printer friendly pageTAPS 173: Solo Performance (TAPS 373W)
Students learn how to draw from the specificity of their own unique experiences, connecting with ideas, issues and questions that resonate with race, class, gender, environmental, and global issues. The course gives students the creative and critical tools to enable them to connect the personal with the political and see the solo voice as a powerful, potent form of artistic expression. Students have the opportunity to hone their own creative talents in writing, devising, composing, producing and creating work.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Paris, H. (PI)
TAPS 174A: Performance Making: Production (TAPS 374A)
A structured, creative environment for students working toward the realization of Senior Projects and 2nd year graduate productions. Instructors will work with students to develop the relationships between the content and the form of their productions using critical and creative tools to develop and reflect on the work. There will be a staged class showing at the end of the quarter followed by critiques designed to help students as they begin preparing for their final public performances (beyond the class).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Hill, L. (PI)
TAPS 177: Writing for Performance: The Fundamentals (CSRE 177, TAPS 277)
Course introduces students to the basic elements of playwriting and creative experimentation for the stage. Topics include: character development, conflict and plot construction, staging and setting, and play structure. Script analysis of works by contemporary playwrights may include: Marsha Norman, Patrick Shanley, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Octavio Solis and others. Table readings of one-act length work required by quarter¿s end.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
TAPS 178: Page to Stage: Playwriting and Solo Performance (TAPS 278)
Dramatic writing: scripted and solo, and as performed by actors or by the playwright. Physical and psychological theatrical action. Development of skills in dialogue, story structure, style, and personal voice. Script readings and directed staging sessions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Freed, A. (PI)
TAPS 179: Chicano & Chicana Theater: Politics In Performance (CHILATST 179, TAPS 379)
This is a practicum course, where the basic tenets and evolving politic and philosophies of Chicano and Latin American liberationist theater are examined through direct engagement with its theatrical forms, including, social protest & agit-prop, myth & ritual, scripting through improvisation, in-depth character and solo work, collective conceptualization and more. The course will culminate in an end-of-the quarter play performance in the Nitery Theater (Old Union) and at a Mission District theater in San Francisco.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
TAPS 179C: Chroniclers of Desire: Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop (CSRE 179C, CSRE 279C, TAPS 279C)
This course emphasizes the study and practice of personal memoir writing and literary journalism. The class will explore those writings that contain a public and private story, navigating an intimate and institutional world. Student writers will serve as public chroniclers whose subjective point of view and experience attempt to provide a truth greater than what ¿the facts¿ can offer.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
TAPS 179G: Indigenous Identity in Diaspora: People of Color Art Practice in North America (CSRE 179G, CSRE 279G, TAPS 279G)
This "gateway" core course to the IDA emphasis in CSRE offers a 21st century examination of people of color aesthetics and related politics, drawing from contemporary works (literature, music, visual and performing arts) in conversation with their native (especially American Indigenous and African) origins. Issues of gender and sexuality in relation to cultural identity are also integral to this study. Students will be required to produce a final work, integrating critical writing with a creative project.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
TAPS 180Q: Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance
Preference to sophomores. Chomsky's ideas and work which challenge the political and economic paradigms governing the U.S. Topics include his model for linguistics; cold war U.S. involvements in S.E. Asia, the Middle East, Central and S. America, the Caribbean, and Indonesia and E. Timor; the media, terrorism, ideology, and culture; student and popular movements; and the role of resistance.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
TAPS 184Q: The Personal is Political: Art, Activism and Performance
SOPHOMORE SEMINAR: This course looks at the `performance¿ of personal truths in political contexts, challenging inequalities of race, gender, sexual orientation and class through performance, visual art and activism. Students will engage in seminar discussions and writing on case studies such as the Occupy Movement and the works of key artists as well as working individually and in groups to think creatively about strategies for putting their own personal truths into political/public contexts to draw attention to issues they are passionate about.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Hill, L. (PI)
TAPS 190: Special Research
Individual project on the work of a playwright, period, or genre. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Amarotico, K. (PI)
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Brody, J. (PI)
;
Elswit, K. (PI)
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Instructors:
Amarotico, K. (PI)
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Brody, J. (PI)
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Elswit, K. (PI)
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Flatmo, E. (PI)
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Freed, A. (PI)
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Hayes, A. (PI)
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Klein, D. (PI)
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Moraga, C. (PI)
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Paris, H. (PI)
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Ramsaur, M. (PI)
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Rehm, R. (PI)
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Strayer, C. (PI)
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