This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: An exploration of the artists, innovators and techniques that have influenced theatrical practices in historical and contemporary productions through research, script analysis and viewing theatre productions.
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: Basic training and practice in vocal, physical and creative processes used by the actor. One classroom, four lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: Lab experience in theatre technology; positions can include production assistant, front of house, run crew and construction crews for theatre department productions. Assignments are made through department faculty and staff.
Notes: Students must be available evenings & weekends.
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: Basic fundamentals and theory of classical ballet for beginning students. Class work consists of barre work, center combinations and steps. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Program elective. Choose from one of the following courses: DAN1172, DAN1173, DAN1174 or DAN1175.
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the pre-requisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the co-requisite course ENG 0101 - English Composition I Booster.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Description: University-parallel course covering history and systems of psychology, behavioral research methods, physiology of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, cognition, personality, lifespan development, gender, social psychology, motivation, emotion, stress, mental disorders and therapies.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
16
Description: A study of techniques for building and handling theatrical scenery. Covers tools, materials and hardware used, along with standard safety practices and the artistic and practical considerations of scenery construction.
Prerequisites: MAT 0050 and Approval of Department
Corequisites: THE 1107
Description: A study of techniques for building and handling theatrical scenery. Covers tools, materials and hardware used, along with standard safety practices and the artistic and practical considerations of scenery construction. Three lab hours per week.
Corequisites: THE 1106
Description: Lab experience in theatre technology; positions can include production assistant, front of house, run crew and construction crews for theatre department productions. Assignments are made through department faculty and staff.
Notes: Students must be available evenings & weekends.
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: Introduces the techniques of training the voice for the stage. Designed to develop an awareness of the physical instrument through vocal production. One classroom, four lab hours per week.
Notes: Spring only
Prerequisites: THE 1111 and Approval of Department and Other (Must earn C or better in THE 1111)
Description: English Composition II, building on the skills in English Composition I, develops rhetorical literacy through research, critical reading and multigenre writing tasks. Through major and minor, cumulative and stand-alone assignments, students construct arguments and analyses, ethically incorporating academic sources while developing their own voices as writers and citizens.
Prerequisites: ENG 1101
Description: The course will explore various applications of mathematics in the social, finance, health and environmental fields with emphasis on developing informational, technological, logical, and visual reasoning skills. Topics from numeracy, probability and statistics, finance, mathematical modeling with linear, statistical, and exponential functions, and other areas of mathematics will be covered. Note: Students who have not completed the required pre-requisite courses listed, but have successfully completed MAT 0100 with a grade of "C" or better, or MAT 0600 with a grade of "P", can register for MAT 1445 together with the co-requisite course MAT 0445, Quantitative Reasoning Booster. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Notes: Any Mathematics, Statistics & Logic elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Prerequisites: MAT 0200 and Other (With a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)
Description: An examination of what is meant by culture and a review of the various theories and methods in Cultural Anthropology. Includes a comparison of the similarities and differences among world cultures as well as comparative analysis of family organization, religious beliefs, educational systems, economics and governmental systems.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List (2 disciplines required). View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
16
Description: Continued lab experience in theatre technology; positions can include production assistant, front of house, run crew and construction crews for theatre department productions. Assignments are made through department faculty and staff.
Notes: Students must be available evenings & weekends.
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: Applied Theatre Performance provides the student the opportunity to receive credit for practical experience.
Notes: This class must be taken the first time a student is cast in a Sinclair Theatre production. Students must be available evenings & weekends.
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: Introduces the techniques of training the body for the stage. Designed to develop an awareness of the physical instrument through movement. One classroom, four lab hours per week.
Notes: Fall only
Prerequisites: THE 1212 and Other (with a C or better) and Approval of Department
Description: Theatre in its purest form is storytelling. Discover how it has evolved throughout the ages from tribal rituals to producing the high-tech blockbusters of today. Explore a wealth of world cultures that influence theatrical traditions. Who are the authors, actors, directors, and designers creating these stories? Read the scripts and explore the spaces that share these stories. This course will explore theatre from tribal origins through the 1700s.
Notes: Fall only
Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.
Description: An introduction to the characteristics and processes of Earth's atmosphere and how it interacts with the planet's surface, oceans, and human activity. The course focuses on how these interactions work to produce weather events and climate extremes and how they affect people. Three classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
15
Description: Theatre in its purest form is storytelling. Discover how it has evolved throughout the ages from tribal rituals to producing the high-tech blockbusters of today. Explore a wealth of world cultures that influence theatrical traditions. Who are the authors, actors, directors, and designers creating these stories? Read the scripts and explore the spaces that share these stories. This course will explore theatre from the 1700s to present day.
Notes: Spring only
Description: Focus on discovering creative, in-depth techniques of script analysis and realizing different methods for researching the script. Techniques can be applied to understanding the script as an actor, director, designer, dramaturg or playwright. One classroom, four lab hours per week.
Notes: Spring only
Prerequisites: THE 1105 and Other (with a grade of C or better) and Approval of Department
Description: Intermediate training and practice in vocal, physical and creative processes used by the actor. One classroom, four lab hours per week.
Notes: Spring only
Prerequisites: THE 2115 and Other (with a grade of C or better) and Approval of Department
Description: Surface processes of wind, water and ice in changing Earth's surface, plate tectonics; interior forces that cause earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building. Introduction to natural resources; impact of natural hazards on human populations; and impact of human activities in the natural world. Laboratory component stresses introduction to and use of basic scientific method and problem solving. Three classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Corequisites: GLG 1111
Description: Identification of minerals, sediments and rocks; interpretation of topographic maps and geologic maps. This is a face-to-face laboratory and must be taken concurrently with Physical Geology.
Corequisites: GLG 1101
Description: Basic parameters of music through a survey of styles from Gregorian Chant to jazz and current popular styles focusing on melody, rhythm, harmony, performance media and form.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/ot36 Must be outside of THE.
Term hours subtotal:
16