{"id":8945,"date":"2016-07-16T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T11:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:19:39","slug":"take-theater-courses-spc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/take-theater-courses-spc\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should you take theater courses at SPC….."},"content":{"rendered":"

The SPC Theater department wants you\u2026.to be a better public speaker, to create things with your own two hands, to imagine something and then make it a reality, to develop better communication skills, to collaborate with others,\u00a0 <\/span>to empathize with all kinds of people and characters and to push your critical thinking skills to their maximum potential.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These are just some of the things that taking theater classes can afford any student at SPC. From Business to Zoology, there is some part of the theater that will make you better at what you want to do (and give you lots of skills that you need!)<\/span><\/p>\n

The top 5 reasons why you should take a theater class at SPC<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Presentation skills<\/strong>—Everyone at some point needs to make presentations. \u00a0 <\/span>Acting classes give you tools to make interesting and exciting speeches. \u00a0 <\/span>If not, we can teach you how to fake it!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Amish<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>A Time Honored Tradition<\/strong>\u2014Theater has influenced art, society and religion during its long history. \u00a0 <\/span>Want to know the significance in the history of it? \u00a0 <\/span>Introduction to Theater Arts will answer this question and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Antigone<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Project Management<\/strong>\u2014theater productions are multi-faceted events. \u00a0 <\/span>Learning Stage Management can help organized you in ways that you might not know.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stage managers tape out a set on our stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

4.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Creativity<\/strong>\u2014How do you make a character with an axe in his head? \u00a0 <\/span>Yeah, we have done that and can teach you how to do this and many other creative things. \u00a0 <\/span>Costume Construction and Stagecraft classes are offered every semester.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Moliere<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Understanding Difficult Human Beings and the Human Condition<\/strong>\u2014Using acting skills and self awareness exercises, you can start to understand more about others and how to deal with them.\u00a0 <\/span>Villains are people too!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Dan<\/p>\n

Besides, It is a lot of fun\u2014the collaboration involved in theater is very social and fun. \u00a0 <\/span>Make life-long friends, learn valuable skills that you can use for your particular major and make art all at the same time!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The SPC Theater department wants you\u2026.to be a better public speaker, to create things with your own two hands, to imagine something and then make it a reality, to develop better communication skills, to collaborate with others,\u00a0 to empathize with all kinds of people and characters and to push your critical thinking skills to their … Continue reading Why should you take theater courses at SPC…..<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performing-arts","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9039,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}