Students will learn the process of writing, selecting, analyzing, researching, and producing scripts for young audiences. An exploration of the communicative role design plays within the performing arts. Students learn basic design building blocks and communication theory as they apply to theatre and design. Emphasis is placed on developing the student's ability to communicate visual ideas coordinated within a performance framework. An improvisational and process-centered performance course where students are guided by the instructor to imagine, enact, and reflect upon the human experience through exploration of the dramatic impulse.
Students also apply the techniques they learn as a means of teaching creative expression.
A concentration on the physical nature of the actor's work. Primary emphasis will be on vocal production for the stage and a variety of approaches to stage movement. Classroom performance of memorized scenes is required. Communication Technology and Social Change Students examine how developments in communication technology have contributed to changes in the way we think about ourselves, our relationship to each other and our place in the world. Students explore oral, scribal, print, industrial, and post-industrial communication cultures.