants to arts organizations. While working in grant writing teams on the research, preparation and submission process students will design and test management tools in data collection, record keeping, compliance and reporting. This course prepares students to successfully respond to requirements for the increased accountability demanded of arts organizations in requesting and administering grants.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAR 529 - Producing Theatre for Young Audiences


    Students will gain practical experience in play development, direction, performance and production for young audiences. A theatre production designed for touring will be performed at area schools and other community sites.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CTAR 530 - Dramaturgy


    Advanced theoretical and applied investigation of dramatic texts in historical, literary, and performative contexts as it contributes to collaborative production of theatre. Special attention will be given to research strategies, modes of textual analysis, critical writing for/about theatre, and dramaturgy’s utility within various aspects of production.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Equivalent Course(s): CTAR 455  

    Last Updated:
    Equivalent Course Added 2/2015, effective Fall 2015


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  • CTAR 535 - Youth Theatre Theory and Practice


    Youth Theatre focuses on the history, theories, and practice of theatre training and directing for performers, ages 6-18. Scripts for youth performers are analyzed using both artistic and educational lenses. Youth theatres and theatre educational programs are examined to reveal current best practices in the business of youth artistic development and production.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Prerequisite(s):   or   

    Last Updated:
    New Course 12/2011, effective Winter 2012


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  • CTAR 544 - Critical Studies in Theatre History I


    An interrogation of culturally based historical trends in world theatre, from antiquity to 1642. Specific attention paid to theories of performance origins, production practice and style, theatre architecture, and dramatic literature and criticism. Students will examine primary and secondary source documents in an attempt to develop a cogent yet flexible notion of theatre’s historical development.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing


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  • CTAR 545 - Critical Studies in Theatre History II


    An interrogation of culturally based historical trends in world theatre, from 1643 to present. Specific attention paid to theories of performance origins, production practice and style, theatre architecture, and dramatic literature and criticism. Students will examine  primary and secondary source documents in an attempt to develop a cogent yet flexible notion of theatre’s historical development.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing


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  • CTAR 553 - Marketing the Arts


    Relates traditional marketing practices to arts administration and provides experience in applying marketing skills to the arts. The study of marketing in the arts and information relating to past market analysis; research and preparation of a specific market plan for an arts organization; presentation of market plan.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Equivalent Course(s): CTAR 453W  

    Last Updated:
    New Course 7/2014, effective Winter 2015


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  • CTAR 559 - Acting Styles


    This course will address the challenge of matching the actor’s personal methods with a wide range of stylistic demands that exist in the theatrical repertory. The student will discover that acting means translating the text into a series of actions and that physical actions take on a particular shape or style in accordance with the given circumstances of the text.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Cross-listed with CTAR 464 

    Equivalent Course(s): CTAR 464 

    Last Updated:
    New Course 3/2015, effective Fall 2015


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  • CTAR 571 - Musical Theatre Workshop


    This course is a laboratory-performance course in which students prepare performances of landmark musicals. The course promotes the development of skills necessary for students to effectively address the technical and stylistic demands of musicals as defined by period or genre. Particular attention is given to contemporary performance standards in structured production. The class culminates  in a public performance.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Cross-listed with CTAR 471  

    Equivalent Course(s): CTAR 471  

    Last Updated:
    New Course 3/2015, effective Fall 2015


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  • CTAR 590 - Special Topics


    Students will investigate a particular topic approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing

    Notes -
    Qualified Seniors should see department for permission to enroll


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  • CTAR 591 - Special Topics


    Students will investigate a particular topic approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing

    Notes -
    Qualified CMTA Seniors should see department for permission to enroll


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  • CTAR 592 - Special Topics


    Students will investigate a particular topic approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing

    Notes -
    Qualified CMTA Seniors should see department for permission to enroll


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  • CTAR 601 - Performance Inquiry


    Performance inquiry confronts questions, methods and assumptions employed both by scholars and practitioners in performance and theater-related fields. The course examines current literature, theoretical/applied frames and foundational approaches to research.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Last Updated:
    Spelling Error 7/2014


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  • CTAR 607 - Colloquium in Communication and Theatre Arts


    Students will study a special topic area with resource persons from the community as well as members of the Communication, Media and Theatre Arts faculty.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Spelling Error 7/2014


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  • CTAR 627 - The Playwright and the Young Audience


    A study of dramatic literature for the young, from developmental as well as artistic viewpoints, and in contexts of the main body of dramatic literature and children’s literature, and the total educational experience of children and adolescents.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAR 658 - Theatre for Young Audiences


    This course is an extensive survey of the nature and range of theatre experiences for child, adolescent and multigenerational audiences. Current approaches to theatre for these audiences are studied within the context of the historical development of the field and the evolution of dramatic literature for the young.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing

    Major Restriction(s): Communication, Media and Theatre Arts; or Children’s Literature

    Notes -
    Students enrolled in another graduate program may request permission to enroll

    Last Updated:
    Title/Course Description/Prerequisite Change 10/2011, effective Winter 2012


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  • CTAT 590 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAT 591 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAT 592 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAT 679 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAT 680 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAT 681 - Special Topics


    An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAT 686 - Cooperative Education in Telecommunication and Film


    One semester of supervised educational work in communication and theatre arts. An evaluation is required at the end of each employment period.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required

    Notes -
    Approval by Cooperative Education Office is required


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  • CTAT 687 - Cooperative Education in Telecommunication and Film


    One semester of supervised educational work in communication and theatre arts. An evaluation is required at the end of each employment period.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required

    Notes -
    Approval by Cooperative Education Office is required


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  • CTAT 688 - Cooperative Education in Telecommunication and Film


    One semester of supervised educational work in communication and theatre arts. An evaluation is required at the end of each employment period.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required

    Notes -
    Approval by Cooperative Education Office is required


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  • CTAT 689 - Internship in Telecommunication and Film


    A directed field experience in a department-approved agency or institution under the direction of certified personnel. Arrangements must be approved by adviser prior to registration.

    Credit Hours: 4 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required


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