DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
STUDENT OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT
PLANNING OUTLINE FOR FALL, 2006
In conjunction with college-wide efforts to establish a baseline plan for consistent and ongoing
SOA planning, the Department of Theatre will utilize the following procedures during the 20062007 Academic Year.
I. PROGRAMS TO BE ASSESSED
a. Performance
b. Design and Production
c. Theatre for Youth/Drama Education
II. TARGETED GOALS/OUTCOMES BY PROGRAM (selected from larger list of
outcomes for each program.)
PERFORMANCE
1) Students will know and communicate how to analyze and interpret plays and
other theatrical events from acting and performance perspectives.
(GOALTHREE FROM PERFORMANCE GOALS/ALIGNMENT STATEMENT)
a. Students will develop an ongoing working knowledge of and ability to
incorporate acting techniques and theories. Included in this would be
methodologies drawn from the Stanislavski approach (Meisner,
Strasberg, Adler), Suzuki techniques and training in both
Shakespearean and Commedia styles.
b. Students will apply historical and literary research to acting.
c. Students will recognize and apply techniques to free voice, body, mind
and emotions; they will apply voice, body, mind and emotions to inhabit
a role.
DESIGN/PRODUCTION
1) Students will recognize and apply practical and theoretical knowledge of the
processes by which creative impulses are channeled into design and
production projects for the theatre. (GOAL THREE FROM
DESIGN/PRODUCTION GOALS/ALIGNMENT STATEMENT)
a. Students can create an original theatrical design for a play based on
script analysis and historical research.
b. Students can create the practical application tools necessary to execute a
theatrical design.
THEATRE FOR YOUTH/DRAMA EDUCTATION
1) Students will recognize the creative imagination and impulse and identify its
relationship to artistic collaboration, standards, judgments, ethics and
discipline from the youth theatre/drama education point of view. (GOAL
ONE FROM YOUTH THEATRE/DRAMA EDUCATION
GOALS/ALIGNMENT STATEMENT)
a. Students will devise, implement and evaluate a creative drama/youth
theatre program(s).
b. Students will know and apply the basic elements, models and content of
sequential standards for youth theatre and drama programs.
c. Students will critique and analyze TFY/high school scripts based on
elements of dramatic literature.
d. Students will know a variety of creative drama and theatre for youth
resources.
e. Students will select and use research in devised work and scripted
production.
f. Students will perform, direct and teach activities, productions and roles
intended for youth theatre audiences or participants.