Theatre Appreciation -- Main Page

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--*Summer 2006, Spring 2006, & Fall 2005*--

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**Please read this entire page before continuing any further. Then to begin the class, please be sure you have read the SYLLABUS and then go HERE...**

Instructor:

Dr. Eric W. Trumbull, Professor, Theatre/Speech

etrumbull@nvcc.edu

Rm. 122, 703-878-5750
(If you call my office phone and I am not there, you may leave a voicemail message, which comes to me as a ".wav" file via e-mail).

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http://nvcc.edu/resources/stutechguide/.

Welcome to SPD 214, Theatre Appreciation -- SPD 141-I, a three-credit course offered entirely online from Northern Virginia Community College's Extended learning Institute (ELI).

From this main page, you can click on my name (above) to see my home page at NVCC, and from there you can get more information about me.

You can also, from this main page, go to the syllabus, the "lessons," and to the forum / discussion area.

--Please contact me if you have any difficulty navigating through this course...

Information about the Group Projects... (Summer 2006 and thereafter)

Information about the critique assignments...

Information about the short paper assignments... (PRIOR to SUMMER 2006!

Discussion Area --- Information -- Grades -- and more...

--Use this area to discuss class / subject concerns with the instructor and other members of the class, and to post and read messages / comments about class readings and material.

Go to the VCCS Blackboard

PLEASE NOTE!!: Students MUST use their VCCS e-mail address and password to gain access to Blackboard, and also to send and receive secure e-mail to and from NVCC instructors; please go here for information. Be sure to get your VCCS e-mail account established and to use that account to send e-mail to your instructors (Campus AND non-Campus classes).

OUR TEXTBOOK:

Edwin Wilson ,The Theater Experience, 9th edition (WITH CD-ROM -- Do NOT buy a book without the CD-ROM!),McGraw-Hill, 2004.

I'd also like to have you check out some other theatre web sites which I think you will find to be quite helpful. For now, I'd recommend the following:

http://lupus.northern.edu:90/wild/th100/th100.htm

http://www.esu.edu/theatre/intro.html

http://walker.bvu.edu/intro/

http://hobbes.ithaca.edu/bracewell/intro/introhom.htm

http://www.uwyo.edu/a&s/th&d/THEA1000.html

http://collaboratory.acns.nwu.edu/tfencl/fthtsyl.htm

http://www.uidaho.edu/LS/ThA/intro.html

http://www2.cyber.vt.edu/introta/syllabus.html

**And here is the web page for an older version of Wilson's other theatre text, Theater: The Lively Art (with Alvin Goldfarb), complete with online study tests (which I highly recommend you use--you can have them graded and sent back to you for helpful feedback...or you can use the sample study quizzes you will find on the CD that comes with the text...):**

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/stage/wilson/index.html

http://lupus.northern.edu:90/wild/th100/inetsyl.htm (this site is using the Wilson and Goldfarb text, Theater: The Lively Art, though perhaps an older version)

Here is a useful site for Theatre Resources:
http://ascc.artsci.washington.edu/drama/jack.html

To begin the class, please be sure you have read the SYLLABUS and then go HERE...