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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Focusing on the contemporary evolution of Chicano dramatic literature, this course will analyze playwrights and theatre groups that express the Chicano experience in the United States, examining relevant “actors,” plays, and documentaries for their contributions to the developing Chicano theatre movement. (Cross-listed with Ethnic Studies 132.) Prerequisites: THHS or TDHT 11 or 12 or 13 or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Course examines the plays of leading Cuban-American, Puerto-Rican, and Chicano playwrights in an effort to understand the experience of these Hispanic-American groups in the United States. (Cross-listed with Ethnic Studies 133.) Prerequisites: THHS or TDHT 11 or 12 or 13 or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines plays by Latina and Latino playwrights that include characters who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered. Readings include the plays as well as articles and essays about the plays, playwrights, and queer theory. Prerequisites: THHS or TDHT 10 and 13.
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4.00 Credits
Innovations in theatre production and performance since the late nineteenth century. Artists and movements studied include Jarry, Appia, Constructivism, Expressionism, Dada cabaret, performance art, and dance theatre. Complements TDHT 13’s focus on dramatic innovation. Prerequisites: THHS or TDHT 10 or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
The class will explore this vital and unique theatre form by examining its origins, evolution components, and innovators. Special emphasis is placed on the process of adaptation and the roles of the director and choreographer. Prerequisites: upper-division standing; THHS or TDHT 10; or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Evolution of directing theory from 1850 to the present with reference to the work of internationally influential directors such as Saxe-Meiningen, Antoine, Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Brook, among others. Prerequisites: THHS or TDHT 10, TDHT 21 and THAC 101 or TDAC 101 or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
The course will address the work of different writers each quarter, showing how their films derive from classic myths, legends, and traditions of a specific ethnic group. Authors discussed may include Kurosawa (Japanese), Herzog (German), Neil Jordan (Irish), and other moderns. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. May be taken three times for credit.
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4.00 Credits
Ancient and medieval theatre. Explores the roots of contemporary theatre in world performance traditions of ancient history with a focus on humans’ gravitation toward ritual and play. Examples come from Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Persia, and England. Prerequisites: none.
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4.00 Credits
Explores varieties of drama in professional theatre from 1500 to 1900 in Europe, Japan, and China, and their interconnections both formal and historical. Prerequisites: none.
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4.00 Credits
Twentieth-century theatre: a survey of drama from 1900 to 1990, with attention also paid to the development of avant-garde performance forms. Plays discussed reflect developments in Europe and the U.S., but also transnational, postcolonial perspectives. Prerequisites: none.
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