THR/HPE 002 Lifetime Sports—Introduction to Dance (.0 course)
This course offers an overview of various exercises and gives an introduction to a variety of movement styles, cultures of dance, and stretches. Each class includes a rigorous, physical warm-up, mixing yoga, pilates, and modern dance.

THR/HPE 005 Lifetime Sports—Modern Dance and Improvisation
(.0 course)
Students will learn various phrases of movement incorporating floor exercises and will learn to travel through space using level, volume, and floor pattern. Improvisational techniques will be introduced and students will create short improvisational pieces. (Prereq.: THR/HPE 002, 003, or instructor’s permission. NOTE: Students are allowed to use only one of THR/HPE 002, 003, 004, or 005 to fulfill the lifetime sports requirement.)

THR 116 Creative Drama: Acting and Improvisation
A study of theatrical movement, voice, mime, mask, improvisation, acting with an emphasis on active participation and reflective writing. This course is primarily designed for non-majors and does not fulfill credit toward the theatre arts major.

THR/COM 216 Film Production I
This course demonstrates the basics of 16 mm filmmaking. The student will make short films that demonstrate the art and process of shooting in B/W.

THR 222 Introduction to Theatre
Introduction to Theatre is an examination of theatre as an artistic form and focuses on the appreciation and value of theatre in society. Focus on historical periods, plays, artists, basic concepts, and techniques of the play production process. Students attend and review stage productions. This course is primarily designed for non-majors and does not fulfill credit toward the theatre major.

THR 226 Movement for the Theatre
This course will explore principles of movement used in the art of acting. The goal will be to improve the actor’s physical energy, concentration, balance, control, clarity, timing, spontaneity, and energy. This course will use established theory and techniques in neutral mask, Asian martial arts, and physical and vocal characterization exercises. Students will examine various performance paradigms and see professional productions. (Alternate years)

THR 228 Introduction to Stagecraft
An introduction to the backstage world of the theatre; its organization, crafts, and creative processes. Students will execute practical projects, attend theatre tours, see professional productions, and participate on the Theatre Department’s fall production. Open to all students. Forty-hour lab requirement.

THR 232 Acting
An introduction to the art of acting. Focus on physical, mental, and emotional preparation, and exploration of the creative approach to scene and character study in American drama, culminating in public performance. Students attend and review local professional productions. (Prereq.: Theatre major or consent of instructor)

THR 233 Acting for Camera
An exploration of acting principles and techniques as it enhances and applies to on-camera effectiveness. This co-taught studio course also includes technology elements which support acting on camera. (Alternate years)

THR/MUS 235 Skills of Music Theatre
An interdisciplinary approach to the topic using music and theatre techniques to develop the student’s basic skills of music theatre. Concepts of diverse music-theatre forms are introduced. Course includes reading, writing, research, class discussion, exercises, small and large group participation, memorization, and public performance. Students will attend and review live productions. (Alternate years)

THR 245 Introduction to Asian and Asian American Theatre
A survey of the theatrical performance styles, aesthetic theories, and plays of traditional Asia and Asian American cultures. The course includes lectures, films, videos, and demonstrations by visiting performers.

THR 250 Script Analysis: Foundations of Theatre
This foundations class focuses on major principles and fundamentals of theatre literary analysis and uses performance, discussion, writing, and projects as a way of interpreting a dramatic script for academic and artistic applications. Close readings of plays from each genre (comic, tragic, realistic, absurd and post-modernism) will enable students to learn and apply basic terminology for literary and artistic processes.

THR/COM 312 Film Production II
The focus of this course builds on the lessons learned in COM 216 and adds the study of color photography and sound design. Though exercises and assignments the student will develop skills in scripting, shooting, and editing short films. (Prereq.: COM/THR 216)

THR 325 Playwriting
An introductory course in writing for theatre. Students will learn the basics of dramatic structure, methods of script analysis, and techniques for the development of playscripts from idea to finished product. (Prereq.: ENL 111 or 112 or HON 111, and junior or senior standing, or consent of theatre department chair. THR 250 or ENL 226 recommended. (Alternate years)

THR 328 Theatrical Design
Introduction to the design process for the stage. Each student will execute four design projects using a research based design process. Class will take theatre tours, host visiting artists, and have a practical involvement in two Augsburg College productions. Forty-hour lab required, materials needed. (Prereq.: THR 228, junior or senior status)

THR 350 Voice for Speech, Stage, and Screen
A study of vocal skills including tone production, breathing, placement, relaxation, resonating, articulating, listening, introduction to phonetics, and the vocal mechanism. Theory and practice are combined in oral projects, reports and papers, voice tapes, and individual coaching. (Alternate years)

THR 360 Interpretive Reading
Basic principles of oral interpretation of narrative verse and dialogue forms of drama. Study, written analysis, discussion, practice, and performance of readings before small and large groups. (Prereq.: ENL 111 or 112 or HON 111)

THR 361 Theatre History and Criticism I
An overview of theatre history, dramatic literature, and criticism from the classical Greek through the Italian Renaissance period. Reading of plays, research paper, and attendance at local theatre productions are required. Need not be taken sequentially with THR 362. (Prereq.: ENL 111 or 112 or HON 111. Fall: alternate years)

THR 362 Theatre History and Criticism II
An overview of theatre history, dramatic literature, and criticism from the Italian Renaissance through contemporary theatre. Reading of plays and attendance at local theatre productions are required. Need not be taken sequentially with THR 361. (Spring: alternate years)

THR 365 Advanced Acting
This course provides students with performance skills and the ability to recognize differentiating clues that identify the style of a play. Through class exercises, scene study, and character analysis, students will gain insight into the performance demands of a specific style. Emphasis is on a variety of roles from the classics (Shakespeare, French neoclassicism, restoration comedy, realism, and non-realism), culminating in a public recital. (Prereq: THR 250 and THR 232 and 362 or consent of instructor. Fall/Spring)

THR 366 Stage Direction
The goal of the course is to understand and master basic principles and skills of stage direction: directing concepts, stage techniques, terminologies, script analysis; rehearsal planning and techniques; blocking, stage dynamics, working with actors, and the overall staging of a play. Theories of directing are also examined. (Prereq.: THR 362, or consent of instructor)

THR/SPC 420 Issues in Contemporary Cinema
This course will examine cultural, artistic, commercial, and theoretical concerns that occur in world cinema today. Our purpose is to help students both contextualize the cinema they see in appropriate and insightful ways, and to provide a sophisticated critical apparatus to help them read films as texts and to interpret the cinema’s larger societal value and impact. (Prereq: ENL 241 and junior/senior standing)

THR 495 Theatre Topics
Selected topics in theatre.

Internships and Independent Study Courses:
THR 199 Internship
See descriptions for this and other internship options (on-campus, off-campus, half credit) on page 95.

THR 299 Directed Study
See description on page 96 of Augsburg's Course Catalog

THR 399 Internship
See descriptions for this and other internship options (on-campus, off-campus, half credit) on page 95 of Augsburg's Course Catalog.

THR 499 Independent Study/Research
See description on page 96 of Augsburg's Course Catalog.