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stylistic period. Stylistic and composer overviews serve as a conceptual focus for
the music that follows in each historical period.
IE318 Shakespeare in Performance
One trimester
Credit: One unit core elective credit.
Meeting pattern: Three periods per week.
This course aims to take the work of Shakespeare from the page to the stage.
Students read Shakespearean texts through the lens of the theater artist,
synthesizing textual analysis and the creative mind and applying the product to
a practical theatrical setting. Attention is paid to the classical performance of
these plays in their historical Elizabethan context, but our main focus is modern
adaptation and staging for film and theater. Thematic and cultural readings of
Shakespeare’s work give way to close character study, staging, and concerns in
theatrical design (set, props, costumes, etc.) as we investigate the way an
audience experiences these plays. Principles of acting and theatrical
production are covered, and students work to translate their unique vision of the
plays to stage performances through scene work and design projects.
IE320 Science, Math, and Theater
One trimester
Credit: One unit core elective credit.
Meeting pattern: Three periods per week.
If “it's the wanting to know that makes us matter,” as Tom Stoppard suggests in
Arcadia, it’s small wonder that the struggles of science and math to unlock the
secrets of the universe have proven to be such fertile ground for playwrights and
directors. In this page-to-stage class, we examine how works for stage have
wrestled with the philosophical implications and at times controversial
repercussions of mathematical and scientific discovery. After a close reading
and analysis of plays that may include Stoppard’s Arcadia, Brecht’s Galileo, and
Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, we take calculation and
experimentation out of the lab and onto the stage as we explore the choices a
theatrical artist must make when staging his or her interpretation of these works.
Final projects are developed in consultation with the instructor and may include
essays, scene work, or theatrical design projects.
IE350 Medical Ethics and Leadership
One trimester
Credit: One unit core elective credit.
Meeting pattern: Three periods per week including lab.
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