Undergraduate Performance Courses
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 3900: Audio Culture
Survey of theories and practice of modern sound.
CMST 2200/4400: Practicum in Communication Studies
Course credit for practical experience in HBB activities.
Undergraduate Film Courses
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 3012: History of Film
Survey course on the development of film as a phenomenon of cultural and aesthetic communication as well as a set of technologies and industrial practices. We will screen and study films that are especially significant to selected developments in the history of cinema, focusing on American and European cinemas.
Undergraduate/Graduate Bridge Courses
CMST 4142: Pandemic Performance
This course will look at the events surrounding the global shutdown of 2020 and its effects on live theater, with a focus on the innovative ways that performing artists continued to create, perform, and engage with audiences both near and far. Students will watch, listen, and participate in performances created for telephone, postal mail, drive-ins, Zoom, and other online platforms, as inspiration for their own original performances.
Graduate Performance Courses
CMST 7943: Seminar in Performance & Culture
Theories and research exploring the relations between performance and culture central to the field of Performance Studies. Emphasis on two main trajectories: performance as a subject of cultural inquiry and performance as a method of cultural invention.
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