Summer Courses 2008

For information on registration for Emory College summer courses,
please visit the Web page of the Registrar.

1st SESSION | MAY 19-JUNE 27

THEA 101-00A       ///         Introduction to the Theater
Lisa Paulsen

10:00-11:20 a.m.     Daily      Credit, 4 hrs     Max: 12     Schwartz Theater Lab (room 203)

Theater 101 is a theoretical and practical initiation to theater as a collaborative art. This course serves as an introduction to the major movements in theater history and to contemporary theatrical practice. Open to highschool students by permission of the instructor.

Text: Wainscott, Ronald & Fletcher, Kathy, Theatre: Collaborative Acts

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THEA 372WR-00C       ///         Playwriting
Ken Weitzman

- same as ENG 372RWR-00A

2:30-4:45 p.m.  MWF     Credit, 4 hrs    Max: 12 (7 THEA, 5 ENG)    Schwartz Theater Lab

This class serves as an introduction to the craft and art of playwriting. No previous experience is necessary in playwriting, acting, or theater.

2nd SESSION | JUNE 30-AUG. 5

THEA 215-00C      ///         History of Drama and Theater I
Michael Evenden

- same as ENG 215-00C

2:30-4:45 p.m.      MWF      Credit, 4 hrs     Max: 15 (10 THEA, 5 ENG)    Callaway S101

A survey course based on lecture and group discussion that broadly covers Western dramatic literature and theater history from the Greeks to French neoclassicism.

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THEA 101-00C       ///         Introduction to the Theater
Amy Cook

2:30-4:45 p.m.     MWF     Credit, 4 hrs     Max: 12     Schwartz Theater Lab (room 203)

Theater 101 is a theoretical and practical initiation to theater as a collaborative art. This course serves as an introduction to the major movements in theater history and to contemporary theatrical practice.

Text: Wainscott, Ronald & Fletcher, Kathy, Theatre: Collaborative Acts

SUMMER STUDIES ABROAD | JUNE 30-AUG. 9

Theater Studies is offering the following course with the English Department through the Emory British Studies Program. For more detail, including application deadline and requirements, visit the CIPA Web site.

THEA 389R/ENG 389R: 20th Century British Theater
Description: 4 credit hours.
Pat Miller

This seminar (limit: 12 students) examines plays that reflect changing views of race, gender, and class in 20th-century British theater. The social context surrounding the original productions, the work of the artists who shaped them, and the evolving role of government censorship and subsidy will shape the inquiry. The controversial first production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession provides background for the study of twelve additional plays produced between 1950 and the present. Students will read and discuss scripts, maintain a journal, and prepare a final project selected from one of the works as the culmination of the course. Several optional field trips will be organized to theater performances in Oxford, Stratford, and London. The London trip will include a visit to the Theatre Museum.

updated 12/21/2007
by John Ward (jward03@emory.edu)