15+ Years of Education Experience

Christin is confident in identifying student strengths and weaknesses while adapting to promote individual growth.

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Teacher / Instructor

Christin Rills has worked as an educator for almost 20 years. She is currently working as a part-time faculty for two colleges as well as a middle school theater director.

Previous College Courses Taught

Course Overview/Expectations

Course modules will be posted on a weekly basis. Students should log on to blackboard every Monday. Most weeks will have assignments due on multiple days. Students are expected to participate in all activities and discussions. Students are also required to see one live theatrical performance at BSU before the end of the semester.

Course Objectives/Learning Outcomes

Students will gain an understanding of how the voice works as well as techniques to connect voice to text. Students will be able to identify and apply Laban's movement efforts. Students will identify and work towards achieving personal goals in movement and voice.

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Recognize the contributions of seminal practitioners in children's theatre, theare for young audiences and theatre-in-education
  • Identify and implement successful strategies for creating children's theatre or theatre in the classroom
  • Create drama-infused lesson plans
  • Analyze, evaluate, write and think critically about both literary and production-based elements that comprise children's theatre.

Course Description

This course is a practical survey of several of the major choreographic influences in the American Musical Theatre as a means towards studying the major approaches to dance within the genre. Students will study and practice choreography of key figures such as Helen Tamiris, Jack Cole, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse and Twyla Tharp. Combinations of original choreography will be taught, and students will present choreographic projects based on the work of these and other choreographers in the genre.

Course Objective/Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to identify major trends in American Musical Theater and cite influential shows. This is a writing intensive course. Students will critique a live theatrical performance as well as evaluate other theatrical topics and works.

Course Objective/Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to create lesson plans that implement the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework. Students will be able to identify potentially exclusionary educational practices and modify them accordingly to increase inclusivity. Students will write an individual chapter in an OER Theatre textbook.