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Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the module, students should be able to:
Define features of digital theatre and debate what qualities theatre should possess, digital or not.
Contrast how theatre artists explore technology in their works to real world intersections of technology and human experience.
Understand how humans perform digitally-- theatrically and otherwise.
Critically analyze the benefits and obstacles of digital theatre as a means of making theatre and preserving theatre.
Create a theatrical project that encapsulates digital theatre approaches and/or themes.
Class 1: Introduction: Theatre and Life in a Digital World
Class 2: Liveness in the Theatre
Class 3: Presence in the Theatre
Class 4: Replacing Humans with Machines: Robots – R.U.R. and Uncanny Valley
Class 5: Performance in the Digital World – AR, VR, Holograms, and Anonymity
Class 6: Replacing Humans with Machines, Part Two: The Adding Machine¸ Cyborgs, More AI Please, and Digital Design
Class 7: Digital Theatre Project: Idea Presenting and Future Planning
Class 8: The Digital Archive: Translating Performance into the Digital
Class 9: Pandemic Lessons: Theatre Problems and Digital Solutions
Class 10: Pandemic Lessons Part Two: Accessibility, Growing Audiences, and New Ideas
Class 11: Embracing Digital Theatre
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 22 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 78 |
Total | 100 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Individual Project: Midterm Presentation of Proposed Final Digital Project. This will be a 5 minute in person presentation accompanied by a written explanation that reflects class material too. | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
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Portfolio: A digital collection of short recordings, writings, mini performances, and partipation in group digital performance that illustrates skills acquired in class and experimentation with Digital Theatre. | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
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Individual Project: Final Digital Project. Student complete a Digital Performance, Short One Act Play, or Paper in coordination with what they submitted as their plan at midterm. | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
Written feedback will be provided to students individually throughout semester. Feedback on mid-term given within two weeks. End of term project feedback will be offered in the post-assessment period.