2012-2013 Academic Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

FREN 165 - Theater Workshop in French

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion
A workshop course using scene study to provide direct experience of the theatrical synthesis within which play, actor and spectator operate. Emphasizes vocal delivery through intensive work on diction, phrasing, rhythm and gesture. Explores various approaches to the play’s staging. Typically one playwright is studied and topics of theatrical practice are combined with theoretical issues concerning the social background and artistic conventions of the playwright’s period. Playwrights studied may be: Molière, Marivaux, Ionesco, Beckett. Conducted in French.

Prerequisites: One French course above 130 or permission.

Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.