Dramatic Art

Spring Semester 2010

• DRAM 116: Perspectives in the Theatre
• DRAM 120: Play Analysis
• DRAM 284: Studies in Dramatic Theory and Criticism

DRAM 116: Perspectives in the Theatre

This course provides a survey of the interrelationships of acting, directing, designing, and playwriting through the study of major periods of theatrical expression and representative plays. The course strives to equip the student with a common vocabulary and understanding of the concepts utilized in the study and collaborative work of the theatre.

Required Texts

For spring semester:

• Barranger, Theatre: A Way of Seeing, 6th edition (2006)
• Sophocles, Antigone
• Ibsen, A Doll House
• Shepard, Buried Child
• Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1975)
• Shakespeare, Richard II
• Dramatists Play Service, The America Play

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

• Instructor: Kimball King, PhD
• Department: Dramatic Art
• Credit hours: 3
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• View a sample course syllabus.

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DRAM 120: Play Analysis

DRAM 120 is the first course in the major and the minor in dramatic art. It emphasizes development of the skill to analyze plays for academic and production purposes through the intensive study of representative plays.

Required Text

• Barranger, Understanding Plays, 3rd edition, ISBN 978-0205381906

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

• Instructor: Mark Perry, PhD
• Department: Dramatic Art
• Credit hours: 3
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• A sample course syllabus is not yet available.

How to Enroll

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DRAM 284: Studies in Dramatic Theory and Criticism

DRAM 284 is a seminar in dramatic theory and criticism with emphasis on the modern period.

Required Texts

• Barranger, Understanding Plays, 3rd edition
• Pinter, The Homecoming
• Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• Shepard, Buried Child
• Vogel, How I Learned to Drive

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

• Instructor: Kimball King, PhD
• Department: Dramatic Art
• Credit hours: 3
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• View a sample course syllabus.

How to Enroll

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