2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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TA 221 - Avanced Improvisation
An extension of Creative Actor, students are challenged to experience and experiment with different forms of Improvisation. Students will put on shows, watch professional improvisation, and synthesize this knowledge into their definition of improvisation for the stage. Creative Actor is a pre-requisite.
Prerequisites: TA 112
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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TA 226 - Advanced Production Projects
Introduces the business and practical execution of theater productions. Students learn techniques in organizing and managing different areas and departments. Requirements include participating in a supervisory position on a department show. Positions in outside theaters accepted for credit.
Spring 2018 Costume Design
This is a sewing fundamentals class in which you will learn how to hand sew, operate a sewing machine, prepare fabric for garment construction, read a pattern, identify various basic stitches, cut garments using patterns, and construct garments with both sewing machine and hand sewing techniques. The culmination of learning these skills will be making a sewing project (you will chose your pattern and fabric and the instructor will approve it or direct you to a more appropriate choice), during the class time with the assistance of the instructor.
Pre-requisite for this class is the costume design and history course or permission from the instructor. Various levels of sewing ability are able to be in this class from absolute beginner to amateur, since each project will be individually geared. The class is capped at 8 students because of sewing machine availability.
This is a studio class, most class work will be done in class.
Prerequisites: TA 125
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
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TA 230 - Playwriting
Students learn basic techniques of stagecraft including dialogue and character development, as well as dramatic structure and the technical elements of a play. Students will write every week and complete assignments to be read in class.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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TA 236 - Playwriting II
This is a course for advanced playwrights who want to bring their work to a higher level. As a result, much is expected in terms of productivity and quality. Students will write a minimum of 10 new pages per week, in addition to rewrites that are suggested in and out of class. New pages will be read and critiqued in class each week. There will be an open discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the piece from the perspectives of both performer and writer. The goal is to strengthen this relationship through constant work and critique. Every month, students will give a public performance of some of the scenes written for class. By semester’s end, each student will have completed one full-length play and a complete act of another full length.
Prerequisites: Playwriting I is a prerequisite. Permission is also required.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 246 - The Great American Art Form: A Study of Musical Theater
A thorough investigation of the history, structure ad performance of American musical theatre. Lectures and demonstrations will be augmented with films and recordings. Students will prepare and present scenes and songs from selected musical plays, illustrating integration of libretto, score, and dance in American musical theatre.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every three years
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TA 290 - Theatre Capstone
This is a special project which will be devised and developed in consultation with the student’s advisor. It can take many forms depending on the student’s area of theatrical study. For example, for students focusing on technical theatre, it may be a set or sound design of a mainstage production. For playwrights, the development of a full-length play. For actors, a performance in a mainstage show. For directors, the mounting of a mainstage production. For dramaturges, it may be working as an assistant director on a full-length play and/or developing a study guide for audience members.
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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TA 297 - Honors
Students receive variable credit for advanced research & readings in the honors program.
Anticipated Terms Offered: na
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UDSC 245 - Going Local: Community Development and Planning
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to theories, debates and practical strategies regarding the development of urban communities. Students gain an enhanced understanding of the complexities inherent to the concepts of community and participation. They critically analyze “community” as a set of social relations, as a local economy, as a built environment, and as a political organization. Students begin to recognize the importance of race, gender, age, class, identity, and culture in working with communities. Finally, they examine the roles and effectiveness of the methods, models and strategies used by informal neighborhood organizations, banks, private developers, local nonprofits, and government agencies in rebuilding communities and their economies. Case examples and articles from across the United States will be used. Worcester’s neighborhoods-which provide excellent examples of physical, social, and economic development strategies-will be highlighted throughout this course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
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UDSC 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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WGS 110 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
In this course we will explore the ways in which ideas about femininity and masculinity have shaped women’s lives-locally and globally, in the present and historically-and how some women have challenged, even transformed, those meanings and the social relationships that flow from those two potent ideas. Among the topics that may be considered are: beauty, war, sports, politics, women’s movements, sexuality, race, work, violence, fashion, family, globalization, feminism, creativity, religion, media and girlhood.
Note: WGS 110 is open to all students in all majors. The content varies by semester, reflecting the instructor’s individual field of study and expertise. As an introductory course, preference is given to incoming first-year students and students entering their sophomore year. Juniors and seniors may register only by permission of the instructor.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
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WGS 200 - Topics in Feminist Theory
Topics in Feminist Theory is designed to offer a survey of feminist theories and practices, and explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class.,. Focus changes with each offering, depending on faculty interest. May be repeated for credit (taken a max of 2 times).
Spring 2021 Topic: GENDER AND POWER. How does gender inequality arise, both within formal and informal institutions? What mechanisms and dynamics perpetuate such inequality? What strategies exist, both historically and in the contemporary moment, to challenge these inequalities? This course examines the relationship between gender and power both theoretically and empirically. We will examine the historical existence of gender-based inequalities and explore the ways these animate the different waves of the feminist movement in the US context. We will also explore gender-based inequality in a global perspective, drawing on theoretical frameworks developed outside of the US to further our study of the relationship between gender and power. The course will conclude with various contemporary case studies, where students will use the theoretical frameworks developed throughout the course to analyze the relationship between gender and power as it emerges on today’s political stage.
Prerequisites: WGS 110 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring
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WGS 220 - Queer Theory
In this student-led seminar, you’ll examine queer theory through the lenses of five main topics: identity construction, activism and application, intersectional identities, class and power, and nationalism. The use of these five categorizes will guide our in-depth readings and class discussion. The course will not attempt to cover all aspects of queer theory; rather it will provide a comprehensive overview of the subject with the goal of increasing your gender literacy from an intersectional perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring
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WGS 240 - Special Topics: Women’s and Gender Studies
This course addresses current or timely topics in the area of Women’s and Gender Studies. Topics can vary from semester to semester.
Spring 2021 Topic: BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT This course engages in critical examination of the key issues, assumptions, debates and political commitments that populate Black feminist thought. Foregrounding the centrality of Black feminism to anti-racism, resistance to gender oppression, and the emergence of the queer of color critique, this class centralizes Black women’s experiences as multiply minoritized and multiply marginalized members of our contemporary global and political landscape. We will analyze seminal theoretical texts and recent scholarship to work through the issues and questions that they raise. The overall aim of this course is to link, if not locate, contemporary feminist theories and practices with widely encompassing traditions of women’s political activism, theory, and cultural production. This class will be a capstone course, and will include a final paper showcasing students’ original research.
* If cap enrollment has been reached, please contact the instructor for permission to enroll.
** Pre-requisite of WGS 110 or seek approval from the instructor.
*** WGS students can count this toward the capstone requirement if they complete an additional assignment; see the instructor for details.
May be repeatable for credit.
Course Designation/Attribute: DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually in Fall
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WGS 298 - Internship
An Academic internship is a practical work experience with an academic component that enables a student to gain knowledge and skills within an organization, industry, or functional area that reflects the student’s academic and professional interests.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall/Spring
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WGS 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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