FSEM 165   Acting I

Faculty Profile for Professor Giurgea

Students discover a country where there are no rules. Or if there are any rules, they are only there to be broken. Students are asked to embrace these contradictions. Students are asked to be prepared to hold two or more opposing ideas in the palms of their hands at the same time. Coursework attempts to teach students that the only true way to expand your world is to inhabit an otherness beyond ourselves. There is one simple word for this: empathy. Students discover that the world is so much more than one story: we find in others the ongoing of ourselves. This FSEM, a Basic Acting class, is reassurance that not forgetting how to play is essential, that our knowledge of the world is the equivalent to the set of experiences that we have had, and that our communication is limited by the number of stories we know to tell. Students learn that storytelling and understanding are actually the same thing. Students who successfully complete this seminar earn credit for THEA 254 and can satisfy the human thought and expression areas of inquiry requirement or the artistic practice and interpretation liberal arts practice.

Professor Giurgea is a theater director who works everywhere in the world. He teaches acting and directing at Colgate and in many countries nearby and far away.