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Proposal for a Minor in Theatre and.
1st April
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the Arts.
Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Studies at its meeting of March 22, 1977 gives rise to the following
motion:
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MOTION
That the proposal for a Minor in Theatre and
new course proposals for:
FPA. 151-3 - Introduction to Acting
FPA. 254-3 - Supplementary Studies for Actors I
FPA. 255-3 - Supplementary Studies for Actors II
FPA. 350-3 - Scene Study for Actors I
FPA. 351-3 - Scene Study for Actors II
FPA. 354-3 - Supplementary Studies for Actors III
FPA. 355-3 - Supplementary Studies for Actors IV
FPA. 456-3 - Conceptual Approaches to Drama,
as set forth in S.77-46 be approved and recommended t6 the
Board of Governors for approval.
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It was confirmed that the proposal had been approved
by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning and the monetary aspects
had been budgeted. The Universities Council approved in principle
the development of Fine Arts programs in all three universities but
each unit would require individual approval by the Council.
Should the new courses FPA.254, FPA.350 and FPA.354
be approved, SCUS has approved a waiver of the two semester time
lag requirement in order that they be offered first in the Fall
semester, 1977.
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MEMORANDUM
Mr. H. Evans, Registrar and
Secretary, Senate Committee on
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ra4uate .tudies
Subject
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Proposal for a Minor in Theatre
(I.S.C. 77-6)
From
R.C. Brown,
Acting.Chairman
Faculty
of Interdisciplinary....
Studies Undergraduate Curriculum
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March 8, 1977
The attached proposal fQr a Minor in Theatre was approved by the Faculty of
Interdisciplinary Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee on March 8, 1977
as set out in I.S.C. 77-6. It was distributed to the Curriculum Committee
Chairmen regarding course overlap on March 1st and therefore request that it
be placed on the agenda of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
meeting to be held on Tuesday, March 15th, 1977.
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Evan Alderson
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Members
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Director, Centre for the Arts
Subject
Course Proposals -Centre for the Ar
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28 Feb 77
I am circulating this material in the hopes that it can be
placed on the Agenda of the meeting for Tuesday, March 1.
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PROPOSAL FOR A MINOR IN THEATRE
The Centre for the Arts requests approval of a minor program in theatre,
effective January 1, 1978.
Following the approval in principle given by Senate in February of 1976
(S.76-21) for the development of minor programs in Dance, Theatre and Film,
the department has carefully considered the development of a theatre program
in relation to the principles approved by Senate. We now propose a minor
program that in our view best fulfills these principles.
In S.76-21, we set forth a rough model of the course structure for each
of the three minors, which we then followed quite closely in developing
the Dance Minor, approved by Senate in October, 1976. The
minor
does not follow that initial model quite so closely. Perhaps the easiest
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way to describe the central ideas behind this program is to follow an
entering student through it.
Each student initially takes FPA. 150-3, Basics of Theatre (already
approved). In this course the student is exposed to the various areas of
practical theatre, to get some elementary background, and has a chance in
tutorial situations to become involved in acting. Those students who
wish to pursue the minor following PPA. 150, may be selected into FPA. 250-3,
given each Pall semester, along with the other individuals who will form
that "class" Individuals who are not interested in the minor or who are
not selected into it have the opportunity to take another course in theatre
practice, FPA. 151-3 (proposed). Students in the minor are required to take
a single 6-credit "context" course, in order to insure that they receive
some exposure to the styles and traditions of other arts as well as theatre.
The student who enters 250
is taking the first of
four core courses in
the minor program:
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250-3,
251-3 (approved), and
350-3, 351-3
(proposed).
These courses concentrate
on the art and craft of
acting, not
in isolation
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from other areas of theatre, but as the central focus for the theatre
learning that takes place for each student. In order to insure that
students move out from this centre in ways that will be most helpful to
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each student, a
series
of concurrent supplementary courses are proposed:
FPA. 254-3, 255-3, 354-3, and 355-3. These courses, more fully described
in the attached material,
involve a
consistent reading requirement in
dramatic literature as well as flexibly designed engagement in practical
work.
The student is
also
moved out from the acting centre of the program
through two other requirements. One of these is to take either FPA. 384-3 -
Criticism of Performance, or
FPA.
386-3 - Aesthetics of Performance.
These courses are already approved and also are required for the Dance
Minor. They move the student toward the critical and analytical under-
standing of theatre in relation to other arts. The second requirement,
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FPA. 456-3.
(proposed), exposes the actor to the realm of the director, and
in this way further enhances the analytic understanding of theatre.
Through this sequence of courses, supplemented by non-credit opportunities
to participate in Simon Fraser theatre productions, students should be
given a coherent and reasonably intensive theatre education within the
constraints of a minor program. A few with great natural talent might
conceivably move directly into professional theatre; more would have simply
a sound basis for additional training elsewhere. Most, of course, will
never become
significantly involved
in professional theatre, but may well
decide to combine the minor toward a B. Ed. degree or with other areas of
study that will enable them to put their theatre education to good use.
Perhaps most important, all students who go through the program will have
received a theatre education which is not false either to the intellectual
demands of a university or to the practical demands of theatre.
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Resources for the Theatre Minor
Faculty: With the addition of
a second
continuing faculty member in
a
presently authorized position, we will have a sufficient
base
of continuing faculty to offer the minor. During the
coming year, these faculty will be supplemented by two ses-
sional lectureships and a one-term visiting position. In
full operation, the minor, along with the teaching productions
presented by the Centre, will require 3 FTE faculty, although
in the interests of variety,
we
might wish only two positions
to be filled by continuing full-time faculty.
Staff: ?
Current staff of the Centre is adequate to handle the technical
and administrative requirements of the minor. Non-faculty
instructional specialists will be contracted to teach in the
skills laboratories. These individuals, like others frequently
employed by
the Centre in relation
to non-credit work, will be
selected by faculty from the local professional community. It
is not possible to fix exact costs for this aspect of the pro-
grain, but in our experience this system is far more economical
than the employment of faculty specialists that would otherwise
be required.
Space:
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Although additional theatre classroom space is highly desirable,
presently
available space is just adequate to house the proposed
sequence of courses. Until additional space becomes available,
Studio II will be virtually dedicated to classroom use, entailing
the use of the main stage for all public teaching productions.
Library: ?
Current library resources, augmented by the series of dramatic
texts already placed on order, are in our opinion adequate for
the introduction of a theatre minor of this nature. We antici-
pate that the collection of works related to theatre will continue
to grow at a moderate rate.
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The approval of a minor will entail no significant
additional expenses for equipment or audio-visual materials.
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Evan Alderson
Director, Centre for the Arts
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PROPOSED CALENDAR ENTRY
REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR IN THEATRE
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Theatre minors will complete 21 hours of Lower Division credit, distributed
as follows:
Any one of:
FPA. 110-6 ?
(formerly G.S. 110) The Arts in Context:
The Renaissance
FPA. 114-6 The Arts in Context: The Modernist Era
FPA. 116-6 The Arts in Context: North American Styles
or
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Similar six credit "Arts in Context" courses to be
introduced in this series.
150-3
250-3
251-3
254-3
255-3
Plus all of:
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FPA.
FPA.
FPA.
PVA.
FPA.
Basics of Theatre
Dramatic Interpretation I
Dramatic Interpretation II
Supplementary Studies for Actors I
Supplementary Studies for Actors II
Theatre minors will also complete 18 hours of Upper Division credit, dis-
tributed as follows:
All of:
FPA.
350-3 Scene Study for Actors I
FPA. 351-3 Scene Study for Actors
II
FPA.
354-3 Supplementary Studies
for Actors III
FPA. 355-3 Supplementary Studies
for Actors IV
FPA.
456-3
Conceptual Approaches
to Drama
Plus one of:
FPA. 382-3 Aesthetics of Performance
FPA. 384-3 Criticism of Performance
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Owlendar Information ?
Department:
Centre
for the Arts
Abbreviation Code:
FPA,
Course Number:
151
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Credit Hours;
3
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Vector:
0-0-6
Title of Course:
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Introduction to Acting
Calendar Description of Course
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An approach to the elements of acting based on
improvisation, with some attention to working from established texts. The course
• is designed for students who wish to extend the acting studies begun in FPA. 150
without necessarily continuing to FPA. 250. It is also available by departmental
permission to students in other disciplines who may require some familiarity with
actinR
Nature
ot
Course
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Laboratory (Studio)
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
FPA.
150 or permission of the department.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: None, but this course will
replace the current theatre workshop.
2.
Schedulin
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Now frequently will the course be offered?
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At least once a year.
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
3.
Objectives of the Course
See attached rationale and course outline.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requireme
nts
(for information only)
Whet additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty ?
A
sessional lecturer will be appointed to replace the current non-faculty
Staff
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None ?
workshop instructor.
Library
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None
Audio Visual
None
Space
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Additional rehearsal space is desirable.
Equipment ?
None
5. Approval
Date;Zé2f
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Department Chairman
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SCUS
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A .ach
course outline).
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FPA. 151 - RATIONALE
The Centre for the Arts has attempted to maintain relatively open access
to
theatre experience consistent with the development of an excellent
university level prdgraxn. tie have done this through a system of open
auditions for productions and the continuation of a non-credit theatre
workshop. We now find, however, that the purposes of the current theatre
workshop will be better filled, and the same resources better applied,
through the introduction of
FPA.
151.
FPA.
151 is a course in acting which substrintiaDy extends the limited
acting training possible in FFA. 150 - Basics of Theatre; at the same
time it avoids the highly disciplined approach to the art begun in
FPA.
250.
We anticipate that students who have a genuine interest In
theatre, without necessarily having the talent to enter
250,
may wish to
follow FPA. 150 with this course. For 150 students who gain admission to
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151 constitutes an entirely optional continuation of 150 which will
not significantly duplicate the studies in the courses required for the
theatre minor. Although for most students FPA. 150 is a desirable pre-
requisite for this course, students in the Centre's dance or film programs,
or students from other departments may find 151 a more directly useful
cu
? pleTnent
to their main area of study, and may be admitted by departmental
permission. in addition, members of the university community who now take
advantage of the workshop may enter this course on a "special audit" basis,
urovvied spaces are available.
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FPA. 151 - COURSE OUTLINE
The focus of FPA. 151 will be to develop a basic approach toward the
acting process, and both a conceptual and practical understanding of the
actor's task. A strong emphasis will be placed on appreciating the actor
as the core of the theatre event,'and the actor's relationship both to
director and to text. The course does not intend to emphasize finish or
polish, but rather-to engender an understanding of approach.
Weeks 1 - 3
Basic improvisations, focussed toward an appreciation of the importance
of environment and role. The ideas underlying emotional recall will be
introduced in these first weeks.
Weeks 4 - 7
Character studies, focussed toward an appreciation of the importance of
moment to moment reality, and the development of a character base. Life
studies, research into the actualities of working people's daily existence,
will play an important function here. Students will observe individuals in
their working environment and create roles around their observations.
Weeks 8 - 13
An introduction to text analysis using Stanislavski's approach. Plays will
be studied from first the directoral point of view, leading to an under-
standing of the relationship between the individual actor and the theatre
event as a whole. This will be followed by "out-scene" improvisation, and
finally scenework drawn from fully analysed texts.
The course may culminate in a student production of scenes drawn from
assigned classwork.
Grading will be based on both intellectual understanding of the approach,
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and practical progress.
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READING LIST
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Chekhov:
The
Three Sisters
Pinter:
The
Birthday Party
Albee:
The
Zoo Story
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American Dream
IonesCQ:
The
Bald Soprano
Reaney:
Sticks and Stones
Ryga:
Captives
of the Faceless Drummer
Stanislavski:
The
Actor Prepares
Brecht:
The
Messingkuaf Dialogues
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SENATE CO*IITThE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Calendar Information ?
Department: Centre
for the Arts
Abbreviation Code:
EPA. ?
Course Number:
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Credit Hours:3
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Vector:
0-2-4
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Title of Course: Supplementary Studies for Actors
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Calendar Description of Course:
This course is a companion course to
FPA. 250.
It is designed to enlarge each
acting student's experience through appropriate skills oriented laboratories, production
requirements, and readings in dramatic literature.
Nature of Course seminar/Laboratory
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
FPA. 150
or equivalent and admission to
FPA. 250.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if
this
course is
approved: ?
None
2.
Schedulin
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Now frequently will the course be offered?
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Once a year
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 77-3
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? ?
D. Rotenberg
3.
Objectives of the Course
See attached statement and reading list.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty ?
A
second continuing appointment (authorized).
Staff ?
Temporary Instructional Specialists
Library ?
None
Audio Visual
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None
Space ?
Additional rehearsal space is desirable.
Equipment
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None
5.
Approval
Date:
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Department Chairman
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Dean
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Chairman, SCUS
SCUS 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.12
Attach course outline).
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THE NATURE AND INTENT OF FPA. 254, 255, 354 and 355
This series of courses is designed to solve a difficult problem in
establishing a small theatre program: how to arrange for theatre education
that is sufficiently varied and flexible within a sharply limited number of
courses served by only a small number of continuing faculty. Any small
program must have a pentral focus; ours is contained in the four courses
FPA. 250, 251, 350 and 351. These courses centre on the art of the actor;
they combine a highly practical approach with a concern for the reach of
the actor's discipline toward text and analysis. Three vital aspects of
theatre education, however, cannot be given sufficient attention within
these courses. These necessary areas are the training of specialized skills,
such as voice, movement, singing, and mime; work on productions, be it on
stage, in the wings, in the shop or the costume and prop rooms; and consistent
reading of dramatic literature in order to build up a working knowledge of the
actor's basic materials. 254, 255, 354 and 355 are designed to provide this
essential periphery.
The training of specialized skills will be accomplished in a laboratory setting.
Two or more skills laboratories will be scheduled each semester. Instructional
specialists from among the professional theatre community will be contracted
to teach the laboratory under the direction of
continuing
faculty. This
system will enable Simon Fraser economically to provide training that is a
costly part of many university theatre programs. It will also permit to a
substantial degree the tailoring of the program to meet the needs of indivi-
dual students. Each student's progress through the four courses will be
guided by the faculty. Those with particular talent as actors can receive
relatively intensive training in areas of weakness; those whose best use of
their training may be in educational theatre can be trained in a usefully
diverse set of skills. The laboratory component of each course
will
count
toward one-half of the final grade, a grade which will be assigned by the
faculty member responsible for the course, following consultation with the
relevant instructional specialist.
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The reading component of the courses will involve a set of reading lists
arranged in such a way that over the four courses the students will become
familiar with a range of major texts in chronological order. In a two hour
seminar each week students will have the opportunity to discuss the texts
in relationship to problems of performance. There will be an examination
on the required reading at the end of each course. The reading component
will also count towards one-half the final grade.
The production requirement for each course is designed to give each student
a broader understanding of the complexity of the field of theatre. The value
of such exposure has been confirmed in many theatre programs elsewhere.
Because exposure, not independent training is the goal of this component,
the requirement consists of only 20 hours of work on an assigned crew during
the semester. The student must complete this requirement, but is not graded
on his performance. Any work over and above the 20 hours that a student may
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volunteer is not being done for credit. The variety of production experiences
a student must attain by this requirement, however, together with appropriate
skills training and consistent reading, should produce students with reasonable
breadth in relation to the core of acting courses.
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REA1NG LIST
Euripides:
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Medea
Trojan Women
The Bacchae
Electra
Aeschylus:
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Aganmemnon
Choephorae
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The Eumenides
Aristophanes:
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The Birds
Lysistrata
Unknown:
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Everyman
The Wakefield Crucifixion
Plautus:
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Pot of Gold
The Brothers Menaechmus
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5. Approval
Date
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Department Chairman
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SENATE (X)IQ(ITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORLI
i. Cienthu Information
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Department: Centre for the Arts
Abbreviation Cods:FPA.
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Course Number;
255 ?
Credit
Hours;
3
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Vector: 0-2-4
'itta of Course:
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Supplementary Studies for Actors II
Calendar Description of Course:
This course is a companion course to FPA. 251. It is designed to enlarge each
acting student's experience through appropriate skills oriented laboratories, pro-
duction requirements, and readings A dramatic literature.
Nature of Course seminar/Laboratory
I'rerequtsLt..
(or special instructions):
FPA. 250 and 254
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
None
2. ?
duILn
flow frequently will the course be offered?
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Once a year
Semester in which the course will first
be
offered? 781
Which of your present faculty would be available to make 'the
proposed
offering.
possible? ?
D. Rotenberg
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Objectives of the Course
See attached reading list and statement appended to FPA. 254 proposal form.
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty ?
A second continuing appointment (authorized).
Staff
?
Temporary Instructional Specialists
Library ?
None
Audio Visual None
Space ?
Additional rehearsal space is desirable.
Equipment ?
None
SCUS 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-3446
Attach course outline).
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FPA. 255
READING LIST
Marlowe:
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The Jew of Malta
Jonson:
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Volpone
The Alchemist
Middleton: ?
The Changeling
Webster: ?
The Duchess of Malfi
Shakespeare: ?
midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Twelfth Night
Hamlet
Othello
Measure for Measure
King Lear
Macbeth
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SENATE COMNITTEE
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UNDERGRADUATE
STUDIES
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COURSE
PROPOSAL
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Department:
Centre
for the Arts
Abbreviation Code:
FPA.
Course
Number:
35 0
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Credit Hours:
3
Vector: 0-0-8
litle
of Course:
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Scene Study for Actors
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Calendar De
scription of
Course:
An approach to the acting of scenes from major plays of the modern era, with
particular emphasis on problems of pharacterization in realistic drama.
Nature of Course
Laboratory (Studio)
Prerequisites (or special
instructions):
FPA. 251 or equivalent and permission of the department. This is a limited
entry course. Written permission of the department is required in advance of
registration.
What
course (courseS), it
any,
is
being
dropped
from
the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
None
2.eduLin
Row
frequently will
the
course be offered?
?
Once a year
Semester
in
which
the course
will
first be offered?
77-3
Which of your present faculty would
be
available
to
asks
the
proposed
offering
possible? ?
D.
Rotenberg
Objectives of the Course
See attached statement.
4. Budgetary
and
Space *sguirsasnts (for
information
only)
What additional
resources
will
be
required
in the following
areas:
Faculty ?
A second continuing appointment (authorized).
Staff ?
None
Library ?
None
Audio Visual ?
None
Space ?
Additional rehearsal space is desirable.
quipasnt ?
None
S. Approval
Date:____________
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Department Chairman
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Chairman.
SCUS
ScUS 73-34b:- (When completing this
form,
for instruction.
see
Meaorandua
SCUS
73-34a.
Attach course
outline).
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FPA.
350 -
COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTLINE
FPA.
350
continues the study of acting as an art which was begun in FPA. 250
and
251.
Those courses develop the understanding and use of the"method"
approachl analysis of text in terms of action beats and the playing of an
action through to its logical conelsion are major concerns. In this course
another of the actor's major concerns - that of characterization - comes
more into focus. The actor is taught how to read texts in search of char-
acterization while maintaining the concept of playing an action. Because
the emphasis of the course is strongly on the presentation of scene work,
the actor is forced to practice this approach continually. Scenes will be
drawn primarily from major modern drama. The necessity of background
research will be introduced early in the course and emphasized throughout.
Students will be required to present scenes every other week and a whole
act from a play by the end of the semester. The whole approach is very
practical and yet at the same time the intrinsic values of the literature
are not ignored.
Scenes will be chosen from, Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Pinero, Wilde,
Shaw, Miller, Williams, O'Neill, Odets,
Giraudoux, Anouilh, Cocteau, Ryga, and
Tremblay.
let Week
Introduction to character analysis using a play of the instructor's choice
and Michael Chekhov's book To the Actor.
2nd Week
Presentation and critique of 1st scene. If necessary, scenes are re-done.
3rd Week
Improvisation and other acting techniques to elaborate problems brought to
light by the let scene presentation.
4th Week
Repetition of week two with new scenes.
Week
Repetition of week three using the problems from the second scene.
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6th, Rth
1
and 10th Weeks
Presentation and critique of scenes.
7th
1
9th, and 11th
Weeks
Work on acting problems brought out,by the previous
week's
scenes.
12th and
13th
Weeks
Work as a class
on one act of
one of
the classics from the modern era to be
presented on the final days of class.
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SENATE COhNITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Ni COURSE PROPOSAL
FORM
*L*Ienthr Information ?
Department:
Centre
for the Arts
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Abbreviation C
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de:FPA. Course Number:
351 ?
Credit Hours:
3 ?
Vector:
0-0-8
Title of Course:
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Scene Study for Actors II
Calendar Description of Couree:
An approach to the acUngof scenes from medieval, Renaissance, and later
plays, with particular emphasis on yroblems of.acting in period, verse, and
absurdist drama.
Nature of Course
Laborat9ry (Studio)
Prerequisite. (or special instructions):
FPA. 350 or
equivalent.
What course (courses) if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
None
2.eduILn
How frequently will the course be offered?
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Once a year.
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
78-1
Which of your present faculty would be available to a.'. th. proposed offering
possible?
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D. Rotenberg
Objective.of the Course
See attached statement.
4. Budgetary and Space a.guir.nts (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following arena:
Faculty
?
A second continuing appointment (authorized).
Staff
?
None
Library
?
None
Audio Visual
?
None
Space
?
Additional rehearsal space is desirable.
Equipment
?
None
5. Approval
Date(m2S
/Y77
•
?
-, --7
W
?
Department
_
ChE.traan
/2., ?
A-7
t(C_6?1Mi/\ ?
Chairman, SCUS
sces
73-i4b:-- (When completing this fore, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
\LLa(:h
course
outline). ?
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FPA 351 - COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTLINE
The concerns in
351
are similar to those in
350
with one vital change.
Up to this time in the training the actors have been working primarily
with scenes that succumb to the method breakdown that they learned in
250
and
251.
In
351
the actor is faces with texts that do not readily give
way to method approaches. They are faced with the inevitable problem of
bending a system to-fit the given circumstance of texts without losing
the intrinsic value of the method approaches. Scene study is once again
the major instructing tool. The actor will be required to both act and
direct their scenes for presentation every other week. In the final two
weeks the actors will work together in the presentation of an act of one of
the plays.
Because of the nature of the scenes that will be explored both the problem
of speaking verse and the origin of much of the new drama will be covered
in class.
Scenes will be chosen froms The Wakefield Masters, Comedie d'el arte,
Beaumont and Fletcher, Wycherly, Goldsmith,
Sheridan, Bchner, Brecht, Pirandello, Haridke,
Shephard, Durang, Innurato, and Raab.
1st Week
Examination of Woychek in terms of its character and method beat breakdown.
2nd, 4th
1 6th, 8th. and 10th Weeks
Presentation of scenes and critiques of those scenes,
3rd. 5th. 7th, 9th,-and 11th Weeks
Acting work based on the problems exposed in the scenes of the previous weeks.
12th and 11th Weeks
Work as a class on an act of one of the major works under scrutiny.
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SENATE CO$IITTE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COUUE PROPOSAL P01)1
..
C.tendix information
?
Depsrt.snt Centre for the Arts
Abbreviation Cod.;
?
Ceur.e, Number:
354
?
Credit Hours:
3
?
Vector:
0-2-4
Title of Course:
?
Supplementary Studies
for Actors
,III
Calendar Description of
COUXS*
This oouree is a companion
course to FPA.
350. It is designed to enlarge
each
acting student's epsriencs through Oppropriateakills oriented laboratories, pro-
duction r.quireu.nta,
ndriige
in draaatic literature.
•
Mature at Coiirss SeTh4vrJZbQratory
Prerequisites (or spsci4 iaatrucU.ri.):
flA. 251 and 255
•
What course (courses)
0
it off
*
is bein
dropped
troa
the calendar it this course is
-
approved;
None
2. Sch.d4ini
now frequently will
the
carss be
offered? ?
Once
a
year
S.as,ter in which the course will first be otf.r.d?
77-3
Which of your
present faculty would be
available to u.k.
,
the proposed offering
possible?
Objectives of
h5 Cur
See attached
reading
list and atatenent appended to FPA. 254 proposal form.
4. ftu4getarY and Space
I.4ujrensnts
(for Information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following
areas:
Faculty ?
A second continuing appointment (authorized).
Staff
?
Teorary
Instructional Specialists
Library
?
None
Audio Visual None
Space ?
Additional rehearsal space is desirable.
Equipasot
?
None
5. Approval
Dat.;.-2ç/'77
w
Department
iruen
/77
73-34b:-
(When coletththis torn, for instructions see
N.aorandis SCUS 73-34. ?
2
Alt ith course outline).
I
?
I
.
FPA. 354?
READING LIST
Ibsen: ?
The Dolls House
Little Eyolf
When We Dead Awaken
The Masterbuilder
Strindberg: ?
Miss Julie
Chekhov:
?
The Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Uncle Vanya
Pirandello:
?
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Shaw:
?
q,4y4-
Williams:
?
A
Streetcar Named Desire
O'Neill:
?
Long Days Journey Into Night
The Ice Man Cometh
.
24
S. Approval
Dais:
?
2f/77
ft
cr
chairman, SCLfS
4 ?
p
?
p
SENATE
COIIIITTEE ON
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Ni COURSE PROPOSAL ?O$
.
CLendrInformation ?
Department:
Centre for the Arts
AbbrevLatioo Co
ds:FPA. Course Nu
mb
er:
-
355
?
Credit Hours:
3
Vector:
0-2-4
Title of Course:
Supplementary Studies for Actors IV
Calundat. DesCription of Course:
This course is a
companon course to 1
1
PA.
35 1.
It is designed to enlarge each
,
acting
student's experience through appropriate.,okills
oriented 1aboratores, pro-
du
otjon requirements, and readings in dramatic literature.
*uute of Course
Seminar/Laboratory
PrsrequLatt.s (or special instructions):
?PA.
350 and 35
if
?
.
"What course (course.) if eny, is being dropped
from
the calendar if this course is
.......
.
pd: ?
None
'2,$cbe4s4Ln,&
Rw frequently will the course be offered? ?
Once a year.
bass.r
is
which the course will first be offend?
78-1 ?
-
of your present faculty would be available to aske the proposed offering
possible?
1 0
j
f t1,es
of
the
Course.
See
attached reading list and statement appended to FPA. 254 proposal fore.
4. Budgetary and Specs R.
quireaints (far information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty ?
A
second continuing appointment (authorized).
• ?
Staff ?
Temporary Instructional Specialists
Library
?
None
Audio Visual
None
Space
?
Additional rehearsal space is desirable.
£quipnt
?
None
£&In
- /
3-34b:-
(When cl.tLag this fore, for instructions see )4ssiraodue SCUS. 73-34.
Ath course outlioS).
Ore: ?
73
rip
?
35
.R: W IADT, K l r
,
LIST
!3rhner:
Danton's Death
loyzeck
1re
r
tht:
Baal
In the Jurple of the
?
1te
Handkt
Insultlnrf, the
?
Audence
Sent:
Thr ?
Pi1cony
Per 'rnt
rrr
ThDrern PThy
ThF ?
g host Sita
Shophard:
Th' ?
Tooth of r.r1ne
L._Ton ri.sti.
Cperatthn Sidewinder
,iatt1n ?
or 5r1ot.
Happy
.
26
I-
SENATE
Q))91ITTFE
ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW
COURSE
PROPOSAL FORM
S
Calendar information ?
Department: Centre for the
Arts
Abbreviation
Code: FPA.
Course Number:
4
56
?
Credit
Hours: 3
Vector:_
0 -
2
-
4
Title
of
Course:
?
Conceptual Approaches to
Drama
Calendar Description
of
Course:
An intensive examination of
some
plays by Shakespeare
leading
to the
development and classroom performanse of new conceptual approaches to
the plays.
Mature of Course
?
Seminar/Laboratory ?
)
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
FPA. 351
or
permission
of the
department.
What
course
(courses), if an
y
, is being dropped from the calendar if this course i
s
approved: ?
None
2. Schedulin
g
How frequently will the
course
be
offered? ?
Once a year.
Semester
in
which
the course
Will
first be offered?
?
78-1 -
Which
of your present faculty
would
be available to
make
the proposed offering
Possible?
?
D.
Rotenberg
W
Objectives
of the
Course
This course
is designed to
extend the experience of the student actor toward
the
realm
of
the director and
to acquaint theatre students with the relation-
ships between analysis
and
performance. See attached course outline.
4.
Budgetary
and
Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty ?
A second continuing appointment (authorized).
Staff ?
None
Library ?
None
Audio
Visual
?
None
Space
?
Additional rehearsal space is desirable.
Equipment
?
None
3.
Approval
Datei?
?
f
/7
7
•Department Chairman
1-4cJ4
C,
/2Yt*
9V5^"7
$OJS
73-34b:- (When completing
this form, for instructions see Merandum SCUS 73-34a.
Attach
course
outline). ?
27
IT
I
T
'
P
SF OUTLINE
:IiiF,
eourie is dc
?
ned to put into
7r-tct5c
loth the th p
oretc.i. and
rractieal sldll.s that have ben tiught in earlier theatre courses. The
approach is both analytical and perfrnance oriented. The class will.
approach between three and five of Shakesp
e
are's texts from an analytical
point
of
view and then elaborate these approaches to include their rarn
1 fl-
catiens in performance. One half of the class will develop an :ipproach to
on- of tho texts and direct. the other half of the class in the wrrkshor.
presentation of that format. The roles will then be reversed so that every--
on#- ir
required to both perform and direct. The process of the class is
towards new interpretations of the rlassies usth the university
rr.d
its
community
:5
otenti.a'1 resourres.
lrf .7ck
0
?
nt.ror1ution to th e
concept
ü
'
director-t! prerogative.
2nd
!ek
niiion
of
l o
More
?
Tas+.
p
riec9
by lrutein and rtnd.
2r1
?
L.th 'iees
Apnl'at.lr.n of
thr'e
two texts
to
th,
0(
th
1
rin
d
7th
ee!cs
'140
?
Mrht,
'
n
.
Ll.ysjan r
I Te'.t
tinT or
?
'ores.
i
.
iii 9th,
?
'n'I 1()+.h
and presentation.
11Uj l.?th, nd 13th
ioek
.
?
Ana1yW; arid presentation of
an act of
c 'iher
T" Thnpost
or The Duchess
of
41
FPA. 1456
READTNG L'ST
Artaudt
?
No More ?asterpe'es
Brste.thi
?
No ?oreFasterpi.ece
Shk3pare
?
Macbeth
Twelfth Npht
Peric1c3 Prince
of
Tijre
The Tt
W"htri
?
The Duchess of
.
.
.
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