Sunday, April 25, 2010

Relate Theatre to your Major

My major right now is Criminology. Criminology is is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society. Theatre relates to Criminology in the aspect that when you are being a police officer, even when your personality is not normally strict, you are going to have to be strict in order to do your job correctly. So in this aspect the police officer would be acting strict in order to get his job done right. Of course they can be lenient in some aspects of their jobs, but they are normally very stern.
Also, when a criminal commits their first crime, they are label as being deviant. Once a person gets labeled as being deviant they can not usually break away from that label, so they resort to just committing more and more crimes. One field that Criminologists can take towards their profession is being a corrections officer. is a person charged with the responsibility of the supervision, safety and security of prisoners in a prison, jail, or similar form of secure custody. This can also, like with the aspect of the police officer, be looked to as a form of acting because of being strict or stern.
Although I am in the process of changing my major into Sociology Education with a double major in Health and Physical Education. You can relate theatre to teaching in so many different ways because everyday a teacher is acting, whether they think that they are or not. Teachers are human, they have bad days and good days just like anyone else does. Although when they are having a bad day they have to act in front of their students and continue on the day as if they were having a good day. Also, when teachers have to teach on a subject that they do not prefer to teach on they must act like they do like the subject. For example, when I was in high school my Algebra Two teacher was required by the school to teach a section on geometry. She hated geometry more than any other subject she had to teach us, but she had to act and teach it as if it were her favorite. Especially with elementary education teachers, they would have to be able to hide their emotions more than any other teacher because kids can pick up on emotions quicker than older persons.
Also when being a teacher you have to teach all the students that you have fairly and grade them fairly as well. If there is a student who acts out a lot in class that you can not stand, you can not give them worse treatment than the other kids. Yes, you can give them detention and what not but grading wise, there is nothing you can do to that particular individual. For those students that you would have that were very smart but did not do their work you would, as well, have to give them the grade they deserve. All in all, you have to act like you like everyone of your students the same and on the same level.
With being in Sociology Education you have to relate to other people that you are involved with and how they interact. This can be related to theatre because when you are in a production that deals with having lines, and if someone messes up their lines the other members in the cast have to play off that persons mistake to get the play back on task. This is the same with Sociology, which is the study of people and how they interact with one another. Because in a performance you have to act in reaction to what another performer does and make it look natural. If you just have your lines memorized and someone else messes theirs up you have to be able to improvise in accordance to their mistake.

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