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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An opportunity to explore what theatrical sound design is, how to look at a text from the point of view of sound, how to launch your creative process, and how to take the ideas based on that creative process and turn them into sounds to be used in a show. Students will also learn how to communicate their ideas, palate, and the arc of their design in a way that demonstrates to directors how they will fulfull the director's vision while embracing their own artistry and response to the text.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This overview of the career of contemporary playwright Tony Kushner will look at his original plays, adaptations, screenplay, and nondramatic writings, as well as at essays analyzing and evaluating his work. Best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, Kushner has produced a variety of writings on a broad range of subjects, including gay marriage, the AIDS crisis, civil rights, Western attitudes toward the Muslim world, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Inspired by Brecht, Kushner considers himself a political playwright--a writer dedicated to an analysis of the "polis" that is the contemporary United States.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A practical, hands-on introduction to acting and directing in musical theater. The course will require students to prepare songs and scenes from selected musicals with an eye to how best to approach the particular challenges the scene presents.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will focus on scenework from the contemporary American repetoire, including plays (by Lisa Kron, David Greenspan, David Henry Hwang, Tanya Barfield and Nenna Beeber) whose world premieres were directed by the instructor.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Special directing assignments will be made for each student, whose work will be analyzed by the instructor and other members of the workshop. Students will be aided in their preparations by the instructor; they will also study the spectrum of responsibilities and forms of research involved in directing plays of different styles.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary theater-making course focused on the development of Marina Carr's "Phaedra," in preparation for its world premiere at the McCarter Theater. A truly original and lyrically explosive adaptation of the ancient Greek myth, set in a fractured visual landscape, Carr's play uses a large cast, a non-linear structure, poetic language, and a variety of non-dialogic narrative technique (both film and live action), to tell her version of the tale in a thoroughly and bravely 21st century way.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A study of essential methods of teaching, with an emphasis on matching instruction to learner characteristics and needs. Students also become familiar with the organization and structure of educational institutions, development of curriculum and instructional goals, preparation of evaluation and assessment, and design of subject/level specific methodologies and classroom management techniques. Students perform 18 hours of site-based field experience. Students attend two seminar meetings and a weekly evening laboratory session.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Senior Seminar, taken concurrently with Practice Teaching (TPP402), is designed for those preparing to teach in public or private elementary and/or secondary schools. Course content includes: the development of learning goals and rubrics for assessment, the study of national and local issues in education and their impact on schools, the examination of current literature and research on teaching and learning, the discussion and evaluation of each student's performance as practice teachers, and the use of research to measure the effectiveness of the teaching/learning process.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Supervised practice teaching in secondary or elementary school (a minimum of 10 weeks for seniors, and 12 weeks for 9th semester and graduate students). Teaching is done under supervision of a master teacher and a program staff member who regularly observes and discusses the student's practice teaching. Students gain firsthand experience in developing teaching strategies, planning and individualizing instruction, assessing student learning, and classroom management. Must be taken concurrently with TPP 401.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to a wide range of issues arising in the many acts of translation that constitute the modern world. Built on a central thread of reflection about translating between languages - What is a language? What is meaning? What do we mean by 'equivalence'? - the course looks at issues in anthropology, artificial intelligence, cinema studies, international relations, literature, law, etc., that involve the boundaries of interlingual translation and intercultural communication. Students should acquire a better understanding of the problems and practices of translation in the modern world.
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