Learning Outcomes

Students will:

1. Analyze a body of dramatic literature.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of modes of critical/historical inquiry and a multiplicity of cultural and artistic perspectives.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural and social impact of the arts and their role as a theatre practitioner and as an active member of society.
4. Demonstrate an ability to collaborate in the act of making theatre.
5. Demonstrate technical and artistic proficiency in acting, voice and speech, and movement.
6. Demonstrate professional discipline and effective work habits.
7. Demonstrate preparation to pursue professional acting opportunities.

Students will:

1. Analyze a body of music and/or dramatic literature.
2. Identify and accomplish stage actions and character goals.
3. Demonstrate their ability to use their singing voice.
4. Demonstrate an ability to include the physical in their work on stage, including dancing.
5. Demonstrate an ability to collaborate in the act of making theatre.
6. Demonstrate skills in professional comportment.

Students will:

1. Demonstrate an ability to read and analyze a play from the perspective of a stage manager.
2. Learn about and understand the overall theatrical production process through the creation of a production script.
3. Learn about all areas of theatrical production in order to communicate effectively with the various artists and teams of a theatrical production, and be able to contribute to the collaborative process.
4. Learn the principles, practices, and artistic craft of stage management.
5. Learn how to serve as stage managers and assistant stage managers and will demonstrate their abilities on a professional theatrical production.

Students will:

1. Analyze a body of dramatic literature.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of modes of critical/historical inquiry and a multiplicity of cultural and artistic perspectives.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural and social impact of the arts and their role as a theatre practitioner and as an active member of society.
4. Demonstrate an ability to collaborate in the act of making theatre.
5. Demonstrate an ability to actively pursue an objective, and to apply the vocal and physical training while doing so.
6. Demonstrate professional discipline and effective work habits.
7. Demonstrate an ability to draw on a range of theatre practices with an understanding of your unique voice as a theatre artist.

Students will:

1. Learn to assess learning needs, develop appropriate educational goals and objectives, and design and implement drama/theatre teaching strategies based on understandings of the theoretical and historical foundations of drama/theatre education and the practices of applied drama and theatre.
2. Develop their individual potentials and interests in performance, production, and theatre education in applied theatre and related fields as demonstrated in portfolios and teaching projects.
3. Demonstrate foundational ability to use their vocal instrument, include the physical in their work onstage, and identify and accomplish stage actions and character goals.

Students will:

1. Learn to assess learning needs, develop appropriate educational goals and objectives, and design and implement drama/theatre teaching strategies based on understandings of the theoretical and historical foundations of drama/theatre education and the practices of applied drama and theatre.
2. Develop their individual potentials and interests in production and theatre education in applied theatre and related fields as demonstrated in portfolios and teaching projects.

Students will:

1. Learn and be able to demonstrate a basic theatre literacy, both academically and experientially.
2. Learn to think critically and analytically about the literature and function of a particular area of theatre.
3. Demonstrate a skill appropriate to a particular focus such as directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, or other aspect of theatre.

Students will:

1. Demonstrate an ability to read and analyze a play from the perspective of a designer and technician of theatre.
2. Learn to relate script analysis to a visual product, demonstrating an understanding of how to apply and communicate basic design elements, such as color, mass, and line.
3. Learn and demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of the distinguishing characteristics of Western architecture, décor, and fashion, as well as the basic methods of research needed to design.
4. Demonstrate the basic skills necessary to visually communicate design ideas through the learning of the fundamentals of each area of theatre design and technology.
5. Demonstrate an ability to translate theory into practice through the appropriate produced projects.