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PROPOSALS
Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Studies at its meeting of May 15, 1979 gives rise to the following
motion:
MOTION I
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to
the Board of Governors, as set forth in S.79-72,
the proposed new courses:
FPA. 252-3 - Theatre Production I
FPA. 253-3 - Theatre Production II
FPA. 352-3 - Theatre Production III
FPA. 353-3 - Theatre Production IV."
In discussion it was identified that these four new
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theatre courses represent an optional extension of credit theatre
work for students enrolled in the four semester sequences of acting
studies within the Minor program. The courses can be taken but are
not required for the minor. A variety of ways exist to organise
the projects which primarily are of the group activity rather than
individual type. They create an opportunity for students to receive
academic credit for some of the extensive production work which at
present is undertaken on a voluntary basis.
Time Waiver: Subject to the approval by Senate and by the Board of
Governors of the courses, SCUS has approved the waiver of the time
lag requirement in order that FPA. 252-3 and FPA. 352-3 may be first
offered in Fall 79-3, and FPA. 253-3 and FPA. 353-3 may be first offered
In Spring 80-1.
Norman R. Reilly
Chairman
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CourseProposals
FPA. 252, 253, 352, 353
From
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J. Blanchet, Secretary of the
Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Date
May 8, 1979
The attached New Course Proposals for
FPA. 252, 253, 352, 353 -
Theatre
Production I, II, III, IV, were approved on May 8, 1979 by the Faculty of
Interdisciplinary Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
Would you please place this item on the agenda for the next meeting of the
Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.
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Janet Blanchet
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'OMMI TTEE ON I;t)ERCIADtlATE STUDIES
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Department: Centre
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the Arts
Abbreviation Code:
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Course Number: 2
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Credit Hours:
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3
Vector:
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Title
of
Course:
THEATRE
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Calendar Description of Course: This course will qive students experience in
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crt'orminq in various kinds of theatrical production under faculty
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will
orqaiiize a production unit which will undertake a series
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projects. The projects undertaken
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relate to the acting studies?
in
FPA.
Nature
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Course ?
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Prerequisites
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instructions): ?
Admission
to
FPA.250.
Normally,
students
enrolling
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in
this
course should
take FPA. 250
and
254
concurrently.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course
is
approved: None
2.
Schedu1t
Uow frequently will the course be offered?
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Once a year
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 1979-3
Which of your present faculty
wf.,uld
be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
P.
Feldman
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Objectives of the Course
5cc attached rationale
4.
Budetarv and
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pa
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Requlrements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library ?
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Sec attachd rationale
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
S. Approval
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Department Chairman
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SCUS 73-3
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(When completing this form, for instructions see Mem&andum SCUS 73-34a
Attach courue outline).
SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
1. Calendar Information
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Department:
Centre for the Arts
Abbreviation Code:
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Course Number:
253 ?
Credit Hours:
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Vector:
Title of Course:
THEATRE PRODUCTION
II
Calendar Description of Course:
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This course is designed to give students experience
in preparing and performing in various kinds of theatrical production under
faculty supervision. Students will organize a production unit which will
undertake a.series of performance projects. The projects undertaken will
relate to the acting studies in FPA. 251.
Nature of Course
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Studio
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
Admission to FPA.251. Normally, students
enrolling in this course should take FPA. 251 and 255 concurrently.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
None
2. Scheluling
How frequently will the course be offered?
once a year
Semester in
which the course will
first be offered?
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1980-1
Whichof your present
faculty wüud
be available to make the proposed offering
possible? ?
D.
Rotenberg
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3. Objectives
of the Course
See attached rationale
4. Budetary and Space Req 1rem!i!
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(for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library ?
see attached rationale
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
5. Approval
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Department Chairman
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Dean ?
Chairman, SCYS
Scus
73-34b:-
(When
completing this
form, for instructions see Memorandum
SCUS
73-348.
Attach course
outline).
SENATE CO?1iTlEE ON tJNDERC RADII ATK_STUDIIS
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
1.
Calendar Information
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Department: Centre for the
Abbreviation Code:FPA
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Course Number:352
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Credit
Vector.p_p
Title of Course: THEATRE PRODUCTION III
Calendar Description of Course: This course is designed to give students
experience in preparing and performing in various kinds of theatrical
production under faculty sukervision. Students will organize a production
unit which will undertake a series of performance projects. The projects
undertaken will relate to the acting studies in FPA.350.
Nature of Course Studio
Prerequisites (or special
instructions):
Admission to
FPA.350.
Normally, students
enrolling in this course should take FPA.350 and 354 concurrently.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: None
2.
Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
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Once a year
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 1979-3
Which of your present faculty
wL,uld
be available to make the proposed offering
possible? ?
G.
Kalic
3.
Objectives of the Course
see
attached rationale
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library
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see attached rationale
Audio Visus
Space
Equipment
5.
Approval
Date: 'Z. ?
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Department Chairman
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Dean ?
Chairman, SCU
SCUS 73-34b:-
(When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum scus 73-34a.
Attach couruc outline).
SENATE
COMMITTEE' ON
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UNDER CHA
DUATE STUDIES ?
NEW COURSE L'ROPOSA[, FORM
1. Calendar Information
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Department:
Centre
for the Arts
Abbreviation
Code.FPA
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Course
Number
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353 ?
Credit Hours:
3
Vector:p-p-s
Title of
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THEATRE PRODUCTION IV
Calendar Description of Course:
This course is designed to give students
- experience in preparing and performing in various kinds of theatrical
production under faculty supervision. Students will organize a production
unit which will undertake a series of performance projects. The projects
undertaken will relate to the acting studies in FPA.351.
Nature of Course
Studio
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
Admission to FPA.351. Normally, students
enrolling in this course should taken FPA.351 and 355 concurrently.
What Course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
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none
2.
Schedu
How frequently will the course
be offered?
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Once a year
Semester in
which the course
wi ll
first be offered?
1980-1
Which of your present
faculty wuId
be available to make the proposed offering
possible? ?
P. Feldman
3.
Objectives
of the Course
See attached rationale
4.
Budetary and Space Req Irerne (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty.
Staff
Library ?
see attached rationale
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
5.
Approval
Date:
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Department Chairman
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Dean ?
Chairman, SCUS
SCUS 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for in
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see Memorandum SCLJS 73-34g.
Attach course outline).
I'I'A. 252-3, 253-3, 352-3,
353-3
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RATIONALE AND COURSE OUTLINE
These four new theatre courses represent an optional extension
of credit theatre work for students enrolled in t:ie four semester
sequence of acting studies within our minor program. As production
oriented courses they involve a reconception of the nature and place
of production work in relation to a minor program such as ours.
In the present situation, in which all production work is voluntary and
separate from the acting classes, student energies tend to be routed in
different directions within the theatre program during certain periods
of the semester. Rehearsals begin in the evening and extend late into
the night in order to minimize course conflicts. Separately conceived
productions into which students pour many hours for no return of credit
tend to lead to an overemphasis on production work apart from the learning
process it represents.
These new courses, then, supplement our existing course structure
by crc'ating an opportunity for students to receive academic credit for
some of the extensive production work which currently they undertake on a
voluntary basis. As such they fulfill a frequent request from our students
for adequate compensation for the many hours of supervised creative work
which they put in. It is our intention to schedule these courses so that
they are consecutive with the acting studio courses and the skills laboratories
of the Supplementary Studies courses. In this way, we can fully integrate
the production work and the studios: the work of the studios and workshops,
for example, will
prepare
the student much more directly
for the particular
production which
is being
worked on, and the production
can be planned in
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Iterms
of the needs of the particular level, of Acting studio to which
it
is attached. ?
By extending production work to a semester-long
commitment and granting credit, the following values come into play:
a)
students can be asked to do some dramaturgical or background research
in connection with a production;
b)
students registrered are guaranteed an involvement with the production,
as opposed to the current open audition system which cannot make such
guarantees;
c)
rehearsal periods can begin during the normal working day and end
earlier., and therefore be less tirinq to students and faculty;
d)
a number of different sorts of productions can be undertaken when there
is a semester-long commitment;
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some of these might be small and
informal studio projects, short video or sound tape projects, mainstage
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productions, projects involving research off campus (a court room,
a hospital, a school etc.);
e)
productions cease to be special, isolated events with their own
mystique and become part of the daily ràutine of work; this de-glarnourization
of the process teaches students that work on productions represents a
series of problems to be solved;
f)
students can participate more fully in all aspects of planning and
executing the production, seeing it as a whole;
g)
by working together an a series of projects over a term with many of
the same students one works with in the Acting studios and workshops,
a much stronger ensemble feeling is fostered.
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I.t should he emphasized that these courses involve no overall
extension of present work for students; faculty or production resources.
Students within the minor program will have the choice of taking these
courses or not, just as they presently may or may not take part in
productions. We expect that a basic ensemble will develop through the
three available courses, but every effort will be made to provide effective
learning experiences for students who for one reason or another do not
participate in all of them, or for whom spebial projects are most appropriate.
Normally the faculty member responsible for an acting course will also take
responsibility for the attached production course, although regular faculty
may switch groups for specific projects, and visitors may be brought in for
production assignments with a particular group. Although these courses will
not be the only means through which students can perform or faculty direct,
some of the energies now invested in
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the program Will be devoted to this more
integrated production concept. We hope also by these courses to stimulate
a more lively theatre presence on campus. The one essential new resource for
this plan has already been made available: the addition of a second studio space
for theatre makes possible the simultaneous scheduling of two levels of
practical theatre work.
Finally, a word should be included about the relation of these courses
to our proposed theatre major. Although these courses were not a part of
the proposal for a theatre major approved in principle by Senate in April of
1978, they are in no way incongruous with the dirction of that program, and
would be accommodated within any detailed proposal for a major coming
before Senate. Because it now appears that no theatre major can he in
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operation for at least the next two ucadeinic years, however, the
Department deems the introduction of these courses as essential for
the coherence and vitality of a theatre program within a minor structure.
COURSE OUTLINE
For each production undertaken:
1.
organization of production, distribution of roles, first production
meetings;
2.
for scripted material: first readings, discussions of play and event;
for unscripted material: discussion of project and event, formulation of
outline;
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assignment of research, preliminary work on design concepts;
4.
first rehearsals, discussions based on research, further production meetings;
5.
further rehearsals, research, discussion, production meetings, work on
physical production in conjunction with FPA.170;
6.
final rehearsals and "run-throughs", technical and dress rehearsals,
final organizing of event;
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performance series;
7.
post-production evaluation.
TEXT:
J.
Gassner, PRODUCING_THE PLAY.
