Students must participate fully as an actor or stage manager in the semester's mainstage production.

Students must participate fully as an actor or stage manager in the semester's mainstage production.

This course is designed to spark (or increase) students' enthusiasm for the theatre arts, helping them to understand the roles of the many artists and practitioners involved in the creation of theatre. Students will gain an appreciation for dramatic literature and for the process required to move a play from the page to the stage, and will investigate the varied origins and boundaries of the art form. The class will take every opportunity to involve students in practical exploration of theatre-making.

This course is an introduction to the basics of stage lighting, sound, theatre technology, terminology, and common theatre practices

This course is an introduction to the basics of stage construction, costume construction, theatre technology, terminology, and common theatre practices

Students must fulfil assigned technical crew responsibilities during the semester.

Students must fulfil assigned technical crew responsibilities during the semester.

Students must fulfil assigned technical crew responsibilities during the semester.

Students must fulfil assigned technical crew responsibilities during the semester.

An introduction to the theory and application of probability and statistics for students who have experience with calculus. Topics include data collection, descriptive statistics, probability, random variables and standard distributions, central limit theorem, hypothesis tests, interval estimates, and linear regression. Computer software will be used to display, analyze, and simulate data. The focus will be on biostatistics with applications using data from the life sciences.