Introduction to Theatre

--online course--

 

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

Rm. 122, 703-878-5750

Welcome to SPD 130, Introduction to Theatre, 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...

 

Please enter and begin, but be aware that I am still making some minor changes...
***PLEASE NOTE: many of these pages now have a revision date of somewhere between July 16 and July 23, 1999. These changes are primarily cosmetic only and do not affect the content of the lessons.***

 

Syllabus

***Class / Lesson Links*** -- This will get you to the class "lectures."  This link leads you to the "lessons" for the class...

Information about the short paper assignments...

Forum Area -- Use this forum to discuss class / subject concerns with the instructor and other members of the class. To log on, you MUST indicate a username and a password in the "registration" section; write the username and password down so you don't forget them--you'll need them to log on to the forum again...

Chat Area -- this is a basic online chat, but I've never had anyone on it at the same time, so I'm unsure if it works...
Give it a try...

Chat Area #2 -- This chat area is by Blackboard.com, a commercial educational site. This link was supposed to take you directly to the chat area, but it does not; you will have to sign on, look for SPD130, and experiment in order to get to the chat area....NOTE:  you will need a Java-enabled Browser to use this chat area...

Grade / Record-Keeping Form

 

For Students in the Fall 1999 Introduction to Theatre course:

          I am still working on a newer, more friendly and less cluttered discussion area, but for the time being, you can continue to go to the forum area above (Forum Area) until I get things straightened out.
          I'd also like to have you check out some other Introduction to 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/inetsyl.htm (this site is using the Wilson and Goldfarb text, Theatre: The Lively Art, which I'm hoping to switch to next semester)

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%26s/th%26d/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 Wilson and Goldfarb's book, complete with online study tests (which I highly recommend you use--you can have them graded and sent back to you for helpful feedback...):**

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

 

 

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

This page and subsequent pages in this set of lessons -- © Copyright 1999 by Eric Trumbull.