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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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  • HSB 245 - A History of Britain


    3 credit(s)
    The study of British history from earliest time to the present, based on the growth and development of the monarchy, the three kingdoms, Empire and Commonwealth, and the modern state. Particular emphasis is given to Alfred, the Norman Conquest, Henry II, the three Edwards, the Lancastrians, Tudors, the late Hanoverians, Queen Victoria, and the House of Windsor. Analysis of the biographical, political, theological, social, economic, and cultural significance of each of these reigns is addressed.
    Prerequisite(s): Any HSB 100-level course.


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  • HTA 130 - Acting I


    3 credit(s)
    In this introductory acting course, the student develops, through exposure to three techniques called Source Work, a means of generating truthful emotion within imaginary given circumstances. As well, the student learns to employ truthful emotion to motivate action and the pursuit of objectives. The student also learns to apply the acquired Source Work techniques to dramatic material and improvisational situations - both solo and with a partner.
    Prerequisite(s): Music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 140 - Rehearsal and Performance I


    1 credit(s)
    In this beginning course, students work as stage managers or assistant stage managers on Hartt School Theatre performances. They are instructed by the Production Stage Manager on the basics of stage management and crew work. Students will finish the performances by either calling the show or being in charge of the backstage area. A laboratory format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): Music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 210 - Voice III


    3 credit(s)
    The goal of the course is a free voice in a free body. The voice and speech training begun in the first year is reinforced, extended, and deepened, with continued attention to the free release of sound and the development of power, stamina, accuracy of articulation, and sensitivity to impulse. The course seeks to integrate the elements of vocal technique for the actor with an exploration of language. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): HTA 111 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 331 - Period Styles Acting VI


    3 credit(s)
    This course is intended as a study of topics and practice of techniques that enhance the student’s professional progression. Students concentrate on acting challenges presented by period specific comedy and drama. Taught in a studio format, the class includes an immersion in Meisner Technique. Students examine material from the leading playwrights of various periods.
    Prerequisite(s): HTA 330 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 340 - History of Music Theatre


    3 credit(s)
    This course is an in-depth study of the evolution of the American musical from the late 19th century to the present. With special focus on the contributions of major theatre composers, lyricists, and librettists, topics include European operetta, revue, musical comedy, musical drama, political satire, the director-choreographer “progressive” musical theatre, and the “theatrical pop event.”
    Prerequisite(s): Open to music theatre majors with junior standing or by permission of instructor.


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  • HTA 360 - Projects I


    3 credit(s)
    This class teaches students how to coordinate a presentation showing work done in all major acting areas: voice, movement, and acting. Instruction includes the selection of scenes, the selection and consistency of a theme, and a determination of the best scenes, given each student’s strengths and weaknesses as an actor. Students are required to present their work in class. Open only to third-year B.F.A. in theatre students.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior status; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 400 - Shakespeare in Text and Performance

    Course Cross-listed with ENG 401  
    3 credit(s)
    The course focuses on a detailed reading of one or two of Shakespeare’s plays, normally those to be presented by the senior actor training students during the spring semester. Additional readings in Shakespeare and in the work of other writers of the age will set these plays in context. Emphasis falls on moving Shakespeare’s text from writing to speaking and on exploring how the written text relates to dramatic performance.
    Prerequisite(s): HTA 300 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 410 - Voice VII


    2 credit(s)
    These courses take the student into an extensive study of the accents and dialects most often used on the English-speaking stage. The course begins with a review of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), introduces different options for achieving accents, introduces accent analysis systems, and culminates with a comprehensive study of the accents of the British Isles (typically, Standard British, Irish, Cockney, and West Country). During the spring semester students continue the work of Voice VII. In addition, the course explores Scottish and Welsh and introduces a variety of international accents (typically, Italian, French, German, and Russian).
    Prerequisite(s): HTA 310 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 411 - Voice VIII


    2 credit(s)
    These courses take the student into an extensive study of the accents and dialects most often used on the English-speaking stage. The course begins with a review of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), introduces different options for achieving accents, introduces accent analysis systems, and culminates with a comprehensive study of the accents of the British Isles (typically, Standard British, Irish, Cockney, and West Country). During the spring semester students continue the work of Voice VII. In addition, the course explores Scottish and Welsh and introduces a variety of international accents (typically, Italian, French, German, and Russian).
    Prerequisite(s): HTA 410 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 412 - Acting for the Camera


    4 credit(s)
    Instruction and practical experience in performing for the camera. Class stresses process and terms used in television and film production from the standpoint of the performer. Regular on-camera experience enables students to study themselves and others on the monitor in order to observe their progress. Differences between film and stage work are emphasized, giving the acting student an overview of the two forms from a production standpoint.
    Prerequisite(s): HTA 331 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 440 - Rehearsal and Performance V


    6 credit(s)
    The advanced class in rehearsal and performance provides students with the opportunity to rehearse and perform under professional circumstances following union guidelines. Teaching occurs within the rehearsal context, and special skills and problems are dealt with in one-on-one situations with faculty coaches. Fourth-year students have a variety of experiences in blackbox and main-stage settings. A studio format is used, and students present a repertoire of four fully mounted plays throughout the fall and spring semesters. These plays are presented to the public. Open only to fourth-year B.F.A. in theatre students.
    Prerequisite(s): Music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 441 - Rehearsal and Performance VI


    3 credit(s)
    The advanced class in rehearsal and performance provides students with the opportunity to rehearse and perform under professional circumstances following union guidelines. Teaching occurs within the rehearsal context, and special skills and problems are dealt with in one-on-one situations with faculty coaches. Fourth-year students have a variety of experiences in blackbox and main-stage settings. A studio format is used, and students present a repertoire of four fully mounted plays throughout the fall and spring semesters. These plays are presented to the public.
    Prerequisite(s): HTA 440 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTA 470W - Current Trends in Professional Theatre


    3 credit(s)
    This course is designed to examine current trends in the production of drama in commercial and not-for-profit (regional) theatre over the last 40 years through the study of contemporary works in American, British, Irish and Music Theatre. This course also reflects the influence specific directors, dramaturgs, producers and other theatre professionals and institutions have upon the initial writing and development of a work. Students learn to dissect a wide range plays and libretti by modern authors and composers (in the case of musicals). The class is conducted in a seminar format with each session driven by individual presentations and discussion questions provided by both the students and instructor.


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  • HTC 104 - Music Theatre Chorus


    1 credit(s)
    In this course first-year music theatre majors put ear-training skills into practical use in the execution of musical theatre literature. Emphasis is placed on the development of a strong work ethic and of proper deportment in a professional rehearsal environment. Repertoire is introduced chronologically to help promote an understanding and appreciation of the development of American musical theatre. Composers and lyricists whose works are studied may include John Gay, Gilbert and Sullivan, Cohan, Herbert, Kern, Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Bernstein.
    Prerequisite(s): Music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTC 105 - Music Theatre Chorus


    1 credit(s)
    In this course first-year music theatre majors put ear-training skills into practical use in the execution of musical theatre literature. Emphasis is placed on the development of a strong work ethic and of proper deportment in a professional rehearsal environment. Repertoire is introduced chronologically to help promote an understanding and appreciation of the development of American musical theatre. Composers and lyricists whose works are studied may include John Gay, Gilbert and Sullivan, Cohan, Herbert, Kern, Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Bernstein.
    Prerequisite(s): HTC 104 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTC 204 - Music Theatre Chorus


    1 credit(s)
    This course for second-year music theatre majors is a continuation of HTC 104-105, with more challenging repertoire introduced and a focus on developing skills that make for strong ensemble singing in the musical theatre genre, including vocal blend, balance, intonation, and diction. Repertoire is introduced chronologically to help promote an understanding and appreciation for the development of American musical theatre. Composers and lyricists whose works are studied may include Loesser, Weill, Adler and Ross, Willson, Lerner and Leowe, Bernstein, Bock and Harnick, Herman, Kander and Ebb, and Coleman.
    Prerequisite(s): HTC 105 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTC 205 - Music Theatre Chorus


    1 credit(s)
    This course for second-year music theatre majors is a continuation of HTC 104-105, with more challenging repertoire introduced and a focus on developing skills that make for strong ensemble singing in the musical theatre genre, including vocal blend, balance, intonation, and diction. Repertoire is introduced chronologically to help promote an understanding and appreciation for the development of American musical theatre. Composers and lyricists whose works are studied may include Loesser, Weill, Adler and Ross, Willson, Lerner and Leowe, Bernstein, Bock and Harnick, Herman, Kander and Ebb, and Coleman.
    Prerequisite(s): HTC 204 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTC 304 - Music Theatre Chorus


    1 credit(s)
    This course for third-year music theatre majors is a continuation of HTC 204-205, with the introduction of increasingly challenging literature from the musical theatre genre and a focus on the development of character while singing by incorporating principles covered in Acting I and II (motivating action, creating subtext, etc.). Repertoire is introduced chronologically to help promote an understanding of and appreciation for the development of American musical theatre. Composers and lyricists whose works are studied may include MacDermot/Rado/Ragni, Sondheim, Schwartz, Hamlisch, Kander and Ebb, Lloyd Webber, Menken and Ashman, Boublil and Schonberg, Ahrens and Flaherty, and Finn.
    Prerequisite(s): HTC 205 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTC 305 - Music Theatre Chorus


    1 credit(s)
    This course for third-year music theatre majors is a continuation of HTC 204-205, with the introduction of increasingly challenging literature from the musical theatre genre and a focus on the development of character while singing by incorporating principles covered in Acting I and II (motivating action, creating subtext, etc.). Repertoire is introduced chronologically to help promote an understanding of and appreciation for the development of American musical theatre. Composers and lyricists whose works are studied may include MacDermot/Rado/Ragni, Sondheim, Schwartz, Hamlisch, Kander and Ebb, Lloyd Webber, Menken and Ashman, Boublil and Schonberg, Ahrens and Flaherty, and Finn.
    Prerequisite(s): HTC 304 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTC 404 - Music Theatre Chorus


    1 credit(s)
    This course for fourth-year music theatre majors is a continuation of HTC 304-05, with emphasis on readying repertoire for public performance situations, including participation in staged readings as part of the Goodspeed New Artists Festival and at the spring showcase for theatre industry professionals in New York and Los Angeles. Performances may include guest appearances in concert with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the annual Hartt School Collage Concert, among others.
    Prerequisite(s): HTC 305 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTC 405 - Music Theatre Chorus


    1 credit(s)
    This course for fourth-year music theatre majors is a continuation of HTC 304-05, with emphasis on readying repertoire for public performance situations, including participation in staged readings as part of the Goodspeed New Artists Festival and at the spring showcase for theatre industry professionals in New York and Los Angeles. Performances may include guest appearances in concert with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the annual Hartt School Collage Concert, among others.
    Prerequisite(s): HTC 404 ; music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTC 488 - Applied Voice


    2 credit(s)
    Applied Voice meets once a week for eight semesters in a fifty-minute, one-on-one private voice lesson format. The first section of the class is devoted to vocal warm-ups and technique development using specific exercises for healthy voice building. The balance of the class is devoted to mastering repertoire suited to the student, and to exploring and preparing songs for juries and auditions. A lab is required with no fee.
    Prerequisite(s): Music theatre or actor training majors only.


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  • HTD 210 - Ballet II


    1 credit(s)
    Intermediate ballet movement, technique, vocabulary, and musicality are developed through this course. Class includes movement work at the barre, stretching, center floor, traveling, and traveling combinations. Work is explored in different tempos and styles. This course includes body conditioning with an emphasis on placement and the basic fundamentals of ballet technique. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): HTD 111 ; music theatre majors only.


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  • HTD 211 - Ballet II


    1 credit(s)
    Intermediate ballet movement, technique, vocabulary, and musicality are developed through this course. Class includes movement work at the barre, stretching, center floor, traveling, and traveling combinations. Work is explored in different tempos and styles. This course includes body conditioning with an emphasis on placement and the basic fundamentals of ballet technique. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): HTD 210 ; music theatre majors only.


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  • HTD 412 - Tap IV


    .5 credit(s)
    This course works on tap dancing technique and movement on a professional level. Focusing on advanced elements of tap dancing and audition techniques, also dancing within an ensemble as well as an individual. There is a required ability of musicality and style for this course so that performance qualities maybe honed. Class consists of a warm-up, center work, traveling movement and movement combinations. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): HTD 313  or permission of instructor.


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  • HTD 413 - Tap IV


    .5 credit(s)
    A continuation of HTD 412 . This course works on tap dancing technique and movement on a professional level. Focusing on advanced elements of tap dancing and audition techniques, also dancing within an ensemble as well as an individual. There is a required ability of musicality and style for this course so that performance qualities maybe honed. Class consists of a warm-up, center work, traveling movement and movement combinations. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s):  HTD 412  or permission of instructor.


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  • HTD 414 - Jazz IV


    .5 credit(s)
    This course is to study technical jazz dance and its execution on an advanced to professional level, with an emphasis on musical theater styles, social and ethnic dance forms, and professional audition techniques. Class consists of a standing, seated and floor warm-up, stretching, full body conditioning, center technique work, traveling and movement combinations. There is an emphasis on advanced dance and coordination skills as well as body placement. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): HTD 315  or permission of instructor.


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  • HTD 415 - Jazz IV


    .5 credit(s)
    A continuation of HTD 414 . This course is to study technical jazz dance and its execution on an advanced to professional level, with an emphasis on musical theater styles, social and ethnic dance forms, and professional audition techniques. Class consists of a standing, seated and floor warm-up, stretching, full body conditioning, center technique work, traveling and movement combinations. There is an emphasis on advanced dance and coordination skills as well as body placement. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): HTD 414  or permission of instructor.


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  • HUB 120 - World Archaeology


    3 credit(s)
    An introduction to humanities-based archaeology, exploring visual culture and historic processes. This course recounts our collective journey from early hominids to anatomically modern Homo sapiens, paying special attention to the development of ancient Old World and New World civilizations. The fine arts are examined in relationship to their wider context as part of larger systems within early societies: economic and subsistence patterns, social stratigraphy, and ritual structures. Focusing on art, architecture, and semiotics, the course surveys the beginnings of complex urban cultures and ceremonial centers in preclassical Europe, as well as Africa, Australia, and the Americas before European contact.
    Visual resource fee.


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  • HUB 200 - Perspectives on Globalization


    3 credit(s)
    Globalization is difficult to understand precisely because its dynamic form seems to outpace any single perspective from which to grasp it. This course takes up the challenge by critically assessing the vast array of global theories. It embraces the plurality of theories by looking at globalization from economic, environmental, biological, and sociological accounts. It addresses the often virulent impasse between those who celebrate globalization as a manifest destiny of economic freedom and those who see it as the final phase of imperialism, colonialism, and international capitalism.
    Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.


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  • ILS 340 - Drawing for Animation


    3 credit(s)
    An intermediate-level course building on skills taught in Drawing for Illustration and introducing new concepts with an emphasis on animation principles. Focus of the course is on developing advanced sketching principles in preparation for clearly visualizing compositions and forms leading toward producing final illustrations for animation. Skills in perspective, proportion, and anatomy are reviewed and expanded through close examination of the human figure and its placement in space, the effect of various lighting situations, and the rendering of costumes, props, and surroundings. Projects involve the construction of sets, models, and imagined scenes as reference for fully realized drawings. Hand-drawn 2-D animation is introduced and explored through a variety of assignments analyzing the movement of objects in space and drawn in preparation for animation. Maquettes are built to investigate character design and to aid in understanding the third dimension in preparation for stop-motion animation.
    Prerequisite(s): ILS 289 .


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  • ILS 345 - 3-D Illustration Studio


    3 credit(s)
    3-D Illustration Studio is a studio art course that builds on the skills learned in Digital Illustration. Students will develop basic skills of designing an original character or object from initial sketches to modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering a 3-D character using industry standard software. The finished character or object will be incorporated into a painted or 3D background and developed into a digital illustration using digital imaging software. Classes will cover 3-D Computer Graphics programs to create 3-D illustrations, as well as 3-D environmental visual development and matte painting. Lectures, critiques and drawing will be a part of every class.
    Prerequisite(s): ILS 336  or permission of instructor.
    Laboratory fee.


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  • ILS 360 - Illustration Internship I


    3 credit(s)
    This course is designed for illustration majors participating in the internship program. Internships are offered to provide students with exposure to various illustration-related working environments. Placement in an internship is determined in consultation with the department faculty and the internship coordinator. Grading is on a Pass/No Pass basis only. Internship experiences may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, 2.5 GPA, and permission of instructor.


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  • ILS 361 - Illustration Internship II


    3 credit(s)
    This course is designed for illustration majors participating in the internship program. Internships are offered to provide students with exposure to various illustration-related working environments. Placement in an internship is determined in consultation with the department faculty and the internship coordinator. Grading is on a Pass/No Pass basis only. Internship experiences may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, 2.5 GPA, and permission of instructor.


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