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Instructional Planning Yearly Update 2012
Date ____Dec 14 , 2012____________
Department _Theatre Arts_____________
Division _____VAPA____________________
Goals and Recommendations from Program Plan
List the top five Goals and Recommendations from the last Program Plan and indicate whether they have been met?
Goals / Recommendations from six-year plan In progress
Goal Met
Comments
(identify
source
At the end of the Spring’12 semester, one fulltime faculty
1. Rebuild and enhance staffing to meet
of funding)
X
member retired. We will apply for a replacement at the next
program and division needs.
opportunity.
2. Expand and develop a performance
program that provides student diversity
in drama productions, stronger
community marketing and presence, and
better utilization of the facility.
X
Perhaps a better phrasing of this Goal is: “Continue to provide
a performance program that provides student diversity in
drama productions, stronger community marketing and
presence, and better utilization of the facility.”
-Every attempt has been made in this regard but we face
severe forced cutbacks in the class offerings for the Spring
Semester’13.
Some of the activities that have been ongoing in the
department which are evidence that this goal continues to be
met, are the following:
-In the Spring Semester,’12, TA85T Theatre Art’s Touring
Show continued to provide its annual outreach to Nursing and
Extended Care Facilities by touring a musical variety show as
part of the course requirement. It has been a highly beneficial
experience for students and the audiences.
-Theatre Arts will be unable to offer TA85T due to the forced
cutbacks. In Jan’13, curriculum for this course will be written
to make it a regular course rather than a special studies class.
Faculty members are researching new productions especially
on ecology that could be toured to K-12 as part of this course.
-In the Spring ’12 semester The Mikado was produced as part
of the courses TA29 and TA27. There was continued
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collaboration between the Theatre Arts and Music
departments. An expansion of this collaborative spirit occurred
with the Digital Media Department’s faculty member Denise
Gallant and her students producing a promotional video that
was on Youtube and aired on public television. Director,
Kathryn Adkins also designed a Facebook presence for the
production which allowed the students to view selected clips
of historical productions of The Mikado, and examples of
comic acting styles important to performing works by Gilbert
and Sullivan. This introduced a very useful tool for enriching
the aspect of dramaturgy for the production.
-In May of 2012, the Theatre Arts Department contributed to
the 4th Graders Visit to Cabrillo. Four times throughout the
morning, Theatre Arts students and faculty in collaboration
with the Dance Department performed on the Crocker stage
for 4th grade students and their teachers. Each of the four
performances had over 400 attendees!
-STAGE DOOR a day of theatre workshops for high school
students had a highly successful 5th year in the Fall ’12
Semester. Workshops in ten different areas: Lighting, Set
Design, Comedy, Performance for Musical Theatre, Acting for
the Camera, Improvisation, Auditioning, Unarmed Combat,
Costume Design and Rigging.
-Due to cutbacks in staffing in the Marketing Dept. we were
unable to adequately notify the public of several of our events.
For example before and after STAGE DOOR, there were no
notices in any of the Santa Cruz newspapers even though the
high school students have enthusiastically expressed its value.
Theatre Arts perseveres by sending a mailing on our own of
over 2000 notices for each event along with emailing’s.
-In the Spring Semester, 2012, the Abhinaya Indian Dance
Company of San Jose performed for the Theatre Arts
Department’s 5thannual EVENING OF WORLD THEATRE. It
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was an educational, dynamic and beautiful event. Abhinaya
was delighted to be hosted because the company is eager to
expand its audience beyond San Jose. As a result of this
association Abhinaya has booked the Crocker Theatre for the
Spring of 2013 for its own event. After our association with
Watsonville Taiko, which performed for TA’s EVENING OF
WORLD THEATRE in 2011, Watsonville Taiko also booked
the Crocker Theatre for another show.
-Theatre Arts Department students performed during All
College Night in the Fall ’12 Semester.
-The Fall’12 Theatre Arts production, Black Snow, directed by
Robin Aronson offered student participants and audiences an
opportunity to experience a performance style not often
available. Black Snow is a scathing satire based on the novel
by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Russian who suffered through the
artistic censorship of Stalin’s regime in Soviet Russia.
3. Examine and adjust our A.A. and
Transfer model program, curriculum, and
offerings to respond to new state TMC
guidelines and recommendations.
4.
Meet the needs of working and
distance students for access to Associate
Degree and Transfer instruction by
offering 2 additional web-based distancelearning courses by spring of 2014
serving a minimum of 80 students. This
increase in enrollment capacity and
increase in larger load classes should help
to create higher FTES and to increase
program efficiency.
X
Both fulltime faculty members Skip Epperson and Sarah
Albertson, have dedicated many hours to updating and
rewriting curriculum to address these issues.
We have added an additional Cyber session class of TA29
Appreciation of Theatre for the Spring ’13 semester.
X
It needs to be emphasized that most performance classes and
technical theatre/design classes require hands-on work. The
face-to-face live classroom is where excellence in achieved.
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5.
Develop Theatre Arts Certificate
Program for working students to be
ready for the Fall 2014 Schedule of
Classes. Development of this program is
in response to the occupation trends in
the area industry and to increase the
skilled artistic workforce.
X
The Co-chairs, Sarah Albertson and Skip Epperson have met
with Rock Pfotenhauer, the Dean of Instruction, Career
Education and Economic Development to research the
Certificate Program application process for creating
Certificate programs in two areas: Theatre
Technology/Stagecraft and Musical Theatre.
As a first step plans are to establish Skills Certificates in a
number of subcategories of these areas.
New Goals and Recommendations
List any new goals and recommendations identified by the department
Goal/Recommendation
Cost
Explanation/Evidence of Need
Re-establish staffing by 100% in VAPA
Need for Marketing has not decreased nor has operational tempo in
Marketing office, Performing Arts Complex
Performing Arts Complex operations. Also VAPA office’s staff face
Coordinator and in VAPA division office
hardships in their ability to maintain and supply department offices .
100%.
SLO Assessment Progress: In a sentence or two, describe where your department should be on the Revolving Wheel of Assessment (what
assessment you should have done in the last year) and what was actually done. If not every thing was completed, explain why.
We are playing catch-up on SLO Assessment. We have made terrific strides. See update below.
Fill out the Assessment Results section below.
SLO Assessment Results: List SLO assessments, dialogues, and priorities identified as a result of your assessment below. Attach
Departmental Assessment Analysis Forms completed in the last two semesters.
Core Competency, Course
SLO, or CTE Program SLO
Date of meeting where
analysis / dialogue took
Priorities identified for program as a result of assessment. Example:
Develop strategies for teaching research and documentation skills; share
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Assessed. Example: all course place. Example: Department
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2 Meeting 8/27/10
rubrics for research papers; provide more instructional support outside of
class.
The SLOs for 10 Theatre Arts
classes were assessed by
Theatre Arts instructors in the
Fall’12 semester. The classes
were:
TA 9 by instructor Susan
Stuart
TA9online & TA29 by
instructor: Robin Aronson
TA 10A, TA13A,
by instructor Sarah Albertson
TA7, TA12A, TA11 by
instructor Kathryn Adkins
TA31 and TA35 by instructor
Skip Epperson
In process
In Flex Week, Spring
Semester’13
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
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