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  • DR 110: Theatre World

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Designed as a humanities elective for students in fields other than drama. Introduces students to a broad spectrum of theatrical experiences and plays, preparing students for an informed and lively engagement with the art in the contemporary world. Involves attendance of selected University and professional productions. Some fees are necessary to cover ticket costs.
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  • DR 201: Theatre Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Study of drama, theatre, criticism, and culture through focus on selected problems, issues, or periods. Topics and faculty for each term announced in advance. Recent topics have included theatre architecture; critical approaches to drama from Freud to feminism; plays of political, social, and personal expression; the role of the director in pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras; and plays since World War II. Open as humanities electives. Drama concentrators must take a total of three theatre topics courses, one of which must be 305 (see below). Courses may involve costs of attending professional theatre productions.
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  • DR 202: Theatre Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Study of drama, theatre, criticism, and culture through focus on selected problems, issues, or periods. Topics and faculty for each term announced in advance. Recent topics have included theatre architecture; critical approaches to drama from Freud to feminism; plays of political, social, and personal expression; the role of the director in pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras; and plays since World War II. Open as humanities electives. Drama concentrators must take a total of three theatre topics courses, one of which must be 305 (see below). Courses may involve costs of attending professional theatre productions.
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  • DR 205: Introduction to Speech Communications

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Theory and exercises in speech communication, emphasizing perception, language (verbal and nonverbal), and interaction. Students apply principles in a variety of transactions.
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  • DR 206: Acting I

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Self discovery. Acting I is an introduction to the basic elements of the Stanislavski system. Students train in exercises to develop concentration, imagination and life observation. Improvisations will encourage physical freedom and a sense of truth. This beginning work will teach stage craft, "moment to moment" spontaneity and a specific approach to researching and rehearsing a contemporary scene and monologue.
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  • DR 207: Introduction to Design

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    An entry-level design course, focusing on the development of a comprehensive production aesthetic for a dramatic production . Scene, costume, light, and sound design are taught in the service of plays and production concepts. Required of concentrators. Prerequisites: 104 or equivalent.
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  • DR 300: Performance 300

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Students receive credit for work on a Department of Drama production, directed by a faculty member or guest director. The director must approve of the work before the student registers for the course. Examples of work that might be approved include performance in a major role; dramaturgy; assistant direction.
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  • DR 305: Theatre Topics III

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    This course studies filmed adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. The students will examine how contemporary directors and actors have animated the following plays: Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Henry V, A Midsummer Night¿s Dream, Richard III, and Hamlet. We will view and discuss such diverse interpretations as Leonardo DiCaprio's gun-toting Romeo, Natalie Woods¿ singing Juliet, and Mel Gibson's confused and college bound Hamlet. The artists we will study include: Sir Lawrence Olivier, Ian McKellan, Kenneth Branagh, and Orson Welles.
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  • DR 306: Theatre Production

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Study of the business of theatre and theatrical organization. Students study the importance of various aspects of a viable theatrical organization including: the mission statement, incorporation and non-profit status, control boards, funding sources, and strategies. As part of the class, students will create a hypothetical theatrical organization, locate and design a venue in the U.S., identify funding sources and develop an inaugural season based on the organization's mission statement. Required of concentrators. Prerequisites: 104, 201 or 202, and 207.
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  • DR 307: Speech for the Actor

    3.00 Credits
    Catholic University of America

    Lecture/Studio A voice and speech course that enables students to learn experientially the basic tools of 'acting through voice' by exploring Relaxation, Alignment, Breathing, Phonation, Resonation, Articulation, Vocal Range, Inflection and Rhythm Skills through the development of a daily vocal workout and warm-up; to develop Articulation, Listening and Hearing Skills for regional dialect correction and dialect acquisition through learning the International Phonetic Alphabet and thereby to acquire the knowledge and use of their own voices and speech as it expresses in multiple ways their senses, emotions, images and intentions with different kinds of text..
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