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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This advanced Kiswahili course will help students gain a higher level of language proficiency by applying grammatical skills learned in Elementary and Intermediate Kiswahili to topics addressing the language and culture of the Swahili speakers in East Africa. Coursework will focus on readings, writings, and oral performance activities on selected issues related to the history, geography, politics, language, literature, and cultural practices of the people of Kenya, Tanzania, and other Swahili speaking regions of Eastern Africa.
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Although the novel is the youngest genre in the Swahili critical tradition, it has experienced some of the most revolutionary and innovative experimentations since it gained mainstream prominence in Swahili literature, mainly during the post-colonial/independence literary revolution. This course is a reading of the Kiswahili novel with a critical analysis of the socio-political and critical trends in the literary world that have influenced the writings of contemporary Swahili novelists. The colonial/independence and post independence experience in east Africa are some of the motifs that inform the course readings and class discourse.
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Examines the rich tradition of poetry in Swahili ranging from pre-20th century classical poetry to contemporary trends. A critical exploration of the classical verse forms such as tenzi will inform subsequent analysis of contemporary materials, representing among them innovative re-appropriations of time-honored techniques as well as pioneering experiments in free verse and the critical debates associated with this poetic experience. Readings will include works by classical, colonial, and post-colonial poets.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to the craft of acting through scene study monologues and, finally, a longer scene drawn from a play, to develop a method of working on a script. Emphasis will be placed on honesty, spontaneity, and establishing a personal connection with the scene's substance.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This is a workshop in the fundamentals of writing plays. Emphasis will be on solving problems of structure, dramatic action, and character. Attention will also be given to innerlife, language, atmosphere on stage, creating living dialogue, and examining the sources to be used in writing, etc.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A hands-on approach to this interdisciplinary field. In addition to key readings in performance theory, we will attend theatre and concerts and sporting events, visit museums, attend community celebrations observe people's behaviors in restaurants and on the street. We will analyze live performance, adapting techniques applied to written texts to space- and time-based events. We will also practice ethnographic methods to collect stories to adapt for performance and address the role of the participant-observer as a corollary to the scholar-artist, which requires thinking about ethics and the inherent social responsibilities of this work.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A continuation of THR 201: Guide students in ways to develop a role and to explore important texts and characters in an imaginative and honest manner.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Practicing thinking like a writer-who-thinks-like-an-actor-thinking-like-a-dancer-who-thinks-like-a-musician-thinking-like-a-painter-who-thinks-like-a-composer-who-directs. Exploring the Faust legend from all theatrical angles (words, music, movement, sculpture, design), we build a multi-dimensional theatrical logic over the course of the semester. We will explore, provoke, invent, and analyze the phenomenal, the poetic, the sententious, the informative, the confrontational, and the entertaining.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A workshop devoted to ways of writing plays with the goal of producting the draft of a full length play by the end of the semester.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An exploration of the various aspects of Theatrical Design: lighting, set design, costuming. Emphasis will depend to some degree on the instructor's area of interest and/or student interest. Studio projects will be designed to coincide with other theater and dance courses and currently scheduled productions. Critical discussion will explore the relationship between dramatic texts and design ideas. The Fall 2010 class will focus on lighting design.
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