Multicultural Perspectives Within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015
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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives Within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015
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Author(s): Nicholaus Garcia, Josephine Perry
Subject Area/Course No.: Drama 15 Units:3
Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives Within Theatre Discipline(s): Drama
Pre-Requisite(s): None Co-Requisite(s): None
Advisories: Eligibility for English 100
Catalog Description: Drama 15 is an interdisciplinary course focusing on the relationships of expression, imagination and experience in dramatic art forms as they pertain to African American, Latino American, Asian American and Euro- American theatre. The course also explores dramatic art as a cultural force in conjunction with music, dance and movement, storytelling, spoken word, film and the visual arts in relationship to the plays which are studied throughout the course. Also included is critical analysis of both individual and collaborative contributions of actors, directors, playwrights and designers as they relate to live theatrical productions.
Schedule Description: Embark upon a journey to explore the varied theatrical productions, play scripts, and storytelling techniques through the multicultural lens of African American, Latino American, Asian American and Euro- American cultures in order to discover the world around us which can be profoundly revealed through the dramatic arts.
Hrs/Mode of Instruction: Lecture: _54___ Scheduled Lab: ____ HBA Lab: ____ Composition: ____ Activity: ____ Total Hours 54 ____
Credit Credit Degree Applicable (DA) Grading Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Repeatability 0 Credit Non-Degree (NDA) Letter (LR) 1 Student Choice (SC) 2 3
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LMC General Education Requirement(s): Arts and Humanities
Transfer to: CSU UC GETC Area _3A___ CSU GE Area_C1___ C-ID Number ______
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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives Within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015
X General Education SLOs: At the completion of the LMC general education program, a student will: 1. read critically and communicate effectively as a writer and speaker. 2. understand connections among disciplines and apply interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. 3. think critically and creatively 4. consider the ethical implications inherent in knowledge, decision-making and action. 5. possess a worldview informed by diverse social, multicultural and global perspectives.
Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes (PSLOs): 1. Critically evaluate a film and/or play by writing an essay which synthesizes social and historical events and important themes in specified films and plays. (Drama -030, Drama -070, Drama-015) 2. Effectively communicate onstage as a performer or direct other performers in scenes to create a dramatic statement. This is evaluated through clear and projected speech, body fluidity and movement and specific, conscious choices a student makes. (Drama 20, 21, 42, 60, 62, etc.) 3. Write a short screenplay or play which has at least 2 characters in conflict with one another that deals with interpersonal, social or political issues in a way which shows creativity and innovation. Or critically evaluate a short screenplay or play or a full-length screenplay or play in an essay which shows the students understands the essential elements of dramatic writing. (Drama-062) 4. Show appreciation for a stage production by writing an essay or critique which reflects on the qualities which make for excellence on the stage and which draws upon historical knowledge and understanding of the entire theatrical process (Drama-016) 5. Write, shoot and direct a short documentary film which is coherent and shows creativity of thought and process. Or write an essay or answer questions which shows an appreciation of the documentary film (Drama-071) 6. Observe, monitor and evaluate strengths and weaknesses of oneself, then apply feedback to improve skills and learning (All Drama courses)
Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes (CSLOs): 1. Critically read, analyze and discuss plays from a socio-historic and/or artistic perspective and write critical evaluations of plays using the vocabulary, skills, tools and language of drama. (GESLO 1) (PSLO 1, 4) 2. Synthesize ideas, concepts and facts from a variety of disciplines, such as theatre, film, dance, visual art, music, literature, science, philosophy, ethics and sociology in order to evaluate the content and meaning of theater. (GESLO 2) (PSLO 1, 4) 3. Analyze the impact of theater on society. (GESLO 3) (PSLO 1) 4. Identify and evaluate ethical dilemmas and moral issues inherent in filmed, written and/or performed works. (GESLO 4) (PSLO 1, 4) 5.Compare and contrast how the cultural context of a dramatic work conveys meaningful connections and experiences across cultures. (GESLO 5) (PSLO 1)
CSLO 1: Critically read, analyze and discuss plays from a socio-historic and/or artistic perspective; write critical evaluations of plays using the vocabulary, skills, tools and language of drama. (GESLO 1)
Performance Review or Research Paper: The student shall attend live theater production(s) and write review(s) that evaluate in detail, his/her observation of the six elements of theatre (actor, director, script, space, design, and audience). Or the student may select to write a 5-7 page research paper on a controversial theatre topic related to a play that requires student to evaluate critique and analyze subject of play.
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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives Within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015
Rationale: This assignment allows students to analyze critique and evaluate a live theatre production or a controversial theatre topic using the skills, tools, vocabulary and language of drama.
Group Presentations/Peer Review: From a list of plays a group of students research a play from various perspectives such as biographical information about the playwright, the cultural context of the play, the cultural context during the time the play was written, history of the play itself, moral and ethical dilemmas, and artistic perspectives. Each student is responsible for researching a specific focus of the play and contributing to an oral presentation. The student audience reviews the presentation and writes a peer review about the presentation documenting what he/she learned about the play.
Rationale: This assignment allows students to analyze plays from a socio-historic and artistic perspective using the language of drama and to be exposed to the analysis of many plays via the student presentations.
Final Exam: On the final exam students answer a compare and contrast question between two plays regarding the socio-historic or cultural context of the plays.
Rationale: This question allows students to analyze the connection between plays in terms of the socio- historic and/or cultural context of the plays.
CSLO 2: Synthesize ideas, concepts and facts from a variety of disciplines, such as theatre, film, dance, visual art, music, literature, science, philosophy, ethics and sociology in order to evaluate the content and meaning of theater. (GESLO 2)
Group Presentations/Peer Review: From a list of plays a group of students research a play from various perspectives such as sociology, ethics, literature, philosophy and other art forms. Each student is responsible to research a specific focus of the play and make a presentation. The student audience reviews the presentation and writes a peer review about the presentation documenting what he/she learned about the play.
Rationale: This assignment allows students to analyze plays from an interdisciplinary perspective as well as exposing students to the analysis of many plays via the student presentations.
CSLO 3: Analyze the impact of theater on society. (GESLO 3) Performance Review or Research Paper: The students will be asked to assess the ways in which a particular live performance can impact change or affect the status quo.
Rationale: This assignment allows students to analyze the different ways in which society is or has been changed by theatre
Quizzes on Plays: Students analyze the way in which a specific play impacts society, highlighting its cultural themes and focus. Rationale: The quizzes offer students the opportunity to examine the way in which material is evaluated or interpreted in a social context.
Final Exam: Students answer a question analyzing the role of theatre on society in the context of a given play.
Rationale: This question allows students to analyze the connection between theatre and society.
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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives Within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015
CSLO 4: Identify and evaluate ethical dilemmas and moral issues inherent in filmed, written and/or performed works. (GESLO 4)
Midterm: A question on the midterm asks students to identify the ethical dilemmas and moral issues in a play and/or filmed materialand analyze how the subject matter of the piece approaches these issues.
Rationale: This question on the midterm allows students to isolate ethical and moral issues within a play/filmed material and grapple with the difficult choices and issues characters/people were faced with.
Final Exam: A question on the final exam asks students to identify the ethical dilemmas and moral issues in a selected play. The student will analyze how the subject matter of the piece approaches these issues.
Rationale: This question on the final exam allows students to isolate ethical and moral issues within a play and grapple with the difficult choices and issues characters are faced with.
CSLO 5: Compare and contrast how the cultural context of a dramatic work conveys meaningful connections and experiences across cultures. (GESLO 5)
Group Presentations/Peer Review Plotline of one play can be compared and presented for similarities and/or differences with another play where cultural context is difference, analyzing how similarities do not always produce similar results. Students reviewing presentations will evaluate how cultural differences can produce similar and/or divergent outcomes.
Rational: The presentation allows students to bring out of the literature events that are similar and/or different within a give circumstance and how, culturally the outcome was changed (or not) due to the context of the subject. In the Peer Review the student audience will evaluate the context of the cultural response to the given outcome of a play.
Final Exam: A question on the final exam asks students to compare and contrast the cultural context of specific characters within two plays and identify how different cultures experience similar events yet interpret them in varying ways.
Rationale: This question on the final exam allows students to view isolated ethical and moral issues within a play and grapple with the difficult choices and issues characters are faced with.
Method of Evaluation/Grading: A level work is characterized by: performance reviews or a research paper that includes careful analysis, meaningful connections among plays and course material, multiple examples in support of a clear thesis, identifies and expresses themes and underlying structures of both the literature itself and the productions, an explanation of how techniques of theatre create understanding for the audience through specific visual and auditory effects, and demonstrates insight into how theatre relates to their own lives and the lives of others; quizzes on plays that score 90% or above and include an answer to a short essay question that provides in depth specific examples that support the question; a midterm that includes critical written analysis of a video that identifies pertinent information from course notes and uses the course notes to accurately, concisely and effectively answer the questions; oral group presentations and peer reviews that include in depth research into the historic and cultural aspects of their project play, the playwright’s biography and relates that to the play, and a creative oral report that is well organized and includes original visual aids;
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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives Within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015 peer reviews that provide examples of information learned and a critical review of the group project; and a final exam that identifies the ethical and moral dilemmas of the play, includes a succinct analysis of the play, identifies play structure, plot themes, and evaluates if the goal of the play was reached.
C level work is characterized by: performance reviews or a research paper that includes analysis, connections among plays and course material, an example that supports the thesis, identifies and expresses themes or underlying structures of the literature or the productions, and demonstrates limited insight into how theatre relates to their own lives and the lives of others; quizzes on plays that score 70% to 79.9% and includes an answer to a short essay question that provides a general example that supports the question; a midterm that includes written analysis of a video that includes information from course notes and uses the course notes to accurately answer the questions; oral group presentations and peer reviews that includes research into the historic and cultural aspects of their project play, the playwright’s biography, and a creative oral report that is organized and some includes visual aids; peer reviews that provide an example of information learned and a review of the group project; and a final exam that identifies the ethical and moral dilemmas of the play, includes an analysis of the play, identifies play structure or plot themes, and provides a limited evaluation of the goal of the play.
Grading:
Quizzes 10%-15% Performance Review or Research Paper 15%- 20% Midterm 10%-15% Group Presentation/Peer Review 25% Final Exam 25%
Course Content: Course content may be drawn from below (list may include newly written plays).
Theatre (theatre, film, dance, visual art, music, literature) Context: Cultural, Social, Political Terms and Definitions Six elements: Actor; Director; Script; Space; Design; Audience Development in America Agitprop Environmental Protest/ Civil disobedience
Drama Play structure Elements of plot Plot devices Genre Style Themes
Cultural and Ethnic Awareness Cultural stereotypes in dramatic forms Redefining stereotypes
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Latino/Chicano American Theatre Identify and examine social & cultural elements Analyze effect and impact on American culture Ethical dilemmas and moral issues Political Agenda
Playwrights may include:Luis Valdez, Sylvia Gonzalez S, Cherrie Moraga, Octavio Solis.
Plays may include but not be limited to: Zoot Suit, The Migrant Farmworker’s Son, Waiting Women, Boxcar, La Extranjera, Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in 2 Acts, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints, Santos & Santos
African American Theatre Identify and examine social & cultural elements Analyze effect and impact on American culture Ethical dilemmas and moral issues Political Agenda Civil Rights Movement
Plays may include Colored Museum; Trouble in Mind, Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Venus, Jitney, Dutchman, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, No Place To Be Somebody, Day of Absence, A Soldier’s Play, Bring in da’ Noise, Bring in da’ Funk, Jelly’s Last Jam, Spunk, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, The Basement at the Bottom at the End of the World, The Magic Kingdom, Ezigbo, the Spirit Child, Takunda.
Playwrights may include but not be limited to: Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, Amiri Baraka, Lonne Elder, Charles Gordone, Douglas Turner Ward, Charles Fuller, Suzan-Lori Parks, Nadine Graham, Louis Felder, Max Bush, Charles Smith. George C. Wolfe, Marcus Gardley
Asian American Theatre Identify and examine social & cultural elements Analyze effect and impact on American culture Ethical dilemmas and moral issues
Political Agenda
Plays may include but not be limited to: Song for a Nisea Fisherman, FOB, The Dance and The Railroad, M. Butterfly, Golden Child, Miss Saigon, Letters to a Student Revolutionary, Yasuko and the Young S-S- Samurai, The China Crisis, Achievers
Playwrights may include but not be limited to: Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Elizabeth Wong, Karen Huie, Kipp Erante Cheng, Michael Golamco
European/European-American playwrights Identify and examine social & cultural elements Analyze effect and impact on American culture Ethical dilemmas and moral issues Political Agenda
Playwrights may include but are not limited to: Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Tennesee Williams, Eugene O’Neil, Ionesco, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, David
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Mamet, Christopher Durang, Beth Henley, Lillian Hellman, Tony Kushner, Doug Wright, Caryl Churchill, Catherine Butterfield, Michael Cristofer, John Patrick Shanley, Sam Shepard, John Steppling, Sarah Kane
Plays may include but are not limited to: Death of a Salesman, Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, Baby With The Bathwater, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Crimes of the Heart, The Children’s Hour, Angel’s in America, I am My Own Wife, Top Girls, Joined at the Head, The Shadow Box, Doubt
Multi-Ethnic/Multi-Cultural American Theatre Identify and examine social & cultural elements Analyze effect and impact on American culture Political Agenda Theatre for Social Justice LGBTQ Theatre Gender issues Indigenous America Theatre Immigrant Theatre
Playwrights may include but are not limited to: Eve Ensler, Moises Kaufman, Doug Wright, John Patrick Shanley, Tony Kushner, Eric Bogosian, Richard Greenberg, Drew Hayden Taylor, William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., Paula Vogel, Anna Deavere Smith.
Plays may include but are not limited to: The Vagina Monologues; The Laramie Project; I Am My Own Wife; Doubt, Angels in America, Sex Drugs Rock & Roll, Take Me Out!, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, The Independence of Eddie Rose, How I Learned To Drive, Twilight Los Angeles
Lab By Arrangement Activities (If Applicable):
Instructional Methods: x Lecture Lab Activity Problem-based Learning/Case Studies Collaborative Learning/Peer Review x Demonstration/Modeling Role-Playing x Discussion Computer Assisted Instruction x Other (explain) Group Projects
Textbooks: Play scripts are drawn from the itemized listed Course Content above and/or are revised periodically as new titles become available. It is the intention of this course to remain current, informative and relevant to students as content aligns with GESLOs.
Currently Recommended Text: Multicultural Theatre II, Contemporary Hispanic, Asian and African-American Plays Edited by Roger Ellis, Meriwether Publishing Ltd, 1998.
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