🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

🇬🇧 [The course is taught and examined in English] 🇬🇧

This course is designed to provide students with the language tools to integrate into the international academic community, meeting their specific language needs and improving their skills. Focusing on issues of Performing Arts and Contemporary New Media Arts, using authentic language material, students learn the specific language required by members of the English-speaking academic culture in the international environment. This process involves completing assignments such as oral presentations and written assignments on the topic of their particular interest. By developing their auditory, cultural, technological, media-based and visual literacy skills, and using language related to their particular scientific field of interest within the appropriate context, students are expected to achieve a significant improvement in their conversational, design, research and writing skills.

• Critically analyze authentic material related to Performing Arts and New Media

• To successfully apply all language skills (reading, listening, speech/writing proficiency) in their communication.

• Combine specific vocabulary with scientific research and writing

• To organize the research and production of academic writing relevant to their interests, in English

• Compose public oral presentations on topics of particular interest in English

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. Presentation of the contents of the course modules

2. Drama, Theatre and Performance

3. Music

4. About Comedy

5. Stanislavski and Brecht

6. Theater of the Absurd

7. Contemporary Dance

8. Stage Spaces, Environmental Theatre and Local Performance

9. Theatre of Invention, Body Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed

10. Facilities

11. Digital Art - New Media Arts - Immersion

12. Theatre and Film Criticism

13. Student presentations

     

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. Discussion on the Performing Arts

2. Language exercises - discussion

3. Language exercises - discussion about the comedian actor

4. Language exercises - discussion of acting in Stanislavski and Brecht

5. Language exercises - discussion

6. Language exercises - discussion

7. Language exercises - discussion

8. Language exercises - discussion

9. Language exercises - discussion

10. Language exercises - discussion

11. Language exercises - discussion

12. Language exercises - discussion - writing of theatrical / film criticism

13. Student presentations

Language of assessment: English 🇬🇧

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Laboratory work (30%)

• Oral presentation (30%)

• Written assignment (40%)

• Face-to-face
• Use of PowerPoint and audio-visual examples (13 lectures)
• Support of the learning process through eClass with weekly provision of audiovisual material, links, photos, extra bibliography and related information (exhibitions, cultural institutions, etc.)

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA159/ 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Maglavera, Tania (2021). English for Fine Arts Studies. University Studio Press (EUDOXUS code: 102125135)

Extra Bibliography

• Abrams, M. H. (1981). A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
• Carlson, Marvin (1993). Theories of the Theatre. History and Critical Survey from the Greeks to the Present. Cornell University Press.
• Graver, B. D. (1971). Advanced English Practice. Oxford University Press.
• Leacroft, Richard and Helen (1984). Theatre and Playhouse. An illustrated Survey of Theatre Building from ancient Greece to the Present Day. Methuen.Book 1
• Pirie, David B. (1985). How to write Critical Essays.  Methuen.
• Styan, J. L. (1981). Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press.
• Thomson, A. J. & A. V. Martinet (1986). A practical English Grammar (4th edition). Oxford University Press.
• Wickham, Glynne (1985/1992). A History of the Theatre. Phaidon