Class will meet in Drama Building Room 217 unless otherwise indicated

• Wednesday 8/26
• Course Introduction
• Discussion: USEM Introduction
• Discussion: Definitions
• Building Tour
• Weekly Assignment 1/Materials for next class (Moody)
  
• Wednesday 9/2
• Due: Discussion questions/Research Results (weekly assn. 1)
• Discussion: Research Results/Overview
• Discussion: Concert Lighting Elements
• Weekly Assignment 2/Materials for next class (Origins selected)
  
• Wednesday 9/9
• Due: Discussion questions (weekly assn. 2)
• Discussion: Origins of Concert Media in the 60s
• Presentation: Period Light Show Techniques/Examples
• Weekly Assignment 3/Materials for next class (end of the light show)
  
• Wednesday 9/16
• Due: Discussion questions (weekly assn. 3)
• Discussion: The End of the Light Show?
• Weekly Assignment 4/Materials for next class (Moody vs. LD)
  
• Wednesday 9/23 (meet in Room 217 before going down to Light Lab)
• Due: Project 1 Presentations (Light Lab)
• Due: Discussion questions (weekly assn. 4)
• Discussion: Project 1 Wrap up
• Discussion: Early Innovation
• Weekly Assignment (response paper 1)
• Wednesday 9/30
  • Due: Response Paper 1: Project 1 Response
    
  • Presentation: Technology and Touring Part 1
  • Small Group Colaboration Exercise
  • Weekly Assignment 5/Materials (tech reading)
• Wednesday 10/7
• Due: Discussion questions (weekly assn. 5)
• Technology and Touring Part 2
• Weekly Assignment 6/Materials for next class
• Wednesday 10/14
  
• Due: Discussion questions (weekly assn. 6)
• Presentation/Discussion: Automated Lighting History
• Weekly Assignment 7/Materials for next class
  
• Wednesday 10/21
• Due: Project 2 presentations (Light Lab)
• Due: Discussion questions (weekly assn. 7)
• Discussion: the "live concert moment"
• Weekly Assignment 8/Materials for next class
  
• Wednesday 10/28
• Due: Discussion questions/concert video response (weekly assn. 8)
• Discussion part 1: Before MTV: Depictions of Concert Imagery in the Mainstream
• Discussion part 2: MTV and The concert vide
• Weekly Assignment 9/Materials for next class
• Wednesday 11/4
  • Due: Reading/discussion questions (weekly 9)
  • Assign Projects 3&4
  • View Pink Floyd Pulse Part I
• Wednesday 11/11
  • Due: Response Paper 2: Project 2 Response
  • View Pink Floyd Pulse Part II
  • Response Paper 4:concert response Due by Tuesday 11/24 (before TG break)
• Wednesday 11/18
  • Due: Project 3 Ideas
  • Project 3 examples in class
  • Automated Lighting Programming overview
    
• Wednesday 11/25 Thanksgiving Break
• Wednesday 12/2
  • Due: Response Paper 3: Lighting Technology Report
  • Discussion: Merging Media
  • Wrap-up Discussion
• Exam Period Saturday 12/12 2-5pm (meet in the Helms Theatre)
  • Due: Project 4 Presentations