DRAM 300 Theatre and Drama in the 20th and 21st Centuries Units: 6.00
Continuing from DRAM 200, a study of production, performance, and dramatic literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
NOTE Transportation/Live Performance: estimated cost $55.
NOTE Transportation/Live Performance: estimated cost $55.
Learning Hours: 252 (48 Lecture, 24 Seminar, 60 Online Activity, 120 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 3 or above.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop an approach to drama, theatre and performance of the twentieth century that appreciates the contribution of individual artists, theatre companies, and the scholarship of the period.
- Develop skills of close reading of a play for a complex understanding of a context of the culture of composition and performance.
- Develop a facility in the use of a critical continuum as an analytic tool to bring aspects of the study into relation as practice.
- Engage in designing studio investigation as practical research into theatre history.
- Develop individual writing skills to communicate one's own findings as written thought with clarity and appreciation for a reader.
- Develop a facility to work with archival recordings, critical documents and performance analysis.
- Practice collaborative research protocols and conduct lab experiments using the internet platforms.