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Course Syllabus

THEA 2602 Performance Practicum II

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Theater and Dance
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1-2; Lecture: 1-2; Lab: 1-2
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2026
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2030
  • End Semester: Fall 2031
  • Optimum Class Size: 12
  • Maximum Class Size: 50

Course Description

This course provides students with the additional opportunity to apply acting skills through supervised play rehearsals and performances. This course is repeatable for credit.

Justification

This course is a lower-division core requirement for undergraduate theatre performance majors with equivalent courses at all four-year institutions in Utah and elsewhere. It fills a major requirement for theatre arts majors and, otherwise, satisfies elective credit criteria. This specific course of Performance Practicum will be available to students participating in the second production of the theatrical season. Because a student may be involved in the second show of the season as a freshman, sophomore, etc. this course is repeatable for credit.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Upon successful completion of this course,students will be able to analyze a specific role on the basis of genre, style, theme, period, locale, mood/atmosphere, character relationship, and other relevant given circumstances using close-reading, textual analysis, dramaturgy, interpretation, and the rehearsal process.
  2. Upon successful completion of this course,students will be able to evaluate a specific character on the basis of background, motivations, relationships, actions, objectives, super objective, tactics, beat-changes, temperaments/states, externalities, handling of language, diction, destinations, exceptions, inner-life, and/or any other acting practices appropriate for the production.
  3. Upon successful completion of this course,students will be able to memorize text, blocking, and apply notes from a Director and Stage Manager.
  4. Upon successful completion of this course,students will be able to perform before live audiences maintaining concentration, focus, character consistency, energy, tempo, pace, projection, articulation, connection, action, and truth.

Course Content

Students will participate in the processes of auditions, callbacks, rehearsals, technical rehearsals, and performances for a live audience. Credit will be awarded for performing in Snow College Theatre productions scheduled for the semester. Content may include intensives/workshops on additional applicable performance techniques and methodologies to expand the learners' understanding of the art of acting, style, or performance approaches as determined by the instructor.