THET 251 Shakespeare from Page to Screen

This course focuses on reading, analyzing and interpreting Shakespeare's plays as they have been adapted to film, and understanding them as products of specific historical, cultural and artistic currents, as performance text meant for production within the constraints of the medium of film.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Identify and apply critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary issues
   of aesthetics and creativity by using basic literary and theatrical concepts, elements, and
   stylistic characters.
2. Articulate and evaluate the dramatic script and its structure, form, and style as it relates to
   issues of aesthetics, humanism, and meaning.
3. Explain and demonstrate innovation and risk-taking in following the steps necessary to bring
   a Shakespearean play to film from acting, directing, and design perspectives.
4. Develop techniques to pose and address questions for analyzing and evaluating scripts from
   diverse, modern, social, intellectual, and historical contexts in which Shakespeare’s plays
   were produced.
5. Evaluate the ongoing power of Shakespeare’s plays to illuminate the human condition and
   the search for meaning.
   
6. Perform basic research and use MLA-style documentation demonstrating the standard
   conventions for writing about theatre.

Course Objectives

1. Identify and apply critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary issues
   of aesthetics and creativity by using basic literary and theatrical concepts, elements, and
   stylistic characters.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Written journal assignment

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP1
2. Articulate and evaluate the dramatic script and its structure, form, and style as it relates to
   issues of aesthetics, humanism, and meaning.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

3. Explain and demonstrate innovation and risk-taking in following the steps necessary to bring
   a Shakespearean play to film from acting, directing, and design perspectives.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Exam

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP2
4. Develop techniques to pose and address questions for analyzing and evaluating scripts from
   diverse, modern, social, intellectual, and historical contexts in which Shakespeare’s plays
   were produced.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Essay

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP3
5. Evaluate the ongoing power of Shakespeare’s plays to illuminate the human condition and
   the search for meaning.
   

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Essay

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP4
6. Perform basic research and use MLA-style documentation demonstrating the standard
   conventions for writing about theatre.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Written journal assignments, Research projects and presentations