{"id":1022,"date":"2021-04-23T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/?page_id=1022"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:51:31","slug":"sophomore-review-the-295","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/academic-program\/sophomore-review-the-295\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophomore Review &#8211; THE 295"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Course Description<\/h2>\n<p>This course is a series of interviews, auditions and assessment instruments designed to determine a student\u2019s potential to successfully continue and complete the theatre degree curriculum.\u00a0 It is designed to assist students in the B.F.A and B.A. programs to conduct an assessment of their abilities and skill levels in theatre through to the end of the first semester of their sophomore year.<\/p>\n<h2>Credit Hours &amp; Grades<\/h2>\n<p>This course has zero credit hours and is graded as Pass \/ Fail.<\/p>\n<h2>Instructor<\/h2>\n<p>Assistant Professor T. Fulton Burns<\/p>\n<h2>Course Content<\/h2>\n<h2>Letter of Intent<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Attach the appropriate document as .doc or .pdf.\u00a0 Recommended length: 300-400 words<\/li>\n<li>Briefly assess your current level of achievement in theater studies and identify specific areas of strength and weakness. What knowledge base and abilities are you most interested in improving prior to graduation?<\/li>\n<li>Consider and describe your academic\u00a0and professional career goals. \u00a0Based on these goals, identify a preferred area of focus for your upper level\u00a0work intheater<\/li>\n<li>Consider how your study in theater and career goals intersect with and compliment your academic minor or second major.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Professional Resume<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Submit a one page resume formatted according to industry standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Text and Context<\/h2>\n<p>Attach a short essay (400-500 words).\u00a0 In your own words describe the work of a classic or contemporary playwright (other than Shakespeare) or a playwriting team whose body of work interests you. \u00a0Your essay should include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A brief summary of who the author is or was, what the body of work includes when and where the work was originally produced, and any overarching characteristics generally associated with this author.<\/li>\n<li>An overview of the author&#8217;s significant career and artistic achievement and critical success to date, including an assessment of significant innovations in content, style, theme, or form, noteworthy influences, significant collaborations, awards, or work outside the theater.<\/li>\n<li>Explain your attraction to this author&#8217;s work and your interest in production or further study. \u00a0What draws you to this unique body of work?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Synthesis of Academic and Applied Learning &amp; Email to Faculty<\/h2>\n<p>Post a PowerPoint\u00a0portfolio of artifacts\u00a0from your foundation course and production work in the theater\u00a0department. Title each slide or collection of slides with the\u00a0course number and title or the title of the production you worked on. \u00a0Examples of possible artifacts: drawings, models, drafting, headshot, individual script work, voice tape or video, examples of collaborative team work, production stills, photos of completed projects or projects in various stages of completion.<\/p>\n<p>In a bulleted list or detailed statement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Review new or significantly improved skills, knowledge, or abilities acquired in your foundation course and\u00a0production work in the theater program. \u00a0Refer to the artifacts included in your PowerPoint\u00a0portfolio.<\/li>\n<li>Briefly consider how these skills and knowledge relate to and support your overall\u00a0professional and life goals beyond theater production and performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Interview<\/h2>\n<p>Students should be prepared to articulate and discuss their goals, assess their preparedness and commitment to achieve those goals,\u00a0and to indicate which minor they expect to complete and how it complements their career plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Description This course is a series of interviews, auditions and assessment instruments designed to determine a student\u2019s potential to successfully continue and complete the theatre degree curriculum.\u00a0 It is designed to assist students in the B.F.A and B.A. programs to conduct an assessment of their abilities and skill levels in theatre through to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1022","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022\/revisions\/1023"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}