Performing and Media Arts|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• PMA 1128 - FWS: Arts Writing: Journalism and Public Media
• PMA 1130 - FWS: Going Undercover: Radical Undercover Journalism and the (re)creation of Self
• PMA 1132 - FWS: Boyfriendtwin: Queer Uncanny Doppelgangers
• PMA 1136 - FWS: Staging Truth in an Age of “Alternative Facts”
• PMA 1137 - FWS: Adapt and Revise: History through Theatre and Performance
• PMA 1138 - FWS: Playing with History: Reviewing the Past through Performance
• PMA 1139 - FWS: Broad Comedy: Funny Women and their Fans
• PMA 1140 - FWS: Testimonial (In)justice on the Documentary Stage
• PMA 1141 - FWS: Performing Dreams and Telling Stories

Courses:

• PMA 1200 - Dance Technique I (crosslisted)
• PMA 1320 - Indian Dance (crosslisted)
• PMA 1410 - Media Production Laboratory
• PMA 1610 - Production Laboratory
• PMA 1611 - Rehearsal and Performance
• PMA 1640 - Computing in the Arts (crosslisted)
• PMA 1670 - Student Laboratory Theatre Company
• PMA 2220 - Dance Technique II/Modern (crosslisted)
• PMA 2270 - [Public Voice and Civic Gesture] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2280 - [Dance Improvisation]
• PMA 2300 - Beginning Dance Composition (crosslisted)
• PMA 2403 - [Africa in Hollywood] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2493 - [Middle Eastern Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2510 - Film Festival Production Lab
• PMA 2560 - [American Cinema] (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 2611 - Stage Management Laboratory
• PMA 2620 - Performing Death and Desire: Vampires on Stage and Screen
• PMA 2633 - [Music as Drama: An Introduction to Opera] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2635 - The Comic Theater (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 2681 - Shakespeare and the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (crosslisted)
• PMA 2682 - Shakespeare on Stage
• PMA 2800 - Introduction to Acting
• PMA 2830 - [The Expressive Voice]
• PMA 2901 - Spanish Performance Studio: RVVR Caberet Literario
• 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 - Global Dance I
• PMA 3227 - [Global Dance II] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3232 - [Topics in Western Art Music from 1750 to the Present] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3300 - Intermediate Dance Composition I
• PMA 3350 - Technology and the Moving Body I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3351 - Transpositioning the Body I
• 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 3441 - Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles (crosslisted)
• PMA 3461 - Introduction to African American Cinema (crosslisted)
• PMA 3463 - Contemporary Television
• PMA 3481 - [Imagining Migration in Film and Literature] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3490 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3505 - [Blaxploitation Film and Photography] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3511 - [Media in Transit] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3514 - Cinema of the Weimar Republic (crosslisted)
• PMA 3520 - Light and Image (crosslisted)
• PMA 3522 - [Dark Passages: Film Noir] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3531 - Screenwriting
• PMA 3533 - Screen and Story: Script Analysis (crosslisted)
• PMA 3550 - Global Cinema I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3551 - Global Cinema II (crosslisted)
• PMA 3570 - Introduction to Visual Storytelling
• PMA 3571 - Documentary Filmmaking
• PMA 3609 - Making Theatre: Rehearsal and Production Techniques
• PMA 3610 - Intermediate Production Laboratory
• PMA 3614 - Creative Character Design
• PMA 3615 - Costume Construction Studio
• PMA 3616 - The Body of Fashion: A Head-to-Toe Journey through the History of Western Dress
• PMA 3620 - Lighting Design Studio I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3626 - CAD Studio for Theatre Design
• PMA 3640 - Scenic Design Studio
• PMA 3641 - Film Production Design Studio: Designing the Next Batman Film
• PMA 3650 - Automated Lighting and Control Systems
• PMA 3660 - Costume Design Studio
• PMA 3670 - Themed Entertainment: The Technical Perspective
• PMA 3671 - Stagecraft Studio
• PMA 3680 - Sound Design (crosslisted)
• PMA 3690 - [Music, Dance, and Light] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3702 - [Desire and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3724 - The Tragic Theatre (crosslisted)
• PMA 3746 - [The Modernist Stage: Plays/Theories/Practices] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3747 - Staging Faith: Contemporary Theatre and Lived Religions (crosslisted)
• PMA 3750 - Global Stages I
• PMA 3751 - Global Stages II
• PMA 3754 - Spoken Word, Hip-Hop Theater, and the Politics of the Performance (crosslisted)
• PMA 3755 - [Queer Performance] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3757 - American Drama and Theatre (crosslisted)
• PMA 3800 - Acting II
• PMA 3805 - Playwriting I
• PMA 3806 - [Uncanny Figures and Unsettled Places: Postcolonial and Transnational Drama] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3815 - Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life
• PMA 3860 - [Solo Performance]
• PMA 3865 - On the Fringe - New Plays in Development
• PMA 3880 - Fundamentals of Directing I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3885 - Stage Combat: Technique, Staging, Analysis
• 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 4222 - Advanced Dance Technique
• PMA 4225 - Mapping the Moving Body II
• PMA 4230 - Pre-Professional Technique & Repertory
• 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 4371 - Performing Modernism in the Chinese Body (crosslisted)
• PMA 4372 - Performativity in Paris
• PMA 4412 - [Playing out Difference: History and Identity in Sports Film] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4420 - Cinematography I
• PMA 4422 - [Narrative Filmmaking + Social Justice]
• PMA 4440 - [Screening the Environment] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4462 - [Federico Fellini] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4501 - Special Topics in Cinema and Media Theory
• PMA 4505 - Playwriting II
• PMA 4512 - [What was Film?] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4532 - Advanced Screenwriting
• PMA 4570 - [Intermediate Film and Video Projects]
• PMA 4585 - Advanced Film and Video Projects (crosslisted)
• PMA 4607 - Advanced Undergraduate Practice as Research in Dance
• PMA 4608 - Advanced Undergraduate Practice as Research in Design
• PMA 4609 - Advanced Undergraduate Practice as Research in Directing
• 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 4680 - Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Transformation
• PMA 4701 - Nightlife (crosslisted)
• PMA 4710 - Late Theory
• PMA 4800 - Advanced Scene Study
• PMA 4801 - Advanced Studies in Acting Techniques
• PMA 4805 - [Parody] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4806 - [Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Theorizing Performance] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4820 - Agents of Change: Community Organizing for the Public Good (crosslisted)
• PMA 4825 - Staging Dissent: Theater and Social Change
• PMA 4835 - [Performance Studies: Theories and Methods] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4841 - [States of Animation]
• PMA 4865 - [The Female Dramatic Tradition] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4880 - Fundamentals of Directing II
• PMA 4950 - Honors Research Tutorial I
• PMA 4951 - Honors Research Tutorial II
• PMA 4952 - Undergraduate Internship
• PMA 6501 - Special Topics in Cinema and Media Theory
• PMA 6532 - Advanced Screenwriting
• PMA 6550 - Global Cinema I
• PMA 6551 - Global Cinema II
• PMA 6600 - Proseminar in Theatre Studies
• PMA 6609 - Making Theatre: Rehearsal and Performance
• PMA 6610 - [Theorizing Media & Performance]
• PMA 6701 - Nightlife (crosslisted)
• PMA 6710 - Late Theory
• PMA 6755 - [Queer Performance] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6760 - [Passionate Politics] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6806 - [Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Theorizing Performance] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6825 - Staging Dissent: Theater and Social Change
• PMA 6835 - [Performance Studies: Theories and Methods] (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 7312 - Vocality and Embodiment (crosslisted)
• PMA 9900 - Thesis and Research Projects