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Course Syllabus

THEA 1080 Theatre Improv Performance Team

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Theater Arts
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 2; Lecture: 0; Lab: 4
  • Prerequisites: Instructor approval
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2022
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2028
  • End Semester: Fall 2027
  • Optimum Class Size: 12
  • Maximum Class Size: 15

Course Description

This course provides performance opportunities in Theatrical Improvisation.; All students in the course are required to be on the Snow College Improv Team. The course promotes acting and improv skills through supervised rehearsals and performances. Repeatable for credit.

Justification

This course is needed to promote and develop the Snow College Improv Team. Similar courses for performance teams are taught at other institutions throughout the state of Utah and in other accedemic departments at Snow College.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will grow and strengthen their grasp of theatre improvisation techniques.
  2. Students will be able to develop quick thinking and spontaneous reaction skills and improve their vocal delivery skills.
  3. Perform before live audiences maintaining key tenets of improvisational theatre, including: 'Yes and', team support, initiation, focus, and listening.
  4. Students will learn to work effectively on a team, focusing on dependability, initiative, and support to foster a constructive team climate.

Course Content

Credit will be awarded for performing on the Snow College Improv Team in scheduled semester performances. Attendance to rehearsals, participation in group improv exercises, performances of improv shows, and self/peer evaluations/feedback are fundamental aspects of this course.- Presentation skills development- Small and large group oral exercises (improv scenes/games)- Vocal delivery rehearsal and development- Mime and movement development- Short and long form improv theatre- Performance opportunitiesAs this course is offered in concert with the Snow College Theatre Season. As such, the works and content explore include the following parameters: Advocacy for production selections which open discourse and affect positive change, while supporting rigorous cultural specificity to remove generalizations, harmful appropriation, and divisive depictions. Fostering rehearsal and performance culture to create safe spaces where every person’s story is heard and honored; where hate, bigotry, and intolerance are not given power, only context. When possible, practicums will give voice to artists, cultures, and perspectives not traditionally dominant in the classroom and onstage through the exploration of human experiences in the theatrical artform.