Students pursuing study with our department will be provided with a theatre curriculum and a production environment which encompasses the following goals. These goals, established by the faculty and achieved only through student commitment to the learning process, are meant to provide students preparing for a life in theatre with a solid foundation on which to build. Continual examination of these goals allow for changes to keep our program on the leading edge of theatre education.
Goal One: Students will recognize the creative imagination and impulse and identify its relationship to artistic collaboration, standards, judgments, ethics and discipline from the design and production point of view.
- Students will explore professions in design and production for the theatre.
- Students possess a vocabulary of the concepts and terms related to theatrical design.
- Students are able to participate in critique of their own work and the work of others using a prescribed language of critique vocabulary.
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Students can demonstrate the ability to use elements and principles of design for self expression.
Goal Two: Students will recognize and apply practical and theoretical knowledge of the processes by which creative impulses are channeled into design and production projects for the theatre.
- Students can create the practical application tools necessary to execute a theatrical design.
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Students can develop and carry out a list of necessary tasks and calendar of deadlines to successfully complete a production assignment.
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Students will know and demonstrate practical and theoretical design and production processes and techniques.
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Students will apply practical and theoretical knowledge of historical and literary research to design and production activities.
Goal Three: Students will know and communicate how to analyze and interpret plays and other theatrical events from design and production perspectives.
- Students can create an original theatrical design for a play based on script analysis and historical research.
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Students will know and demonstrate practical and theoretical design and production processes and techniques.
- Students will apply practical and theoretical knowledge of historical and literary research to design and production activities.