Students prepare and deliver several oral presentations using informative, persuasive, and interpretive approaches in an extemporaneous style. Some presentations will use visual aids and some will be video-taped. The course emphasizes preparation for extemporaneous delivery, platform and breathing techniques, pronunciation and articulation. Individual attention, help and criticism offered.
Students prepare and deliver several oral presentations using interpretive approaches to literature.
This course emphasizes text analysis, individual presentations of prose and poetry, group presentations of choral speaking and readers' theatre. Individual attention, help and criticism offered. Students attend and analyze live theatre performances. An examination of major figures and works in their social and cultural contexts, of dramatic movements and theatrical developments from the Greeks to the present. This course includes script analysis and practical exercises in the process of transforming texts into fully realized productions.