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Course Syllabus

Course: THEA 2605

Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Theater Arts
Title: Performance Practicum V

Semester Approved: Fall 2021
Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2026
End Semester: Summer 2027

Catalog Description本课程允许学生通过有监督的戏剧排练和表演来运用表演技巧.This course is repeatable for credit.

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1-2; Lecture: 1-2; Lab: 1-2
Repeatable: Yes.


Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor

Justification这门课程是本科戏剧表演专业的低年级核心必修课,在犹他州和其他地方的所有四年制大学都有同等课程. It fills a major requirement for theatre arts majors and, otherwise, satisfies elective credit criteria.这门特殊的表演实习课程将提供给参加戏剧季第五部作品的学生. 因为一个大一的学生可能会参与本季的第五部作品, sophomore, etc. this course is repeatable for credit.

General Education Outcomes:
1: 完成GE课程的学生对人类文化和自然世界有了基本的了解. 戏剧表演的工作和从不同的角度解读文本隐含着对人性和世界文化的探索, from individual scale to that of entirely different societies, both current and of the past. 参加此实习的学生将通过具体的脚本分析来展示这些知识, an actor's dramaturgical work, close-reading, artistic interpretation and culminating in performance.

2: 完成GE课程的学生可以有效地阅读和研究学科. 每个学生将被要求根据体裁阅读和解释剧本的文本, style, theme, period, locale, mood/atmosphere, character relationships, 以及其他相关的特定环境,这些环境突出了剧作家或导演的观点与起源的关系, fictive world, and/or contemporary context. Each student develops his/her character on the basis of background, motivations, relationships, actions, and temperaments. The interpretation of each character will be evaluated, corrected, and re-evaluated by both the student and the director until performance. 学生将通过表演和参与所有的排练和演示来展示制作工作, 以及完成所有角色分配,如性格分析, memorization of dialogue, execution of blocking, script scoring, and character constancy.

3: 完成通用电气课程的学生可以从多个学科中汲取知识来解决复杂的问题. 舞台上的工作通常需要根据作品的确切内容和背景探索许多学科. 经常需要学生注意的领域包括社会学的各个方面, psychology, anthropology, history, literature, and other areas of fine arts. 网络棋牌游戏平台十大排行戏剧系也鼓励学生从数学中深入研究其他学科(包括通识教育和非通用教育)的主题, biology, medicine, political science, etc. As the work of a performer is to understand the plight of the character, 演员必须首先解构角色所面临的行动和障碍. Then, through an informed interpretive process, 演员必须尝试在剧作家所勾勒的情境和场景中联系并实现角色的问题解决. The student will demonstrate this work through the audition, rehearsal, and performance of the character.

4: 完成GE课程的学生可以进行分析性、批判性和创造性的推理. By its very nature, 表演的艺术要求学生能够分析剧本以便检索, evaluate, interpret, and respond to the author's intent. 这种理解将对他们通过言语和非言语成分对角色的解释和表现产生直接影响. 探索一个角色的关键工作是内在的,通过创造合作绩效, live scene work, receiving directorial feedback, and self-reflection. 学生将通过排练和表演来展示这些技巧.


Student Learning Outcomes:
Analyze a specific role on the basis of genre, style, theme, period, locale, mood/atmosphere, character relationship, and other relevant given circumstances using close-reading, textual analysis, dramaturgy, interpretation, and the rehearsal process. Students will demonstrate this through rehearsals and performance.

Evaluate a specific character on the basis of background, motivations, relationships, actions, objectives, super objective, tactics, beat-changes, temperaments/states, externalities, handling of language, diction, destinations, exceptions, inner-life, and/or any other acting practices appropriate for the production. 学生将通过表演和参与所有的排练和演示来展示制作工作, 以及完成所有角色分配,如性格分析, memorization of dialogue, execution of blocking, script scoring, and character constancy.

Memorize text, blocking, and notes.  Students will demonstrate this through rehearsals and performance

Perform before live audiences maintaining concentration, focus, character consistency, energy, tempo, pace, projection, articulation, connection, action, and truth. Students will be assessed through the final performances.


Content:
每学期在雪学院剧院演出的学生将获得学分.

Performance:
1. 试镜——按照导演的要求,参加一到三天的试镜,表演准备好的和冷的试镜作品.
2. 排演——按计划参加三到六周的排演. 排练顺序将包括以下几个阶段:通读/分析, blocking/choreography, line/music, runthroughs, finishing, technical, costume/makeup.
3. 表演——在现场观众面前表演4到7场.

内容可能包括其他适用的表演技巧和方法的强化/讲习班,以扩大学习者对表演艺术的理解, style, or performance approaches as determined by the instructor.

本课程与雪学院戏剧季安排的个别作品一起提供. As such, 探索的作品和内容包括以下参数,以解决多样性和包容性:

倡导生产选择,开放话语和影响积极的机会, while supporting rigorous cultural specificity to remove generalizations, harmful appropriation, and divisive depictions. Fostering rehearsal and performance culture to create safe and equitable spaces where every person’s story is heard and honored; where hate, bigotry, and intolerance are not given power, only context.


Key Performance Indicators:
Each student will be evaluated on:


Production assessment of student performance.  70 to 90%

Post-production performance evaluation. 10 to 30%


Representative Text and/or Supplies:
The script for the current play serves as the text for this course.


Pedagogy Statement:
本课程通过亲身实践,为学生提供戏剧表演各个方面的理论和实践经验, high-impact experience at both the independent and group level. 这是学术戏剧课程的关键教学部分,为戏剧研究的多维领域提供探索机会. Students are given standards of practice in which to operate, real-world timetables, 在整个制作和排练过程中提供专业水平的指导和批评.

本课程与雪学院戏剧季安排的个人作品一起提供. As such, 所探索的实践和方法包括以下参数,以解决多样性和包容性:

应该以一种每个人都能获得成长资源的方式来教授实习, success, and expression, and where instruction works to remove all impediments to that access. Talent and skill, in their many facets, are nurtured based solely upon merit and achievement, in order to foster the many facets artistic expression may take.

Instructional Mediums:
Lecture/Lab

Maximum Class Size: 50
Optimum Class Size: 12