Jun 21, 2024

2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog

2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Theatre
	THEA 2040 - Introduction to the Theatre 3 Credit Hours Requirements: Studio and/or shop work required. Description Lectures, videos, and live theatre events to introduce the non-theatre major to the basic elements of theatrical production, dramatic writing, and the historical context of the art.
	THEA 2100 - Play Analysis for Production 3 Credit Hours Description This course includes a textual analysis of play scripts, with an emphasis on the perspective of the practitioner of theatre for production purposes.
	THEA 2210 - Beginning Acting 3 Credit Hours Description The fundamentals of acting theories and techniques are taught through improvisation, character development, monologue, and scene-work.
	THEA 2212 - Intermediate Acting 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: THEA 2210. Description Continuation of the study of the theories of acting with practice in applying techniques and skills with emphasis on an actor’s approach to a role, characterization, styles of acting, and vocal technique.
	THEA 2345 - Audition Portfolio 1 to 3 Credit Hours Requirements: Final performance of audition for theatre exit panel is required. Description This course includes the selection, preparation and presentation of material for theatre auditions. Students will have experience in preparing resumes and auditions, cold readings and callback interviews.
	THEA 2401 - Scenery Skills For The Theatre 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: THEA 1607. Description This course expands on skills learned in the basic stagecraft course in the areas of scenery construction, scenic painting and properties. The approach is practical, emphasizing projects over lecture.
	THEA 2402 - Costume Skills For The Theatre 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: THEA 1607. Description This course expands on skills learned in the basic stagecraft course in the areas of costume construction, fabric science, and crafts. The approach is practical,emphasizing projects over lecture.
	THEA 2403 - Lighting/Sound Skills For Theatre 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: THEA 1607. Description This course expands on skills learned in the basic stagecraft course in the areas of lighting and sound. It details technical skills and safety practices. The approach is practical, emphasizing projects over lecture.
	THEA 2450 - Stage And Theatre Management 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: THEA 1607. Description This course exposes students to the full process of Stage Management for Live Theatre as well as the basic concepts, and procedures of other areas including Production, Audience, and Business Management. Must be completed with a ‘C’ or better to count for the major.
	THEA 2607 - Children’s Theatre Production 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Audition or approval of the instructor. Description This course is designed to offer the student practical theatre experience in preforming, reading, presenting, and writing children’s theatre. Final play will be toured to local elementary schools, after school programs, and/or GSU campuses.
	THEA 2613 - Applied Theatre Workshop 3 Credit Hours Description This course is designed to offer the student practical theatre experiences working with a major project. Individualized instruction is provided according to the student’s area of specialization.
	THEA 3000 - Lighting Design for Theatre 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 2010. Requirements: Production crew work required. Description Principles, processes, and aesthetics of lighting design for the theatre. Working knowledge of standard lighting equipment and terms used in the industry. Familiarity with the elements and functions of light, aesthetics of a lighting design, color in light and electrical theory. Practical experience working with lighting equipment used in theatre and design practica aid students in the development of a lighting plot, sectional, storyboards and paperwork for a theatrical production.
	THEA 3110 - Technical Production II 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 2010 with grade of C or higher. Description Principles, processes and aesthetics of theatrical production as it relates to the technical director. Advanced topics in stage technology, including production planning, structural design for the stage, welding, rigging and drafting for the theatre.
	THEA 3210 - Advanced Acting 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 2210 with grade of C or higher, or consent of instructor. Description Continuation of the study of the theories of acting with practice in applying techniques and skills with a focus on creating authentic, moment to moment acting work.
	THEA 3300 - Dramatic Writing for Stage and Screen 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Description (Same as Flme 3300). Basic principles of generating creative concepts, writing in dialogue form, dramatic structure, characterization, and using page formats for both play and screenplay. Students will write short pieces in both forms.
	THEA 3410 - Making a Living in the Arts 3 Credit Hours Description This course is designed to arm students with the skills they need to successfully navigate the film, television and theatre industries. Students will develop real-world networking skills and best practices. They will learn through doing as they develop a vision, create a plan, and build a website.
	THEA 3690 - Honors Reading 1 to 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Good standing with the Honors College and consent of instructor. Description Discussion and readings on selected topics.
	THEA 4000 - Acting for the Camera 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 2210 with grade of C or higher. Description Acting theory and practice related to film and television acting and performance with additional focus given to the actor/director relationship. Course will require significant unscheduled collaborative class activity. Two lecture and two laboratory hours a week.
	THEA 4050 - Directed Activities in Technical Theatre 1 to 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 2010 with grade of C or higher and consent of instructor. Description Performance of assigned theatre project, or production or design position in a Georgia State theatre production. May be repeated for a maximum of nine credit hours.
	THEA 4070 - Theatre History-CTW 3 Credit Hours Requirements: Serves as the Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course required of all theatre majors. Description Theatre history from the Greeks to the present, including theatre design, performance and production techniques, and representative play, with special emphasis on writing as a vehicle for critical thinking about research and analysis. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.
	THEA 4090 - African-American Theatre 3 Credit Hours Description (Same as AAS 4650). Examination of the history and contributions of African-Americans to the American theatre.
	THEA 4130 - Stage Management 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 2010 and Thea 2100 with grades of C or higher. Description Overview of the theories, practicalities, and techniques of theatre stage management, including rehearsal and performance procedures, organizing and managing various types of performance venues, scheduling and union and non-union theatre rules. Practical exposure to professional stage management will be provided through participation in a Georgia State University Theatre production as either a stage manager or an assistant stage manager.
	THEA 4210 - Acting Techniques 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 3210 with grade of C or higher. Description Advanced acting techniques for the creation and performance of various dramatic forms. Specific topics will change.
	THEA 4255 - Voice and Movement 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 3210 with a grade of C or higher. Description Advanced acting techniques for the creation and performance of various dramatic forms â€” focusing on vocal techniques and movement Theory.
	THEA 4310 - Advanced Playwriting 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 3300 with grade of C or higher. Description Continuation of study and practice of dramatic writing for the stage. Students will learn full-length dramatic structure, play development, and will write one full-length play.
	THEA 4760 - Performance Theory and Practice 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 4070 or Thea 4080 with grade of C or higher. Description Major twentieth-century ideas about live performance, from ritual to theatre, and their application to the criticism and creation of performance and plays.
	THEA 4850 - Directing 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 2210 with grade of C or higher, nine hours of major credit, or consent of instructor. Description Theory and analysis for directing productions, including a focus on actor coaching and effective storytelling that culminates in directing a one-act play.
	THEA 4860 - Special Topics 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Description Special topics in theatre performance and playwriting.
	THEA 4870 - Honors Thesis: Research 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Good standing with the Honors College and consent of instructor. Description Reading or research preparatory to honors thesis or project. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	THEA 4880 - Honors Thesis: Writing 3 to 6 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Thea 4870 with grade of C or higher, good standing with the Honors College and consent of instructor. Description Writing or production of honors thesis or project. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	THEA 4890 - Special Project 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Nine hours major credit and consent of instructor. Description Independent study in theatre. May be repeated to a maximum of six hours.
	THEA 4950 - Production Seminar 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Description Faculty supervised research and production work culminating in public performance of an evening of theatre. Course may be repeated once as an elective.
	THEA 4980 - Internship 1 to 6 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Eligibility criteria may be obtained from the School of Film, Media & Theatre Internship coordinator. Description Representative field experiences in theatre and related areas. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
Three-Dimensional Studies
	3DS 3000 - Introduction to Sculpture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ART 1030 or ART 1050 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $120.00. Description Assembling and fabricating; techniques and procedures in materials such as wood, metal, concrete, plaster, plastics, etc.
	3DS 3050 - Hand Building I 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ART 1030 or ART 1050 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Hand building methods of clay fabrication. Investigation of decoration processes, glazing, and firing of ceramic ware.
	3DS 3100 - Moldmaking 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ART 1030 or ART 1050 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $120.00. Description Emphasis in molding and casting procedure applicable to metals, plastics, and concrete.
	3DS 3150 - Wheel Throwing I 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ART 1030 or ART 1050 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Throwing on the potter’s wheel. Emphasis on developing basic skills and techniques.
	3DS 3250 - Advanced Wheel Throwing 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3150 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Advanced work on the potter’s wheel. Introduction to techniques of the production potter. Repeatable up to 3 times for credit.
	3DS 3300 - Intermediate Sculpture 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3000 or 3DS 3100 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee $120.00. Description An intermediate-level course designed to build upon skills acquired in 3DS 3000 or 3DS 3100 and prepare students to enter Directed Study in sculpture. May be repeated for up to 8 hours.
	3DS 3350 - Ceramic Sculpture 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3050 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Advanced methods of hand building with clay and plaster mold making processes; emphasis on ceramic sculptural techniques. Repeatable up to 2 times for credit.
	3DS 3600 - Sculptural Drawing 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3000 with a grade of C- or higher or consent of instructor. Requirements: Lab Fee: $120.00. Description Investigates the process and outcome of drawing from the sculptor’s perspective. Technical and conceptual aspects of drawing from this point of view will be covered.
	3DS 3650 - Ceramics Materials 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3050 , 3DS 3150 , and 3DS 3250 , or higher ceramics course with grades of C- or higher, or consent of instructor. Requirements: Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Elementary chemistry as applied to glaze calculation; firing process; clay bodies; kiln building; studio equipment; and organizing.
	3DS 3700 - Wood Design 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3000 with a grade of C- or higher or consent of instructor. Requirements: Lab Fee: $120.00. Description A techniques-based course exploring wood as a medium for sculptural expression. Includes both additive and subtractive use of wood media, use of wood as a component of mixed-media works, lamination, and joinery.
	3DS 3750 - The Ceramic Surface 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3050 or 3DS 3150 , each with a C- or higher; or permission of instructor. Requirements: Course includes a lab fee. Description Students will learn a variety of ceramic techniques to manipulate and develop the surface of their forms. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship of surface and form to create multifaceted ceramic work, which will be achieved through a variety of underglaze, glazing, and overglazing techniques.
	3DS 3800 - Installation Art 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3000 with a grade of C- or higher or consent of instructor. Requirements: Lab Fee: $120.00. Description Exploration of the methods and theories involved in the production of installation art through the investigation of form and space and of their function in transforming environmental, architectural, or invented sites.
	3DS 3900 - Selected Topics in Sculpture 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3000 and, 3DS 3100 or 3DS 3200 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $120.00. Description Special topics for studio art majors: technical workshops and specialized experiences or readings applicable to sculpture. May be repeated for a maximum of eight credit hours.
	3DS 3920 - Contemporary Ceramic History 3 Credit Hours Description Exploration of the ceramics from the Arts and Crafts Movement of the nineteenth century through contemporary trends.
	3DS 3950 - Selected Topics in Ceramics 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3050 or 3DS 3150 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Special topics for studio art majors. May be repeated for a maximum of nine credit hours.
	3DS 4500 - Directed Study in Sculpture 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3000 or 3DS 3100 with a grade of C- or higher and at least one of 3DS 3600 , 3DS 3700 , 3DS 3800 , and 3DS 3900 with a grade of C or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $120.00. Description Individual studio problems for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of twenty credit hours.
	3DS 4550 - Directed Study in Ceramics 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 3250 and 3DS 3350 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Individual studio problems for advanced students.
	3DS 4930 - Internship 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Consent of advisor. Description Available to advanced students who want to pursue a specialized educational opportunity not offered in the regular sculpture curriculum. For students who are seeking experience in the everyday professional field of sculpture. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	3DS 4940 - Sculpture Portfolio I 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 4500 with a grade of C- or higher. Description Senior-year studio experience for B.F.A. degree candidates. Committee review.
	3DS 4945 - Ceramic Portfolio I-CTW 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 4550 with a grade of C- or higher. Requirements: Fulfills CTW requirement. Committee review. Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Senior-year studio experiences for B.F.A. degree candidates. First BFA capstone course for ceramics majors. Students develop a body of work. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.
	3DS 4950 - Sculpture Portfolio II-CTW 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 4940 with a grade of C- or higher, or concurrently. Requirements: Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all Sculpture majors. Description Culminating studio experiences for B.F.A. degree candidates. Committee review. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.
	3DS 4955 - Ceramic Portfolio II-CTW 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: 3DS 4945 with a grade of C- or higher or concurrently. Requirements: Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all Ceramics majors. Lab Fee: $80.00. Description Final BFA capstone course for ceramics majors. Culminating studio experiences for B.F.A. degree candidates. Committee review. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.
	3DS 4980 - Special Problems 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and of School director. Description Independent studies initiated by the student. May be repeated for a maximum of eight credit hours.
Urban Studies Institute
	URB 3010 - Contemporary U.S. Cities 3 Credit Hours Description The course discusses the historical growth and development of U.S. cities and metropolitan areas from the pre-industrial era through to the twenty-first century.. It will then explore a set of key, contemporary debates â€” all in the context of cities and the urban – in the realm of social and economic justice, environmental sustainability, and closely related topics. The course will employ classroom discussion, visits by scholars, practitioners, and advocates, and other means to explore these topics.
	URB 3020 - The Global Evolution of Cities 3 Credit Hours Description This is a highly interdisciplinary course, employing perspectives from history, geography, economics, architecture, humanities, sociology, anthropology, and political science; utilizing a series of modules and case-studies, from the earliest cities in the Bronze Age to present-day global-city regions. The course provides a sense of the spectrum of urbanity through the ages and across the world’s regions. It will introduce key moments in the evolution of cities around the world; moments that can also be thought of as urban revolutions.
	URB 4060 - Urban Environments 3 Credit Hours Description Examines the physical environmental processes relating to soil, climate, water, and ecosystems that characterize urban environments as opposed to more natural or rural ones. Explores the human-environmental interface in urban areas as reflected in issues such as environmental justice, sustainability, resilience, population growth, unequal distribution of resources, and public health. Sustainability will be particularly emphasized. The City of Atlanta is used as a living laboratory for the course.
	URB 4097 - Urban Special Topics 3 Credit Hours Description A seminar designed to explore in depth the most recent issues and/or research results in a particular area of urban studies. The course can be repeated when topic vary.
	URB 4660 - Urban Environment 3 Credit Hours Description Examines the physical environmental processes relating to soil, climate, water, and ecosystems that characterize urban environments as opposed to more natural or rural ones. Explores the human-environmental interface in urban areas as reflected in issues such as environmental justice, sustainability, resilience, population growth, unequal distribution of resources, and public health. Sustainability will be particularly emphasized. The City of Atlanta is used as a living laboratory for the course.
	URB 4670 - The Interdisciplinary City 3 Credit Hours Description Drawing from the expertise of the Urban Studies Institute and Georgia State faculty, students will be trained as â€˜boundary agents’. Each week, students will examine a particular urban lens, or compare and contrast across multiple disciplinary perspectives, through a combination of assigned readings, discussions with external speakers, and field-based research. They will assess and apply multiple disciplinary perspectives, including their own background and training, to a key theme throughout the course. Examples include: equitable urban development; sustainable suburbanization; sharing the city at night; fostering regional mobility; towards the carbon-neutral city; and creating resilient communities.
Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
	WGSS 1099 - General Credit 1 to 3 Credit Hours Description Previously WSt 1099.
	WGSS 2010 - Introduction to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies 3 Credit Hours Description Gender and sexuality provide the organizing framework for analyzing the intersections among oppressions, including (but not limited tosexism, racism, imperialism, homophobia, ableism, and classism.
	WGSS 3010 - Feminist Theories 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description Introduction to critical questions and contemporary debates in U.S. feminist theories, including the interrelations between increasing globalization and theorizing gender/sexuality.
	WGSS 3030 - Introduction to LGBT Studies 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description Introduction to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenderStudies introduces students to historical, theoretical and empirical research as well as fiction, film, and essays that relate to LGBT studies.
	WGSS 3040 - Globalization and Gender 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description Globalization is a complicated process by which people, commodities, images, and capital move with great speed and fluidity across national borders. This course aims to familiarize students with the social, political, and economic impacts of globalization worldwide and to understand the gendered dynamics of such a process. Global Scholars course.
	WGSS 3110 - Narratives of Race, Gender and Sexuality: Quare Readings 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a C or better. Description (Same as AAS 3010). Focuses on recognizing and employing various reading practices and themes of intersectionality within a number of literary narratives.
	WGSS 3120 - Families and Society 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Soci 3101). Key concepts and processes of family sociology with application to sexuality, partner selection, transition to parenthood, parenting and children, housework and paid work, conflict and violence, divorce and remarriage, grandparenting, care giving, and alternative families.
	WGSS 3130 - Gender and Society 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Soci 3216). Social construction of gender, gender-based stratification, and power dynamics.
	WGSS 3140 - Birth and Parenthood 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Soci 3152). Pregnancy, birth, and parenting; fatherhood and motherhood in a social and historical context.
	WGSS 3150 - Sexuality and Society 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description Same as Soci 3156. Social construction and social control of sexuality. Examining trends in sexual attitudes and behaviors across the life course and how they are influenced by social interaction and social institutions. Topics may include sex research methods, representations of sexuality, sex education, sexual health and infection, sexual violence, and the commodification of sex.
	WGSS 3356 - Queer Identities 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Soci 3356). Social construction of gay, lesbian, and bisexual identities, contemporary issues, including types and effects of discrimination based on sexual identity.
	WGSS 3500 - Culture and Change in Africa 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: AAS 1140, AAS 1141, AAS 1142, AAS 2010, ANTH 2020, SOCI 1101, or WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better, or consent of instructor. Description (Same as ANTH 3500). Provides an introduction to the ethnography of Sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights change and resistance to change and seeks to understand the historical and cultural conditions underpinning current predicaments facing African societies, as well as the fact that tragedy is only once facet of African lives and experiences. Suitable for students majoring in Global Studies, Anthropology, African-American Studies, History, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Global Scholars course.
	WGSS 3710 - Sex and Love 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a C or better. Description (Same as PHIL 3710). Critical examination of issues in moral and political philosophy related to sex and love. Topics will vary by semester but may include the following: the good of marriage; what kind of marriage, if any, the state should legally recognize; the nature of parent-child relationship; parental obligations and children’s rights; gender justice and the family; the ethics of commercial surrogacy; the ethics of abortion; the legalization of prostitution and pornography.
	WGSS 3910 - Special Topics 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a C or better. Description Intensive treatment of specified topics in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. May be repeated if topic varies.
	WGSS 3995 - Feminist Literary Criticism 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Engl 3995). Critical approaches to the varieties of feminist thinking that influence studies of language, literature, and culture. Individual courses will vary in focus; topics and writers may range from the medieval period to the present. Multicultural perspectives on issues of gender, race, and class emphasized.
	WGSS 4010 - Feminist Praxis 3 Credit Hours Description This course questions how structures and cultures influence our praxis in formal organizations as well as can our daily choices be feminist praxis. Using feminist concepts this course challenges us to explore ways that feminist understandings shape and ground organizing, praxis and everyday life. Students will be introduced to works targeting the six main aspects of a feminist’s life: relationships, family, work, friends, spirituality and intellect, and personal well being.
	WGSS 4040 - Gender, Race, and Class in Complex Societies 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better and Anth 2020, or consent of instructor. Description (Same as Anth 4040). Experiential learning in the urban setting through direct exposure to and experience in an ethnic community. Informed awareness of the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of ethnic communities within the community and larger society. City Scholars course.
	WGSS 4111 - Anthropology of Self and Emotion 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a C or better. Description (Same as ANTH 4111). This course draws upon readings in anthropological theory and ethnography to consider the cultural construction of self-hood, identity, and feelings, with an emphasis on the historical specificity of particular experiences, how they may be influenced by factors such as capitalism, how they may change over time, and the significance of gender.
	WGSS 4130 - Communication and Gender 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Spch 4490). The influence of gender (social definitions of maleness and femalenesson public, interpersonal, and mass communication.
	WGSS 4150 - Women and Media 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Jour 4780). Critical and analytical approaches applicable to the study of women in the media. Emphasis on research methods appropriate for analyzing mediated representations of women and the impact of those images on women in society.
	WGSS 4210 - Gender and Power in Ethnographic Perspective 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better, and Anth 2020 with grade of C or higher, or consent of instructor. Description (Same as Anth 4420). Ethnographic and theoretical examination of the role of gender in human societies, including role differences and inequalities between women and men cross-culturally; the cultural significance and social institutions associated with public and domestic spheres; power, ideology, and the production of historically specific gender identities and sexualities; global perspectives on feminism and approaches to women’s empowerment. Global Scholars course.
	WGSS 4220 - Refugees and Forced Migration 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: AAS 1140, AAS 1141, AAS 1142, AAS 2010, ANTH 2020, SOCI 1101, or WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better, or consent of instructor. Description (Same as ANTH 4220). Examines refugees, forced migration processes, and undocumented migration with emphasis on the impact of displacement on social relations and identities at various intersecting levels. Engages with multiple theoretical frameworks for understanding migration, displacement, sovereignty, and the border. Considers policy responses to these phenomenon. Global Scholars course.
	WGSS 4240 - Sexuality and Gender in Asia 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a C or higher. Requirements: No prior course on Asian Studies is required. Description (Same as ANTH 4241). Students will be exposed to studies of sexuality and gender in Asia from the perspective of feminist theory, queer theory, LGBT studies, and women’s gender, and sexuality studies. Materials explored include academic texts, memoir, fiction, and film. The course will be particularly useful for majors/minors in Women’s Studies, anthropology, and Asian Studies. Global Scholars course.
	WGSS 4310 - Girls 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Anth 4320 and Soci 4315). Feminist analyses of who girls are and how they are socialized in our society. Girls’ experiences with social institutions, growth and development issues, self-esteem and body image, sexuality, culture and media, third-wave feminism, and girls’ movements.
	WGSS 4340 - Gender and Film 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Film 4340). Examines representations of gender in film and media from a variety of analytical perspectives as a way to understand social relations and cultural practices.
	WGSS 4360 - Feminist Philosophy 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Phil 4860). Classical and contemporary issues concerning women, such as discrimination on the basis of gender, class, race, or sexuality, whether gender is natural or constructed, and historical roots of feminist and anti-feminist perspectives.
	WGSS 4440 - Women in America 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Hist 4250). Issues involving American women from the seventeenth century to the present. Topics include women’s changing economic role, the family, religion, race and ethnicity, the struggle for legal and political equality.
	WGSS 4470 - Visual Culture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a C or higher. Description (Same as Anth 4470). Study of the visual politics of social organization with emphasis on the images and the arenas of everyday life in North American culture. Includes explorations of the fashion system, the medical body, the cosmetic and fitness industry, visual colonialism, museum displays, and high and popular art.
	WGSS 4510 - Feminist Political Theory 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as PolS 4510). This course is divided into three sections. The first is an overview of the treatment of women in Western political thought. The second is an analysis of five strands of feminist thinking: liberal, Marxist, socialist, radical, and postmodern. The third is a more detailed look at a few particular authors, including de Beauvoir, Gilligan, hooks, and MacKinnon. Global Scholars course.
	WGSS 4580 - Thinking the Body 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description Crosslisted with WGSS 6580. This course considers different threads of feminist and social body theory as they consider the idealization and representation of the body, the input of biopolitical and scientifico-medical discourses on notions of the body, and interrogate the perceived materiality of the body. The course also addresses interventions in normalizing body discourses, specifically in genres of performance art, memoir, and personal essay.
	WGSS 4590 - Cultural Studies of Gender 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description Introduces students to cultural studies as a methodological approach to studying gender and culture. The topics vary each year; however, the course will consistently examine how popular culture provides a means for understanding social negotiation, politics and identity construction that people enact in everyday activities with a special focus on the role of gender.
	WGSS 4650 - Gender and Sexuality in European History 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as Hist 4650). Explores changing views of men’s and women’s roles in society, politics, and the economy. Topics include changing ideas about masculinity and femininity; the evolution in ideas about sex and sexuality; the invention of homosexuality; and the “sexual revolution” of the twentieth century. Global Scholars course.
	WGSS 4720 - Feminist Issues in Contemporary Art 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a C or better. Description Crosslisted with AH 4720, AH 6720, and WGSS 6720. Emphasis on feminist analyses of contemporary art and visual culture.
	WGSS 4740 - Women Artists 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as AH 4750). A survey of women artists from prehistory to the present.
	WGSS 4750 - Black Feminist Thought 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description Explores the tradition of Black feminism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will critically read, discuss, and respond in writing to a series of texts representing Black feminist thought and its relationship to other feminisms. Students will be expected to demonstrate their knowledge of the Black feminist tradition and their ability to query, compare, and extend Black feminist theories.
	WGSS 4760 - Activism: History and Theory 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description Theoretical and historical perspectives on activism, focusing on how various types of activism are intertwined, the emergence of second-wave feminism within the context of civil rights and anti-war movements, and current feminist activisms within broader social justice frameworks. Students are required to spend a specified number of hours per week working on an activist project. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	WGSS 4770 - Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a C or better. Description (Same as AAS 4771). This course thinks about the kinds of conceptual tools: questions, methods, theories, histories, geographies, time periods, and social/cultural movements needed in order to understand the dynamic and shifting terrain of gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora. Colonialism, slavery, social movements as well as transnational circuits of music, self-expression, desire and consumption/production will frame our approach to theorizing gender and sexuality in the actual and imagined spaces of the African Diaspora. Global Scholars course.
	WGSS 4780 - African-American Lesbian and Gay Activism 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better. Description (Same as AAS 4780). Examines the speeches, writings, and other public communication of African-American lesbians and gay men who promote democratic ideals. Surveys historical and contemporary issues confronting this marginalized population. Emphasis on thematic and cultural critical approaches.

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Course Descriptions

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Corequisites

Course Credit Hours

Prerequisites

THEA 2040 - Introduction to the Theatre

THEA 2100 - Play Analysis for Production

THEA 2210 - Beginning Acting

THEA 2212 - Intermediate Acting

THEA 2345 - Audition Portfolio

THEA 2401 - Scenery Skills For The Theatre

THEA 2402 - Costume Skills For The Theatre

THEA 2403 - Lighting/Sound Skills For Theatre

THEA 2450 - Stage And Theatre Management

THEA 2607 - Children’s Theatre Production

THEA 2613 - Applied Theatre Workshop

THEA 3000 - Lighting Design for Theatre

THEA 3110 - Technical Production II

THEA 3210 - Advanced Acting

THEA 3300 - Dramatic Writing for Stage and Screen

THEA 3410 - Making a Living in the Arts

THEA 3690 - Honors Reading

THEA 4000 - Acting for the Camera

THEA 4050 - Directed Activities in Technical Theatre

THEA 4070 - Theatre History-CTW

THEA 4090 - African-American Theatre

THEA 4130 - Stage Management

THEA 4210 - Acting Techniques

THEA 4255 - Voice and Movement

THEA 4310 - Advanced Playwriting

THEA 4760 - Performance Theory and Practice

THEA 4850 - Directing

THEA 4860 - Special Topics

THEA 4870 - Honors Thesis: Research

THEA 4880 - Honors Thesis: Writing

THEA 4890 - Special Project

THEA 4950 - Production Seminar

THEA 4980 - Internship

3DS 3000 - Introduction to Sculpture

3DS 3050 - Hand Building I

3DS 3100 - Moldmaking

3DS 3150 - Wheel Throwing I

3DS 3250 - Advanced Wheel Throwing

3DS 3300 - Intermediate Sculpture

3DS 3350 - Ceramic Sculpture

3DS 3600 - Sculptural Drawing

3DS 3650 - Ceramics Materials

3DS 3700 - Wood Design

3DS 3750 - The Ceramic Surface

3DS 3800 - Installation Art

3DS 3900 - Selected Topics in Sculpture

3DS 3920 - Contemporary Ceramic History

3DS 3950 - Selected Topics in Ceramics

3DS 4500 - Directed Study in Sculpture

3DS 4550 - Directed Study in Ceramics

3DS 4930 - Internship

3DS 4940 - Sculpture Portfolio I

3DS 4945 - Ceramic Portfolio I-CTW

3DS 4950 - Sculpture Portfolio II-CTW

3DS 4955 - Ceramic Portfolio II-CTW

3DS 4980 - Special Problems

URB 3010 - Contemporary U.S. Cities

URB 3020 - The Global Evolution of Cities

URB 4060 - Urban Environments

URB 4097 - Urban Special Topics

URB 4660 - Urban Environment

URB 4670 - The Interdisciplinary City

WGSS 1099 - General Credit

WGSS 2010 - Introduction to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

WGSS 3010 - Feminist Theories

WGSS 3030 - Introduction to LGBT Studies

WGSS 3040 - Globalization and Gender

WGSS 3110 - Narratives of Race, Gender and Sexuality: Quare Readings

WGSS 3120 - Families and Society

WGSS 3130 - Gender and Society

WGSS 3140 - Birth and Parenthood

WGSS 3150 - Sexuality and Society

WGSS 3356 - Queer Identities

WGSS 3500 - Culture and Change in Africa

WGSS 3710 - Sex and Love