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 youth theatre/drama education point of view.
- Students will devise, implement and evaluate a creative drama/youth theatre program(s).
- Students will know and apply the basic elements, models and content of sequential standards for youth theatre and drama programs.
- Students will critique and analyze TFY/high school scripts based on elements of dramatic literature.
- Students will know a variety of creative drama and theatre for youth resources.
- Students will select and use research in devised work and scripted production.
- Students will perform, direct and teach activities, productions and roles intended for youth theatre audiences or participants.
Goal Two: Students will recognize and apply practical and theoretical knowledge of the processes by which creative impulses are channeled into youth theatre/drama education projects for the theatre.
- Students will devise, implement and evaluate a creative drama/youth theatre program(s).
- Students will know a variety of creative drama and theatre for youth resources.
- Students will select and use research in devised work and scripted production.
- Students will perform, direct and teach activities, productions and roles intended for youth theatre audiences or participants.
Goal Three: Students will know and communicate how to analyze and interpret plays and other theatrical events from youth theatre/drama education perspectives.
- Students will devise, implement and evaluate a creative drama/youth theatre program(s).
- Students will know and apply the basic elements, models and content of sequential standards for youth theatre and drama programs.
- Students will critique and analyze TFY/high school scripts based on elements of dramatic literature.