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 154P  PROJECTS IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY             

(Unique # 26935 is Restricted to BA Stage Management majors)

T D 354T DRAWING THE STORY BOARD          BUCHANAN, JASON

Learn to plan and draw a set of sequential drawings used to tell a story—a graphic organizer that helps to illustrate a narrative.  Used often in entertainment applications like film, TV, theatre, gaming, and immersive experiences, storyboards are also valuable in the development of advertising videos or demonstrating a production process.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY          BOONE, DAVID 

Lighting Technology will cover the duties of a Lighting Technician (Entertainment Electrician) from the basics of hanging and focusing to the more comprehensive of communicating with Lighting Designers and configuring consoles, dimmers, networks, and other elements of the lighting and electrical system. Students will be given hands-on opportunities throughout the semester in class and in the installation of productions.

Instructor Consent Required.

(Priority goes 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 & BA Lighting majors.  All other students may need to add to waitlist.)

T D 354T LIVE EVENT ENGINEERING          SMITH, MATTHEW 

Course examines a variety of design elements controlled over live entertainment networks. More specifically we will be exploring hardware and software components and how they communicate with one another to execute a variety of designs. This Hybrid section will include a Rotation of students attending in-person any given day. The students enrolled will be divided into groups and notified by the instructor which class days each student should expect to participate in the physical classroom and which days they should expect to participate online.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T MATERIAL MEDIA AND MOVEMENT        AREVALO, DAVID &  FREER, KATE

Explore collaboration between bodies, technology, materials, and movement in the creation of wearable and interactive artifacts. Experiment with cutting edge practices in both digital media and costume fabrication including wearable tech, responsive body mapping, 3D printing and body mounted sensors. 

Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T SCENE PAINTING / ENVIRONMENTAL RENDERING         MANESS, KAREN

The course will explore the drawing and painting of architecture, natural environments, fabric, and surface finishes for the entertainment industry. Students will gain hands-on experience through tabletop sized projects. The skills learned in this course will support work in both physically constructed and digitally created narrative environments. Applicable careers for this training include scenic art, scenic design, art direction, game design, themed attraction, muralist, and concept artist.

Instructor Consent Required

T D 354T SOUND SEMINAR         OWEN, PHILLIP

This course will examine the fundamental aspects of the umbrella term: Sound Design. The goal of this skill-development course is to develop the ability to understand and execute the technical and mechanical sound and audio needs of a theatrical production and how they relate to the creative aspect of generating a design. This includes, but is not limited to: an understanding of sound physics, sound reinforcement, mixing, digital audio workstations, cueing & playback, and troubleshooting. Sound Design has come into its own as a design discipline like scenic, costume, and lighting. It requires unique knowledge and skillsets that require study and practice, while drawing from a myriad of backgrounds and experiences the student may already possess. This course will be tailored to those backgrounds and experiences, and provide the student with an introduction to Sound Design, preparing them to take the course 354T Sound Design in the Spring.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T PORTFOLIO FOR DESIGNERS          HABECK, MICHELLE

This course explores the study and preparation of students' work as it relates specifically to their chosen career including business plan, resume, CV, website, business card, and portfolio. The course examines interviewing techniques and professional networking methodologies for beginning, sustaining, and archiving a professional career. 

Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T  TAILORING I          AREVALO, DAVID

Fundamental theory and techniques in tailoring for the live performer. 

Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T Projection Design                                         

Lab/seminar hybrid page to stage class: Introduction to the creative and technical design process in the field of projection and media design for live performances. Students will realize two designs.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 354T Stage Management          CLOYES, RUSTY

This course covers the specific aspects of the stage management process for a theatrical production—from auditions, through rehearsal and performance—including the function of various members of the production team, and how the stage manager’s interaction with each member of this team varies.  Special consideration will be placed on the stage manager as the hub of communication for a production.

No Instructor Consent Required.
(Priority goes to incoming BA Stage Management majors, All other students may need to add to waitlist.)

T D 357T /  F A 371  THE BUSINESS OF SELF-MARKETING          Bonin-Rodriguez, Paul & Treatman, David

Co-taught by producer David Treatman (Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, and podcasts), this course teaches emerging creative professionals how to package themselves, how to network and generate opportunities, and how to deploy the fundamentals of law and relationship management to protect their work and pursue lasting success in creative enterprises.

Whether you are an artist, an investment banker, or just out with your friends, you are always in the business of selling “you.“ The stories that we tell about ourselves, to ourselves and to others, can mean the difference between opening doors or closing them. This course draws on real-world examples, theoretical reading, and practical application of class concepts to confidently and effectively pursue their dreams.  From collaborating effectively, to understanding basic contracts, to creating and getting opportunities in an opaque industry, this course prepares students with essential business skills. While this course is designed for students who will pursue a career in entertainment or the arts, it is applicable to anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit.

No Instructor Consent Required.

T D 357T CONFRONTING LGBTQ OPPRESSION          NGUYEN, QUYNH-HUONG

Peers for Pride (PfP) is a peer facilitation program of the Gender and Sexuality Center.  Students will take two courses during the academic year in partnership with the Gender for Women’s Gender Studies.  During the program, students build applied theatre, critical analysis, and facilitation skills as they build the workshop “What Do Thriving Queer Communities Look Like?” Students create message scenes and activating scenes in the workshop to share skills and build space for conversation and accountability across LGBTQIA+ communities and with supporters of LGBTQIA+ communities. Through their facilitation and reflection after workshop facilitation, students continue to build a knowledge of performance-based social justice facilitation in higher education and of intersectional LGBTQIA+ realities.

Instructor Consent Required.  This is the first course of a two-semester sequence.
To Apply: please fill out this online application and someone from the Gender and Sexuality Center’s Education Team will contact you in 1-3 business days to schedule a 30-60 minute informal meeting (via Zoom or in person) prior to course registration. This 1:1 allows for the teaching team to understand your learning goals, co-curate possible topics for the fall semester as we believe power sharing and knowledge are reciprocal, and for us to begin to connect with each other before class starts as community building is vital and central to the course ethics.
 
Application Deadline: For priority consideration, submit application by August 1st or prior to the first class of fall semester but there is no firm deadline.