Department: Communication, Humanities & the Arts

Discipline: Performing Arts

Subject Code: THTRCourse #: 145

Course Title: Introduction to Musical Theatre

HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

FORM 335

Course Form 335 must be updated at least every five years per AP 765 to include, at a minimum, the following elements. [§335.2]

  1. Digital Description [§335.2] (Insert the new/revised digital description below):

Credit hours:3.0

Lecture hours: 3.0

Lab hours:0.0

Approved Online/Blended Face-to-Face Instruction Ratios:

[__] 25/75% [__] 33/67% [__] 50/50% [__] 67/33% [__] 75/25%

(Note: The first number indicates the percentage of online instruction. The second number indicates the percentage of in-class instruction.)

  1. Maximum Enrollment (Insert new/revised maximum enrollments below):

In-Class Instruction: 20

Lab Instruction:

(Note: It is assumed that maximum enrollments for blended courses are the same as those identified for in-class instruction. Maximum enrollments for VirtualLearning courses are to be 75% of in-class instruction, as per the SGP on Maximum Class Size):

  1. Catalog Description [§335.2] (Insert the description in space below):

Covers the history of the American musical stage from early forms to contemporary Broadway successes. This course emphasizes the analysis of libretto and the development of performing skills culminating in the presentation of student work.

Minimum Grade Required

  1. Prerequisites [§335.2]: THTR 101 or 110C

Co-requisites:none

Other: Eligibility for enrollment into ENGL 101.

  1. Learning Outcomes [§335.2]

[These outcomes are necessary to enable students to attain the essential

knowledge and skills embodied in the program’s educational objectives.]

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

  • Perform scenes from musicals, incorporating dialogue, song, and movement
  • Collaborate in rehearsal with other students as actors and with the instructor as director
  • Analyze musicals for their historic content and relevance
  • Outline the development of the musical from early forms to modern day, with an understanding of influential artists whose work played a significant part in that development
  1. Planned Sequence of Instruction [§335.2]

[These must be designed to help students achieve the learning outcomes.]

Weeks 1-4Early musical forms through minstrels, vaudeville and the 1920s;
libretto and musical score analysis

Weeks 5-8The 1930s through the 1950s; acting in musical theatre

Weeks 9-12The 1950s through the 1980s; scene/song performance work

Weeks 13-15New directions in musical theatre; scene/song work continued

Week 16A sharing of student performance progress

  1. Assessment of Student Learning [§335.44]

[Methods of assessment should be appropriate for Learning Outcomes listed above.]

Assessment of student learning outcomes for the course, as required by the Shared Governance Policy – Assessing Institutional Effectiveness, is part of regular curriculum maintenance and/or improvement. The specific plan has been determined by the pertinent faculty involved and is maintained in the College’s assessment management system.

  1. List of Texts, References, Selected Library Resources or other Learning Materials (code each item based on instructional use) [§335.2]: C-Lecture/Laboratory, A-Lecture, B-Laboratory, LC-Lecture/Clinical, CLN-Clinical, I-Online, BL-Blended, D-Independent Study, P-Private Lessons, E-Internship, F-Cooperative Work-Study, FE-Field Experience. [These resources must be easily accessible to students.]

Hurwitz, Nathan. A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business Like It. Routledge, London and New York.

Brunetti, David. Acting Songs. BookSurge, LLC, North Charleston, SC.

NAME AND SIGNATURE / DATE
1. Discipline Faculty Proponent/s: / 12/8/15
2. Curriculum Manager & College Catalog Editor: Erika Steenland / 2/2/16
3. Department Chairperson (Discipline Approval): Will Guntrum / 2/4/16

This course meets all reimbursement requirements of Chapter 335, subchapters A/B.

This course was developed, approved, and offered in accordance with the policies, standards, guidelines, and practices established by the College. It is consistent with the College’s mission.

If the course described here is a transfer course, it is comparable to similar courses generally accepted for transfer accredited four-year colleges and universities.

NAME AND SIGNATURE / DATE
4. Associate Provost: Kathleen T. Doherty / 2/4/16
5. Provost & VP, Academic Affairs: Cynthia Doherty, Ph.D. / 2/8/16
  1. Original Date of course approval by the college: 199940
  1. Date(s) of subsequent reviews [Indicate change: Learning Outcomes; textbook(s)]:

May 1999

Textbooks updated: April 2002

Textbooks revised: none – April 2003

Project Review: 12/2004: Revisions: noneko

Revisions: Reviewed March 2006. Revisions made: Learning Outcomes. sy

Form 335 Update: Learning Outcomes, Textbooks. January 2010. Sy

6/22/15 – Inserted approved max enrollment numbers effective Fall 15 - ers

12/8/15 – revisions: Course description, prerequisites/co-requisite – Fall 16

12/1/04

Form Template Reviewed & Updated: 10/26/07; 1/11/08; 1/16/09; 7/14/09; 7/31/12; 7/30/13; 8/26/13; 1/31/14; 8/18/14; 5/13/15; 7/7/15