Performing Arts Department Courses
Drama 9AB (Drama Fest)
This course is for students with prior dramatic experience who desire to sharpen their fundamental theater skills. Acting projects in pantomime, improvisation, and scenes from plays are performed for class evaluation. Selected students have the opportunity to participate in drama festivals.
- Prerequisites:
- Recommendation
- Required reading:
- Selected excerpts of modern dramatic literature
- Expected homework:
- Daily as needed
- Meets requirements for:
- high school Visual/Performing Arts, state colleges and universities.
Drama AB, Semester/Annual Course / Grade 9–12
This course offers training in fundamental skills of theater arts. Students study pantomime, improvisation, voice and diction, interpretive techniques, creation of character, and projection of ideas and emotion. First semester students participate in the production of a one-act play.
- Prerequisites:
- Drama A - none; Department permission required for Drama B
- Required reading:
- Selected excerpts of modern dramatic literature
- Expected homework:
- Daily as needed
- Meets requirements for:
- high school Visual/Performing Art, state colleges and universities.
Play Production AB / Grade 10–12
Students produce a full-length play for public performance. This course is designed to meet the Fine Arts requirement. Class work must include research, reading, and writing in addition to the performance.
- Prerequisites:
- Department permission
- Required reading:
- Survey of dramatic literature including Shakespeare
- Expected homework:
- As needed to meet deadlines
- Other aspects/requirements:
- Extra curricular rehearsals
- Meets requirements for:
- high school Visual/Performing Art, state colleges and universities.
Student Directing, Semester Course / Grade 10–12
Course provides experience for students advanced in theater arts training. Students have the opportunity to select, cast, direct, and produce a one-act play for public performance.
- Prerequisites:
- Department permission
- Required reading:
- Survey of dramatic literature
- Expected homework:
- As needed to meet deadlines
- Meets requirements for:
- high school.
Theater Arts Workshop (TAW), Semester Course / Grade 9–12
Course provides experience for students who are unusually gifted in the performing arts. Instruction provides for performance of major works of musical theater. Students give a finished public performance of a major musical or dramatic work. Course meets Fine Arts requirements if students read, do research, and write as well as perform.
- Prerequisites:
- Department permission
- Required reading:
- Selected dramatic literature
- Expected homework:
- As needed to meet deadlines
- Other aspects/requirements:
- Extra curricular rehearsal
- Meets requirements for:
- high school Visual/Performing Art, state colleges and universities.
