Department of Theatre Program Learning Outcomes

Common:

1. Learners effectively demonstrate techniques of creative discovery and creative work.
2. Learners construct, integrate, and apply appropriate knowledge of theatre theory, history, and practice to purposefully and intentionally improve their work. 
3. Learners develop and apply critical thinking skills in various modes of theatrical work.
4. Learners identify means by which their art can explore, contribute, and engage with communities and identities, at the local, regional, national, and/or global level. 
5. Learners will communicate effectively in writing appropriate to work in the arts. [assessed by the Writing Studies program via WRIT3110]

Bachelor of Arts: 

1. Learners demonstrate effective application of professional theatre skills to leadership, collaboration, and communication in various creative contexts.

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Performance: 

1. Learners develop performance techniques to a level of professionalism.
2. Learners demonstrate competence to enter the professional theatre field as a performer.

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Design & Production: 

1. Learners develop design and production techniques to a level of professionalism.
2. Learners demonstrate competence to enter the professional theatre field as a practitioner.

Dance

1. Learners effectively demonstrate the physical skills of dance techniques they have studied to the intermediate or advanced level.
2. Learners effectively synthesize technical skill and aesthetic qualities to demonstrate an understanding of artistry/style in a given form at the level appropriate to the student’s proficiency.
3. Learners identify examples of dance as artistic expression and embodied cultural enterprise, and articulate the connection between characteristics of various dance forms and the times/places in which they developed and/or are practiced.