2023/24 Courses
You may be surprised to learn that many Theatre Arts production courses teach physics and engineering; some of those course titles include: Lighting Design, Technical Production, Projections Design, Sound Design, Elegant Solutions, Advanced Technical Production, Scenic Design, Scene Painting, Pattern Drafting and Costume Crafts. You can also learn practical skills such as project planning, carpentry, painting, drafting, a variety of sewing, millinery, and much more!
Our classes are open to ALL UO Students. If you do not have the pre-requisites required for a Theatre Arts course, please email the instructor.
Theatre Arts Majors/Minors must pass all TA courses with a C or better.
Course Offerings for 2023 – 2024
| FALL | WINTER | SPRING | Major Requirement | Minor Requirement | |
| Lower Division | |||||
| TA 210- Introduction to Design | ■ | ■ | Group I | Technical Theatre | |
| TA 211 Theatre Production I | ■ | ■ | Group I | Technical Theatre | |
| TA 212 Theatre Production II | ■ | ■ | Group I | Technical Theatre | |
| TA 250 Introduction to Acting | ■ | ■ | ■ | Group I | Acting |
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TA 251: Acting Scene Study |
■(TBD) | ■(TBD) | (optional) | Acting (TA 250 Req) | |
| TA 252: Acting Auditions | ■(TBD) | ■(TBD) | (optional) | Acting (TA 250 Req) | |
| TA 271: Introduction to Theatre | ■ | Group I | Literature/Criticism | ||
| Upper Division | |||||
| TA 367 Theatre History I | ■ | Group I | Theatre History | ||
| TA 367 Theatre History II | ■ | Group I | Theatre History | ||
| TA 367 Theatre History III | ■ | Group I | Theatre History | ||
| TA 411 Costume History I | ■ | IIIB | Theatre History | ||
| TA 412 Costume History II | ■ | IIIB | Theatre History | ||
| TA 419 Costume Construction | ■ | IIIA | Technical Theatre | ||
| TA 441 Scenic Design | ■ | IIIA | Technical Theatre | ||
| TA 445 Stage Management | ■ | IIIA | Technical Theatre | ||
| TA 445 Advanced Production | ■ | IIIA | Technical Theatre | ||
| TA 445 Scenic Painting | ■ | IIIA | Technical Theatre | ||
| TA 445 Properties Design & Construction | ■ | IIIA | Technical Theatre | ||
| TA 467: Lighting for The Stage | ■ | IIIA | Technical Theatre | ||
| TA 452: Advanced Acting | ■ (Shakespeare) | ■ (TBD) | ■ (Meisner) |
IIIA | Acting (TA 250, 251, 252 Req) |
| TA 471: Studies in Theater and Culture | ■ (History of Stage Design)* |
IIIB | Literature/Criticism | ||
| TA 472: Multicultural Theater | ■ (Native Theatre) |
IIIB | Literature/Criticism | ||
| TA 490: Theatre Capstone | ■ (Playwriting) |
■ (TBD) |
Theatre Capstone** | Literature/Criticism |
■ indicates number of sections offered
*History of Stage Design- can count as Theatre History or Literature/Criticism for TA minors
**TA 490- If the Theatre Capstone Requirement is already met for TA majors, this course could count as a IIIA (Playwriting, Directing, or Devising) or IIIB (Dramaturgy). If a substitution is required, please email asu5@uoregon.edu with your name, 95#, and request.
This schedule is subject to change based on program needs and staffing.
See also, UO Class Schedule and the Theatre Arts UO Catalogue
Production Credits
Theatre Arts Majors: If you would like to enroll in Production Credits (TA 321-324) please contact Janet Rose to see what production positions are available for Spring Term. Janet’s email: jrose@uoregon.edu
To complete your Theatre Arts major, you have to complete three production assignments. You are encouraged to try as many different specialities as possible, but can do the same type of credit (example: TA 322- Costume production) for three separate productions.
EXPANDED COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
TA 210- Intro to Design
Tu/Th 10:00-11:20
Instructor: Jerry Hooker
Description: Introduction to the principles of design as applied to the arts of theater design, scenery, costumes, and lighting. Creative projects to develop concepts of visual imagery. Includes laboratory.
Other notes:
TA Majors: Required, Fulfills “Group I” requirement.
TA Minors: Fulfills a lower-division credit in the “Performance” category.
TA 211- Theater Production I
Tu/Th 10:00-11:20
Lecture: Bradley Branam
Description: TBA. Includes laboratory.
Other notes: Multiple lab day and time options
TA Majors: This course is required, fulfills the “Group I” requirements.
TA Minors: Fulfills a lower-division credit in the “Technical Theatre” category
TA 250: Introduction to Acting (3 Sessions)
MWF: 10:00AM-11:50pm Shams
MWF: 12:00pm-1:50 pm Schmor
MWF: 4:00pm-5:50pm Rdoley
Description: Continuation of performance principles for contemporary realistic theater with the addition of dramaturgical scene study. Application required (link below); pre-requisite: Completion of Acting I with a C or better. NO Prerequisites.
All experience levels are welcome!
TA Majors: Required, Fulfills “Group I” requirement.
TA Minors: Fulfills a lower-division credit in the “Performance” category.
TA 369- History of Theatre I
MWF 12:00-1:20
Instructor: Michael Najjar
Required for TA Majors & Fulfills TA Minor Requirements, Open to all UO Students.
Description: A survey of classical western theatre’s development from the origins of drama in ancient Greece through to Renaissance literature and stagecraft. As theatre is an artform directly invested in and reflective of its cultural moment, including trends in all other art forms, faiths and philosophies, politics and economic conditions, this survey includes not only study of plays and shifts in theatrical conventions but how these relate to broader cultural characteristics of the three main classical periods: the Greco-Roman, the Medieval, and Renaissance. Key questions guiding lectures, discussion, and readings for all three periods are: How does theatre as function politically, both as social mediator and in the literal uses of stagecraft as statecraft?
What is the relationship in western classical theatre to exercise and questions of faith? What are the different aesthetic concerns in the making of theatre which might reflect larger cultural beliefs regarding beauty and the abject? Students are encouraged throughout the term to recognize inherited assumptions and questions which emerge from studying western theatre’s classical periods , most especially the formation of “woman,” shifting views of the body and the erotic, ideas of identity and community, in different theatrical practices and texts. Plays studied for this course change annually, but in the past have included works by Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes, Plautus, Machiavelli, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Calderon.
Students take a variety of quizzes in class on their weekly readings, one mid-term and one final examination. The main writing project involves interdisciplinary exercise of the kinds of research dramaturgs, directors, and designers do in developing background and perspectives for production of classical plays.
TA Majors: Required, Fulfills the “Group I” requirement.
TA Minors: Fulfills an upper-division credit in the “Theatre History” category
TA 411/511: Costume History I
MWF 10:00-11:50a
Instructor: Jeanette deJong
TA Majors: Fulfills the “Group IIIB” requirement.
TA Minors: Fulfills an upper-division credit in the “Literature/Criticism” category
Description Coming Soon
TA 445/545 Top Stage Management
Tu/Th 12:00PM-1:50PM
Instructor: Janet Rose
TA Majors: Fulfills the “Group IIIA” requirement.
TA Minors: Fulfills an upper-division credit in the “Technical Theatre” category
Description Coming Soon
TA 452 Top Acting Shakespeare
MWF 2:00-3:50
Instructor: John Schmor
Topics in the performance of a specific genre or authors, or in specific performance technique, including voice, movement, and musical skills. Repeatable when topic changes.
TA Majors: Fulfills the “Group IIIA” requirement.
TA Minors: Fulfills an upper-division credit in the “Performance” category
TA 467/567- Lighting for the Stage
Time & CRNs Coming soon!
Instructor: Janet Rose
TA Majors: Fulfills the “Group IIIA” requirement.
TA Minors: Fulfills an upper-division credit in the “Technical Theatre” category
Open to first-year and sophomore students, as well as upper-level students.
TA 490 (Theatre Arts Capstone)- Playwriting
TR 10:00a-11:50a
Instructor: Michael Najjar
TA Majors: Fulfills the Group I Capstone Requirement; if you have already completed a Capstone requirement, this course can be used to fulfill a IIIA requirement, with instructor permission.
TA Minors: Fulfills an upper-division credit in the “Technical Theatre” category