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Fall & Summer 2023 T D Course Restrictions

Fall & Summer 2023 T D Course Restrictions

Course restriction information is only for current Theatre and Dance majors to review.  Non-majors, please refer to this page for information. 


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I tried to register for an open T D course that should be available to me, but it gives me an error message, what do I do?

This likely means the remaining seats are reserved for certain students who need to take it in order to graduate in a timely manner.  You’re welcome to add yourself to the waitlist, if available.  For instructions on how to add to a waitlist, please refer to the Wiki page: Registration & Waitlist Examples.


SUMMER 2023

There are no T&D courses offered this summer.  


FALL 2023

--  LOWER-DIVISION  --

T D 302S  ARTS INTEGRATIONS FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS           

Want to be ready to impress future employers with your creativity, collaboration, and communication? The arts are your answer. This arts-based course is designed to stimulate students’ thinking and expand students’ knowledge of and experience in how to integrate the arts and creativity in school, community, and work contexts. Through readings, activities, discussions, facilitations, and written and creative reflections, you will develop a practical understanding of the techniques and skills associated with integrating the arts and creativity into everything you do. Students will experience each art content area (dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts) to develop an introductory understanding of each of these disciplines. The remainder of the course will be spent exploring the teaching skills and creative competencies necessary to integrate two of the four arts disciplines –theatre and visual arts or music and dance—into a range of disciplines e.g., arts in education (it's excellent for pre-service teachers!), arts in business, arts in community development, etc.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 306 INTRO TO IMPROVISATIONAL DRAMA

This course introduces students to the skills, concepts, and underlying theory of improvisation, introducing students to short and long-form improvisation. Students will develop the ability to recognize and follow impulse, take risks, make bold choices, create spontaneously in the moment, communicate non-verbally, collaborate and work within an ensemble.

No Instructor Consent Required.
(Priority goes to BA Performer's Process majors graduating in the fall.)

T D 212 Freshman Movement/Physical Conditioning

(Restricted to incoming BA/BFA Dance majors)

T D 312M Movement Improvisation

This course introduces Contact Improvisation as a groundbreaking postmodern dance practice that focuses on spontaneous movement between dancers in physical contact. Students engage with touch, weight-sharing, and nonverbal communication to compose dance in the moment. Exercises emphasize the development of mind/body awareness, functional movement patterns, and improvisational modes of thinking. Rather than learning predetermined steps, students explore new possibilities for movement and creative process through embodied curiosity and focused play.

(Restricted to BA/BFA Dance majors)

T D 313E  ACTING III

(Unique # 26665 is Restricted to BFA Acting majors)

T D 313F  Voice & Movement I, T D 313K Voice Laboratory I, T D 313M Movement Laboratory I

(Restricted to BFA Acting majors)

T D 314P  Production Laboratory

See Production Lab Wiki

T D 315  Playwriting I

No Instructor Consent Required.
(Priority goes to BA Playwriting/Directing majors, All other students may need to add to waitlist.)

T D 316D  Directing I

No Instructor Consent Required.  
(
Priority goes to UTeach Theatre students going into their Junior year & specific BA students going into their Senior year.  All other students please add to waitlist.)

T D 317C  THEATRE HISTORY THRU 18TH CENTURY

No Instructor Consent Required.  
(
Priority goes to UTeach Theatre & BFA Acting students going into their Second year & specific BA students going into their Senior year.  All other students may need to add to waitlist.)

T D 317M  Dance History I

No Instructor Consent Required.  
(
Priority goes to BA/BFA Dance students & specific BA History/Literature/Dramaturgy students going into their Junior/Senior year.  All other students may need to add to waitlist.)

--  UPPER-DIVISION  --

T D 320J  Intro to Creating New Media              

Introduces student actors to strategies to grow as generative artists and master the basics of a few common media production tools to give their creative voice a broader reach in the world.  
(Restricted to BFA Acting majors, others may ask for instructor consent)

T D 323P ADV PROJECTS IN ACTING & DIRECTING             

This is credit for students cast in a T&D main stage production or working on an Independent Study.  Please contact Mark-Anthony to request an Independent Study Contract. 

T D 324P Advanced Production Laboratory

See Production Lab Wiki

T D 325 Playwriting II             

No Instructor Consent Required.
(Priority goes to BA Playwriting/Directing majors, All other students may need to add to waitlist.)

PREREQUISITE: TD 315 Playwriting I

T D 326C  Creative Drama I

No Instructor Consent Required.
(Priority goes to UTeach Theatre students going into their Junior year & specific BA TYC students going into their Senior year.  All other students may need to add to waitlist.)

T D 326D  Young Audiences

No Instructor Consent Required.
(Priority goes to UTeach Theatre students going into their Sophomore/Junior year & specific BA TYC students going into their Senior year.  All other students may need to add to waitlist.)

T D 626E  Directing the Young Performer

No Instructor Consent Required.
(Restricted to UTeach Theatre students going into their Senior year.)

T D 332M  CHOREOGRAPHY I

PREREQUISITE: T D 312N Movement Composition   
(
Priority goes to BA/BFA Dance students going into their Senior year.  All other Dance majors please add to waitlist.)

CHOREOGRAPHY I w/Leah Cox
The primary aim in Choreography I is to increase your capacities as a creator, collaborative leader, and artist citizen through experimentation and play. You will engage in open-ended and focused movement research sessions; create work alone and in collaboration; attend performances and watch works of dance online; read texts written by and inspiring to dance artists; and develop your dance literacy and fluency through informal writing and class discussions that foster creative and critical thinking.  You’ll spend significant time exploring process and creating informal products to increase your confidence as an adventurous maker.  This course is a required course for all dance majors and is ideally taken after having taken Improvisation and Composition. Graduate and undergraduate makers coming from other areas of performance creation (actors, playwrights, performance artists, etc.) are welcome to join the course and should reach out to the instructor for permission. This course includes a lab time. 

CHOREOGRAPHY I w/Erica "EG" Gionfriddo: Dance For Camera
This course is an introductory experience to movement composition for the camera and, more broadly, for the screen. We will draw on our existing familiarity with cameras and screens and hone our understanding of crafting presence there. We will draw on our understanding of stage and live performance to identify intersections with the screen. We will interrogate the ways in which our body responds to witnessing and being witnessed by the lens of a camera and the lenses of our eyes. We will develop foundational technical skills in visual composition, shooting, and editing. We will practice recognizing those foundational elements by viewing and responding to a wide variety of dance films. Our explorations will manifest in the creation of your original dance film. Graduate and undergraduate makers coming from other areas of performance creation (actors, playwrights, performance artists, etc.) are welcome to join the course and should reach out to the instructor for permission.This course includes a lab time. 

T D 332R  DANCE PEDAGOGY

(Priority goes to BA/BFA Dance students going into their Senior year & BFA Dance Education students going into their Junior year.  All other students please add to waitlist.)

T D 351T  THEATRE FOR YOUTH TOUR          SCHROEDER-ARCE, ROXANNE

Course credit for cast & crew working on The Smartest Girl in the World.  
Other students may also request to join the Education Outreach Team.   Guided by DTYC graduate student Mateo Hernandez, the team will explore themes in the play, attend rehearsals, design the materials, and engage directly with youth at some of the schools.  This course will make performance work with and for community partners to explore access/inclusion/belonging at The Art Galleries for Black Studies and The Blanton Museum of Art.  No formal museum experience required beyond an interest in using theatrical strategies and performance to support increase engagement in museum exhibitions through critical and creative thinking. Teaching artists, directors, actors, dancers, playwrights, designers and stage managers area all encouraged to register!

Instructor Consent Required.

T D 352T FLOOR BARRE          MEADOR, RACHEL

Floor-Barre® is a gentle, highly effective, therapeutic method. Exercises are executed lying on the floor to focus inward, working muscles deeply and intelligently. Without the pressure of gravity. Floor-Barre® lengthens, corrects alignment and strengthens joints.  Rachel is currently the only certified Floor-Barre® instructor in Texas and brings this cross training to students and professional dance artists of all levels.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 352T HIP HOP DEVISING          

Students learn about freestyle and improvisation as performance through the study of various dance forms under the umbrella of Hip Hop (Wacking/Punking, Break dancing, grooves and funk styles etc.)

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 353D ACTING AND THE CAMERA I          DOUGLAS, LUCIEN                                                  

Fundamentals of acting for the camera; adjusting from the stage to the demands of the camera.
(Restricted to BFA Acting majors, others may ask for instructor consent)

T D 353K VOICE-OVER AND NARRATION              ALLEN, COREY

This course will cover the basics of professional voice-overs, voice acting and audio narration.
(Restricted to BFA Acting majors, others may ask for instructor consent)

T D 353Q  PORTFOLIO PREPARATION              

Selection and rehearsal of materials in preparation for professional acting interviews and auditions. 
(Restricted to BFA Acting majors, others may ask for instructor consent)

T D 353T ACTING SHAKESPEARE   CANCELED

Incorporating language as action by applying basic acting principles to the demand of Shakespearean text.
(For Non-BFA Acting majors) 

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 353T PERFORMANCE LAB VIEWPOINTS TRAINING           

In this course students will learn and practice the Viewpoints Training, developed by Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. As an early company member of the SITI Company, Professor KJ Sanchez will lead this practicum examination of the Viewpoints: an extremely helpful and expansive way to help theatre makers, practitioners and scholars best utilize time and space. This class is for actors, writers, directors, dramaturgs, designers... anyone interested in making dynamic, kinesthetic theatre. 

No Instructor Consent Required. 

T D 353T Voice and Movement                     

(For Non-BFA Acting majors) 

No Instructor Consent Required. 

T D 354T Costume, Lighting, Scenery Design Skills

Priority goes to specific BA students first.  

Then seats go to UTeach Theatre students going into their Senior year that need one more semester of 354T
& to UTeach Theatre students going into their Junior year that need two semesters of 354T.   

All other students please add to waitlist.

Students may not enroll in two or more sections of these topics.  If you receive an error message when trying to register, then please add to waitlist.

T D 354T  Costume Design Skills        ACOSTA, NANETTE               

This course will give students an introduction to Costume Design. It is a hands-on course that covers costume design from concept to completed costume design, including script analysis, character development, color theory, research, rendering & visual expression of ideas, fabric selection, measuring and fitting the performer, as well as practical costume paperwork. Each student will be able by course end to confidently design costumes for a performance piece.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T Lighting Design Skills       HABECK, MICHELLE      CANCELED - SEE TD 354T LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY

This class will introduce the student to the fundamentals and skills of lighting design and the process path from research to actual application.  Students will be exposed to basic lighting practices, common theatrical lighting terms, and standard equipment used in most theatrical events.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T  Scenery Design Skills          LARATTA, LISA

This course is structured around the skills related to the development and communication of scenic environments for theatre and/or film.  Included in the course will be practice in script analysis, research, drafting, and model-making. Each student will learn and practice these skills in the individual completion of a scenic design for a play based on consideration of story, character, and the requirements of the plot.

No Instructor Consent Required.