2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

TA 012 - How to Act Right-On/Off the Stage FYI


How to Act Right is primarily a basic acting course but with an added research component. The content of the course is presented and explored through lectures and exercises. The students take their newly informed grasp of the art of acting and working from their experience with dramatic structure, character development and improvisation they break into research teams and explore acting throughout their everyday life and culture. Some possible topics would include acting and Presidential politics, the acting process in undercover work, acting and role playing in Psychology, and acting as metaphor in Literature, Philosophy and Spiritual Traditions. The training approach in the course is integral. Because acting demands that its practitioners utilize all aspects of their beings, students will work to develop their many levels of simultaneously, i.e. physically, emotionally, cognitively and spiritually.

Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP

Anticipated Terms Offered: na