PAS 102: LITERARY ORIENTATION TO THEATRE ARTS         2 Credits
This course introduces students to some of the literary terms and devices that constitute the basic Ingredients of Dramatic Theory and Practice.  It looks at the definition of drama and theatre, elements of form, techniques, setting and background technical facilities, aesthetic and intellectual values.

PAS 103: APPLIED MUSIC, CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE WORK         2 Credits
The course provides students the opportunity to acquire knowledge of music literature. Students are also assisted to enhance their performance skills.

PAS 105: BASICS OF THE LIVING THEATRE   1 Credit
This is an introductory and exploratory Theatre Laboratory that looks at the living stage and its accessory back – up facilities.  It is aimed at instilling and building confidence.  It also considers the evaluation and utilization of space etc.  There will be rudimentary practical exercises in stage usage and movement.

PAS 106 : APPLIED MUSIC AND CHORAL REHEARSAL   2 Credits
APPLIED MUSIC
This is a practical course on a musical instrument. The course description for each instrument is as follows:
Voice
The course aims at equipping students with vocal performance skills in voice. Students at this level will study four art songs from African-American, European and African music repertoire.

 Wind Instruments
 Students, at this level, would be exposed to the fundamentals of playing a wind instrument such as Trumpet in B-flat, Alto or Tenor Saxophone, and Clarinet in B-flat. They will also be introduced to performance techniques. As a requirement, students will, in every semester, perform two pieces of music chosen from Western and African repertoire in the concert keys of B-flat, E-flat, F and G.
African Instruments
This course aims at giving students considerable skills in performing on the drum, xylophone and at[nt[b[n. Students will study selected recreational dances and pieces for the xylophone and atenteben.

Piano

This course aims at assisting students to acquire basic performance skills in piano playing. Students will be required to play short pieces by European as well as African art music composers. They will also master all scales and technical exercises relevant to the pieces and any pertinent points related to the pieces and their composers. 

Guitar
The course is designed to assist students to acquire skills in African and Western classical styles of guitar playing. They will study the basic techniques of playing scales on the guitar. Students will be expected to master four pieces.

CHORAL
The course is designed to assist students to apply vocal techniques studied in group setting. It will also provide opportunities for students to increase their repertoire of songs. Students will be required to participate in class performances and in other functions in and outside the University.

PAS 109: INTRODUCTION TO PLAYWRITING             2Credits                  
The course seeks to expose students to the rudiments of play writing. It will focus on the development of themes, plots, episodes and identification of character and character development.

PAS 203: INTRODUCTORY CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE WORK           2 Credits
This course is one of the practical music laboratories for the enhancement of vocal techniques. It aims at increasing students’ repertoire of songs through in-depth study of a variety of choral music styles from Ghanaian repertory – past and present. Students’ participation in ensemble work will help them acquire skills that will enable them perform Ghanaian traditional music in a group setting.

PAS 204: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEATRE            3 Credits
This course focuses on the Theatre; its nature, function or social role.  It surveys the collaborative art of the theatre, its purpose, tools, organization and mode of operation.  It also considers modern extension to Theatre: Film, Video, Radio, T.V.

PAS 205: INTERMEDIATE DANCE TECHNIQUES              3 Credits
The course provides students the opportunity to acquire dance techniques through participation in  exercises in movements based on African contemporary dance forms.

PAS 206: ACTING             3 Credits
This course considers the human body and voice as tools for artistic communication.  It involves prescribed body and voice exercises.  Theories and practice in modern acting; Stansilavsky, Benedetti, Brecht, Artaud, Grotowski, etc will be looked at.  Other areas to be examined include styles and period acting, and role interpretation in acting. 

PAS 207: BASIC SKILLS IN APPLIED MUSIC AND MUSICIANSHIP            3 Credits
Voice
This course provides opportunities for students to acquire skills in the performance of advanced solo vocal pieces. Students will study four songs from African-American, European and African music repertoire.

Wind Instruments
In this course, students will expand their repertoire in African and Western pieces. Students will also acquire techniques for the performance of the selected pieces for this stage. The selected pieces will be in the keys of C, F, G, B-flat, E-flat and A-flat.

African Instruments
This course will provide students with the opportunity to increase their repertoire of Ghanaian traditional music and dance types including cult dances. In addition, students will study pieces for the xylophone and the atentben.

Piano

This course is designed to assist students to study advanced pieces by Africans as well as European art music composers. They will also master all scales and technical exercises relevant to the pieces. The students will acquire knowledge about the composers whose pieces they perform.

Guitar
Students will enhance their skills in the playing of advanced chords on the guitar. They will master and perform, in public, extended pieces of music.

MUSICIANSHIP
In this course, students will be assisted to build on their musicianship skills. The course is intended to assist students enhance their ability to play at sight and to perform hymn tunes in keys B-flat and D major and to transpose melodies written in these keys into other keys. Two instruments, piano and guitar, will be available for this course and students will be required to perform on one.

PAS 210: PLAY ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION I     2 Credits
The course involves studies in techniques of analysing plays and interpreting them for production or performance, based on prescribed text.  Emphasis will be placed on plot structure, stylistic devices, characteristics as they relate to them, character development in terms of dramatic action and its basic conflicts and resolution, intellectual, emotional, moral and aesthetic values.  The course will involve exploration through interpretative exercises in stage terms.

PAS 211: INTERMEDIATE CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE WORK.        2 Credits
The course will help students to expand their repertoire of African and Western choral and ensemble pieces.

PAS 214: FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM        3 Credits
The course aims at equipping students with the theoretical tools and principles for analyzing and interpreting films.  Students will have the opportunity to apply the basic principles of film criticism in the appreciation of films from all traditions.

PAS 217: PRODUCTION PARTICIPATION: GHANAIAN WORKS          3 Credits
This course involves varied assignments and roles in production of works by Ghanaian authors and directed by either a member of faculty or colleague student.  The course is designed to enable the students develop discipline, creativity and sound working attitudes.

PAS 218: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF AFRICAN MUSIC, DANCE AND THEATRE        3 Credits
The course is designed to help students to understand the structure and form of African music, dance and theatre as well as the role these art forms play in the life of the African.

MUS 219: MUSIC IN CHRISTIAN LITURGY     3 Credits
This course will focus on the chronology of church music from early Christian era to contemporary times. Distinguished features of the various styles of music in the church will be examined. A survey of the development of hymns and their music, such forms as Gregorian chants, Psalms, Canticles, Chorales and hymn tunes will feature prominently. In this comprehensive approach other sacred musical types from the Ghanaian experience such as Dagarba Mass, Ebibidwom and choruses will be studied. The liturgy and liturgical calendar that dictate what types of music to be used, when and how as well as liturgical dances and dramatic sketches will also be given enough attention.

PAS 220: MUSIC IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS              3 Credits
In this course, students will have the opportunity to engage in in-depth study of the role music plays in African traditional religious practices including the role of music in rituals and rites of passage. The study will also assist students of examine in detail the role of music in the religious practices of the new religious movements
                          
PAS 223: HISTORY OF DRAMA AND THEATRE (Beginnings to Shakespeare’s Age)            3 Credits
This course will consider the ritual origins of drama, and history of the theatre from classical Greece To Rome.  Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, Seneca, Terence and Plautus will be examined.  Other aspects to be examined include the Poetics of Aristotle and definition of drama, Greek Amphi – theatres and stage conventions, the Hellenistic stage and Roman theatre architecture, Drama in England and Europe, and the Renaissance.

PAS 224: TRADITIONAL AFRICAN THEATRE            2 Credits
Students, in this course, will have the opportunity to examine traditional folk theatre and evaluate its relevance to contemporary theatrical forms.

PAS 225: TRADITIONAL AFRICAN DANCE FORMS             3 Credits
Students will be assisted to expand their repertoire of dances from Africa.

PAS 303: CHORAL REHEARSAL: AFRICAN AND WESTERN WORKS—SIMPLE PIECES.        1 Credit
This course intends to enhance students’ aesthetic sensitivity through group singing. Students will have the opportunity to increase their repertoire in both African and Western choral works. They will be assisted to develop the ability to react to the expressive qualities of the pieces they study. Students will be required to participate in class performances and in other functions in and outside the University as part of the assessment criteria.

PAS 304: PLAY ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION II            3 Credits
This course is a  sequel to PAS 210.  It explores further through interpretative exercises in stage terms, techniques of analysing plays and interpreting them for production or performance.  Basic conflicts and resolution, intellectual, emotional, moral and aesthetic values will be further examined.  Texts will be selected from different periods and traditions.

PAS 307: DRAMA IN AFRICAN SOCIETIES          3 Credits
The course involves an examination of the nature and Form of oral drama in traditional African cultures and the emergence of popular forms in contemporary African society.  The first part of the course will be an aesthetic integration into the dynamics of traditional African drama.  Ceremonial and narrative, mask theatre, possession dance, and popular theatre – and their roles in religious ceremonial and other social events.  The second part will examine and critically analyse the emergence of popular forms of drama in contemporary Africa .

PAS 308: AFRICAN DANCE PERFORMANCE: COURT DANCE           3 Credits
The course is designed to inform students of the various types of court dance that exists in Africa. They will engage in the study of a selection of these dances.

PAS 311: CHORAL REHEARSAL: AFRICAN AND WESTERN WORKS—MAJOR WORKS            1 Credits
In this course, students will be assisted to increase their repertoire of African and Western art music. They will acquire skills that will enable them not only to sing in a choir, but also perform advanced choral pieces creditably. Students will be required to participate in class performances and other functions in and outside the University as part of the assessment criteria.PAS 312: PRODUCTION PARTICIPATION: PLAYS WRITTEN BY WEST AFRICAN AUTHORS COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES           3 Credits
The course involves varied assignments and roles in productions directed by either faculty or colleague student.  It aims to enable students to develop discipline, creativity and sound working attitudes in the practical theatre profession.

PAS 316: PLAY WRITING          3 Credits
The course delves into the Writer’s world and examines theories and techniques in writing for the stage.  There will be elementary exercises in observation, inception of the play, identification of theme, character and the drama situation as well as simple techniques of plot construction.  Analysis will be made of both students’ scripts and established work.

PAS 317: PRODUCTION PARTICIPATION: AFRICAN AND WESTERN DANCES           3 Credits
The course involves varied assignments and roles in productions directed by either faculty or colleague student.  It aims to enable students to develop discipline, creativity and sound working attitudes in the practical theatre profession.

PAS 322: INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES: HIGHLIFE            3 Credits
This course discusses the performance practices of some selected Ghanaian traditional and contemporary popular music ensembles. It also takes a look at the various compositional techniques employed by popular music composers as well as examining the factors that shape popular musicians compositions.

PAS 327: HISTORY OF DRAMA AND THEATRE  (Shakespeare to 1850)              3 Credits
This course continues the history of theatre began in PSD 203.  It examines theatre in England from the Restoration to Sentimental Drama of Lillo, the Licence Act of 1738 and the emergence of the Actor/Manager,  the Sentimental Comedy of Sheridan, and Goldsmith.  Other aspects to be examined include French Neo-Classical drama; Comedy.

PAS 328: FILM HISTORY                      3 Credits
The course traces the history of film from the Lumiere brothers to modern avant garde films.  Attention will be the evolution of the classical Hollywood cinema, European and Asian film as well as African film.

PAS 329: SCREEN WRITING            3 Credits
This course seeks to give students practical experience in screen writing.  The course looks at the screenplay from treatment to final draft.  Emphasis will be placed on plot construction, characterization, screenplay format and scenario description.

PAS 330:ACTING FOR STAGE AND SCREEN               2 Credits
This course focuses on techniques of acting for the camera: voice pitch levels, expressiveness, etc.  It also looks at the relationship between the camera and the actor:  Camera movement, angle and shot types.

PAS 331: DRAMA THEORIES AND CRITICISM           3 Credits
The course examines theories of drama as an art, its nature and elements, drama types, form, stylistic trends and their philosophical justification.  It also discusses the playwright, the play and its audience the theatre critic.  It will involve critical study of prescribed play texts and samples of dramatic criticism.

PAS 332: FILM PRODUCTION             3 Credits
The business of film production involves working from script to screen, and visualisation.  It will also look at activities in the various stages, pre-production – script conference, production meetings, preparation of shooting script, etc.  Production, and post production work, including editing and exhibition.

PAS 333: DRAMA IN EDUCATION: AN INTRODUCTION              3 Credits
The course starts with drama and education in Ghana.  And discusses the role of drama in the educational, emotional, physical and psychological development of the individual.  The use of drama to teach other subjects more effectively in educational programmes, drama and the curriculum in the educational system in Ghana will be studied.

PAS 334: FEMINIST FILM CRITICISM                3 Credits
The course examines feminist film practice.  It involves a critical examination of the female image in the cinema; the stereotype, the non-conformist, the neutral.  It also delves into the commercialisation of the female body.

PAS 399: RESEARCH METHODS            3 Credits
The course is designed to introduce students to basic research techniques applied in musicological studies as well as studies in music education. It will expose students to qualitative and quantitative research paradigms.

PAS 402: CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AND WESTERN PIECES                 3 Credits 
This course is one of the practical music laboratories for the enhancement of vocal techniques. It aims at increasing students’ repertoire of songs through in-depth study of variety of choral music styles from Ghanaian repertory –past and present. Students will be required to participate in class performances and in other functions in and outside the university as part of the assessment criteria.

PAS 404: THEATRE AND DEVELOPMENT       3 Credits
The course offers studies in theories, principles and practices of development. It also examines principles of teaching  that will enable directors of plays to develop strategies that will enhance the  dissemination of the messages encapsulated in plays. The course will also provide strategies for assessing the impact of drama as a tool for disseminating information in Africa.

PAS 405: THEATRE  MANAGEMENT            3 Credits
The course is a general study of the principles of management and their application to the performing arts particularly in community and educational establishments; budgeting and production preparation; planning and organization of performances.  It also looks at problems of box office and house management; advertisement, publicity and public relation; organizing limited tours, problems of staffing and personnel.

PAS 409: CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE WORK: MUSIC AND DANCE OF AFRICANS IN THE DIASPORA          3 Credits
Students will continue to increase their repertoire with songs from composers of African descent. They will acquire the technique requisite for rendering pieces of African-American heritage.

PAS 410: CONTEMPORARY WEST AFRICAN DRAMA               3 Credits       
The course involves an in-depth study of prescribed text.  Analysis and interpretation are geared toward the director, the actor and the technical director.  Emphasis will be on elements of characters and characterization, dramatic contrast and conflict, tone, tempo and rhythm of a play, plot, rising action, climaxes and resolution.  Only plays from African and the diaspora will be discussed.

PAS 411: MEDIA AND SOCIETY                  3 Credits
This course starts with definitions and range of implications; the role of the Media in social development.  Other aspects to be covered include the following: the Media and the arts; a useful correlation or a damaging relationship, media and culture; objective criticism, reviews and previews; social responsibility towards the media and the theatre in a developing country.  Students will be engaged in critical evaluation of types of media and their presentation of social, cultural, political, religious events and how these impact upon the behaviour of the members of the society.

PAS 423: PRODUCTION PARTICIPATION (STAGE & FILM)          3 Credits
The course is designed to task students in supervisory and stage management as well as film production roles in major staff and student productions.  Supervision of student’s assignment is by a member of faculty.

PAS 424: AFRICAN AMERICAN-THEATRE      3 Credits
The course is designed to examine the African – American literary and dramatic heritage against the background of the economic and social situations in America.   The philosophic outlook of distinguished black playwrights such as Langston Hughes, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Loriane Hansberry, James Baldwin, and their works shall be used as embodiments of hopes, dreams and aspirations of the African – American.

PAS 425: SCENIC DESIGN FOR STAGE AND SCREEN             3 Credits
The course is a study of the principles and elements of design as applied in the theatre and film.  It is aimed at equipping the students with the necessary tools of design through laboratory exercises and projects.

Stage Design
This aspect of the course surveys the history and  an investigation into principles of scene design and scale models will be conducted.

Set Design
This aspect of the course involves the principles of set design and set design for studio and location.

PAS 426: DIRECTING             3 Credits
The course involves exploration, development and application of directing skills under Faculty supervision.  Special problems in theatrical styles of presentation will be handled under supervision of an instructor.

PAS 427: MAKE-UP             3 Credits
This course involves an examination of the tools and materials for the make – up artist in the theatre, basic make – up techniques; make-up for the stage, film and video productions; range of ages from youth, middle age, moderate old age, extreme old age; applying the bald cap; wigs, beard, special effects.

PAS 499: PROJECT WORK       3 Credits
The course is designed to assist students to acquire skills in the writing of extensive musical pieces utilizing authentic African and Western musical idioms. Students will also be helped to write long essays based on topics of interest, in musicology, music education or church music, to the students.