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4.00 Credits
A multidisciplinary consideration of the ways young people learn the language arts (speaking, reading, writing and listening) across the subject matter disciplines. This course addresses language acquisition and literacy development for students who are native English speakers and students who are English language learners. A field experience in the public schools is required. Registration priority to juniors intending to enroll in the professional semester.
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4.00 Credits
Independent Study in Education
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4.00 Credits
Students are introduced to the formal aspects of play texts and develop the critical skills necessary to read plays and critique live and video performances. Representative dramas from the Greeks to the present are investigated in terms of character development, dialogue, settings and central ideas, as well as their original theatrical contexts: theatre architecture, stage conventions, scenic devices, costuming and acting techniques. The emphasis is on analysis of scripts and the relationship among performance conditions, cultural context and dramatic conventions. Also offered as Performance and Communication Arts 125.
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4.00 Credits
Students are introduced to the concept of literary genres. Each section focuses on a single genre - poetry, fiction, drama, fairy tales - with a view to describing and illustrating its major characteristics. Emphasis is on the varieties within generic types, and students are exposed to examples drawn from a wide historical range. In the process of studying the particular literary form, students also learn to respond critically to the challenges posed by literary texts and receive guidance in the composition of effective written responses to those texts.
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4.00 Credits
A general study of journalistic principles and methods as well as extensive practice in the gathering and writing of news. Emphasis is on newspaper journalism.
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4.00 Credits
Offered by St. Lawrence's program in England. Students read, view and discuss plays being produced in London during the semester. The formal study of the plays and their productions is supplemented by frequent attendance at various forms of theatre and occasional tours and lectures. Students with some background in drama may petition to take this course as 312L and substitute an independent project for the regular course work.
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4.00 Credits
How does a director decide what play to do and the style in which to do it? Answers to these questions are the guiding principles for the investigation of staging practices and plays that span from ancient Greece to those of 19th-century Europe. Students examine how theatrical space, scenery and props altered the theatre-going experience. In the end, we focus attention on how knowing the theatrical and cultural contexts of plays can help theatre practitioners make informed choices. Also offered as Performance and Communication Arts 215.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to a wide range of literature, including poetry, plays and fiction, from many parts of Africa. The purpose is to explore the cultural fertility and diversity of literary production in an area of the world unfamiliar to most Americans. In addition, students gain insight into topics central to African/Third-World studies, such as the reaction and resistance to colonialism and the forging of complex cultural identities in a post-colonial culture. Also offered through African Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the processes of composition characteristic of the playwright. In a series of weekly assignments, various aspects of the art are introduced: characterization, dialogue, dramatic action and others. The course concludes with the writing of a one-act play. Students read exemplary plays from the modern repertoire. Also offered as Performance and Communication Arts 223.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of literature by authors from formerly British colonies: Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Kitts and Dominica. This course considers colonial and postcolonial fiction, poetry and non-fiction by writers from various ethnic groups, including people of African, East Indian, Chinese and European descent. Representative authors are Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, George Lamming, Edgar Mittelholzer, Olive Senior, Erna Brodber and Michelle Cliff. Also offered through Caribbean and Latin American Studies.
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