A beginning acting class that focuses on understanding and representing human behavior. Students will read and analyze classic and contemporary plays and engage in workshop activities staging scenes. This survey explores the major monuments and artistic traditions of China, India, Japan, Central Asia, and Korea. In discussing and analyzing these texts, students reflect on the psychological and social implications of Western romantic love and its relationship to marriage and personal identity. This advanced intermediate course concentrates on the development of conversation skills and their use in appropriate sociolinguistic contexts.
Special emphasis is placed on listening and speaking strategies and on vocabulary enrichment.
Students learn to narrate, paraphrase, make comparisons, speak in concise paragraphs, support opinions, and communicate their needs in a variety of culturally authentic situations. French 201 or equivalent. The fundamental laws of nature will be explored in the first of this two term sequence in introductory physics. Mechanics, including motion, force, energy, momentum and rotational systems will be discussed, followed by an introduction to the topics of thermodynamics and the special theory of relativity. Three hour lecture a week, plus laboratory .