THET 250 Shakespeare from Page to Stage
This course focuses on reading, analyzing, and interpreting Shakespeare's plays as literary texts; understanding them as products of specific cultural, historical, and artistic currents; and exploring them as performance texts meant for production. Emphasis is given to the process that transforms literary text through production, informed by literary and theatrical elements.
Prerequisite
Pre- or corequisite:
ENGL 121
Hours Weekly
3 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- Identify, organize, and apply critical theory by using basic literary and theatrical concepts, elements, and stylistic characters specific to the dramatic work.
- Generate ideas, explore possibilities and alternatives to demonstrate innovation and risk-taking in following the steps necessary to bring a Shakespearean pay to production from acting, design, and directing perspectives.
- Analyze and evaluate the ongoing power of Shakespeare's plays and apply these techniques to other performances.
- Develop techniques to evaluate productions of Shakespeare's plays and apply these techniques to other performances.
- Write clearly and effectively using appropriate, relevant and properly attributed content that demonstrates the writer's understanding and the standard conventions of writing about theatre.
Course Objectives
- Identify, organize, and apply critical theory by using basic literary and theatrical concepts, elements, and stylistic characters specific to the dramatic work.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Writing Assignments
- Written journal assignment
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric
- Generate ideas, explore possibilities and alternatives to demonstrate innovation and risk-taking in following the steps necessary to bring a Shakespearean pay to production from acting, design, and directing perspectives.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric
- Analyze and evaluate the ongoing power of Shakespeare's plays and apply these techniques to other performances.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Writing Assignments
- Performance review and production project
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric
- Creative Process Rubric
- Develop techniques to evaluate productions of Shakespeare's plays and apply these techniques to other performances.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric
- Write clearly and effectively using appropriate, relevant and properly attributed content that demonstrates the writer's understanding and the standard conventions of writing about theatre.
This objective is a course Goal Only
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric