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2023-2024 Edgewood College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Theatre Arts |
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THA 370 BX - Directing I
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Study of the theory and practice of directing dramatic production with special emphasis on the director as artist and leader. Students will use all they have learned in the course of their theatre training and liberal arts education (and beyond) and apply elements of that knowledge of the interpretation, leadership and artistry involved in directing a play. Students must communicate effectively with all elements of production in order to accomplish those goals.
Prerequisite(s): THA 265 BK - Acting I and completion of the Written Communication requirement.
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THA 376 2B - Theatre for Young Audiences
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
In this course, students will research and build a basis of knowledge with regard to a human, social or ecological issue and use these findings to write for young audiences, will write a play for youth about the topic. In making choices on how to write the play and what areas of the topic to focus on, students will address the COR questions: Who am I and who can I become?, What are the needs and opportunities of the world?, and What is my role in building a more just and compassionate world? In further exploration of these questions, students will study the history and the elements of production and performance in the genre of Theatre for Young Audiences, as they produce and ultimately perform their play for Madison area school students.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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THA 379 - Independent Study - Theatre Arts
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Independent Study of selected topics in Theatre Arts developed by the student with the approval and direction of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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THA 380 - Contemporary Scene Study for Actors
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Advanced scene study is a course for student who are interested in taking scene study one step further. This class is modeled after graduate level acting courses. The focus is on advanced scripts and character development. The actor will be asked to explore oneself and to apply themselves to the lives of the characters. We will explore emotional capacity and animal instinct. This is not a class for the relaxed student. There are high expectations on memorization, attendance, and participation. Recommended for those intent upon a career in the art and craft of acting.
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THA 385 - Special Topics in Theatre
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Advanced study of topics of special current interest in the field of theatre: a) Performance (acting or directing) b) Technical theatre c) History and criticism d) Musical theatre.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor
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THA 386 - Special Topics in Film
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Advanced study of topics of special interest in the field of Film.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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THA 386A AGU - Spc Tpc: Film
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Through the study of representative films we will explore a variety of common social topics across different culture groups: those represented by US-Hollywood and independent films of North American production, those from contemporary and 20th century European society, as well as Asian cultures. We will compare the representation of social issues through critical analysis and research. We will look at how a film is constructed, how the film reflects our perception of reality and has an impact in our critical thinking. We will explore, analyze, and criticize social topics of ever increasing importance: immigration, family life, environment and economy.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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THA 386B A - Tpcs Film: Evolution of Sci-Fi Film
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course offers an examination of society (mostly American, but including Eastern and European) and its culture through the reflection of films in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These films will be studied through the idea that “film, as in all art, is a reflection of and an influence on the society of its time.” Though we will explore the origins and history of science fiction film, this course will not be a purely chronological account of the major themes of the genre. We will be exploring and reflecting on the relationship between real science and science fiction.
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THA 391 - Tech and Design in the Theatre
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The study and application of technical and design elements of theatre selected from various topics, including: lights, costumes, sets, sound and makeup.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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THA 395 B - Makeup Design and Techniques
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Makeup Design and Techniques is an introductory study in stage makeup for the theatre. It is a practical course designed to give the student a basic working knowledge of, and hands on experience in, stage makeup design and application.
Offered Fall Odd Years
Prerequisite(s): None.
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THA 445 - Play Writing
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of the structure of the literary art of drama with practical experience in playwriting. Work with a performance lab is encouraged. Participation in the American College Theatre Festival is encouraged.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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THA 465 - Period Styles in Acting
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is designed to study approaches to acting classical texts, focusing on Greek theatre, Shakespearean texts, Comedy of Manners, and Farce. The course builds on the script analysis and voice training of THA 365 , and adds much more emphasis on movement and carriage of the actor. Scenes are used from the periods covered.
Prerequisite(s): THA 365 or consent of instructor.
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THA 466 - Advanced Acting
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Contemporary theories of acting such as epic theatre, the theatre of physical metaphor, absurdist and the Stanislavski system, as well as variations of these major schools of technique. The class is also designed for students to prepare for auditions, interviews and internships in the professional world. An acting portfolio, acting resume and a headshot will be required by the end of term.
Prerequisite(s): THA 265 or consent of the instructor.
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THA 470 - One-Act Play Production
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The theory and practice of directing and producing one-acts within the theatre season with special emphasis on the director/designer as interpreter and critic. Focus is on producing, crewing and directing a main stage production in cooperation with other theatre students.
Prerequisite(s): THA 370 BX or consent of instructor.
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THA 479 - Independent Study - Theatre Arts
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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THA 480 - Theatre Internship
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Students receive practical experience through internships with regional and national theatre organizations.
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THA 490 - Advanced Design
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An upper level studio tech and design class, looking at the study and apply technical and design elements of theatre. Areas of focus are chosen by the student in conjunction with theatre faculty mentors, and selected from various areas of tech and design, including: props,lights, costumes, sets, sound, hair & makeup, and other areas of tech/design in theatre. Students will be encouraged to submit their work to KCACTF and/or Edgewood Engaged for further study, engagement and feedback.
Offered Fall
Course Fee: 20
Prerequisite(s): THA 390 (Theatre Design Elements) or consent of the instructor.
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THA 499 3K - Theatre Senior Project
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is intended to give theatre majors an opportunity to express who they are and what they have learned as students of theatre within a liberal arts context and to explore more deeply a particular area of interest. Students will be guided through the process of designing, proposing and implementing a project focused in an area of individual interest and expertise within a field of theatre. Students will revisit the questions of COR in light of their theatrical knowledge and interest. Typically, senior projects in the discipline of theatre generally result in a performance or presentation which is open to the public.
Prerequisite(s): COR 2, Theatre Arts major, senior standing.
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WS 104 PQU - Ethics of Sex Love & Marriage
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This class examines various ethical theories about sex, love and marriage, with the goal of understanding and evaluating feminist and GLBT arguments about the worth of marriage as an institution. Cross-listed PHIL 104A
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): NONE
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WS 158 AQX - Women in Music
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An examination of the role of women in music in a wide array of genres, ranging from art music to rock and blues, with focus on social construction of gendered roles in music. Students will write a research paper on a topic of interest to them. Cross-listed MUS 158
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): NONE
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WS 204 - Intro to Wom & Gender Studies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A series of topics courses in Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies.
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): None.
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WS 204A CPQ - Intro Wgs: Lit & Philosophy
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course will provide an interdisciplinary introduction to the issues and themes of women’s and gender studies as revealed through the reading and analysis of literature and feminist and gender theory. We will take a philosophical approach to the issues we encounter and question our own assumptions along with those of the texts we read. Within our texts, we will examine social and cultural constructs in historical context, in contemporary society, and in our own lives. Using both fiction and nonfiction, we will examine this interplay between how we construct the “feminine” and the “masculine” in our psyches and how gender is constructed through the media and collective psyche. Additionally, in this course, students will have the unique opportunity to reflect upon, write about, and explore their own gender identities and its many influences.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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WS 206 PQU - Philosophy and Gender
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course will introduce students to the main theoretical paradigms within feminist and gender theory. The course is centered on the following questions: What is gender? What constitutes gender oppression? Is gender oppression related to oppression based on race, sexuality and class? If so, how? What is gender identity? Are gender differences natural, psychological, social, or some combination of these? How, if at all, is it possible to combat and perhaps overcome oppression? Cross-listed PHIL 106
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): None
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WS 224 CQX - Topics in Literature and Gender
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course focuses on the intersection between literary study and gender and sexuality studies. Different iterations of the course might focus on Women Writing on Love and Power, the LGBTQ Novel, Feminism in Literature, Gender Roles in Genre Fiction, or Transgender Memoirs. Cross-listed ENG 224
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): None
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WS 252 AQX - History of Women Artists in Europe
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course offers an introduction to the lives and work of women in the visual arts in Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present, with a focus on issues of gender, power, ideology, and representation that underlie the study of women artists and their work. We will look at the work of specific European and North American women artists with attention to the historical circumstances in which they produced their art, ideologies of gender and art at these particular historical moments, and artists’ writings. This course will also address themes explored by many women artists: the relationship between art and craft; spirituality; self-portraiture; the female body; motherhood; and heritage and identity. Along with reading scholarly texts about women artists and various writings by historic and contemporary women artists, throughout the semester students in this writing-enriched course will be expected to write informal responses to issues raised in this course, reflections on course readings and works of art considered in class, and a substantive formal research paper. Cross-listed ART 252
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): NONE
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WS 344 DQR - Women & Multicultural Theologies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
How do women theologians from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds understand and discuss God, Jesus, Human Beings, the Bible, Spirituality, Ecology and the Roles of Women in religion and society today? How do North American women “do theology” in their African-American, Latina, Native American, Asian-American, Euro-American and/or socio-economic contexts? What kinds of theology are women theologians in Latin America, Asia and Africa doing? In what ways do race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and nation shape the formation and development of Christian feminist theologies? From multicultural perspectives, this course explores the questions, experiences, values, concerns, and challenges that women bring to the understanding and practice of Christian faith and its implications for building a more just and compassionate world. Cross-listed RS 344 and ETHS 344
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): None
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WS 360 - History of Women in America
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Women in North America and the United States from 1500 to the present. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding how & why ideas about femininity and masculinity have changed over time. Cross-listed HIST 360
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): NONE
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WS 362 - 19th Century American Homophobia
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of the development of homophobia in the US during the last 20 years of the 19th century in response to that era’s discovery of the “homosexual.”
Prerequisite(s): D, E, G, Q, or L-tag and HIST 132 or consent of instructor.
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WS 379 - Indp Stdy: Women’s & Gender Studies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
None
Prerequisite(s): D, E, G, Q, or L-tag and consent of instructor.
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WS 389 2Q - Psychology of Men and Masculinities
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course, through the multidisciplinary nature of topics discussed, allows for students to explore the ways in which they relate to men in their lives and in the world. It is intended that through engagement with community-based agencies that work with boys and men, we will develop a deeper understanding of the very complex ways boys and men are affected by the experiences of growing up male and having people respond to them as male. Through this integration of scholarly works, class discussion, and community involvement, the student will be fostered into becoming a more socially conscious and compassionate member of greater society. This service learning course expects that students participate in 1-2 hours weekly of community engagement outside of class. Cross-listed PSY 389 and COR 230K
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): None
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WS 415A CDQ - Black Women Writers
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course offers a study of selected novels, short stories, and essays by African American women writers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Emphasizing the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and informed by critical studies of race and ethnicity and Black feminist criticism, we will explore the following main questions: What are the major themes and issues in Black women’s literature? What textual strategies do African American women writers employ to represent Blackness, womanhood, and Black womanhood? In what ways do these writers challenge or accommodate dominant discourses of race, gender, class, and sexuality? What does it mean to be a Black feminist reader, and what does it mean for non-Black and/or non-female readers to interpret Black women’s writings? Cross-listed ENG 415A and ETHS 415A
Offered Fall, Spring
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): None
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WS 479 - Indp Stdy: Women’s & Gender Studies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Advanced work in the field of Women’s and Gender Studies. Consent of the instructor required.
Prerequisite(s): D, E, G, Q, or L-tag and consent of instructor.
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WS 480 GQU - Senior Seminar: Women & Gender Std
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is an exploration of the methods, concepts, and experiences of feminism as it is practiced all over the world in different ways. The historical development and cultural mappings of feminism since the second wave will be our main concern, but we will maintain specificity by focusing on particular locations, and on locational concerns. Feminist theorists from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, literature, political science, history and sociology will provide groundwork for our explorations, which will be filled out through case studies, historical texts and literary narratives.
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WS 490 - Women’s & Gender Studies Internship
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Faculty supervised experiential learning in a community setting relevant to women’s and gender studies.
Prerequisite(s): D, E, G, Q, or L-tag and consent of instructor.
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