PMA 1141, First-Year Writing Seminar:
Performing Dreams and Telling Stories
Cornell University, Spring 2018
Creating interesting images and telling good stories are crucial skills in understanding and changing the world around us. In this course students devise, rehearse, and perform original theatre pieces adapted from myths, fairy tales, literature, music, film, and their own life experiences. We’ll record our dreams and use them as source material in making performances. Students will also engage creative works ranging from “Beauty and the Beast” to the short stories of Franz Kafka, from Winsor McCay’s comic strips to Shakespeare Behind Bars. In addition, students will develop their scholarly, critical, and creative writing through peer and instructor review and a multi-draft essay process. Acting skill and experience not a prerequisite, but class attendance and participation required.
Performing Dreams and Telling Stories
Cornell University, Spring 2018
Creating interesting images and telling good stories are crucial skills in understanding and changing the world around us. In this course students devise, rehearse, and perform original theatre pieces adapted from myths, fairy tales, literature, music, film, and their own life experiences. We’ll record our dreams and use them as source material in making performances. Students will also engage creative works ranging from “Beauty and the Beast” to the short stories of Franz Kafka, from Winsor McCay’s comic strips to Shakespeare Behind Bars. In addition, students will develop their scholarly, critical, and creative writing through peer and instructor review and a multi-draft essay process. Acting skill and experience not a prerequisite, but class attendance and participation required.
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