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CURRICULUM - Scenic Design
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Professional Scene Design: European and Asian Antecedents of American Scene Design

Designing for Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Brecht

The American Musical

Opera

Modernism

Inverse Perspective

The Contemporary American Theatrical Landscape: Belasco, O’Neill, Wilder, Williams, and Huang

Studio Art: Dry Point Drawing Technique, Half Tone Rendering, White Modeling, Transparent Watercolor, Painting with Gouache

Beginning and Advanced Life Drawing

Beginning and Advanced Design Drafting

Scenic Painting

History of Design and Technology

Theatre Collaboration

Theatre History, Text Analysis & Dramatic Literature

Production Design

Stage Lighting and Costume Design

Design for Film and the Camera

Digital Imaging: Computer Scene Design and Painting

Ballroom Dance

 

The Professional Training Program’s Constituent Resources include the Kemper Museum of Modern Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Belger Art Center, the Kansas City Art Institute, Screenland, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Hallmark Foundations, and Kansas City Repertory Theatre.

 

Sample Program of Study:
         

Scenic Design - First Semester

 

 

Scenic Design - Fourth Semester

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Name

# of Credits

 

Course Name

# of Credits

Thea 536A Professional Scene Design

3

 

Thea 536D Professional Scene Design

3

Thea 431 Rendering Tech for Thea Des
I-figure draw

3

 

Thea 552R Rendering Tech for Thea Des
IV-figure drawing

3

Thea 538 Scene Painting

3

 

5-- Thea History or Text Analysis or Dramatic Lit

3

Thea 514 History of Design and Technology I

3

 

Thea 400D: Special Problems – Drafting if designing a production

1

Thea 500RA Theatre Collaboration

1

 

Thea 579R Master Class in Design (design for camera)

2

Total

13

 

                                           Total

12
         
         

 

 

 

 

 

Scenic Design - Second Semester

 

 

Scenic Design - Fifth Semester

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Name

# of Credits

 

Course Name

# of Credits

Thea 536B Professional Scene Design

3

 

Thea 590D Directed Graduate Studies: Scene Design

6

Thea 531R Rendering Tech for Thea DesII-figure draw)

3

 

Thea 598R Research and Performance

3

Thea 515R History of Design and Technology II

3

 

Thea 400D: Special Problems – Drafting if designing a production

1

Thea 400D: Special Problems - Drafting

3

 

                                             Total

10

Thea 530 Drafting for the Theatre

3

 

 

 

Total

15

 

 

 
         
         

 

 

 

 

 

Scenic Design - Third Semester

 

 

Scenic Design - Sixth Semester

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Name

# of Credits

 

Course Name

# of Credits

Thea 536C Professional Scene Design

3

 

Thea 590D Directed Graduate Studies: Computer Painting

6

Thea 551 Rendering Tech for Thea DesIII-figure drawing

3

 

Thea 598R Research and Performance

3

5-- Theatre History or Text Analysis or Dramatic Lit

3

 

                                              Total

9

Thea 400D: Special Problems – Drafting if designing a production

1

 

 

 

371 Stage Lighting OR Costume Design

3

 

 

 

                                          Total

13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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