UTech, Ja Student Handbook 2019-2020

• Drama and Theatre Arts • Introduction to Dance • Introduction to Music In addition to Electives, the Centre offers the following extracurricular programmes: D R A M A A N D T H E AT R E A R T S Tuesday: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Introduction to drama allows students to gain knowledge of a wide cross section of theatre arts, in a detailed yet compact programme designed to cultivate a deeper appreciation of theatre/drama and its impact on culture, history and social development. Students are introduced to acting and theatre, and voice and speech. Areas covered include: • Transformation • Storytelling & Improvisation • Public performance • Dramatic verse and much more D A N C E Friday: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. This course helps to extend the participant’s understanding of how the body responds to rhythm and in addition, to develop an apprecia- tion for the tradition of dance as an inter- national language. The discipline gives students a basic knowledge of techniques in dance. Different genres of dance are explored to include traditional and contemporary forms. M U S I C ( C H O I R ) Monday: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.. Thursday: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. The programme encourages students to effec- tively use the voice, the most available musical instrument, to express their own culture and to explore the culture of others. It emphasizes the development of each student’s ability to sing well by providing relevant techniques, princi- ples and practices. Students gain meaningful exposure to: • a repertoire of music from the Caribbean & Africa. • a basic understanding of body parts that contribute to the production of quality sounds. • the effective use of the voice as a vehicle for cultural expression. V I S U A L A R T S Wednesday: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Students are able to explore and express them- selves through the various forms of fine and applied art such as painting, jewellery making and sculpture. They are introduced to basic drawing via an understanding of the anatomy. This allows for a general feeling and under- standing of the rudiments of drawing. “ E X C E L L E N C E T H R O U G H K N O W L E D G E ” S U P P O R T S E R V I C E S F O R S T U D E N T S 73