CMST 2040: Introduction to Performing Literature
The study of literature through performance; reading, analysis and performance of
prose, poetry and drama.
ILC - Intercultural Knowledge & Competence
CMST 3040: Performance Composition
Study of the basic principles of performance composition, conventions, and development of strategies and techniques to create original stage performance.
CMST 4145: Collaborative Performance
Theory and methods of adapting and staging nondramatic literature and other materials
for collaborative performance.
For undergraduate or graduate credit
CMST 7945: Performance of Popular Texts
Topics related to solo and group performance of literature; performance theory and
criticism; interrelationships of performance and culture; experimental performance
forms; qualitative research methods.
For graduate credit only
CMST 2200/4400: Practicum in Communication Studies
Course credit for practical experience in HBB activities.
CMST 2012: Introduction to Film
Nature and function of film as a mode of communication; basic language of cinema;
selected films screened and studied.
ILC - Inquiry & Analysis
CMST 3013: Cult Cinema
Cultural history, structure, rhetoric, and performance of the cult cinema.
CMST 3900: Audio Culture
Survey of theories and practice of modern sound.
CMST 4312: Cinema of Agnes Varda
Screen and study the works of this inventive filmmaker & multi-media artist to derive
artistic methods for use in our own creative projects.
Cross-listed with SCRN: 4001.2
TO BE ANNOUNCED