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Semester: | Spring 2024 |
Number: | 0192-225-001 |
Instructor: | Lauren Buscemi |
Days: |
Monday 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm Wednesday 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm |
Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
Location: | Garden City - Performing Arts Center 080 PAC |
Credits: | 3 |
Status: | This Course is Filled to Capacity |
Notes: |
For majors and non-majors |
Course Materials: | View Text Books |
Description: |
If you ever wanted to do stand-up comedy in New York City, here’s your chance. Majors and non-majors can work with a professional comic to develop skills in writing and comic performance, creating a routine they’ll perform at a well-known comedy club in New York. (Learning Goals:CO;Distribution Reqs:Arts) |
Learning Goals: |
0192-225: PERFORMING STAND-UP COMEDYStudents will:1) learn their "comedy voice" and be able to identify who they are onstage, and what they want to say to an audience;2) learn what they find funny, and how to take everyday life and events and turn them from observations into jokes;3) study and learn the art of creating a standard, professional comedy routine for a comedy club performance;4) get tips on performance techniques; use of microphone and space; the comedy club environment and protocol, and more;5) learn about styles of comedy, history of comedy throughout the years, and discover which type of comedian the student are;6) use the internet, social media, and Youtube to help create material, watch material, and discover new talent/comedians;7) execute all of these lessons by performing in a professional, NYC comedy show at end of semester for live audiences. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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