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4.00 Credits
A concentrated study of three theatrical styles: Greek tragedy, Elizabethan drama and comedy of manners. The course includes reading and research on the theater and culture of each historical period, followed by an intensive exploration of their vocal and physical styles through guided improvisations, exercise and scene study. Prerequisite: PCA 107.
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study of the principles and practices of researching, organizing, writing, delivering and criticizing persuasive speeches. Students employ contemporary theories of persuasion to analyze a variety of rhetorical situations. Students construct persuasive speeches for different speaking situations in order to develop critical and practical skills. Prerequisite: PCA 111.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to allow students' needs to dictate the availability of certain introductory courses not always offered by the department. May occasionally fulfill major requirements.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the process of adapting and staging non-dramatic texts (e.g., novels, short stories, poems) for group performance. The class emphasizes the process of selecting, adapting, scripting and rehearsing texts for group performance. Scripting and performance work includes choral reading, installations, chamber theater, rituals and social activist performances. Prerequisite: PCA 107 or PCA 113.
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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 spaces, 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 English 215.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the nature and functions of argument: the classical and contemporary concepts of rationality, truth, knowledge and models of argument; and the evaluation of argument in formal and ordinary language situations. Students participate in several argumentation and debate assignments to develop critical and practical skills. Prerequisite: PCA 111.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores theoretical and rhetorical frames around culture, cultural difference and cultural encounter, with the purpose to enable participants to become more culturally sensitive and effective communicators. We critique models of intercultural communication that simply examine face-to-face interaction and explore how representations of and discourses about culture and cultural difference circulate and help to shape our identities, meanings and interactions.
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4.00 Credits
Interpersonal communication refers to interaction between people. This course examines the social situations in which people create and maintain interpersonal relationships. We also explore the myriad social and cultural factors that impinge upon the success of these relationships. While primary focus is on the ways in which interpersonal relationships are created and maintained in U.S. cultures, comparisons to non-U.S. cultural practices are also made. Topics include identity, relationship formation, family, friendship, intimacy, gender and sexualities, relationships at school and work, conflict, and digitally mediated interpersonal communication. Prerequisite: PCA 127.
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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, e.g., characterization, dialog, dramatic action and others. The course concludes with the writing of a 10-minute play. Students read exemplary plays from the modern repertoire. Also offered as English 223.
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5.00 Credits
This .5-unit course is designed to train students who will work as rhetoric and communication mentors. The course seeks to cultivate a broad and sophisticated understanding of rhetoric and communication, both in the context of the classroom and in the context of communication with faculty and students. We combine discussion of theories of rhetoric and communication, as well as peer tutoring theory, with discussions of pedagogy and practice in such areas as assignment design and evaluation, peer response and evaluation, and collaboration with faculty. A major component involves students designing and delivering messages and engaging in peer evaluation/critique.
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