Course Code:
TPP2120

Credit Hours:
3

Effective beginning:
2023-24

Sections:
001

Course Description:
This course explores the use of creativity and imagination, engaging the actor in a wide variety of improvisational theatre games. The course examines the basic physical and mental resources of the performer and enables the individual to achieve greater self-confidence, poise and freedom of expression.

Instructors:

TBD

Assignment/course outline:

See your Instructor First Day Handout for individual instructor assignment schedule.

Discipline-level learning outcomes:

Theatre Studies Competency: Interpret, evaluate, and appreciate dramatic texts, the methods by which dramatic texts are realized in production, and engage in the collaborative communication and processes of theatre production.

Th-1:   Identify aspects of the theatrical production process including performance, directing, design, technical production, marketing, and management.

Th-2:   Analyze dramatic texts and theatrical productions.

Th-3:   Apply performance and/or production practices through work on various theatrical productions.

Th-4:   Demonstrate knowledge of the history, literature, theories, and skills needed for advanced study or a career in theatre arts and entertainment industry.

Course-level learning outcomes:

Means of accomplishing learning outcomes:

The instructor will explore the use of creativity and imagination, engaging the actor in a wide variety of improvisational theatre games via a combination of lectures, videos, reading assignments, collaboration, in-class participation, and out-of-class assignments.  In addition to classroom time, there will be a rehearsal/performance lab required outside of class.  Each student will be expected to read all assigned material, complete all assignments and participate in classroom experiences. The instructor will provide timely feedback on assignments and hold weekly office hours to address further questions and student needs outside of class time. The final grade will be based on class participation, exams and quizzes, projects, and a cumulative final exam.

 Students are expected to:

• Arrive to class on time
• Participate in class room experiences and be focused in class
• Read all assigned readings of text, plays and outside sources
• Complete all written assignments, quizzes, exams, projects, and the final exam on time
• Attend a Chipola College production (play or musical)
• Attend one theatrical production produced by an organization other than Chipola College

Make‑up work is the responsibility of the student, as covered in the instructor’s First Day Handout.

PLAGIARISM is academic dishonesty and may be defined as submitting another’s work as your own.  It includes failure to use quotation marks or other conventional marking around material quoted from any printed or electronic source.  Plagiarism shall also include paraphrasing a specific source without indicating accurately what the source is.  Plagiarism shall further include downloading essays or letting another person compose or rewrite a student's written assignment.  Plagiarism will result in a zero (0) for the assignment.