The course focuses on connections between actors, directors, designers, playwrights, technicians, theatres and audiences. Offers students a unique and comprehensive awareness that acting is a natural part of everyday life. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to explore the onstage craft of acting through an interesting blend of philosophy, technique, and history. The student should be able to connect the acting experiences found in the lives of ordinary people with those crafted for theatrical characterization. Lectures and practice in the processes of interpretation and techniques of theatrical expression.
Course culminates in a performance for public viewing.
Credit is based on production experience and requires a minimum of 40 hours of acting or backstage work. An introductory humanities course in film studies, is a survey of the American film industry as an art form, as an industry and as a system of representation and communication. The course explores how Hollywood films work technically, aesthetically and culturally to reinforce and challenge America's national self-image. This class is designed to help you gain a richer understanding and enjoyment of the humanities, particularly in Western culture. These include an introduction to works of literature, philosophy, art, music, and religion between 1600 and the early 1800's.