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Performance Media

The core courses for students pursuing the Performance Media concentration provide students with a global perspective on the societies throughout history that fostered performance activity, the creative process of developing and producing fictional and non-fictional digital media content, and acquire hands-on practical experience by working in production. The Performance Media concentration in the New Media Studies major offers courses and hands-on learning in performance, music, multimedia composition, digital 3-D, and theatre lighting and sound.

No grade of less than 20 (C) may be counted toward degree requirements for Theatre majors or minors.

Performance Media Core Courses (27 Credits)

  • Required Core Courses (21 Credits)
    • CSC 220 Visualizing for Visual Thinking - 3 credits
    • THE 176 Fundamentals of Theatre Design - 3 credits
    • THE 180 Performance in Context: New Media - 3 credits
    • THE 268* World Theatre History II - 3 credits
    • THE 270*^^ Directing I - 3 credits
    • THE 275** Technical Theatre - 3 credits
    • Choose one: 
      • THE 351^^^ Adaptation/Media/Performance - 3 credits
      • THE 364^^^ Performance in America - 3 credits
  • A total of 3 credits from the following, with at least one credit coming from THE 227:
    • THE 227 Theatre Design/Technical Practicum - 1 credit
    • THE 228 Theatre Performance & Rehearsal Practicum - 1 credit
    • THE 392 Practicum in Theatre - 1 credit
  • Choose one of the following with the advice and approval of your Advisor:
    • FLM 440/COM 440 Producing Film for Clients - 3 credits
    • NMS 440 Interdisciplinary Signature Work - 3 credits
    • THE 474 Experimental Theatre: Theory and Performance - 3 credits

Concentration Electives (18 credits)

  • Choose 6 courses:
    • FLM380/COM 380 Dramatic Film & Video Production - 3 credits
    • MUS 355 Music with an Edge - 3 credits
    • MUS 372 Multimedia Composition - 3 credits
    • THE 260 History & Theory of Performance Media - 3 credits
    • THE 280 Theatre Lighting Design & Technology - 3 credits
    • THE 283 Sound Art - 3 credits
    • THE 285 Intermedial Performance I - 3 credits
    • THE 345 Programming for Interactive Design - 3 credits
    • THE 385 Intermedial Performance II - 3 credits

*Fulfulls Tier I of the Liberal Arts Core
^^meets Stage 2 University Writing Requirement
^^^meets Stage 3 University Writing Requirement