THE 101 - Theater/Drama Appreciation

Offered FL, WI
Lecture- 3
3 credit hrs/3 contact hrs
How to enjoy theater ‐‐ both playgoing and the reading of plays. An appreciation of the various theater artists: actors, directors, designers, technicians. This is an appreciation course, not a performance course where students are expected to perform.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Read a play script and react critically to it by writing and speaking about it (determining its genre, themes, main action, plot, salient character and language aspects, as well as its structure)
See a production of a play and react critically to it by writing and speaking about its salient features in all production elements
Trace the general course of theater history from the ancient Greeks to the present day
Describe the tools, obligations and requirements of various theater artists (i.e. Directors, Actors, Designers, Technicians, Producers/Theater Managers and Critics)