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THEATRST 255S

Directing

Jody McAuliffe

Description from DukeHub

Establishment of basic skills of information communication from script to stage to audience; analyzing texts from a director's point of view; basic stage articulation of viewpoint; development of skills in mechanics and staging techniques. Emphasis on scripts of poetic realists. Recommended prerequisite: one of the Gateway courses: THEATRST 125S, 145S, 187S, 187A, 109, 201S or 209.

Skills

  • makingAI review: "development of skills in mechanics and staging techniques"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5

  • No: Physical, lab or field work
  • No: Live work with people
  • No: Judgment someone is accountable for
  • No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
  • Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 12 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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