Official Syllabus

Instructor

Sue Brandt
Location: in person V321
Course learning content located on Open Lab and Black Board
Office: Room 203, Voorhees Hall
Email: sbrandt@citytech.cuny.edu

Communication
Office hours and email posted on Faculty page

Course Description

1. A survey of hazards specifically associated with working in theatres, performance venues, fabrication shops and live performances.  Topics include potentially toxic chemicals, vapors, fumes and ventilation; shop conditions and working attitudes; proper preparation and planning; hazards associated with welding; weapon safety; and fire and life safety codes that relate to working in live entertainment.

Course Objectives
You will be able to:

• Evaluate materials by using an SDS.
• Choose appropriate PPE for a given task.
• Identify common hazards in the workplace.
• Describe safe working practices for theatrical shops and on stage.

Brightspace menu

• ANNOUNCEMENT is the entry point page on blackboard for each class. Announcements tell you everything you might expect to hear at the beginning of a class.
• INFORMATION is where you will find information about me (phone, email, office location and so on).  The Openly site is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you want to ask me any questions about health and safety content, you can post to the discussion board on blackboard at any time and I’ll try to respond before the next class meeting. Your questions are vital to the class. We may discuss the question at the beginning of the next class meeting because the information is important for the entire class.
• ASSIGNMENTS the online location where all assignments (with due dates) will be turned in.
• LECTURES, QUIZZES AND TESTS is where you will find the link to each module Openly content all assigned reflections, quizzes, midterm and final.
• DISCUSSION BOARD- Post on the hello board and you SDS assignment choice
• TOOLS is where you’ll find tools for updating your personal information, checking your grades, and exchanging word processing files with classmates and with me via the Digital Drop Box.
• COMMUNICATION is where you’ll find the tools for sending email to me other members of the class.

Open Lab Menu        

• INSTRUCTIONS Syllabus, Schedule, citation instructions
• COURSE MATERIALS is where all lectures, reflections and suggested links are located.
• ASSIGNMENTS is where all assignments and related content are located.
• FACULTY- Professors contact information

Suggested Texts
Rossol, Monona, The Health and Safety Guide for Film, TV, and Theater.  Allworth Press, New York, NY.  2000  ISBN 1-58115-071-7  Available at bookstore, $19.95. (Some content out of date)

JJ Keller Associates, Keller’s Official OSHA Safety Handbook, Fifth Edition, J.J. Keller & Associates, Neenah, Wisconsin 2002. ISBN 1-59042-078-0  Available at bookstore, approximately $7.

Academic Integrity Policy
Academic dishonesty includes any act that is designed to obtain fraudulently, either for oneself or for someone else, academic credit, grades, or any other form of recognition that was not properly earned.  Academic dishonesty encompasses the following:

• Cheating: Giving, receiving, using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids, including any form of unauthorized communication, in any academic exercise. It is the student’s responsibility to consult with instructors to determine whether or not a study aid or device may be used.
• Plagiarism: Intentionally and knowingly presenting the ideas or works of another as one’s own original idea or works in any academic exercise without proper acknowledgement of the source. Please cite your sources.

Attendance/Promptness:

If you have a legitimate reason for missing an assignment or if you will be late, you must contact me. Black board logs the date and time each time you are there. All the work you turn in is date and time stamped. Being late is demonstrated by you not doing your reflections, quizzes and assignments on time. You must be in person for atleast ten hours of lecture to earn your OSHA 10 General Industry Card.

Grades:

Your grade will be determined as follows:

All blackboard content will reflect a zero after the assignment deadline has past.

Show Attendance Policy (Departmental Policy)

If you are going to work in the Entertainment Industry, it is as important to be an educated and engaged audience member as it is to have a clear understanding of what happens backstage. Also, when your peers and/or faculty are working hard on a live event for the department, they must be rewarded with your strong support and encouragement, even though you may have nothing to do with that project. There is nothing worse, after working a “zillion” hours on a project, than to have a small audience.

Therefore, as part of completion of this course you will be REQUIRED to attend at least one of the departments and Theatreworks’ live events. The Haunted Hotel also must be visited at least once each year.  Please come and show your support as often as you can!