DRMA 260 Introduction to Acting (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Formerly THTR 260
Course Description
Introduction to the methods employed in acting for the contemporary stage and digital film.
Course Content
a. Cultural Influences on character development
b. Sociocultural Influences on character development
c. Historical/cultural heritage on character development
d. Concepts of actor evaluation
e. Concepts of performance techniques
f. Creative expression/performance
g. Training of the voice, mind and body for beginning acting
h. Appropriate vocabulary to apply the concepts of beginning acting
I. Imaginative, expressive, and technical skills in the performance process
j. Practical tools for preparing roles for film and stage
k. Understanding the discipline of the beginning actor
l. Focus and control of the actor's instrument
m. Stage movement and pantomime to express thought, feelings, and actions
n. Stanislavski's system for character study
Student Outcomes
1. Demonstrate effective warmup and performance techniques to express thoughts, feelings, and actions.
2. Prepare scenes and monologues for performance with awareness of context, form, and time constraints.
3. Demonstrate empathy and cultural awareness through performance selection and performative choices.
4. Analyze a character from a script, describing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and cultural dimensions that impact the actor’s understanding of that character.
5. Use appropriate theatre vocabulary to explain and apply the concepts of preparation, portray believable characters, and demonstrate skills and techniques for stage and digital film.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
Formal writing: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
Projects: group presentations/performances, individual presentations/performances, multimedia productions
Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting
Group discussions and classroom activities
Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
Observation: teacher evaluation in class, teacher conference, peer evaluation, self-evaluation
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