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DRAM 100 Introduction to Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies Units: 6.00
An exploration of theatre as a live performing art that seeks to engage, document, and affect communities. Topics may include theatre and society, theatrical representation, performance, and the work of actors, directors, designers, technicians, and playwrights. Opportunities given for practical projects.
Learning Hours: 228 (36 Lecture, 36 Laboratory, 36 Online Activity, 120 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss theatre as both a creative medium and a vital mode of human cultural communication.
- Accurately use basic concepts from theatre studies (including ideas about audiences, reception, dramaturgy, scenography, performance, and history) to investigate and analyze relevant examples from theatrical productions and/or prior learning towards realizing new insights and knowledge.
- Apply a thoughtful approach to the creative process that blends both intuitive and structural impulses.
- Use a similar process to unpack, analyze, and thoughtfully critique the theatrical choices of peers and other artists. Deliver and receive feedback in a way that is productive, insightful, and that promotes positive development and exploration.
- Embrace the uncertainty of creating work in the theatre by realizing the value of Version 2.0, both in terms of how it influences creative development, but also in how it offers the freedom to fail.
- Encounter new, challenging, and/or unfamiliar artistic work with an open, inquisitive attitude and a willingness to engage with, rather than reject the work because it is unfamiliar.
- Question how theatrical choices impact the world around us (asking ‘why’ and ‘so what’ for those choices).
- Explain what the point is, if any, to making theatre in this day and age.