This course is an overview of acting as an art and craft.

This course is an introduction of the basic acting process. The course emphasizes living truthfully in imaginary circumstances through honest listening and response. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

This course focuses on scene study and basic characterization. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

This course consists of the assignment of a specific role and/or responsibility. Opportunity for students to receive additional supervision and critique, as well as credit, for participation in rehearsal and performance.

This course introduces student actors to the basic principles of voice training. Group and individual exercises are designed to stimulate and develop the imagination, physical and sensory awareness, creativity, and the ability to work as part of an ensemble. Focus is on alleviating individual tensions in the vocal musculature that restrict the natural voice. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

This course focuses on the exploration and development of a range of fundamental tools of the acting process, with particular emphasis on vocal production and physical expression in the context of creating and rehearsing scenes and monologues drawn from significant modern and contemporary playwrights, ending with an introduction to the performance of classical Shakespearean texts.

This course offers a preliminary look at developing acting techniques for work in television, film, and video media. It explores how actors prepare, rehearse, and perform differently in front of the camera as compared to an onstage production.

This course utilizes exercises for self-awareness, physical strength, flexibility, and versatility for the actor. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course explores styles of movement and dance, creative presentations, and daily warm-ups. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course continues the study of the first-year basic skills in speaking for the student actor. All actors who are on a professional track for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree must have thorough knowledge of their speaking voice for the stage, how to use it in their acting studios and stage performances, and how to be a more effective speaker in their everyday life. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

This course provides an advanced study of historical period acting styles with an emphasis on movement, language, manners, and motives of a given style.

This course is an acting workshop oriented to particular problems the actor confronts in dealing with historic periods in dramatic literature or material of post-realistic and contemporary styles and thought. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

This course examines vital interrelationships between the physical, vocal, and psychological potential in creating a complex, expressive artistic performance.

This course is designed as a workshop for advanced actors who are preparing to enter graduate study programs or seek professional work in theatre with some attention paid to work in film and television. The course examines the audition process from the perspectives of both the aspiring performer and the prospective employer.

This course provides evaluation, systemization, supervision, and critiques of all performance work undertaken to isolate acting and musical problems that occur in musical theatre and to see their solution in process and performance. The course also examines the audition process and to develop audition packages for professional auditions. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course is a basic techniques course with emphasis on script analysis, fundamentals of staging, and work with actors.

This advanced acting and directing course focuses on performance creation in response to major works of world literature. Students learn various approaches to devising an autonomous work of theatre. Students invest much effort in rethinking conventional creative processes and production methods.

This course is a workshop for advanced actors and directors focused on particular problems in contemporary staging of works from selected historic periods.

This course focuses on advanced movement techniques and exploration of repertory and choreography. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course explores the development of physical dialogue through armed (rapier and dagger, broadsword, quarterstaff, or knife) and unarmed stage combat applied to acting. Focus is placed on the processes of safety, technique, rehearsal, and performance. Students have the option to participate in the Society of American Fight Directors Skill Proficiency Test.

This course introduces the craft of playwriting. The course functions as a workshop and focuses on the mechanics of structure, form, and marketing.

This intermediate course in voice focuses on increasing vocal stamina, breath capacity, range, and freedom on the stage. The course introduces speaking Shakespeare and offers practice with the use of complex language in acting classical texts. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course is primarily designed to expand the vocal imagination of the student actor. The International Phonetic Alphabet is introduced in an organic manner as a primary tool in the adoption of different speech sounds from those that are natural to each student actor. This course includes a "Speech Sound Donor Project," in which the student actor must study and implement a dialect different from their own natural one, and then must teach it to the group at large. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course focuses on the techniques of acquiring a dialect for stage performance. Scene study and monologues performed in dialects. Content may vary from semester to semester. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

May be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours.

This course provides evaluating systemization, supervision, and critiques for performance work required for BFA program. May be repeated to a maximum of ten semester hours.

This course provides evaluation, systemization, supervision, and critiques of all performance work undertaken to isolate acting, dance, and musical problems that occur in musical theatre and to seel their solution in performance. May be repeated to a maximum of eight semester hours.

This course is designed to provide the actors with practical means of facilitating their creative process. The basic principles of organic inner technique are applied to improvisational exercises, character development and scene work. The higher spheres of the actor's creativity are approached via psychophysical breath and imagination techniques. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course introduces the work of the classical actor. It includes development of imaginative and technical facilities as applied to ancient Greek repertory. The course ends with an introduction to Shakespeare. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

This course involves conservatory study in professional actor training in conjunction with the Asolo State Theatre in Sarasota. May be repeated to a maximum of sixty semester hours.

This course covers advanced directing scene work in the study of a kinetic approach to directing for the specialist.

This course covers advanced directing scene work in a variety of post-modern styles for the specialist.

This course gives students an opportunity to work in production as stage manager, assistant director, and director of Studio Theatre and Mainstage productions. May be repeated to a maximum of sixty semester hours.

This course covers various selected topics of study in the field of directing. May be repeated for a total of up to nine (9) credit hours.

This course is advanced directing scene work for the specialist degree.

This advanced acting and directing course aims at performance creation in response to major works in world literature. Students learn various approaches to devising an autonomous work of theatre. Students invest much effort in rethinking conventional creative processes and production methods.

This course explores and expands the actor's movement choices and his ability to express himself non-verbally. The course emphasizes developing a strong, expressive, dramatic imagination. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course emphasizes the creation of the physical characteristics of a role by combining first-year movement analysis with basic acting process. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course is an in-depth analysis of representative play scripts to enable realization in production.

This course is intended to provide actors with the tools for careful script analysis. Aristotelian, Elizabethan, Brechtian, and post modern dramaturgical techniques are examined in order to identify methods for achieving a deep and objective reading of any given text. May be repeated to a maximum of four semester hours.

This course delves fully into Fitzmaurice Voicework: destructuring to release breath, creative impulses, and the voice; and restructuring which allows the actor to bring breath and impulse work skillfully onto the stage. The speech work for this class includes training of the articulators, speech production, IPA, and mastery of the standard American dialect. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

This course concentrates on language structure analysis, scansion, and scoring a text. Dialect training (spoken and transcription) is studied with emphasis on the in-depth process of learning dialects. Advanced work on vocal production gives the actor a fully expressive, skillful vocal instrument on stage. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

May be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours.