PROPOSAL - NEW COURSE

If you will be requesting a General Education Core designation for this course, you must submit a separate request for Gen Ed designation to the Gen Ed Committee after the course has been approved by C&I.

COURSE / Name and number of the new course: / THET-120 Stage Management
Short title for student schedules and transcripts:
Limit to 30 characters / Stage Management
Is this a special topics course?
All special courses must have 900 numbers. / It used to be
Why is this course needed?
If appropriate, include student population, expected enrollment, effects this course will have on other courses/programs, etc. / This will be a required course in several of the theatre major tracks and the arts administration major and so it is moving from a 900 level to 100 level class.
As both a required class for technical theatre majors and arts administration majors as well as an elective for other theatre majors, it needs be a transferable level class. Stage management is a skill that many theater professionals are able to use to supplement other employment. I will be re-doing the theatre and arts administration programs to accommodate this change.
How do you expect this course to transfer to the UM System schools?
Please select your choice(s)
[by typing an X in the
box (es)]. / As a General Education Core Requirement
x / As an Elective
Not expected to transfer
List any Pre-requisites
SUBMISSION / Date of this proposal: / 10/15/10
Submitted by: / Dr. Lisa A. Wilde
Division(s): / Arts and Humanities
COURSE CONTINUED / Degree Audit
Please select the course type or types
[by typing an X in the
box (es)]. / CCOMP Composition Core
CFINE Fine Arts Core
CGENED Gen Ed Core
CHIST History Core
CHUMA Humanities Core
CINTD Interdisciplinary Core
CLITE Literature Core
CMATH Math Core
CSOBE Social & Behavioral Science Core
CSCIE Science Core, (used for 3-credit science courses)
CSLAB Science Core, (used for 4 credit science courses with lab)
x / EARSC Arts & Science Elective
EBUSI Business Elective
EENGL English Elective
x / EFINE Fine Arts Elective
x / EHUMA Humanities Elective
EMATH Math Elective
EORAL Oral Communications Elective
ESCIE Science Elective
ESOSC Social Science Elective
OTHER:
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COURSE OUTLINE

THET-120

Stage Management

3 Credits

HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Description

Students will learn and practice the basic principles of organizing a rehearsal process, managing appropriate procedures and regulations and running the performances of a theatrical production. (3 hours weekly)

Overall Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1.  Identify the responsibilities of a theatrical stage manager.

2.  Discuss proper stage management procedures for a variety of theatre organizations.

3.  Develop interpersonal skills and problem-solving techniques required of stage managers.

4.  Foster an appreciation for the role of the stage manager in the overall production process.

5.  Apply theory learned in classroom to a simulated production or to a Theatre Department,

Arts Collective or Rep Stage production.

6.  Develop familiarity with Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) rules versus non-union needs.

Major Topics

I. Phases of production planning.

II.  Duties and paperwork for each phase of production.

III.  Creating forms and assembling a prompt book.

IV.  The relationship of the Stage Manager to other production and artistic staff members.

Course Requirements

Creation of a prompt book and portfolio for an actual or simulated production.

Other Course Information

This course is an Arts and Sciences and Fine Arts and Humanities Elective.

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