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PMA 1104
FWS: The Case of the Female Detective

"Women don't fit well into a trench coat and slouch hat," Marilyn Stasio has observed, yet female detectives can be found solving crimes and busting bad guys across media. Drawing from TV, film, fiction ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17478 PMA 1104   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

PMA 1130
FWS: Going Undercover: Radical Undercover Journalism and the (re)creation of Self

What would it be like to go through life as a completely different person? In order to expose and combat social injustice, journalists have crossed lines of race, gender, age, class and appearance and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17479 PMA 1130   SEM 101

  •  

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

PMA 1132
FWS: Boyfriendtwin: Queer Uncanny Doppelgangers

Why are two identical people unsettling? "Uncanny" resemblances suggest the strange, even the supernatural. This course will investigate the doppelgänger myth influencing superstitions about un- or supernatural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17480 PMA 1132   SEM 101

  •  

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

PMA 1133
FWS: Sex Acts: American Drama 1950-Present

Is sex always a private matter? What constitutes sex and what happens when it is performed in public? This course asks: how does sex in theater and performance contribute to our understandings of identity, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17487 PMA 1133   SEM 101

  •  

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

PMA 1135
FWS: Screen Queens of Comedy

Joan Rivers has lamented, "Nobody looks at female comedians as groundbreakers or as commentators on what's going on in the world, because we do it with comedy." In this writing seminar, we will take a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17643 PMA 1135   SEM 101

  •  

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

PMA 1200
Dance Technique I

Entry-level class. Covers the fundamentals of elementary dance training. Movement sequences focusing on rhythm, placement, and vitality of performance through an anatomically sound dance technique. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PE 1180

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 17653 PMA 1200   STU 501

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PMA 1410
Media Production Laboratory

The Media Production Lab course is a series of self-contained lecture/workshops on various topics in the production of film and video. The workshops will be a mix of lecture and hands on experience with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  8263 PMA 1410   LEC 001

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 1610
Production Laboratory

Learn what it takes to prepare a live show. Students work on getting scenery, costumes, and lighting ready for performance or for production. Gain the practical skills and learn to use the tools that are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  7922 PMA 1610   STU 501

    • TBA

    • Bernstein, S

      Cross, W

      Intemann, E

  • To enroll in this course you will need to attend the information session held in the Schwartz Center Lobby during the first week of classes.

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PMA 1611
Rehearsal and Performance

Perform in a departmental theatre production or dance concert. Research a role, develop a character, and perform for a live audience in a faculty supervised production. Explore choreography and perform ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  7950 PMA 1611   STU 501

    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

  • To enroll in this course you will need to attend the information session held in the Schwartz Center Lobby during the first week of classes.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  7951 PMA 1611   STU 502

    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

  • To enroll in this course you will need to attend the information session held in the Schwartz Center Lobby during the first week of classes.

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PMA 1670
Student Laboratory Theatre Company

The Student Laboratory Theatre Company (SLTC) is a group of student-actors who earn credit by acting in three scenes directed by students taking PMA 4880. Students enrolling in SLTC for credit earn 1 credit ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  9924 PMA 1670   STU 501

    • TBA

    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 2220
Dance Technique II/Modern

Introductory modern technique intended for students with some dance training. Material covered includes specific spinal and center work with attention to rhythm, design, and movement expression. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PE 1183

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  7908 PMA 2220   STU 501

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  • Course fee of $40.

PMA 2280
Dance Improvisation

The training and practice of skills for the spontaneous collaborative composition of movement performance. Students hone their abilities to invent and respond to each other and their environment to produce ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 16286 PMA 2280   STU 501

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PMA 2610
Production Crew Laboratory

Learn what it means to run a live show or a film festival. Participate as part of a team to ensure all the elements work together and on time. Learn the intricacies of collaborating with a production group ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  7924 PMA 2610   STU 501

    • TBA

    • Haenni, S

  • To enroll in this course you will need to attend the information session held in the Schwartz Center Lobby during the first week of classes.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  7925 PMA 2610   STU 502

    • TBA

    • Intemann, E

  • To enroll in this course you will need to attend the information session held in the Schwartz Center Lobby during the first week of classes.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  7926 PMA 2610   STU 503

    • TBA

    • Bernstein, S

  • To enroll in this course you will need to attend the information session held in the Schwartz Center Lobby during the first week of classes.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  7927 PMA 2610   STU 504

    • TBA

    • Cross, W

  • To enroll in this course you will need to attend the information session held in the Schwartz Center Lobby during the first week of classes.

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PMA 2611
Stage Management Laboratory

Practical experience in the organization and management of a theatrical production as an assistant stage manager for a fully supported department production under the supervision of the staff ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16288 PMA 2611   LAB 401

    • TBA

    • Cross, W

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 2640
Theatrical Makeup Studio

This course introduces students to basic two-dimensional techniques of makeup design and application for the stage including corrective, old age, youth, likeness, cross gender, and animal makeups. The ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16290 PMA 2640   STU 501

    • TR

    • Bernstein, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 2680
Desire

"Language is a skin," the critic Roland Barthes once wrote: "I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 15915 PMA 2680   LEC 001

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PMA 2681
Shakespeare and the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

What can we learn about Shakespeare's plays from their reception by late modernity? What can we learn about modern cultures from the way they appropriate these texts and the Shakespeare mystique? We will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2080

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8376 PMA 2681   LEC 001

  •  

PMA 2800
Introduction to Acting

An introduction to the actor's technique and performance skills, exploring the elements necessary to begin training as an actor, i.e., observation, concentration, and imagination. Focus is on physical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7991 PMA 2800   STU 501

  • Preregistration and registration only through department office in 223 Schwartz Center.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18018 PMA 2800   STU 502

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7993 PMA 2800   STU 503

  • Preregistration and registration only through department office in 223 Schwartz Center.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16282 PMA 2800   STU 504

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7994 PMA 2800   STU 505

  • Preregistration and registration only through department office in 223 Schwartz Center.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7995 PMA 2800   STU 506

  • Preregistration and registration only through department office in 223 Schwartz Center.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

PMA 2830
The Expressive Voice

This course introduces students to the primary components of vocal technique in performance.  Over the course of the semester, students will work through a series of vocal exercises which provide the basis ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16302 PMA 2830   STU 501

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PMA 3000
Independent Study

Independent study allows students the opportunity to pursue special interests not treated in regularly scheduled courses. A faculty member, who becomes the student's instructor for the course, must approve ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7933 PMA 3000   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Goetz, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8493 PMA 3000   IND 609

    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18636 PMA 3000   IND 610

  •  
    • TBA

    • Cross, W

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18697 PMA 3000   IND 611

  •  
    • TBA

    • Rogers, D

PMA 3210
Dance Technique III/Classical

Intermediate Western classical dance technique. Work is done on strengthening the body through a movement technique emphasizing presence and musicality based on harmonic muscular control. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PE 1184

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  7912 PMA 3210   STU 501

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  • Course fee of $40.

PMA 3220
Dance Technique III/Modern

Intermediate modern technique focusing on rhythm, placement, and phrasing for students who are prepared to refine the skills of dancing. Students are challenged by complex phrases and musicality. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PE 1185

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  7914 PMA 3220   STU 501

  •  

  • Course fee of $40.

PMA 3225
Mapping the Moving Body I

This course will explore questions of how we perceive articulations of identity on the moving body. How do histories and cultural behaviors define differences? What are the conventions of race, gender, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4225

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  7918 PMA 3225   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 3227
Global Dance II

This course maintains a critical focus on the role of the moving body in the history of dance offering comparisons in theatre, film and other forms of media and live performance. Moving from the 16th century ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 3227

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16303 PMA 3227   LEC 001

  •  

PMA 3351
Transpositioning the Body I

This course will cultivate collaborations between the practice and study of dance with fields such as architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, painting, digital arts, and other design and creative ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4351

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  7920 PMA 3351   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 3410
Screening Cosa Nostra: The Mafia and the Movies from Scarface to The Sopranos

From Al Capone to Tony Soprano, the mafia has been the subject of numerous films over the course of 70 years, so many in fact that one might well speak of a "mafia obsession" in American popular culture. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 3010

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16043 PMA 3410   LEC 001

  •  

  • Conducted in English.

PMA 3421
Literary Theory on the Edge

This course juxtaposes the exciting theoretical advances of the late 20th century, including structuralism and post-structuralism, with current developments in 21st century theory such as performance studies, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3021, ENGL 3021

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17568 PMA 3421   LEC 001

  •  

PMA 3481
Imagining Migration in Film and Literature

What role should imaginative arts play in debates about transnational migration, one of the principal factors re-shaping community and communication today?  Focusing on literature and film from the late ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16375 PMA 3481   SEM 101

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  • University Course. Taught in English.

PMA 3531
Screenwriting I

This course explores the fundamentals of writing for the screen. The class format will include creative writing assignments, class discussion, screenings and workshop. Students will produce short film ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8011 PMA 3531   SEM 101

  • Registration through department registrar in room 223 only.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 3532
Screenwriting II

Focuses on the structure and style of the original web-series and long-form short screenplay, and incorporates extensive peer feedback, workshop, and revision. Students will produce and revise an original ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8023 PMA 3532   STU 501

  • Submission of application required before enrolling. Obtain application in room 223 of the Schwartz Center.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 3551
Global Cinema II

Global Cinema I and II together offer an overview of international film history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 6551, VISST 3176

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7996 PMA 3551   LEC 001

  •  

PMA 3609
Making Theatre: Rehearsal and Production Techniques

This is a variable credit learning experience for students engaged in creating productions in the Department of Performing and Media Arts.  Students may act, assistant direct, assistant stage manage, or ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 6609

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Trestle

  • 18549 PMA 3609   STU 501

    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Baltimore

  • 18664 PMA 3609   STU 502

  •  
    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

PMA 3610
Intermediate Production Laboratory

Collaborate with a faculty member in the development and production of a live event, in a mentored role of Assistant Designer, Assistant Director, or Assistant Choreographer. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  8001 PMA 3610   STU 501

  •  
    • TBA

    • Bernstein, S

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  8002 PMA 3610   STU 502

  •  
    • TBA

    • Intemann, E

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  8922 PMA 3610   STU 503

  •  
    • TBA

    • Cross, W

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  • 18611 PMA 3610   STU 504

  •  
    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

PMA 3641
Film Production Design Studio: Designing the Next Batman Film

Students will research, analyze and compare the design elements of architecture, interior design, costume, lighting, weaponry, technology, and popular culture within the various media presentations of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16310 PMA 3641   STU 501

  •  

PMA 3650
Automated Lighting and Control Systems

Covers the understanding and application of light control technologies, including electrical systems, color, optics, dimming protocols, and console programming. Students complete a series of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16287 PMA 3650   STU 501

  •  

PMA 3660
Costume Design Studio

Design of costumes for theatre and film, concentrating on script and character analysis, period research, design elements, figure drawing and rendering skills, and an understanding of production ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7928 PMA 3660   STU 501

  •  

PMA 3672
Raising Million$$: Special Events Production, Design and Logistics

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17836 PMA 3672   STU 501

  •  

PMA 3680
Sound Design

Covering the basics of digital audio, bioacoustics, psychoacoustics and sound design, as they apply to theatre, film and music production.  Students create soundscapes for text and moving image using ProTools ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3431

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7999 PMA 3680   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 3746
The Modernist Stage: Plays/Theories/Practices

The modernist period saw profound transformations in the form, content, and staging of drama, as well as in ideas about theatre and society that remain important today.  We will explore the development ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3746

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16774 PMA 3746   LEC 001

  •  

PMA 3751
Global Stages II

This course is designed to introduce students to a range of historical, cross-cultural, and transnational performance texts, theories, and practices; to motivate students to examine the broad social, political, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7931 PMA 3751   LEC 001

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PMA 3800
Acting II

Practical exploration of the actor's craft through exercises in physical and psychological action, improvisation and scene study. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9861 PMA 3800   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 3806
Uncanny Figures and Unsettled Places: Postcolonial and Transnational Drama

Postcolonialism and Transnationalism are significant fields of theory and criticism, and ones not currently the main focus of contemporary drama classes offered through PMA. This course is being created ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3806, FGSS 3806

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17564 PMA 3806   SEM 101

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PMA 3815
Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life

Telling jokes to a friend, making introductions, guiding meetings large and small, constructing and delivering business presentations, legal arguments or formal speeches are all examples of public ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9751 PMA 3815   LEC 001

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4190
American Shakespeare

What is distinctive about American Shakespeare? Is it merely a less confident cousin of its more prestigious UK relative; or does it have a character of its own? What is currently happening with 'American ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4194, ENGL 4291

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18315 PMA 4190   LEC 001

  • Taught in Washington, DC.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4222
Advanced Dance Technique

Advanced and pre-professional advanced ballet and modern technique. This class meets 4 days per week. This course is a combination of PMA 3210 and PMA 3220 in the same semester.  Attendance to concerts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Graded

  • 16289 PMA 4222   STU 501

  •  
    • MTWR

    • Chu, J

      Suber, P

PMA 4225
Mapping the Moving Body II

This course will continue the critical inquiry investigated in Mapping the Moving Body. Intended for advanced students, it will address the dialogue between contemporary choreography and current sociopolitical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3225

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  7919 PMA 4225   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4230
Pre-Professional Technique & Repertory

Pre-professional/Advanced ballet or modern technique with modern and contemporary ballet company repertory rehearsal and performances. This class meets 2 days per week, 3 hrs. 10 minutes per ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16291 PMA 4230   STU 501

  •  
    • MW

    • Chu, J

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16292 PMA 4230   STU 502

  •  
    • TR

    • Suber, P

PMA 4351
Transpositioning the Body II

This course continues the work done in PMA 3351. At an advanced level, this course will further explore the choreographic and design principles of contemporary choreographer, William Forsythe, who began ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3351

  • 2-3 Credits Graded

  •  7921 PMA 4351   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4420
Cinematography I

Students crew together on a series of short exercises and projects using both film and digital cameras.. The course explores principles and tools of lighting and camera techniques used in visual storytelling ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16778 PMA 4420   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4504
The City: Asia

This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16529 PMA 4504   SEM 101

  •  

PMA 4512
What was Film?

In retrospect, was film anything more than some highly flammable strips of celluloid? Taking its cue from the "digital turn," this course rephrases a traditional question asked in film theory about the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4312, GERST 4312, STS 4821

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18264 PMA 4512   SEM 101

  •  

  • Taught in English. Film screening one evening night per week TBA.

PMA 4585
Advanced Film and Video Projects

Intensive filmmaking/media production course in which students focus on developing and producing an accomplished creative project over the semester (16mm, HD, sound art, and multi-media are all options). ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 4793

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9930 PMA 4585   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4608
Advanced Undergraduate Practice as Research in Design

AUPR in Design is a capstone experience in practice as research. Student take a leadership role as a designer, working with faculty as peers on a fully supported departmental production. After taking courses ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Graded

  • 17797 PMA 4608   STU 501

  •  
    • TBA

    • Intemann, E

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Graded

  • 18032 PMA 4608   STU 502

  •  
    • TBA

    • Bernstein, S

PMA 4620
Lighting Design Studio II

Concentrates on designing lighting for different genres of performance in various venues. Emphasis is placed on developing both the visual sophistication and the technical artistry of the lighting designer. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 4563

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7929 PMA 4620   STU 501

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PMA 4660
Adaptation: Text/Theatricality

Mounting a script into a show is a process of adaptation from page to stage. This course challenges the boundaries of text to discover the possibilities of performance. Asks: How do we translate inspiration ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 4260

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16294 PMA 4660   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4680
Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Transformation

To explore cultural aspects of imprisonment through a focus on theatre produced by those incarcerated.  Does making theatre in prison seem to assist in transformation? Students create work with PPTG members ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16792 PMA 4680   LAB 401

    • F

    • Levitt, B

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4701
Nightlife

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18459 PMA 4701   LEC 001

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PMA 4800
Advanced Scene Study

This class focuses on advanced challenges for the stage presented by particular authors or plays that have a particular stylistic or structural demand. Focuses on advanced challenges for the stage. Monologues ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9767 PMA 4800   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4801
Advanced Studies in Acting Techniques

Class members can expect to attain greater vocal resonance and articulation as well as to improve flexibility, strength, and stamina through the course of the semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Direct Address Performance

  • 17693 PMA 4801   STU 501

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4820
Agents of Change: Community Organizing for the Public Good

Democracy is more than a system of government. It's a way of life. It's a kind of politics that involves the development and exercise of power and the performance of civic roles on and off public stages. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DSOC 4820, NTRES 4820

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17936 PMA 4820   LEC 001

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4880
Fundamentals of Directing II

Builds on the directing techniques learned in Fundamentals of Directing I. In this course each student directs actors from the Student Laboratory Theatre Company in a series of projects and public presentations ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9868 PMA 4880   STU 501

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PMA 4951
Honors Research Tutorial II

Second of a two-semester sequence (the first is PMA 4950) for students engaged in an honors project. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7957 PMA 4951   RSC 701

    • TBA

    • Chu, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7958 PMA 4951   RSC 702

    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7959 PMA 4951   RSC 703

    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10118 PMA 4951   RSC 704

    • TBA

    • Bunn, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

PMA 4961
Screening Blackness

The seminar "Screening Blackness" provides a theoretical, cultural, and historical focus on "blackness" in film, media, and visual culture. Considering questions of performance, censorship, embodiment, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4611, SHUM 4611

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16476 PMA 4961   SEM 101

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PMA 4965
The Body's Edge in Performance

This course examines how skin and bodily margins in drama, performance art, and film shape the way we understand the human and its markers of identity, from the strange carapace that Oedipus presents in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 4602, COML 4785, SHUM 4612

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16495 PMA 4965   SEM 101

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PMA 6441
Aesthetics of Excess: Psycho-Philosophical Approaches to Cinematic Technologies

The rise of cinema and mechanized representational technologies has provided an informative backdrop for a century long reflection on aesthetics and the excesses of affect, sentiment, and corporeality ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17212 PMA 6441   SEM 101

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PMA 6551
Global Cinema II

Global Cinema I and II together offer an overview of international film history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3551, VISST 3176

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8012 PMA 6551   SEM 101

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PMA 6609
Making Theatre: Rehearsal and Performance

A graduate seminar that meets in conjunction with PMA 3609 and focuses on developing rehearsal and performance strategy and technique.  Semester culminates in a PMA Department season production.  Graduate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3609

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18550 PMA 6609   STU 501

  •  
    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

PMA 6701
Nightlife

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16795 PMA 6701   SEM 101

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PMA 7000
Independent Study for Graduate Students in Theatre

Independent study in theatre allows graduate students the opportunity to pursue special interests not treated in regularly scheduled courses. A faculty member, who becomes the student's instructor for ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7941 PMA 7000   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA

    • Staff

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7945 PMA 7000   IND 605

  •  
    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7947 PMA 7000   IND 607

  •  
    • TBA

    • Warner, S

PMA 7100
The Pedagogy of Theatre

Provides graduate students in the field of theatre an opportunity to work directly with a faculty member to explore pedagogical theory and practice for undergraduate theatre classes in all areas of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8238 PMA 7100   SEM 101

  •  
    • TBA

    • Salvato, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8250 PMA 7100   SEM 102

  •  
    • TBA

    • Warner, S

PMA 9900
Thesis and Research Projects

Graduate student course while working on thesis and research for dissertation. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7952 PMA 9900   RSC 701

  •  
    • TBA

    • Salvato, N