Performing and Media Arts|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• PMA 1125 - FWS: The Undead…Live! Vampires on Stages and Screens
• PMA 1161 - [FWS: Food and the Media]
• PMA 1168 - FWS: Your Fave is Problematic: Media, Fandom, and Race
• PMA 1178 - FWS: Hip-Hop’s Global Vibrations (NYC, LA, Southeast Asia)
• PMA 1179 - FWS: Witch Hunts, Welfare, and Warfare: A Cultural History of Reproductive Medicine
• PMA 1180 - FWS: Femininities: Race, Feminism, and Media
• PMA 1181 - FWS: Love and The Environment
• PMA 1182 - FWS: Speaking Bodies, Dancing Knowledge in the Caribbean

PMA Courses:

• PMA 1320 - Indian Dance (crosslisted)
• PMA 1410 - Media Production Laboratory
• PMA 1610 - Production Technology Laboratory
• PMA 1611 - Rehearsal and Performance
• PMA 1641 - Introduction to Storytelling
• PMA 1670 - Student Laboratory Theatre Company
• PMA 1700 - [Laughter]
• PMA 2000 - Media Studies Minor Colloquium
• PMA 2100 - Introduction to Performing and Media Arts
• PMA 2220 - Dance Technique II/Modern
• PMA 2221 - Contemporary Movement Practices
• PMA 2280 - Dance Improvisation
• PMA 2300 - Dance Composition (crosslisted)
• PMA 2301 - Screendance: History and Practice
• PMA 2452 - [Introduction to Japanese Film] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2403 - Africa in Hollywood (crosslisted)
• PMA 2404 - Story Ideation, Creation, and Development
• PMA 2460 - Japanese Pop Culture (crosslisted)
• PMA 2493 - [Middle Eastern Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2501 - Playing out Difference: History and Identity in Sports Film (crosslisted)
• PMA 2540 - How to Watch Movies: Introduction to Film Analysis (crosslisted)
• PMA 2560 - American Cinema (crosslisted)
• PMA 2610 - Production Crew Laboratory
• PMA 2611 - Stage Management Laboratory
• PMA 2621 - Introduction to Asian American Performance (crosslisted)
• PMA 2640 - Theatrical Makeup Studio
• PMA 2652 - Ancient Greek Drama (crosslisted)
• PMA 2660 - [Television] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2670 - Shakespeare (crosslisted)
• PMA 2680 - [Desire] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2681 - [Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2683 - American Shakespeare (crosslisted)
• PMA 2701 - Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Intersections (crosslisted)
• PMA 2703 - Thinking Media (crosslisted)
• PMA 2720 - [Introduction to Latina-o-x Performance] (crosslisted)
• PMA 2800 - Introduction to Acting
• PMA 3000 - Independent Study
• PMA 3010 - Latinx Theatre Production (crosslisted)
• PMA 3104 - Sound, Music, Public Space (crosslisted)
• PMA 3210 - Classical Dance Technique
• PMA 3214 - Dance in America: Cultures, Identities, and Fabrication (crosslisted)
• PMA 3215 - Performance and Immigration:Staging the Migrant, Alien, and Refugee in and outside the US (crosslisted)
• PMA 3226 - Global Dance and Decolonizing Movement
• PMA 3241 - Site-Specific to Immersive Dance Theater: Choreography for Unconventional Formats and Spaces
• PMA 3242 - [Choreographing Community: From Civic to Public and Socially Engaged Artmaking]
• PMA 3350 - Technology and the Moving Body I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3410 - [Screening Cosa Nostra: The Mafia and the Movies from Scarface to The Sopranos] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3420 - Asian Americans and Popular Culture (crosslisted)
• PMA 3425 - Deaf Art, Film and Theatre (crosslisted)
• PMA 3461 - [Introduction to African American Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3463 - Contemporary Television (crosslisted)
• PMA 3464 - Representational Ethics in Film and Television (crosslisted)
• PMA 3466 - [Film Festivals and Independent Cinema]
• PMA 3504 - Writing the Pilot
• PMA 3505 - [Blaxploitation Film and Photography] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3510 - Documentary Production Fundamentals (crosslisted)
• PMA 3531 - [Screenwriting]
• PMA 3533 - [Screen and Story: Script Analysis] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3535 - TV Writing: Hour Long
• PMA 3550 - Global Cinema and Media (crosslisted)
• PMA 3570 - Film and Video Production I
• PMA 3571 - Documentary Filmmaking
• PMA 3580 - Cinematography and Visual Storytelling
• PMA 3610 - Creative Apprenticeship
• PMA 3614 - Creative Character Design
• PMA 3615 - [Costume Construction Studio]
• PMA 3616 - [The Body of Fashion: A Head-to-Toe Journey through the History of Western Dress]
• PMA 3630 - Scenic and Lighting Design for Performance Studio I
• PMA 3631 - Project: Terrarium Imagined; World Building Through Allegory
• PMA 3632 - Production Design for Film, Television and Contemporary and Digital Media Studio I
• PMA 3633 - Out of Body Performance: Puppets and Animation
• PMA 3660 - Costume Design Studio I
• PMA 3661 - Costume Design Studio II
• PMA 3680 - Sound Design (crosslisted)
• PMA 3702 - [Desire and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3740 - Parody (crosslisted)
• PMA 3750 - Global Theatre and Performance
• PMA 3754 - [Spoken Word, Hip-Hop Theater, and the Politics of Performance] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3755 - [Staging Gay and Transgender Histories] (crosslisted)
• PMA 3757 - American Drama and Theatre (crosslisted)
• PMA 3758 - American Theater on Stage and Screen II (1960-Present) (crosslisted)
• PMA 3770 - Shakespeare: The Late Plays (crosslisted)
• PMA 3800 - Acting II
• PMA 3801 - [Intermediate Studies in Acting Techniques]
• PMA 3805 - Playwriting I
• PMA 3814 - Public Speaking: Contexts, Techniques and Analysis
• PMA 3816 - [The Actor and the Camera]
• PMA 3841 - Immersive Performance: Investigating the Experiential
• PMA 3880 - Fundamentals of Directing I (crosslisted)
• PMA 3887 - [Shakespeare Studio: Devising Shakespeare for Performance]
• PMA 4000 - Senior Studio
• PMA 4358 - [Dancing the Stone: Body, Memory, and Architecture] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4401 - Advanced Documentary Production (crosslisted)
• PMA 4403 - Black Cult Media
• PMA 4422 - Technology in Music Performance (crosslisted)
• PMA 4451 - [Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian Cinema] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4501 - Special Topics in Cinema and Media Theory
• PMA 4532 - Advanced Screenwriting
• PMA 4585 - Film and Video Production II (crosslisted)
• PMA 4605 - [Oscar Wilde] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4670 - Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Seminar (crosslisted)
• PMA 4671 - Funny Business: Stand Up Comedy and Its Social, Political, and Cultural Importance
• PMA 4680 - Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Transformation (crosslisted)
• PMA 4681 - Cages and Creativity: Arts in Incarceration (crosslisted)
• PMA 4695 - Queer Archives and Archiving Queerness (crosslisted)
• PMA 4701 - Nightlife (crosslisted)
• PMA 4711 - [Camp: Aesthetics and Politics]
• PMA 4800 - [Advanced Scene Study]
• PMA 4801 - Advanced Studies in Acting Techniques
• PMA 4835 - Performance Studies: Theories and Methods (crosslisted)
• PMA 4841 - [States of Animation]
• PMA 4866 - [Practicum in Performance Criticism and Dramaturgy] (crosslisted)
• PMA 4880 - Fundamentals of Directing II
• PMA 4950 - Honors Research Tutorial I
• PMA 4951 - Honors Research Tutorial II
• PMA 4952 - Undergraduate Internship
• PMA 5104 - Sound, Music, Public Space (crosslisted)
• PMA 5804 - Black Sound and Visual Culture (crosslisted)
• PMA 6010 - Latinx Theatre Production (crosslisted)
• PMA 6021 - Research Methods in PMA
• PMA 6400 - Thinking Media Studies (crosslisted)
• PMA 6422 - Technology in Music Performance (crosslisted)
• PMA 6501 - Special Topics in Cinema and Media Theory
• PMA 6510 - Documentary Production Fundamentals (crosslisted)
• PMA 6532 - Advanced Screenwriting
• PMA 6550 - Global Cinema and Media
• PMA 6600 - Proseminar in Performing and Media Arts
• PMA 6695 - Queer Archives and Archiving Queerness (crosslisted)
• PMA 6701 - Nightlife (crosslisted)
• PMA 6711 - Camp: Aesthetics and Politics
• PMA 6755 - [Staging Gay and Transgender Histories] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6819 - Urban Justice Lab (crosslisted)
• PMA 6835 - Performance Studies: Theories and Methods (crosslisted)
• PMA 6841 - [States of Animation]
• PMA 6866 - [Practicum in Performance Criticism and Dramaturgy] (crosslisted)
• PMA 6920 - [Aesthetics and Politics of Touch] (crosslisted)
• PMA 7000 - Independent Study for Graduate Students in Performing and Media Arts
• PMA 7100 - The Pedagogy of Performing and Media Arts
• PMA 7401 - Advanced Documentary Production (crosslisted)
• PMA 9900 - Thesis and Research Projects