Adopted March 14, 2017
SLO 1: Research and Critical Thinking
While conducting scholarly, creative and tactile research, Theatre and Theatre Education students will demonstrate research and critical thinking skills.
Associated Ways of Knowing:
- Recognize the social, political, religious, and related cultural circumstances reflected in various periods and genres of theatrical texts.
- Recognize the role that technology research plays in the execution of theatrical production.
- Prepare for graduate-level study, internships or jobs in the field of theatre.
- Apply theatre-sourced learning to other fields of learning and employment.
- Push transactional learning (traditional classroom acquisition of knowledge) into transformative learning (promoting a change in student’s deep understanding and/or capacity for empathy) and transcendental learning (the application of new knowledge to further disciplinary knowledge).
Associated Skills/Habits of Mind and Body:
- Interpret theatre and dance texts (play scripts and live performances) and their aesthetic and social values through time and cultures.
- Define traditional and emerging dramaturgical principles in various historical and contemporary performance scripts.
- Demonstrate knowledge of historical and contemporary theatre production practices as preparation for understanding the themes in dramatic works from those periods.
- Demonstrate knowledge of a range of new and emerging research methods (scholarly, creative and technological).
- Work independently in preparation for collaborative learning.
SLO 2: Analytical and Problem Solving Skills.
While engaging in traditional classroom and laboratory/production work, Theatre and Theatre Education students will demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills.
Associated Ways of Knowing:
- Recognize a global variety of complex performance-based structures through a deepening understanding of the cultural contexts for a range of performance styles and genres throughout history.
- Recognize the relationship between individual identity and modes of practice in society, past and present.
- Prepare for graduate-level study, internships or jobs in the field of theatre.
- Apply theatre-sourced learning to other fields of learning and employment.
- Push transactional learning (traditional classroom acquisition of knowledge) into transformative learning (promoting a change in student’s deep understanding and/or capacity for empathy) and transcendental learning (the application of new knowledge to further disciplinary knowledge).
Associated Skills/Habits of Mind and Body:
- Analyze possible interpretations of a play script or performance clearly and effectively.
- Analyze, both in writing and in oral presentations, the socio-political context of a range of performance styles and genres throughout history.
- Analyze possible technical solutions to production-related tasks.
- Score a script for objectives, obstacles, tactics, and beats.
- Implement fundamental design skills in at least one domain of design.
- Create convincing characters from scripted texts and improvisation.
- Perform basic practices in costume crafts (e.g. sewing, pattern drafting, fabric manipulation).
- Implement fundamental design skills in at least one domain of design.
- Manipulate basic practices in stagecraft (e.g., set construction, rigging, prop construction)
- Apply problem solving and analytical skills in a real-time, high stakes environment by participating in departmental performance productions.
- Work independently in preparation for collaborative learning.
SLO 3: Oral Communication.
While participating in verbally-based communication, Theatre and Theatre Education students will demonstrate the ability to employ clear and expressive speech habits in performances practices, cross-disciplinary studies, and everyday life.
SLO 4: Practice and Collaboration.
While engaging in studio and production courses and service learning experiences, Theatre and Theatre Education students will demonstrate skills in practice and collaboration.
Associated Ways of Knowing:
- Explore the connections between mind-body intelligences.
- Understand risk-taking as an essential element of the performing arts.
- Recognize the role that technology research and application play in the execution of performance works.
- Prepare for graduate-level study, internships or jobs in the field of theatre.
- Apply theatre-sourced learning to other fields of learning and employment.
- Push transactional learning (traditional classroom acquisition of knowledge) into transformative learning (promoting a change in student’s deep understanding and/or capacity for empathy) and transcendental learning (the application of new knowledge to further disciplinary knowledge).
Associated Skills/Habits of Mind and Body:
- Develop abilities in self-reflection, multicultural sensitivity, and the comparison of social values and ethical systems through production-related collaboration with a range of communities and cultures.
- Develop discipline, organizational skills, confidence and problem-solving etiquette—all capacities that are regularly applied in collaborative production experiences and can be fruitfully applied to a career in theatre as well as a wide range of other professions.
- Strengthen interpersonal skills, including the capacity for problem solving, conflict resolution, and inter-generational and multi-cultural communication.
- Test applied skills beyond the classroom environment in a real-world, time sensitive production environment.
- Explore interdisciplinary artistic collaboration and dialogue with related disciplines such as Art, Creative Writing, English, Film Studies, Dance, Architecture and Music.
- Recognize, through rehearsal, final performance and evaluation, the benefits and consequences of creative and aesthetic risk.
- Advance aesthetic knowledge and sensibility by participating in or observing a wide range of national and international aesthetic interpretations and styles of performance.
- Recognize the vital connection between theory and practice through direct engagement with the application of classroom work to production experience, thus providing a critical pathway for the transition from theory to praxis.
SLO 5: Written Communication.
While participating in written communication, Theatre and Theatre Education students demonstrate the ability to express and communicate evidence, ideas, and opinions through clear and cogent writing.
SLO 6: [For Theatre Education only] Teaching.
Candidates use domain-specific research and theory to design, implement, assess, and reflect on student learning.
Associated Ways of Knowing:
- Recognize the social, political, religious, and related cultural circumstances reflected in various periods and genres of theatrical texts.
- Recognize the role that technology research and application play in the execution of performance works.
- Push transactional learning (traditional classroom acquisition of knowledge) into transformative learning (promoting a change in student’s deep understanding and/or capacity for empathy) and transcendental learning (the application of new knowledge to further disciplinary knowledge).
Associated Skills/Habits of Mind and Body:
- Conceive and create effective theatre classroom session designs that include clear, relevant learning objectives, appropriate, effective assessment methods, and comprehensive, engaging learning plans.
- Skillfully facilitate sessions with K-12 students and/or community members in both classroom / laboratory settings and in the field.
- Develop discipline, organizational skills, confidence and problem-solving etiquette—all capacities that are regularly applied in educational production experiences.
- Develop abilities in self-reflection, multicultural sensitivity, and the comparison of social values and ethical systems through production-related collaboration with a range of communities and cultures.
- Strengthen interpersonal skills, including the capacity for problem solving, conflict resolution, and inter-generational and multi-cultural communication.