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Special Education
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SED 377 - Topics in Special Education
Study of a special interest topic not already covered by regular course offerings in special education. This course will be offered on a variable schedule, depending upon the needs of the students and the interest of faculty. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Varies with topic.
Credits: 3
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SED 397 - Independent Study in Special Education
Independent study provides an opportunity for a student to initiate, design and carry out a research project or educational activity under supervision of appropriate staff. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Credits: 1-3
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SED 409 - Advanced Practicum in Special Education
This advanced practicum is designed to give special education majors additional experience beyond SED 209 in working with students receiving special education services in a public school setting. Working in cooperation with a mentor teacher in the school and with a university faculty member, students will accomplish a variety of instructional and professional growth activities. Requirement for all special education majors. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): Candidacy in Special Education or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SED 419 - Assistive and Instructional Technology for Universal Design
Students will be introduced to a wide variety of assistive and instructional technologies that are typically used in the field of special education. Students will learn how to identify needs, evaluate options, and monitor the effectiveness of technology across a variety of settings. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): Candidacy in an education major or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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SED 429 - Individualized Positive Behavior Supports
This course provides education majors with a range of knowledge and skills needed to support students with challenging behavior in educational settings. Course topics include collection and use of data to develop positive behavior support for students. A major focus is on the use of functional behavior assessment to develop individualized behavior support plans. Crisis prevention and management as well as ethical principles of supporting students with challenging behavior are also discussed. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): Candidacy in education and one of the following: SED 215 , SED 300 , or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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SED 450 - Special Education Regulations and Practice
This course covers specific information about the federal and state laws and regulations governing the education of children with disabilities. Particular emphasis is placed on how special education regulations translate to teacher practices in Maine’s public schools. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): Candidacy in an education major or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SED 460 - Student Teaching and Seminar in Special Education
Student teachers participate in a variety of supervised experiences in a school while working with children with mild to moderate disabilities. Working with a special educator, their students, and other school personnel, student teachers expand and refine their knowledge and skills and increase their responsibilities over time. Students participate in a weekly seminar during their student teaching experience. Course Typically Offered: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Candidacy in Special Education; complete all required professional education courses with a minimum grade of B- or higher; cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher; and completion of 80% of all required coursework.
Credits: 7.5
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SED 477 - Topics in Special Education
Study of a special interest topic not already covered by regular course offerings in special education. This course will be offered on a variable schedule, depending upon the needs of the students and the interest of faculty. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Varies with topic.
Credits: 3
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Technology
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TEC 101 - Introduction to Excel VBA
This course will help students obtain practical fluency in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) specifically as it applies to Microsoft Excel. This is an introductory programming course. No previous programming experience is assumed, though basic experience with Excel is expected. Online format asynchronous. Course Typically Offered: Winter or summer term.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 2
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TEC 102 - Introduction to SQL
This course will help students obtain practical fluency in SQL (Structured Query Language) used to create, manipulate and retrieve data from relational database management systems. This is an introductory course. No previous programming or database experience is assumed. Online format asynchronous. Course Typically Offered: Winter or summer term.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 2
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TEC 103 - Introduction to Python
This course will introduce students to the Python programming language. Syntactical building blocks covering data storage, data manipulation, control structures, input/output, and abstractions will be covered. No previous programming or database experience is assumed. Online format is asynchronous. Course Typically Offered: Winter or summer terms.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 2
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TEC 104 - Introduction to R
This course will introduce students to the R programming language. Syntactical building blocks covering data storage, data manipulation, control structures, input/output, and abstractions will be covered. No previous programming or database experience is assumed. Online format asynchronous. Course Typically Offered: Winter or summer terms.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 2
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TEC 105 - Data Visualization with Tableau
This course will introduce students to the Tableau data visualization tool. Topics will include connecting to different types of data, data cleaning and preparation, types of visualizations, and adding interactivity. Online format. Course Typically Offered: Winter or summer terms.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 1
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TEC 106 - Intermediate Excel for Business
This course aims to tackle the most common and practical uses of Excel in business. It is designed for students who have a basic working knowledge of Excel and would like to improve efficiency and expand into Excel’s more complex functions and data management features. Online format. Course Typically Offered: Winter or summer terms.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 1
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TEC 107 - Data Analysis Using Excel
This is a project-based course in which students will go through several iterations of the data clean-up, data analysis, data summary, and written/oral presentation process using Excel as the main tool. Course Typically Offered: Winter or summer term.
Prerequisite(s): TEC 101 or TEC 106 .
Credits: 1
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Theatre
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THE 115 - Improvisation as Acting Technique
This course introduces the student to the uses of Improvisation for developing acting techniques and methods in character development. The focus will be on developing fundamental improvisational skills through physical, emotional, and imagination exercises in a collaborative environment. Course Typically Offered: Every fall.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 117 - Contemporary American Theatre
This course examines playwrights, directors, and designers, and explores the complexity of modern times through new plays of the American stage. Contemporary American Theatre considers all aspects of production through design concepts, technical elements, and performance. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 122 - Introduction to Scenic and Lighting Design
This is an intensive survey course exploring the use of lighting and scenic elements in live performance mediums. Using methods, language, theories, and resources developed primarily in traditional live theater, it is the intent of the course to first develop a common language between the collaborative artists that are at the heart of performance design so the intent of the artistic vision can be defined and thus achieved. The course will include lectures, demonstrations, and practical application of ideas, techniques, and methods employed in the traditional collaborative theatrical production process, as well as class discussion about the application of this process to other live performance and collaborative art. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 177 - Topics in Theatre
This course allows for the inclusion of electives in other areas of general theatre interest not covered by other courses.(ie single artist or topic). Specific topics to be covered and course availability are variable. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 202 - Space Lab and Performance
Space Lab and Performance involves active participation in the production process. Students participate as actors or on technical crews during the semester’s theatre productions. Using the script as a central text, students consider all aspects of the production, from design to performance and character study through current social and historical context. Individual work with the director and designers is considered part of the course experience. This 3-credit course may be repeated for an additional 6 credits, for a total of 9 credits. Course Typically Offered: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 206 - The Vocal Instrument
Exploring various aspects of vocal presentation skills for public presentation, including vocal anatomy, sound and speech formation, vocal techniques, and text analysis for oral presentation. Course Typically Offered: Every other year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 212 - Play Structure and Analysis
This course will focus on methodologies for study and understanding the play as a literary genre in relationship to theatre. A variety of plays from Greek to the modern era will be read and discussed applying the Aristotelian concept of play analysis. Course Typically Offered: Every other spring.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 242 - Costume Design
This course provides an overview of the process of designing costumes for the stage. Students will apply the principles of design to clothing through text analysis and collaborative visual effort. The course will also cover sketch presentations and the building process. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 252 - Directing Contemporary Theatre I
An introductory course that focuses on the director’s responsibilities including pre-production activities: script selection and analysis and development of a director and production concept, auditioning, casting, and development of a rehearsal schedule. Rehearsal duties: character development, blocking/picturization, as well as understanding the relationship between the director and the various designers: scenic, lighting, costume, makeup, and sound. Students will select, audition, and direct a final short scene. Course Typically Offered: Every fall.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.
Credits: 3
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THE 264 - Art and Social Change
This course challenges us to foster a historical, comparative, and tactile understanding of the relationship between art and social change. How do artists address social issues? Can art transform lives? How can art serve as a force for encouraging ethical dialogue and action within the public sphere? How do we make our ideas and revelations actually matter within our collective place and space? Through lectures, discussions, presentations, and projects we will set about to engage ourselves with the work of contemporary artists who have addressed issues related to the environment, racial and cultural identity, human rights, healthcare, and social justice. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 271 - Making Original Performance
Making Original Performance explores various non-traditional approaches to devising performance such as composition, improvisation, found object/text work, and physical theatre techniques. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail option Course Typically Offered: Every other year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 275 - Social and Political Theatre and Film
This course examines the context of turbulent environments and considers how theatre and film can be a powerful force in social and political movement. Plays and films are discussed in historical and current context and how technical aspects of a production can influence an audience beyond the script. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 277 - Topics in Theatre
This course allows for the inclusion of electives in other areas of General theatre interest not covered by other courses (i.e., a single artist or topic). Specific topics to be covered and course availability are variable. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Varies with topic.
Credits: 3
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THE 278 - Commedia dell’arte
The study begins with stock characters, masked players, and the improvisation style of Italy’s’ historic commedia dell’arte and moves into an exploration of both comic and tragic characters to examine how improvisation works as a foundation for character development in performance. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 291 - History of Performance as Experiment
History of Performance as Experiment examines historical moments that inspired radical experimentation within theatre and performance art/live art/performance and traces the impact of these experimentations on contemporary performance movements. Course Typically Offered: Every other year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 300 - Creative Arts Management
Students will investigate the numerous aesthetic and practical components of arts management from the perspective of independent artists as well as non-profit arts organizations. We will examine different approaches to duties such as publicity, marketing, grant writing, pitching, etc. from both theoretical and practical standpoints. Course Typically Offered: Every other year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 316 - Feminist Theatre and Performance
This course will examine traditional play scripts, experimental performance texts, and live performance to investigate how the personal, political, and social impacts of gender can translate into artistic expression. Course Typically Offered: Every other year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 3
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THE 352 - Directing Contemporary Theater II
This course continues with the practices and responsibilities of the director initiated in THE 252 with script selection and analysis, developing a director’s and production concept, auditioning, casting, and character development. There will be greater emphasis and study in blocking (composition and movement.) The capstone experience will be script selection, auditioning, and directing a one-act production for public performance. Course Typically Offered: Every spring.
Prerequisite(s): THE 252 Directing Contemporary Theatre I and permission of the instructor. May be taken twice for credit with instructor’s permission.
Credits: 3
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THE 377 - Special Topics in Theatre
Intensive study of a specific theatre-related topic. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Varies with topic.
Credits: 3
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THE 396 - Performing Arts Internship or Field Work Experience
This course is an internship or field work project that is in an arts related field. The course is intended to be used for students who are already engaged in an arts related degree and who could benefit from exposure to practical problems relating to the student’s academic major. The experience may include work for a social or governmental agency, an individual, a campus arts facility, or for business or industry. Proposals, as well as confirmation from the potential internship supervisor should be developed in consultation with a faculty member and submitted to the department chair prior to registration. Credits will be allowed on the basis of 32 work hours for each credit. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail only Course Typically Offered: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
Credits: 1-3
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THE 397 - Independent Study in Theatre
Advanced project in directing, Internship or student’s area of interest initiated by course elements within the curriculum. Course may be repeated, but THE 397 and THE 497 may not exceed 12 credits. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Permissions of the instructor and the Arts Division chairperson.
Credits: 1-3
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THE 400 - The Creative Project
The senior capstone, The Creative Project is designed to culminate a student’s work in the Performing Arts major. The Project can be interdisciplinary where students incorporate work learned in a minor in a field outside the Performing Arts major. Although students usually work individually, collaborations are an option. Course Typically Offered: Every other year.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 300 /THE 300 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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THE 477 - Topics in Theatre
The study of a specialized topic not offered in the usual curriculum. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Varies with topic.
Credits: 3
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THE 497 - Independent Study in Theatre
Advanced project in directing or design and execution of projects in costumes, lighting, or scenery, depending upon the student’s interest and choice. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor and the Arts Division chairperson.
Credits: 1-3
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