This course will introduce you to some practical drama strategies that you can apply to your reading of novels, plays and other texts in order to access and explore in more depth aspects such as characters, themes, ideas and subtext. It will also provide you with knowledge and skills you can use to enhance a critical appreciation of performance media, and methods to improve your awareness of body language, posture, gesture and voice in order to help you to make speeches, deliver presentations and perform successfully in interviews.

Activities in class will be content driven and the methods in which the content is studied will be wide ranging from teacher centered lecture style classes, to group activities, to individual research and study activities.

Typically the content studied each term will be centered on English in use in plays and drama texts. It will also include aspects of acting, directing and design in the theatre, as well as the history and selected theories of drama and theatre.

Assessment in the class will consist of both formative and summative assessment, and formal and informal tasks, including class participation, the completion of a journal, a final performance, one homework essay and a final exam.

Stay focused in class and listen carefully to instructions. Keep in mind the purpose of what you are doing. If you have any questions or concerns, you can come and talk to me at any time. I hope that you will enjoy your studies!