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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2023
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COLL 108 001 (CRN: 24310)
STAND-UP FOR YOURSELF
Long Title: WILL THE REAL COMEDIAN PLEASE STAND-UP? (HANSZEN)
Department: College Courses
Instructors:
Meeting: 7:00PM - 7:50PM R (9-JAN-2023 - 21-APR-2023)
Part of Term: Full Term - No WL Purge
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 1
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 19
Section Enrolled: 14
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 29-APR-2024 2:00PM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Final Exam Time:
2-MAY-2023
9:00AM - 12:00PM T
Description: In this class, we will educate guaranteed, without a doubt, future Netflix special comedians. However, if that isn’t your life goal, this class is still great for you. Perchance it isn’t a happenstance you’ve read this far. Mayhaps you want to enhance your public speaking skills or tell better stories. Essentially, we aim to find: What about your experience makes you funny? With an emphasis on comedic styles and joke-writing, we will use famous comedians’ performances to inspire our own. Comedians such as, but not limited to, Ali Wong, Aziz Ansari, Bo Burnham, John Mulaney, and Wanda Sykes, will be focused on highlighting all different styles of comedy. To prepare, we look through various joke structures including the Thomas Veatch Theory of Humor (1998) from Stanford Linguistics and the James Veitch Spam Mail (2016) TED Talk. This “research” will help the student identify their own brand of comedy. Students will be asked to look back on their own life and chuckle, then refine those chuckles into a set unique to themselves. After many workshops and epic training montages, we will all develop our own 5-minute sets to showcase individually at the end of the semester performance.