BIO-DRAM 319

Professors Sayo and Picotte will once again be team teaching Bio-Dram 319 this fall and encourage all undergraduates with a keen interest in both wildlife and character-based emotive drama to enrol. One of the only science and art credits available at the university, Bio-Dram 319 offers students the chance to explore their natural surroundings in an academically challenging but emotionally supportive environment. Key questions that will be posed during the course include but are not limited to:

• How does the rugged Canadian wilderness (with a particular focus on the stumpy-treed Bruce Penninsula) inform the way in which we interpret ourselves in role playing scenarios?

• To what extent can we understand ourselves as caretaker/members of our local biosphere, and to what extent are we destroyers/outsiders of our local biosphere?

Students wishing to apply for entry into Bio-Dram 319 must have completed prerequisite courses in Biology at the 100 and 200 levels. They will also be required to present a 10 minute monologue in the character of a tadpole as part of the entrance auditions.

Professors Picotte and Sayo, performing last year's groundbreaking drama entitled The Princess, Death, And The Frog (please note the brilliant mise en scene; an entire living pond was re-created in the theat-abory).

Professor Sayo and his fellow thespian, Professor Ribbit, playing the role of Frog.

[Ji Hong-26-July-2006]