Program Learning Outcomes
Theatre Arts graduates will:
- Effectively use the theatre artist’s instrument—body, voice, and imagination;
- Identify and evaluate research to support critical and creative work;
- Interpret performance texts within historical, ethical, political, social, national, and aesthetic contexts;
- Participate effectively in theatre’s collaborative process of finding the intersection of common artistic, technical, social, and intellectual goals;
- Evaluate their critical and creative work through an informed sense of the past and with an awareness of current best practices in the field; and,
- Integrate and synthesize theory and practice in performance, design, and/or dramaturgy.
Theatre Business graduates will:
- Effectively use the theatre artist’s instrument-body, voice, and imagination;
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the principles of economics, business, and accounting through their application in sustainable business practices;
- Demonstrate entrepreneurial and managerial skills necessary to succeed as creative individuals in the increasingly complex economic environment of contemporary art-making;
- Participate effectively in theatre’s collaborative process of finding the intersection of common artistic, technical, social, and intellectual goals;
- Evaluate their commercial, critical and creative work through an informed sense of the past and with an awareness of current best practices in the field;
- Integrate and synthesize theory and practice in theatre management; and,
- Create practical solutions to presenting theatrical projects.
Learning outcomes for all graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences
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