Courses
The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the Student Link for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.
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CFA TH 484: Lighting Design 6
Prereq: CFA TH 483. An in-depth look at the functions and qualities of light and how to apply them in complex ways within the lighting design for stage. Focus will be placed on your continuing development as a theatre artist and on expanding your knowledge of lighting design. 3.0 credits. Spring semester. -
CFA TH 485: Choreography and Design: Experiments in Light and Movement
Prereq: Instructor Consent; A course intended for lighting designers, actors, directors and dancers to develop theatrical work integrating light and movement. The goal of the course is to provide a workshop environment that fosters the development of new forms of theatrical expression involving light and movement. Weekly assignments involve light sources, movement and light, conventions involving space, time, flow and hue; improvisations; and experimentation with theatrical ideas, character development and storytelling involving light and movement. Rehearsal times on Sundays and Monday evenings expected outside of regular class times. 2.0 credits. Fall semester. -
CFA TH 492: Stage Management 4
Advanced exploration into the role of the Stage Manager within the design, production, and rehearsal process. Discussions will include freelancing, negotiation, networking, how to support a professional career, and contemporary issues in American Stage Management. This course requires additional work outside of class time for engagement in practice-based exercises and rehearsal/performance observations. 3.0 credits. Spring semester. -
CFA TH 495: Production Management
This course will study the role of the Production Manager within the design, production, and rehearsal process, specifically concentrating on the roles and responsibilities of theatrical Production Managing on a professional level, including scheduling, staffing, budgeting, team building, time management and communication. Students will get hands-on experience in each of these through the creation of a theoretical production process, in class discussions and workshops. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression. -
CFA TH 497: Production
Prereq: CFA TH 398; Senior Design & Production BFA candidates; students register for appropriate section based on Production assignment. Meets late afternoons, evenings, and/or weekends. Specific design and shop work in the mounting of student or professional productions. Does not include off-crew design work.Fall semester. -
CFA TH 498: Production
Prereq: CFA TH 398; Senior Design & Production BFA candidates; students register for appropriate section based on Production assignment. Meets late afternoons, evenings, and/or weekends. Specific design and shop work in the mounting of student or professional productions. Does not include off-crew design work. Spring semester. -
CFA TH 499: Directed Study
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CFA TH 501: Directed Study: Dramatic Literature
Prereq: Instructor Consent with approval from advisor and SOT Director; Special faculty directed study in dramatic literature. A statement thoroughly describing the project must be approved by the instructor, advisor and SOT Director prior to registration. May be repeated for credit. Variable credits. Fall semester. -
CFA TH 502: Directed Study: Dramatic Literature
Prereq: Instructor Consent with approval from advisor and SOT Director; Special faculty directed study in dramatic literature. A statement thoroughly describing the project must be approved by the instructor, advisor and SOT Director prior to registration. May be repeated for credit. Variable credits. Spring semester. -
CFA TH 503: BU in LA: Writing for Film/Television
This course is geared towards writers who want to write for film and television but may not have extensive experience or training in those disciplines. It will emphasize re-enforcement of film fundamentals, developing professional samples, and workshopping of material. Students will attend guest-speaker lectures and will have the opportunity to pitch to one or more industry professionals at the end of the course. 4.0 credits. Course offered through Boston University in Los Angeles "Writer in Hollywood" program. -
CFA TH 505: Drama Criticism 1
Workshop in critical discussion and writing. The course offers readings in theory, practice, and history of criticism from Plato to Zola. Emphasis on problems of judgment, acute observation, and methods of analysis. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings. -
CFA TH 506: Drama Criticism 2
Prereq: CFA TH 505 or consent of instructor; An investigation of the literary theories and dramatic criticism of the twentieth century. The course is designed as an extension of the work of Dramatic Criticism 1, which is a prerequisite. 2.0 credits. Spring semester. -
CFA TH 507: Advanced Study in Stage Violence
Prereq: CFA TH 232. Available to junior and senior performance majors with an interest in further study in the arena of stage violence; a more rigorous semester - long training in unarmed combat and one discipline of armed combat, leading to pursuit of SAFD weapon certification in one or both chosen disciplines. -
CFA TH 508: Contemporary British Theatre
Provides students with the critical, philosophical, aesthetic and historical perspectives necessary to understand and enjoy performance in the West End/Fringe, theatre, the urban realm, and cultural site visits to the Royal Courts of Justice, the Freud Museum, and Tate Modern. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings. -
CFA TH 511: Directed Study: Voice and Speech
Prereq: Instructor Consent with approval from advisor and SOT Director; Special faculty directed study in voice and speech. A statement thoroughly describing the project must be approved by the instructor, advisor and SOT Director prior to registration. May be repeated for credit. Variable credits. Fall semester. -
CFA TH 512: Directed Study: Voice & Speech
Prereq: Instructor Consent with approval from advisor and SOT Director; Special faculty directed study in voice and speech. A statement thoroughly describing the project must be approved by the instructor, advisor and SOT Director prior to registration. May be repeated for credit. Variable credits. Spring semester. -
CFA TH 521: Directed Study: Acting
Prereq: Instructor Consent with approval from advisor and SOT Director; Special faculty directed study in acting. A statement thoroughly describing the project must be approved by the instructor, advisor and SOT Director prior to registration. May be repeated for credit. Variable credits. Fall semester. -
CFA TH 522: Directed Study: Acting
Prereq: Instructor Consent with approval from advisor and SOT Director; Special faculty directed study in acting. A statement thoroughly describing the project must be approved by the instructor, advisor and SOT Director prior to registration. May be repeated for credit. Variable credits. Spring semester. -
CFA TH 523: Directed Study: Physical Acting
Prereq: Instructor Consent with approval from advisor and SOT Director; Special faculty directed study in physical acting. A statement thoroughly describing the project must be approved by the instructor, advisor and SOT Director prior to registration. May be repeated for credit. Variable credits. Fall semester. -
CFA TH 524: Directed Study: Physical Acting
Prereq: Instructor Consent with approval from advisor and SOT Director; Special faculty directed study in physical acting. A statement thoroughly describing the project must be approved by the instructor, advisor and SOT Director prior to registration. May be repeated for credit. Variable credits. Spring semester.
