EDUC Outline

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?

EDUC

457-4

KATHRYN RICKETTS

Thursday 8:30-12:20 in EDB 7610

PREREQUISITE:

EDUC 401/402

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will further explore principals introduced in Educ.

355

(not necessary as a pre-requisite)

within dramatic and kinesthetic languages with a focus on the implications of integration into a variety of

contexts including the classroom. Through these investigations both formal and narrative, we will build

compositional studies in the following areas;

• Improvisation

• Choral work, animating poetry

• Play building (guest)

• Poetic narrative

• Prop manipulation and metaphor

• Role drama (guest)

• Social justice in drama

This class is structured with physical warm-ups followed by principals and skills developed through

action/play/reflection.

Readings and written assignments will be assigned throughout encouraging an active critical/theoretical

compliment to the studio work.

A final group presentation will be assigned incorporating the accumulated skills from the course.

The course will be focused on;

• Developing scripts through collaborative processes

• Integration of current and relevant topics within a play building structure

• Development of dramatic work through physical play.

• Breaking through conventions of drama in regards to character, representation, performance site and

spectatorship.

No text assigned - Readings will be distributed in class.

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