Course of dramatic arts Introduction
The activity of Dramatic Arts is an introduction to the world of theater. During the semester, the student will make theater, along with his/her schoolmates and will see and read theater with the intention to get to know his/her personal possibilities in the art of acting.
Objectives
• To make the student familiar with acting skills and the personal experiment of theater-making.
• Reflect on the sense of art in the daily life.
Activities
The area of Drama has activities and groups at its assets, with the intention to stimulate the pleasures of theater in the institutional life. The area counts with a semi-professional group that realizes assemblies of pieces of universal repertoire that perform theater presentations inside the ITCR and in different communities in the country, as an extension program. At its turn, it brings professional theater performances to be enjoyed inside the campus. Furthermore, it imparts short courses of relevant subjects and according to the institutional interest. The arts of movie are also a part of this area. They project movies on a large screen, to be shown to the students and officials of the university.
Course of Musical Arts
Introduction
We all have had contact with music because it is present in our lives in various ways. Appreciating it, or to make music allow to develop our sensibility, favors the quality of life.
Objectives
• Appreciate the different music manifestations of the past and the present.
• Should be aware of the stimulation that music, produced in Costa Rica, deserves
Activities
• Exhibitions, auditions and analyses of different kinds of music
• Concerts
• Projection of music videos
Social Interaction Course
Presentation
Social interaction is exercised from the person itself and in constant and permanent interaction with the society and the culture in which he/ she lives. From this point on, the values that respect the human being are created and developed.
Objectives
To offer the student the opportunity to get to know his/ her social and cultural surroundings in which he/ she extends, from a personal point of view.
Activities
Participación en espectáculos, videos, charlas, giras, diapositivas, música, poesía y proyectos. Todo ello guiado por una metodología muy dinámica y participativa con mucho trabajo en grupo.
Participation in shows, chats, trips, music, poetry and projects and view videos and slides. All this is guided by a very dynamic and interactive method, with lots of group works.
Visual arts course
Introduction
The area for Visual art searches to explore the sensitivity and ideas of the student’s life experience that allow him/ her to develop his/her creativity, including diverse techniques or concepts on visual arts and its possibilities. All this in a typical language, that makes the students transform from a passive consumer to the state of a creator with active criticism in it’s social-cultural complex.
Objective
Stimulate the imagination and creativity with a critical opinion.
Activities
In the course, systematic experiences of what is creating will be observed, strengthened by knowledge of visual arts and situations of historical context, in help of:
• Movies and slides
• Chats and discussions.
• Creative groups projects
• Visits to expositions
Cultural Dynamics
Introduction
The course for Cultural Dynamics provides the student the opportunity to make a journey trough the different cultural options that the Cultural Division offers. During the semester, the student will enjoy obtaining experience in every matter, at its turn extending his/ her knowledge and familiarity in the different fields of arts and culture.
Objective
The course allows the student to recognize the relations that are established between society, culture and art from a humanistic perspective, with a constant relation with nature. Furthermore, it allows the student to distinguish the main elements and characteristics that identify the different artistic manifestations in the society.
Activities
El curso se realiza utilizando diversas metodologías y técnicas de enseñanza, que incluye talleres artísticos proyección de audiovisuales, charlas, simposios, visita a museos y vivencias artísticas, personales y grupales.
The course is realized by using various methods and teaching techniques, which include artistic workshops, audiovisual projection, chats, symposium, trips to museums and artistic experience, in groups and individual.
Dance
Introduction
Dance is born with the human being, with the need to be able to express one’s feelings, emotions, and, above all, the wish to be able to communicate with others and one’s environment. Dance is not only expressive beauty, it’s also a discipline that is shared with the students who practices it, to the sensibility, humanization and health.
Objectives
During the semester, the student will achieve to coordinate different parts of his/ her body, with a specific rhythm and in a specific space.
Activities
Projection of videos, chats and live-presentations during class. Furthermore, popular dances like the bolero, salsa, meringue and other dances are practiced.
Literary Criticism
Introduction
Literature is the voice of humans, it entwine them with symbolizations, it fascinates them with harmony and with information. Studying literature is not only to know one’s history and to learn its precept. It is, above all, participating in an experience in which the esthetic pleasure and the critical comprehension are filled out to give special knowledge to the world.
Objective
Establish the relation between literary art and society with the aim to go deeper into the knowledge of both realities.
Activities
• Oral lecture and commentary on fragments that represent literary works.
• Forums about encountered theater.
• Analysis with basic philological methods of short plays.