SPEECH / 285 SCH 603-SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC. 5 credits Major trends in contemporary rhetorical thought. Their sources and pedagogical implications. SCH 605-RHETORICAL CRITICISM. 5 credits Principles and methods of rhetorical criticism; problems in applying critical standards in the evaluation of public address. SCH 608--SEMINAR IN AMERICAN PUBLIC ADDRESS. 5 credits Selected speeches, speakers, and speaking movements which have had an impact on our history. SCH 609-SEMINAR IN BRITISH PUBLIC ADDRESS. 5 credits Selected speakers prominent in British history. SCH 610-SEMINAR IN SOUTHERN PUBLIC ADDRESS. 5 credits Analysis and evaluation of selected Southern speakers in terms of the speakers, speeches, audiences, and times. SCH 617-QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS: APPLIED METHODOLOGIES. 5 credits Prerequisites: STA 520; PSY 604 or PSY 605. Analysis and design of quantita- tive studies, with emphasis on identifying and predicting behavioral antecedents of orally transmitted messages. SCH 620-ADVANCED PROBLEMS OF STAGE DIRECTION. 5 credits Application of production theories to the problems of play direction, and a supervised problem in advanced directing techniques. SCH 621-ADVANCED PROBLEMS IN SCENE DESIGN. 5 credits Application of production theories to the problems of scene design, and a super- vised problem in advanced scene design. SCH 622-AMERICAN PLAYS, PLAYERS, AND PLAYWRIGHTS 1. 4 credits Plays and their production from the Colonial Period to 1860; techniques of outstanding actors and playwrights. SCH 623-AMERICAN PLAYS, PLAYERS, AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2. 4 credits American plays and players from 1860 to present. SCH 624-READINGS IN THEATRICAL HISTORY 1. 4 credits Selected primary source materials in the history of the theatre to 1660, and their use by theorists and historians. SCH 625-READINGS IN THEATRICAL HISTORY 2. 4 credits Selected primary source materials in the history of the theatre from 1660 to the present, and their use by theorists and historians. SCH 626-BACKGROUNDS IN MODERN THEATRICAL PRACTICE. 4 credits Prerequisite: SCH 522. Plays and production techniques of the modem conti- nental theatre. SCH 627-ART HISTORY OF THE THEATRE. 4 credits Seminar in changing physical and visual conventions in the theatre, their origins in the visual traditions of the culture, and their effect on the modes of dramatic presentation. May be repeated with change of content up to a maximum of 8 credits. SCH 628-SEMINAR IN THEATRE AESTHETICS 1. 4 credits Growth of the theatre as an art in periods through the Renaissance; the theatre's relation to the aesthetic values of the cultures involved. SCH 629-SEMINAR IN THEATRE AESTHETICS 2. 4 credits Development and modification of aesthetic theory from the Renaissance to the present.