DRMA 261 Acting: Performance Styles (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Formerly THTR 261
Course Description
Acting with an emphasis on different styles of performance.
Course Content
A. Basic elements of acting and acting terminology for stage and film
B. Warmups (e.g. Relaxation Techniques and Trust Building Exercises)
C. Voice and Diction (e.g. expression, breathing, projection, characterization)
D. Schools of acting ( e.g. techniques for stage and film, acting theory, character analysis and exercises)
E. Terminology
F. Preparation (e.g. Scene work and monologues)
G. Auditions Process
H. Individual and Group Work (e.g. Improvisation, Rehearsed Scenes)
I. Performance and Evaluation (Observation of Professional or Educational Theatre Productions, Self, and Peers)
Student Outcomes
1. Develop acting skills for stage and film(e.g. warm-ups, relaxation techniques, voice and diction, stage movement, improvisation, scene study, or analysis) to connect emotionally with character and text.
2. Examine schools of acting developed by influential acting teachers (e.g. Stanislavsky, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Meisner, Spolin, Boal, among others) to explain the value and importance of their techniques to acting.
3. Demonstrate safe use of the voice and body to perform expressively and to create and sustain believable character for performance and auditions
4. Outline and create imaginative scenes and scenarios that include motivated character, unique dialogue, conflict, and resolution for theatre, film, or television.
5. Recognize and use stage and film acting terminology, techniques and methods to apply and explain different performance choices.
6. Demonstrate empathy and cultural awareness through performance selection and performative choices.
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
A.Essays: out-of-class assignments or essay exams
B.Tests: short answer, matching, multiple choice.
C.Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions, performances.
D.Observation: teacher evaluation in class, teacher conference, peer evaluation, or self-evaluation
A. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
B. Projects: group presentations/performances, individual presentations/performances, multimedia productions
C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting
D. Group discussions and classroom activities
E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
F. Observation: teacher evaluation in class, teacher conference, peer evaluation, self-evaluation
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