THEA 329 - Special Topics in Stage Design

This is an advanced stage design course focusing each semester on a different area or topic related to stage design.

Collaborative Costume Design
We will examine the costume designer’s responsibilities as an artist and collaborator and explore the relationship among text, concept, and production as we undertake costume design projects throughout the semester. We will develop research, communication, and rendering skills as applied to the collaborative process of costume design. Discussions will include fabrication materials, performative movement, character and emotion, fashion, and pure visual expression as we work to create designs for clothing for text-based performances.

Scenic Art
This course is an introduction to scenic painting and other scenic art techniques. Students in this course study both traditional and contemporary methods of scenic painting and explore the unique tools and techniques used by scenic artists. Basic techniques in scenic painting, color theory, drawing, using nontraditional tools and materials, foam carving, and finishes will all be explored in the course.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): One from: THEA 201, THEA 202, THEA 220-229, or THEA 320-329.
Instructional Method: Studio
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Repeatable for Credit: May be taken 8 times for credit.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a non-English language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a non-English language, or works of the visual or performing arts).