Spring Break
Musical Theater a 'Great' topic to 'Work' on this Spring
Chirag Desai
Issue date: 1/28/05 Section: News
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Come spring term and the Great Works Symposium will offer its course in Musical Theatre - from the classical opera to the modern musical.
The Great Works symposium series offers students with a transdisciplinary and elective course covering various topics. The course, offered university-wide, can be taken by Honors students to fulfill the Honors College requirements. Honors students may be required to perform an extra assignment for honors credit, and must inform the instructor in advance to discuss the same.
As part of the course, various experts on different aspects of musical theatre will lecture the class, such as singers, and administrators of musical organizations. Students will be required to attend the live opera performance Die Fledermaus and Drexel's performance Cabaret, as well as other live performances of their choice at local places such as The Arden Theater. A Strategic Undergraduate Educational Initiatives Migrant will defray the costs of a majority of the performances and transportation costs as added incentive to the students.
The course is currently scheduled to be taken Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:50 p.m. A common lecture for all students will be held Thursday, while on Tuesdays, the class will be split into smaller sections that will meet separately.
The instructors for the course are Bruce Eisenstein from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Director of the Film and Video Program Karin Kelly and Adelle Rubin from the Performing Arts Department.
Eisenstein has worked with the course in the past, on topics such as Globalization and The Atomic Bomb. With an undergraduate minor in music, he believes next term's course will aid the "appreciation and what music theater is like in all its forms."
He feels that the symposium is a great opportunity and experience for students from all majors to enjoy and appreciate topics that are not under the common stream of most majors.
Charles Morscheck, a professor of Visual Studies, serves as coordinator of the Symposium and its topics. Instituted in 2000, it is held every fall, winter and spring terms. Typically, topics are not repeated for at least three years. So far The Atomic Bomb is the only topic to have been covered twice, in Spring 2003 and Spring 2000, the first installment of the Symposium. Other topics have included The Bhagvad-Gita, Christmas and The Statue of Liberty, and Liberty Itself.
The course is Writing Intensive and students will be required to write a critical report on each item seen during the course.
The Great Works symposium series offers students with a transdisciplinary and elective course covering various topics. The course, offered university-wide, can be taken by Honors students to fulfill the Honors College requirements. Honors students may be required to perform an extra assignment for honors credit, and must inform the instructor in advance to discuss the same.
As part of the course, various experts on different aspects of musical theatre will lecture the class, such as singers, and administrators of musical organizations. Students will be required to attend the live opera performance Die Fledermaus and Drexel's performance Cabaret, as well as other live performances of their choice at local places such as The Arden Theater. A Strategic Undergraduate Educational Initiatives Migrant will defray the costs of a majority of the performances and transportation costs as added incentive to the students.
The course is currently scheduled to be taken Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:50 p.m. A common lecture for all students will be held Thursday, while on Tuesdays, the class will be split into smaller sections that will meet separately.
The instructors for the course are Bruce Eisenstein from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Director of the Film and Video Program Karin Kelly and Adelle Rubin from the Performing Arts Department.
Eisenstein has worked with the course in the past, on topics such as Globalization and The Atomic Bomb. With an undergraduate minor in music, he believes next term's course will aid the "appreciation and what music theater is like in all its forms."
He feels that the symposium is a great opportunity and experience for students from all majors to enjoy and appreciate topics that are not under the common stream of most majors.
Charles Morscheck, a professor of Visual Studies, serves as coordinator of the Symposium and its topics. Instituted in 2000, it is held every fall, winter and spring terms. Typically, topics are not repeated for at least three years. So far The Atomic Bomb is the only topic to have been covered twice, in Spring 2003 and Spring 2000, the first installment of the Symposium. Other topics have included The Bhagvad-Gita, Christmas and The Statue of Liberty, and Liberty Itself.
The course is Writing Intensive and students will be required to write a critical report on each item seen during the course.
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