Short Description of Lessons:

1. Mistakes are Good: Introduction to Course and Core Concepts (student survey, group work, readings)

2. Text Analysis: Commercial Sides (analyzing your subjects for voice, range, and character types)

3. Text Analysis: Commercial Sides (motivation theory, reading techniques, breathing and finding your voice)

4. Text Analysis: Commercial Sides (practical group workshop, memory types, memorization techniques)

5. Text Analysis: Monologues (L2 Anxiety and the three “Self” systems, building vocabulary)

6. Text Analysis: Monologues (Alexander technique, matching an actor, body relaxation techniques)

7. Text Analysis: Monologues (working within limitations, technology: Skype lessons, Stoicism in teaching)

8. Text Analysis: Fox in Sox (phonetics, IPA, personalizing word games, pros and cons of “tongue twisters”)

9. Text Analysis: Dialogues (individual differences, reading with a subject, personalizing the text)

10. Text Analysis: Dialogues (Casting Directors, casting confidence, Self-taping technologies and techniques)

11. Text Analysis: Dialogues (group workshop, filming scenes and in-class analysis, private subject assign.)

12. Review period (student presentation of findings: private subject, review of concepts) 13. Final Evaluation and Interview