Acting This full-year course provides the serious acting student an added opportunity to develop acting skills through the discipline of improvisation. Improvisation is used as a means of deepening characterization and intensifying relationships within scenes from plays of a challenging nature. Advanced Acting Activities involving emotions and intellect lead students to a deeper understanding of the communal art form that is theater. The basic work of advanced acting is in scene preparation and performance. Script analysis, auditioning techniques, dialects, and theatrical styles are explored through performance.
Students study theories of directing and direct a production of their choice.
Playwriting is explored as a means of structuring original ideas and the outcome is staged-readings. A two-semester course designed to introduce students to oral communication processes. Emphasis in the first semester is on understanding the variables that affect the communication process and public speaking. The second semester is concerned with argumentation as a type of discourse and as a method of philosophical inquiry. Media Workshop A two-semester course designed to develop students' media literacy.