Learning Goals & Objectives

DRAMA

1. Students in Drama and Theatre Arts will acquire and develop various fundamental performance and production skills sufficient to prepare them for employment or graduate study in the theatre

1.1 Students will learn to deliver audience-appropriate theatrical presentations.

1.2 Students will learn to use discipline specific technologies.

1.3 Students will show growth each semester in their performance and production skills.

2. Drama and Theatre Arts Majors will demonstrate proficiency in oral communication.

2.1 Drama and Theatre Arts Majors will compose and deliver effective, audience-appropriate oral presentations that develop and support a point; or lead or participate in collaborative discussion of a question or a text.

2.2 Drama and Theatre Arts Majors will aquire the skill to use visual, auditory, and/or technological aids in support of oral communication.

3. Students in Drama and Theatre Arts will acquire and develop dramaturgical skills.

3.1 Students will read with comprehension and learn to critically and aesthetically analyze works in dramatic literature and the performing arts.

3.2 Students will learn to comprehend and analyze historical movements in dramatic literature and practice.

3.3 Drama and Theatre Arts majors will demonstrate a proficiency in dramatic literature, stage history, and theatre aesthetics.

4. Drama and Theatre Arts majors will gain proficiency in various areas of the Performing Arts

4.1 Drama and Theatre Arts students pursuing production will gain proficiency in various areas of technical Theatre.

4.2 Drama and Theatre Arts students pursuing performance will gain proficiency in performance in various styles and venues.

4.3 Drama and Theatre Arts Students pursuing directing will gain proficiency in theatrical directing.

5. Theatre Arts Majors will participate in a capstone project appropriate to the concentration they are pursuing.

5.1 BFA Performance majors will have the opportunity to participate in the Senior Showcase in NYC at the end of their senior year.

5.2 BFA Performance majors will prepare headshots and resumes to be distributed at the Showcase

5.3 BFA Production majors in Stage Management and Design tracks will prepare and present a portfolio in the senior year. Students in the directing track will present a senior directing project.

6. Students in Drama and Theatre Arts will learn the importance of responsibility to their community.

6.1 Drama students will learn the importance of cooperation through collaboration.

6.2 Drama students will learn the importance of service to their community through the creative division of labor.