HNRS 150Solo Performer's Toolbox: Storytelling for Artists and TED Talkers
Honors Collegium · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for College Honors students. Creation and presentation of original one-person performance speech. Development and writing of original script through exploration of personal themes, tone, and subject matter. Addressing of physical or emotional strengths and weaknesses in relation to creative processes of playwriting and performing. Breakdown, interpretation, and summation of one-character plays and synthesis of this knowledge to benefit writing and performance. Identification and exploration of student’s unique personal voice in order to establish clear and creative point of view in developing or performing their story. Analysis of dramatic structure, dramatic action, and creation of believable and interesting character. Focus, concentration, imagination, and relaxation during their solo performance, and maintaining professional decorum and discipline.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.