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Dec 05, 2025
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THAR 1730 - Fundamentals of Play Analysis and Playwriting
This course is an introduction into text analysis which exams a variety of plays from American playwrights who use history, culture, context, structure, genre, and multiple viewpoints to create and execute live performance. Topics include, but are not limited to: LGBTQIA+ Theater, Indigenous Theater, Black and African American Theater, Vietnamese American Theater, and Jewish Theater. Students analyze character development through dialogue, action, and scene building, as well as learn how to think in theatrical terms. Using creative practices to analyze theater from the playwright’s perspective, students gain unique and valuable tools that can be used in their own developmental processes as theater artists and practitioners.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Thematic Arches:
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2FA
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.5 lecture, 1.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: TAG course: OAH024 Script Analysis
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to place their own personal life narrative within their own culture.
- Students will be able to analyze differences in other cultures’ storytelling techniques.
- Students will be able to describe how character motivations in a different culture differ from those in the students¿ own culture.
- Students will be able to interrogate the structure of different cultural stories while holding space to explore their meaning.
- Students will be able to empathetically insert themselves into a role embodying the values and perspectives of a different culture.
- Students will be able to create shared meaning by writing complex subtext that reflects verbal and nonverbal communication from another culture.
- Students will be able to engage in open and effective interpersonal communication about plays or dramatic literature with culturally different others.
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