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Borchardt, Donald A. – 1983
To provide both an enriching theatre experience for students and faculty and new opportunities for women artists, the Department of Theatre Arts and Speech at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at Newark held a competition for new plays by New Jersey women playwrights. The winning play, Leni Hamilton's "The Fortress," a story of…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Drama, Dramatics, Enrichment Activities
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1985
One problem confronting theater directors is how to revive a play in such a way as to give it new relevance to a contemporary audience, and there many unhappy examples of this dilemma. Each director is concerned with exploring the text, and in some cases, manipulating the content, in order to bring out new meanings. Whether controversial or…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Drama, Evaluative Thinking, Innovation
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1980
A computer assisted system called PEERRATE was used in a theater history course at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in Newark, in fall 1980, in order to give students an opportunity to anonymously grade one another's written work and to compare their own ratings with those of fellow students and the instructor. The PEERRATE system is a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Grading
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1982
An introductory problem for a theatre history course presents the process of group decision making and problem solving in theatre studies, encourages students to compare values when collecting information and making decisions, and illustrates the variety of dramatic forms, production styles, and economic concerns of contemporary theatre. Entitled…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Cultural Activities, Decision Making
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1983
The guided design approach to teaching theatre history encourages active participation in decision making while applying knowledge and learning subject matter concepts. The theatre history course at Rutgers University, New Jersey, uses this approach. With guided design, classroom time is not used for lectures, but is instead reserved for small…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Decision Making
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1986
In order to demonstrate how course content can be adapted so that thinking skills are included in the learning experience, this paper uses a unit of study from theater history as a basis for examining how subject matter can be structured with learning objectives, a study guide, a hypothetical problem situation, instructions, and feedback. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Course Content, Decision Making Skills
