Course Syllabus
Course: THEA 2080
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Theater Arts
Title: Theatre Improvisation
Semester Approved: Spring 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2023
End Semester: Fall 2024
Catalog 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.
General Education Requirements: Oral Communication (OC)
Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
Repeatable: Yes.
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
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.
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Maximum Class Size: 35
Optimum Class Size: 26