Theater Arts (TA) |
216 VIllard, 541-346-4171
College of Arts & Sciences
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Course Data
| TA 369 History of Theater III >1 |
4.00 cr. |
| Development of the theater from its origins to the present. Emphasizes the history of dramatic literature, criticism, theater architecture, design, and performance. |
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Graded for all students
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| Instructor: |
Najjar M  |
Office:
11A Mac Court
Phone:
(541) 346-2237
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| Office Hours: |
1000 - 1100 MW |
Villard 209 |
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1215-1345 |
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Najjar M |
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Academic Deadlines
| Deadline |
Last day to: |
| March 28: |
Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded) |
| April 3: |
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 3: |
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 4: |
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| April 4: |
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| April 5: |
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| April 5: |
Last day to change to or from audit |
| April 11: |
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 11: |
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 18: |
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 18: |
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| April 25: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| April 25: |
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| May 16: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
 | You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day. |
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Expanded Course Description
| A survey of twentieth century avant-garde practioners and aesthetics, tracing from the innovations of the 1920s and 30s cultural and political trends which inspire current postmodern and intercultural theatre practices. The course explores political and artistic trends in theatre which resist or seek to transcend traditional forms in response to the century's revolutions and wars, colonialism and the postmodern conditions of globalization, consumer capitalism, and ruptures in philosophical certainties.
Popular theatre forms, such as vaudeville and burlesque, as well as performance artists, such as Rachel Rosenthal and Laurie Anderson, augment the more traditional definitions of theatre and performance. Emphasis is placed on those artists and collectives whose theories and practices have directly influenced experimental theatre of today, including but not limited to: Vsevolod Meyerhold, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski, Anne Bogart, and a number of influential performance groups such as The Living Theatre, The Open Theatre, Odin Teatret, The Bread and Puppet Theatre, The Wooster Group, Mabou Mines. Plays studied for this course have included works by Oscar Wilde, Alfred Jarry, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Amiri Baraka, Henry David Hwang, Emily Mann, Wole Soyinka, Suzan-Lori Parks.
Students take a variety of quizzes in class on their weekly readings, one mid-term and one final examination. The main writing project involves research of parallels in non-theatre arts contemporary to an assigned play, as well as contemporary contextualization in socio-political history of the time the play was produced.
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