Theatre, B.A.
Upon completion of the program, students will:
· Participate in the creation, analysis and presentation of public performances.
· Develop a structured approach to the use of languages in writing for and about performance.
· Demonstrate knowledge and processes such as performing, playwriting, directing, design, management and technical operations related to stage productions.
· Demonstrate knowledge of the historical and cultural dimensions of performance, including the works of leading playwrights, performers, choreographers, directors, designers, and philosophers, past and present.
· Examine, identify and apply contemporary theories and practices of performing arts.
· Make informed assessments of quality in performance material and works.
· Develop a clear understanding of the collaboration between performance, spectator and production.
· Develop effective skills in verbal and visual communication.
· Demonstrate competence in the skills necessary to produce performance at a professional level.
· Demonstrate skills in current technologies as these relate to performance, communication, and research.
Television, Film and Theatre, MFA
Upon completion of the program, students will:
· Identify, analyze, and differentiate historical, theoretical, and current industry practices in television, film and theatre.
· Conceptualize, prepare, and present completed creative projects in television, film and theatre.
· Appraise, compare, critique historical, theoretical, conceptual, and actual practices of artists, movements, events, productions, evolving technology and innovative business practices in television, film and theatre via written and oral presentations.
· Construct and evaluate collaborative creative projects in television, film and theatre in relationship to professional expectations in these fields via written, oral and media presentations.
· Generate and critique individual creative projects in television, film and theatre in relationship to professional expectations in these fields via written, oral and media presentations.
· Generate a culminating creative Thesis Project and critical Project Report that interprets, articulates, and demonstrates all of the above listed PLOs.