THEA 310 - Advanced Acting

This course utilizes text analysis techniques acquired from THEA 205 (“Acting & Performance: Text”) to use textual evidence to understand dramatic texts. Students in this course build a tool kit to analyze texts of playwrights from different time periods and finding acting choices that support the text. By the end of the semester, students will gain experience with professional audition techniques and will build a repertoire of audition pieces.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): THEA 205, or approved alternate with audition.
Instructional Method: Conference-laboratory
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).