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Course Syllabus

THEA 2080 Theatre Improvisation

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Theater Arts
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Corequisites: None
  • General Education Requirements: Oral Communication (OC)
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2019
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2023
  • End Semester: Fall 2024
  • Optimum Class Size: 26
  • Maximum Class Size: 35

Course Description

This course is an exploration of spontaneous movement and expression through improvisation. Students will explore individual and group creativity, timing, inventiveness, discovery of emotion, and thought processes. The course provides opportunity for both theoretical and practical experiences in the various aspects of movement improvisation, presentation, research and structure in vocal delivery. Repeatable for credit.

Justification

Theatre departments offer similar courses nationwide and throughout the state. It fills a lower division course for theatre majors. It meets the requirements and content expectations for Oral Communications courses and otherwise satisfies elective credit criteria.

Course Content