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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
In this course, which corresponds with Theater 303-304 (Directing Seminar), actors work with student directors on scenes for in-class presentation. Open to first-year students.
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4.00 Credits
Basic training is provided in movement, analysis, rhythm, development of technique, and confidence in space.
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4.00 Credits
This course develops awareness of physical equipment, natural pitch, purity of vowels and consonants, tone, inflection, diction, agility, nuance, and vocal imagination.
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4.00 Credits
This course concentrates on basic voice and speech work, in order to help students communicate with greater clarity and confidence. The demands of public speaking are also addressed.
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4.00 Credits
Dance The Alexander Technique, a widely respected method used to investigate the body and achieve alignment and relaxation, is a valuable tool for performers, writers, scholars, and artists. It offers a kinesthetic re-education that provides a means of monitoring and eliminating selfcreated tension in order to avoid interfering with the creative process.
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4.00 Credits
Literature This survey course looks at the major periods of dramatic literature, from ancient Greece to the 20th century. Plays are read with particular reference to historical context and dramatic convention informing theater practice during these periods. Along with the plays, the class considers critical and theoretical essays that elucidate these social and aesthetic conditions.
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4.00 Credits
Writing Program in Fiction and Poetry This introductory course focuses on discovering the writer's voice. Through writing exercises based on dreams, visual images, poetry, social issues, found text, and music, each writer is encouraged to find her or his unique language, style, and vision. A group project explores the nature of collaborative works. Students learn elements of playwriting through writing a one-act play, reading assignments, and class discussions.
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4.00 Credits
This course functions as a writers' workshop. After writing a short play, students focus on developing a full-length play, with sections of the work in progress presented in class for discussion. Students grow as playwrights through exposure to diverse dramatic literature and by undertaking a short adaptation of either a class play or a short story. Prerequisite: Theater 207.
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4.00 Credits
This course, for students who have taken one semester of Introduction to Acting and would like to continue their study, moves from a gamesoriented curriculum into work with theatrical texts and discovery of the processes of scene study.
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4.00 Credits
Integrated Arts By embracing the archetypes of childhood and reclaiming the "internal response" without thediminishing filter of socialization, actors start to lose the inhibitions that block them from being purely expressive. Beginning with exercises in broad physicality, balance, rhythm, discovery, physical mask, and surprise, this course explores what is unique and funny about each individual. Openness, invention, playfulness, generosity courage, and sensitivity are encouraged. Prerequisite: Theater 101.
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