Students are placed in one or the other course depending on their acting experience. They will, depending on level, be introduced to the basic techniques of acting or more advanced techniques. An auditioning course is available on demand for advanced students who have the permission of the program director. Ms. Sullivan, Ms. England Voice and Movement. This course meets four times a week and is taught by professional voice and movement coaches.
Students take one or the other course depending on their previous experience in performing arts.
With emphasis on modern Britain, this course will introduce students to classic sociological theories of social change, from Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Vilfredo Pareto, George Herbert Mead, and Emile Durkheim, to modern and post-modern social theorists. The course will also focus on questions associated with recent ongoing changes in the United Kingdom and this country s relationship to Europe. Questions such as the social and cultural ramifications of the Euro or metrification, as well as the changing ethnic and racial composition of urban London, will be considered. Major questions considered in this course, in addition to fundamental ones such as the meaning of personal and collective identity, will direct attention at assessing personal, interpersonal, communal and national consequences of rapid, pervasive, and large-scale social change. Particular emphasis will be placed on the nature of identity as it relates to urban life.