Course Syllabus TH 325 Script Analysis (52482) Fall 2010

TH 325 | Script Analysis
KH 215 - 11:00-11:50 (MWF)

Course Requirements (500 point scale)
1. Reading quizzes over our study plays (50)
2. Develop a prop list for a production of Othello (50)
3. Produce a scene breakdown for Master Harold...and the boys (75)
4. Develop a character analysis for Susan Glaspell's Trifles (75)
5. Attendance and participation (50)
6. Midterm exam (50)
7. Term project in text analysis on a script of your choice (100)
8. Final exam (50)

Textbooks
Drama, A Pocket Anthology
edited by R. S. Gwynn
The Poetics of Aristotle

Reading List
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen (Fjelde translation)
Trifles by Susan Glaspell
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Sandbox by Edward Albee
Master Harold...and the boys by Athol Fugard
Fences by August Wilson
Sure Thing by David Ives
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Anything for You by Catherine Celesia Allen

Course Outcomes. Through this course, the student will...
...read some of the great works of world drama.
...develop and apply skills in script analysis, "How does a play work?"
...strive to make the playwright's text the foundation of production.
...start to develop a system to organize a play's various production elements.
...read and review Aristotle's observations about the drama
.
...express his or her critical evaluation of plays in rehearsal and performance

Course Policies
Assignments are due at the day they are assigned, at class time.
Late assignments will not be graded, but they must be turned in.
Handwritten work will not be accepted, unless otherwise specified.
If you are late to class, it will be recorded as an absence.
Early departurefrom class also count as an absence.
School activities will not excuse you from class work.
Most assignments may be transmitted electronically.

If a student's absences from class or disruptive behavior become detrimental to the student's progress or that of the other students in the class, the faculty member shall attempt to contact the student in writing about withdrawing from the class and shall seek the aid of the office of the Vice President of Student Affairs to help insure contacting the student. The office of the Vice President of Student Affairs shall provide the student information about the existing appeals procedures. Upon receivinga written report from the faculty member, the Vice President of Student Affairs may initiate a student withdrawal from the class. None of the above implies or states that faculty members are required to initiate the student withdrawals for excessive absence.

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