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The Theatre Studies concentration in the Theatre Arts & Dance program provides equal parts professional theatre training and liberal arts education. Students prepare to pursue theatre careers in directing, playwriting, criticism, teaching, scholarship, arts management, dramaturgy, and other careers that may not have performance or theatre technology at their centers. Regardless of eventual profession, the concentration provides the intellectual rigor and imaginative excitement necessary to any liberal arts degree. Students learn to make theatre as a fundamentally collaborative story told among artists and community. We believe that this kind of training prepares the student to become the ideal global good citizen, engaged with theatre as a means of ritual and democratic conversation focused on full inclusion of all cultures and identities.

Program Learning Outcomes

Analytical and Communication Skills

• The student is expected to demonstrate the ability to be collaborative, creative, resourceful, and persistent in problem solving.
• The student should be able to analyze and synthesize the diverse elements of theatre and dance practice that contribute to creating a unified whole.
• The student is expected to view and respond to theatre and dance from analytical, critical, cultural, production and historical perspectives.
• The student should be able to communicate effectively with an audience through mediums of acting, dance, choreography, design, and other contributing functions such as stage management, and dramaturgy.

Relating Values with the Art of Theatre

• The student should be able to work productively and cooperatively in collective and group efforts both in and out of theatre.
• The student should be cognizant of the power of theatre to transform and communicate.
• The student will be expected to demonstrate broad understanding of the contributions to world culture of non-Eurocentric and diverse American theatre and dance traditions as well as those derived from European origins.
• The student should be prepared to take artistic risks and embrace innovation.
• The student should be prepared to move to the next phase of life and career, whether in theatre or another field, with confidence in his or her analytic, critical, and communication skills.
• The student should be prepared to become an active, effective, and responsible member of society.