Performing and Media Arts|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• PMA 1115 - FWS: Riot Acts: Public Performance and Protest
• PMA 1119 - FWS: Horton Foote to Honey Boo Boo: South in the US Imaginary
• PMA 1120 - FWS: You’ve Got Time: An Introduction to Prison and its Representation
• PMA 1121 - FWS: New Media Art & Technology
• PMA 1122 - FWS: We Can Be Heroes: Superheroes and their Audiences
• PMA 1123 - FWS: The Rise of the Director
• PMA 1124 - FWS: Introduction to New Media Art: History, Theory, and Practice
• PMA 1125 - FWS: The Undead…Live! Vampires on Stage

Courses:

• PMA 1200 - Dance Technique I (crosslisted)
• PMA 1320 - Indian Dance (crosslisted)
• PMA 1410 - Media Production Laboratory
• PMA 1610 - Production Laboratory
• PMA 1611 - Performance Laboratory
• PMA 1640 - [Computing in the Arts] (crosslisted)
• PMA 1670 - [Student Laboratory Theatre Company]
• PMA 2210 - [Dance Technique II/Classical] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2220 - Dance Technique II/Modern (crosslisted)
• PMA 2261 - [Hip Hop, Dance, and Asian America] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2270 - Public Voice and Civic Gesture (crosslisted)
• PMA 2280 - [Dance Improvisation]
• PMA 2300 - Beginning Dance Composition (crosslisted)
• PMA 2493 - [Middle Eastern Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2540 - Introduction to Film Analysis: Meaning and Value (crosslisted)
• PMA 2560 - [American Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2565 - [Cinema and Migration] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2600 - Fundamentals of Performance Design and Technology
• PMA 2605 - [Theater, Sport, and Spectacle: Performance and Competition in Greece and Rome] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2610 - Production Crew Laboratory
• PMA 2633 - Music as Drama: An Introduction to Opera (crosslisted)
• PMA 2635 - The Comic Theatre (crosslisted)
• PMA 2640 - [Theatrical Makeup Studio]
• PMA 2650 - The American Musical (crosslisted)
• PMA 2660 - [Television] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2670 - Shakespeare (crosslisted)
• PMA 2680 - Desire (crosslisted)
• PMA 2704 - Sounds of Protest (crosslisted)
• PMA 2730 - [Introduction to Dramatic Writing]
• PMA 2800 - Introduction to Acting
• PMA 2810 - Acting I
• PMA 2830 - [The Expressive Voice]
• PMA 2681 - Shakespeare and the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (crosslisted)
• PMA 3000 - Independent Study
• PMA 3210 - Dance Technique III/Classical (crosslisted)
• PMA 3220 - Dance Technique III/Modern (crosslisted)
• PMA 3225 - Mapping the Moving Body I
• PMA 3226 - [History: The Body in Performance]
• PMA 3227 - The Moving Body in Media and Performance (crosslisted)
• PMA 3230 - [Writing Dance Criticism]
• PMA 3232 - Topics in Western Art Music from 1750 to the Present (crosslisted)
• PMA 3235 - [Dance Repertory]
• PMA 3300 - Intermediate Dance Composition I
• PMA 3350 - [Technology and the Moving Body I] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3351 - Transpositioning the Body I
• PMA 3380 - Ancient/Modern Corpo-Realities (crosslisted)
• PMA 3381 - [Queer(ing) Europe]
• PMA 3400 - [Eastern European Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3410 - [Screening Cosa Nostra: The Mafia and the Movies from Scarface to The Sopranos] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3411 - [Rome on Film] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3431 - Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian Cinema (crosslisted)
• PMA 3436 - Location of European Film History
• PMA 3437 - Poetic Montage
• PMA 3440 - [American Film Melodrama] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3441 - [Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3444 - [Animation Workshop: Experimental and Traditional Methods]
• PMA 3445 - [Animation History and Practice]
• PMA 3465 - [The Global Gangster] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3470 - The Moving Image and the Environment
• PMA 3481 - Imaginative Arts of Migration (crosslisted)
• PMA 3490 - Political Theory and Cinema (crosslisted)
• PMA 3505 - Blaxploitation Film and Photography (crosslisted)
• PMA 3515 - Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics (crosslisted)
• PMA 3530 - [International Film of the 1970s] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3531 - Screenwriting I
• PMA 3532 - Screenwriting II
• PMA 3550 - Global Cinema I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3551 - Global Cinema II (crosslisted)
• PMA 3570 - Introduction to 16mm and Digital Filmmaking
• PMA 3590 - [Modern Documentary Film] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3610 - Intermediate Production Laboratory
• PMA 3614 - Creative Character Design
• PMA 3615 - Costume Construction Studio
• PMA 3616 - Costume History: From Fig Leaf to Vanity
• PMA 3620 - Lighting Design Studio I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3626 - CAD Studio for Theatre Design
• PMA 3640 - Scenic Design Studio
• PMA 3650 - Automated Lighting and Control Systems
• PMA 3660 - Costume Design Studio
• PMA 3661 - [Costume Design Studio II]
• PMA 3670 - Themed Entertainment: The Technical Perspective
• PMA 3671 - Stagecraft Studio
• PMA 3680 - Sound Design (crosslisted)
• PMA 3690 - Music, Dance, and Light (crosslisted)
• PMA 3723 - [Opera and Culture] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3724 - The Tragic Theatre (crosslisted)
• PMA 3725 - [Words and Music] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3735 - [Puppetry: Comic, Dramatic, and Political] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3745 - Modern British Drama on Stage and Screen (crosslisted)
• PMA 3750 - Global Stages I
• PMA 3751 - Global Stages II
• PMA 3755 - [Queer Performance] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3757 - American Drama and Theatre (crosslisted)
• PMA 3758 - [Contemporary American Theatre on Stage and Screen] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3761 - [Literature and Film of South Asia] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3770 - Shakespeare: The Late Plays (crosslisted)
• PMA 3775 - Global Shakespeare (crosslisted)
• PMA 3800 - [Acting II]
• PMA 3805 - Playwriting I
• PMA 3815 - Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life
• PMA 3840 - [Commedia: A Contemporization of Physical Acting Styles and the Comic Approach]
• PMA 3860 - Solo Performance
• PMA 3865 - On the Fringe - New Plays in Development
• PMA 3870 - [The Expressive Body]
• PMA 3871 - [Introduction to Meisner Technique]
• PMA 3880 - Fundamentals of Directing I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3886 - [Shakespeare Out Loud] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3900 - [Special Topics]
• PMA 4000 - Senior Studio
• PMA 4080 - Seminar in Dance Studies
• PMA 4190 - American Shakespeare (crosslisted)
• PMA 4210 - Dance Technique IV/Classical (crosslisted)
• PMA 4220 - Dance Technique IV/Modern (crosslisted)
• PMA 4225 - Mapping the Moving Body II
• PMA 4300 - Advanced Dance Composition I
• PMA 4301 - Advanced Dance Composition II
• PMA 4350 - [Technology and the Moving Body II] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4351 - Transpositioning the Body II
• PMA 4358 - [Dancing the Stone: Body, Memory, and Architecture] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4370 - [50’s Movie Musicals and Modernism]
• PMA 4371 - [Performing Modernism in the Chinese Body] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4462 - Federico Fellini (crosslisted)
• PMA 4530 - [Film and Spiritual Questions]
• PMA 4540 - [Jung, Film, and the Process of Self-Knowledge]
• PMA 4550 - [Film/History/Ideology: The Polish Case]
• PMA 4560 - [Seminar I in Cinema]
• PMA 4561 - [Seminar II in Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4570 - Intermediate Film and Video Projects: Documentary
• PMA 4585 - Advanced Film and Video Projects (crosslisted)
• PMA 4610 - Advanced Production Laboratory
• PMA 4620 - Lighting Design Studio II (crosslisted)
• PMA 4640 - [Scene Design Studio II]
• PMA 4650 - Text Analysis for Production: How to Get from the Text onto the Stage (crosslisted)
• PMA 4660 - Adaptation: Text/Theatricality (crosslisted)
• PMA 4670 - [Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Seminar] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4675 - [Shakespeare in (Con)text] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4780 - Animation, Automata, Biomimesis (crosslisted)
• PMA 4800 - Advanced Scene Study
• PMA 4801 - Advanced Studies in Acting Techniques
• PMA 4805 - Parody (crosslisted)
• PMA 4825 - [Staging Dissent: Theater and Social Change]
• PMA 4835 - [Performance Studies: Theories and Methods] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4840 - [Gossip] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4841 - States of Animation
• PMA 4865 - [The Female Dramatic Tradition] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4866 - Practicum in Performance Criticism and Dramaturgy (crosslisted)
• PMA 4875 - [Seminar in Playwriting]
• PMA 4880 - [Fundamentals of Directing II]
• PMA 4950 - Honors Research Tutorial I
• PMA 4951 - Honors Research Tutorial II
• PMA 4952 - Undergraduate Internship
• PMA 4964 - U.S. Pop Music and Racial Common Sense (crosslisted)
• PMA 6441 - [Aesthetics of Excess: Psycho-Philosophical Approaches to Cinematic Technologies] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6540 - Introduction to Film Analysis: Meaning and Value (crosslisted)
• PMA 6550 - Global Cinema I
• PMA 6551 - Global Cinema II
• PMA 6600 - Proseminar in Theatre Studies
• PMA 6610 - [Theorizing Media & Performance]
• PMA 6650 - [Camp, Kitsch, and Trash] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6700 - [Melodrama, Modernism, and Modernity] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6760 - [Passionate Politics] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6825 - [Staging Dissent: Theater and Social Change]
• PMA 6835 - [Performance Studies: Theories and Methods] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6840 - [Gossip] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6841 - States of Animation
• PMA 6865 - [The Female Dramatic Tradition] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6866 - Practicum in Performance Criticism and Dramaturgy (crosslisted)
• PMA 7000 - Independent Study for Graduate Students in Theatre
• PMA 7100 - The Pedagogy of Theatre
• PMA 9900 - Thesis and Research Projects