Performing and Media Arts (PMA)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

PMA 1104

"Women don't fit well into a trench coat and slouch hat," Marilyn Stasio has observed, yet female detectives can be found solving crimes and busting bad guys across media. Drawing from TV, film, fiction ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20685 PMA 1104   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PMA 1119

Imagine a world with no war, violence, or injustice. For centuries, storytellers have envisioned such utopias. This course examines the powerful allure perfected tomorrowlands exert, especially over trans, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20499 PMA 1119   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Due to the overlap in material, you will not receive credit for this class if you have previously taken FGSS 1119.

PMA 1160

Fantastic places often cut into reality with a "subtle knife" or fold it via tesseract. Transported to timeless noplaces masquerading as whimsical flights of fancy, like Neverland or Oz, we enter a wardrobe ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20496 PMA 1160   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PMA 1161

Ours is a food-obsessed culture. Whether we focus on diet and health, or binge-watch competitive cooking shows, or explore cuisine in relation to regional, racial, or ethnic identity, many of us either ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20179 PMA 1161   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PMA 1171

What is paradise? Is it a cruise through the Bahamas? Or an all-inclusive stay in Punta Cana? Is paradise the same for those who must live where you vacation? view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20180 PMA 1171   SEM 101

    • TR Upson Hall 152
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • De La Rocha Goico, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PMA 1173

This course examines the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality through an investigation of the cultural productions and political theories of marginalized communities. We will engage with historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20199 PMA 1173   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PMA 1174

The 1920s saw the transition in the United States from being a majority rural nation to a majority urban one. A century later, though rural populations have shrunken, their symbolic space on the American ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20201 PMA 1174   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PMA 1175

"Hell is a teenage girl" are the first words uttered by Anita Lesnicki in the 2009 comedy-horror Jennifer's Body. In this course, we will analyze how various themes and experiences of girlhood are explored ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20202 PMA 1175   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PMA 1410

The Media Production Lab course is a series of self-contained lecture/workshops on various topics in the production of film and video on-set and on-location. The workshops will be hands on experience with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  5013 PMA 1410   LAB 401

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • 19363 PMA 1410   LAB 402

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 1610

This technology lab will provide students with a foundation of the production process through experiential learning of scenographic practices. Students will learn about the technical production processes ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  6308 PMA 1610   LAB 401

    • TR
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Bernstein, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 1611

Perform in a departmental theatre or film production, or dance concert. Research a role, develop a character, and perform for a live or mediated audience in a faculty supervised production. Explore choreography ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5183 PMA 1611   STU 501

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 1700

What makes us laugh, and what doesn't? How does laughter vary from person to person, place to place, and across time? What work does laughter perform? Is it contagious? What does it mean to have (or lack) ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18020 PMA 1700   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 2280

The training and practice of skills for the spontaneous collaborative composition of movement performance. Students hone their abilities to invent and respond to each other and their environment to produce ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • 19512 PMA 2280   STU 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 2300

Students compose and present short studies that are discussed and reworked. Problems are defined and explored through class improvisations. Informal showing at end of semester. Includes informal showing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3300PMA 4300VISST 2511

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6363 PMA 2300   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 2465

This course introduces Korean popular culture in global context. Beginning with cultural forms of the late Chosŏn period, the course will also examine popular culture during the Japanese colonial period, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 2269ASIAN 2269SHUM 2269

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9869 PMA 2465   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 2610

Learn what it means to run a live show. Participate as part of a team to ensure all the elements work together and on time. Learn the intricacies of collaborating with a production group to create a unified ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  3808 PMA 2610   LAB 401

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Bernstein, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Graded

  •  5092 PMA 2610   LAB 403

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Cross, W

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 2611

This lab will give students practical experience as an assistant stage manager in the organization and management of a theatrical or mediated production; in rehearsals, in technical rehearsals ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Desdemona

  • 11173 PMA 2611   LAB 401

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Milles, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 2660

In this introductory course, participants will study the economic and technological history of the television industry, with a particular emphasis on its manifestations in the United States and the United ... view course details

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  • 18277 PMA 2660   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18282 PMA 2660   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi:
  • 18283 PMA 2660   LEC 002

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 2670

This course aims to give students a good historical and critical grounding in Shakespeare's drama and its central and continuing place in Renaissance culture and beyond. We will read poetry and primarily ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2270

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5460 PMA 2670   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 2800

An introduction to the actor's technique and performance skills, exploring the elements necessary to begin training as an actor, i.e., observation, concentration, and imagination. Focus is on physical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  3830 PMA 2800   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This class is now open enrollment on-line. If the class is full please place your name on the wait-list.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  3572 PMA 2800   DES 502

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This class is now open enrollment on-line. If the class is full please place your name on the wait-list.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  3573 PMA 2800   DES 503

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This class is now open enrollment on-line. If the class is full please place your name on the wait-list.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  5906 PMA 2800   DES 504

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This class is now open enrollment on-line. If the class is full please place your name on the wait-list.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 21084 PMA 2800   DES 505

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3000

Independent study allows students the opportunity to pursue special interests not treated in regularly scheduled courses. A faculty member, who becomes the student's instructor for the course, must approve ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3574 PMA 3000   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Simms, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4647 PMA 3000   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Goelzer, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4648 PMA 3000   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4649 PMA 3000   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Bernstein, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4650 PMA 3000   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Palmer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4651 PMA 3000   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5086 PMA 3000   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Bunn, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4652 PMA 3000   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Milles, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4653 PMA 3000   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4654 PMA 3000   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4655 PMA 3000   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Fowlkes, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4656 PMA 3000   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Sheppard, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4657 PMA 3000   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Suber, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4834 PMA 3000   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4835 PMA 3000   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4836 PMA 3000   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Cross, W

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4837 PMA 3000   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Gainor, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5985 PMA 3000   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kim, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PMA 3210

Intermediate Western classical dance technique. Work is done on strengthening the body through a movement technique emphasizing presence and musicality based on harmonic muscular control. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  3579 PMA 3210   STU 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3214

This course explores dance across multiple stages—TikTok videos, concert halls, streets—to assess how people create, sustain, and challenge markers of difference (race, gender, sexuality, ability, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3214

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9839 PMA 3214   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3226

How does the social production of dance reflect its historical context? Is dance inherently political? What is the meaning of the "beautiful" in dance? Beginning with 16th century court dances, we will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 19498 PMA 3226   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3300

Intermediate choreographic projects are critiqued in progress by faculty and peers. Consideration of design problems in costuming and lighting.  Weekly assignments in basic elements of choreography. Students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 2300PMA 4300VISST 2511

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3581 PMA 3300   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3464

This course is designed to explore the varied ways that race and gender intersect with the media industry. While common industrial logic suggests these descriptors of identity are not a factor in terms ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 19526 PMA 3464   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3490

An introduction (without prerequisites) to fundamental problems of current political theory, filmmaking, and film analysis, along with their interrelationship.  Particular emphasis on comparing and contrasting ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3300GERST 3550GOVT 3705

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18128 PMA 3490   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3531

This course explores the fundamentals of writing for the screen. The course format will include creative writing assignments, class discussion, screenings and workshop. Students will produce short film ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6329 PMA 3531   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Fill out google form for enrollment consideration - https://forms.gle/fndLZmMoDVtTfbEP7.

PMA 3534

This course explores the fundamentals of writing for television. The course format will include creative writing assignments, class discussion, screenings, readings, and workshop. Students will produce ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20384 PMA 3534   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3544

From videophones to walkie-talkies, transatlantic tunnels to interstellar travel, or perpetual motion to wireless energy, science fiction frequently presents visions of the future based on radical media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18085 PMA 3544   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Library 311
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Born, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3550

Global Cinema I and II together offer an overview of international film history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: COML 3261PMA 6550VISST 3175

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4831 PMA 3550   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18234 PMA 3550   LAB 401

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3570

An introduction to filmmaking, students will learn to create compelling characters, as well as develop strong storytelling skills through basic character and story development and breakdown, cinematography, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4845 PMA 3570   STU 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3571

Documentary Filmmaking will equip. students with the knowledge to produce quality short, socially and culturally conscious, documentaries that express an interesting story. This course covers the aesthetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18036 PMA 3571   STU 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3580

Film is a language that expresses the director's idea and cinematography is a key component of the language of film. You need to develop visual storytelling skills by blending lights, camera movements, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19511 PMA 3580   STU 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3609

This experiential learning class offers performance opportunities in the Department of Performing and Media Arts.  Students selected for 3609 projects will learn how to think about and realize artistic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Desdemona

  • 19336 PMA 3609   STU 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3610

Based on previous coursework and experience, students may be offered the opportunity to participate as an apprentice in a mentored PMA creative project.  The apprentice experience and number of credits ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  3575 PMA 3610   STU 501

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  4788 PMA 3610   STU 502

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  4789 PMA 3610   STU 503

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3614

A course working on the creation and development of characters on paper. The character designs explored will not be bound by the limits of the human body or physical costumes, but rather will push the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4830 PMA 3614   STU 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3616

This course explores the evolution of western dress from the time of the ancient Egyptians to the early twentieth century by focusing on areas of the human anatomy and how each area has been presented, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18057 PMA 3616   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3680

Covering the basics of digital audio, bioacoustics, psychoacoustics and sound design, as they apply to theatre, film and music production. Students create soundscapes for text and moving image using ProTools ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3431

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4827 PMA 3680   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3431

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6288 PMA 3680   DES 502

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3711

Jews have been on TV since the beginning of the medium – over 70 years – and have made decisions about how they are represented. What kind of Jews do we put on screen, and do they actually represent Jews ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17934 PMA 3711   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3750

This course is designed to introduce students to a range of historical, cross-cultural, and transnational performance texts, theories, and practices; to motivate students to examine the broad social, political, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3571 PMA 3750   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3758

How has theatre shaped our notion of America and Americans in the second half of the 20th century and beyond?  What role has politics played in the theatre?  How has performance been used to examine concepts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3370ENGL 3370

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18092 PMA 3758   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3800

Practical exploration of the actor's craft through exercises in physical and psychological action, improvisation and scene study. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5373 PMA 3800   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3801

Class members will expand their acting skills via specific projects, approaches and methodologies of the instructors' choosing to develop scripted and/or original material for in-class study ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Love and Information

  • 18062 PMA 3801   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 3880

Focused, practical exercises teach the student fundamental staging techniques that bring written text to theatrical life. A core objective is to increase the student's awareness of why and how certain ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 3798

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5168 PMA 3880   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4000

In this advanced undergraduate-level seminar, all senior majors synthesize four years of study in a collaborative intellectual and artistic project with the faculty. Over the course of the fall semester, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5024 PMA 4000   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4300

Students work on advanced choreographic problems, to be presented in performance. Work in progress is critiqued by faculty members on a regular basis. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 2300PMA 3300VISST 2511

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3582 PMA 4300   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4451

Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5574 PMA 4451   LEC 001

    • MW Malott Hall 207
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4680

To explore cultural aspects of imprisonment through a focus on theatre produced by those incarcerated.  Does making theatre in prison seem to assist in transformation? Students create work with PPTG members ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one laboratory. Combined with: SHUM 4860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18240 PMA 4680   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Students must be 21 years of age to attend this class

  • 18245 PMA 4680   LAB 401

    • F
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4681

This course explores the increasing presence of all the arts in prisons throughout the country and examines the increasing scholarship surrounding arts programs and their efficacy for incarcerated persons. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4681PMA 4681

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9881 PMA 4681   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18132 PMA 4681   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4681PMA 4681

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18131 PMA 4681   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4684

This interdisciplinary seminar brings together critical theory and global visual arts to analyze the problem of work over the long twentieth century. By focusing on the labor of visual artists and their ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18894 PMA 4684   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4692

Media is a notoriously unwieldly concept, at once self-evident and generalizable beyond the bounds of conceptual utility. Yet one feature that tends to inhere in both the narrowest and broadest of definitions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18944 PMA 4692   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4711

Camp is one of the predominant, organizing aesthetic structures of the twentieth century and continues to make important impacts in the twenty-first. With attention to a range of historical, philosophical, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 6711

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18207 PMA 4711   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4800

This class focuses on advanced challenges for the stage presented by particular authors or plays that have a particular stylistic or structural demand. Focuses on advanced challenges for the stage. Monologues ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18071 PMA 4800   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4821

This course interrogates new theoretical understandings about space and how bodies marked by various types of difference (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, fatness, ability, and socioeconomic class) ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 6821

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9882 PMA 4821   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 4950

First of a two-semester sequence (the second is PMA 4951) for seniors engaged in an honors project. Honor guidelines and form. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  3867 PMA 4950   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5065 PMA 4950   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Goelzer, C

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5453 PMA 4950   RSC 703

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Simms, J

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5454 PMA 4950   RSC 704

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kim, D

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6118 PMA 4950   RSC 705

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Stratford, A

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

PMA 4951

Second of a two-semester sequence (the first is PMA 4950) for students engaged in an honors project. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4829 PMA 4951   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

PMA 4952

Academic credit can only be awarded for unpaid internships. Students must submit an Application for Academic Credit by April 15. The Application for Academic Credit must be received/approved prior to the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  4846 PMA 4952   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PMA 6021

This class is designed to introduce doctoral students to Humanistic Research Methods. While qualitative and quantitative research methods are humanistic, this course serves as an added layer of context ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19513 PMA 6021   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 6550

Global Cinema I and II together offer an overview of international film history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: COML 3261PMA 3550VISST 3175

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4833 PMA 6550   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18257 PMA 6550   LAB 401

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 6684

This interdisciplinary seminar brings together critical theory and global visual arts to analyze the problem of work over the long twentieth century. By focusing on the labor of visual artists and their ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18899 PMA 6684   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 6692

Media is a notoriously unwieldly concept, at once self-evident and generalizable beyond the bounds of conceptual utility. Yet one feature that tends to inhere in both the narrowest and broadest of definitions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18948 PMA 6692   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 6711

Camp is one of the predominant, organizing aesthetic structures of the twentieth century and continues to make important impacts in the twenty-first. With attention to a range of historical, philosophical, ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4711

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18208 PMA 6711   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 6821

This class interrogates new theoretical understandings about space and how bodies marked by various types of difference (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, fatness, ability, and socioeconomic class) interact ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4821

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10355 PMA 6821   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 7000

Independent study in performing and media arts allows graduate students the opportunity to pursue special interests not treated in regularly scheduled courses. A faculty member, who becomes the student's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  3809 PMA 7000   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Aldape Munoz, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  3810 PMA 7000   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Bunn, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  3811 PMA 7000   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Warner, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  3812 PMA 7000   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  3813 PMA 7000   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  4645 PMA 7000   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Gainor, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  4646 PMA 7000   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kim, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5559 PMA 7000   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Balance, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5564 PMA 7000   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Sheppard, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  • 21273 PMA 7000   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Russo, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PMA 7100

Provides graduate students in the field of Performing and Media Arts an opportunity to work directly with a faculty member to explore pedagogical theory and practice in undergraduate theatre classes in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3576 PMA 7100   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Gainor, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5440 PMA 7100   SEM 102

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5827 PMA 7100   SEM 103

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Simms, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PMA 9900

Graduate student course while working on thesis and research for dissertation. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3814 PMA 9900   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4727 PMA 9900   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4728 PMA 9900   RSC 703

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4729 PMA 9900   RSC 704

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Gainor, J

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4730 PMA 9900   RSC 705

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Warner, S

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4731 PMA 9900   RSC 706

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research