Dramatic Art

Dramatic Art offers you a welcoming community and a thriving and energized student experience that will challenge and prepare you for a lifelong career as a theatre artist, teacher and arts leader. We offer you a strong, participatory liberal arts degree in theatre studies. Choose a concentration from performance, history/theory, and/or design/technical theatre. Functional knowledge include expressing oneself confidently, assertively, and purposefully in front of an audience using both verbal and nonverbal communication techniques; speaking persuasively and articulately to convey a variety of project goals and occasion desired reactions in audience members; collaborating in the production of knowledge within the studio and classroom in a participatory, active process of exchange which links both theory and practice; articulating the interrelationship between the various disciplines of theatre production (performance, direction, creation, management, and design); becoming a full theatre practitioner, versed in practical elements of theatre production, as well as the ways of applying theatre and performance studies to life and work, supporting personal goals, contributing to the field, and benefitting the community during the program and after graduation; applying the basic skills and theoretical practices involved in design for the theatre; and applying principles and elements of design to create effective solutions to design challenges.