This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic principles of characterization. The course will include voice and diction, movement, imagination and discipline, emotional recall and control, empathetic and comic techniques, and script analysis. . Class discussions and participation in class exercises 2. Written quizzes based on lecture and text 4. Five performance scenes, the last of which will be presented before a live audience .
Attendance is essential for achieving the objectives of the course.
Students are allowed to miss one regular class without losing any attendance points. Additional unexcused absences will result in lost points. Excused absences for regular class include personal family illness, important meetings and appointments, intercollegiate games, etc. If you are absent on a quiz day and I do not know where you are, you will receive an automatic 0 for that quiz and no make-up quiz will be available. Furthermore, only for the most extreme circumstances will students be excused from a quiz day, i.e. death in a family, serious illness, etc.