DRAMATURGY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the history of dramaturgy, a dramaturg's role in different institutional and creative contexts, and the theoretical principles that ground the practice. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Discuss the different tasks dramaturgs encounter, including working within different institutions, glossing texts, working with and selecting adaptations and translations, and developing educational materials. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Create a dramaturg's production casebook and complete other assignments that will give you experience trying out the dramaturg's work. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Discover the creative potential of dramaturgical thinking in broader areas of theatre and performance practice and scholarship. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Conduct and present dramaturgical research both orally and and in written form. Audience: Graduate 6. Write effectively about dramaturgical process and production as a mode of theatre and performance research. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the history of dramaturgy, a dramaturg's role in different institutional and creative contexts, and the theoretical principles that ground the practice. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Discuss the different tasks dramaturgs encounter, including working within different institutions, glossing texts, working with and selecting adaptations and translations, and developing educational materials. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Create a dramaturg's production casebook and complete other assignments that will give you experience trying out the dramaturg's work. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Discover the creative potential of dramaturgical thinking in broader areas of theatre and performance practice and scholarship. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Conduct and present dramaturgical research both orally and and in written form. Audience: Graduate 6. Write effectively about dramaturgical process and production as a mode of theatre and performance research. Audience: Graduate