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Theatre Arts

The Theatre Arts Department is a small, tightly knit group of students and faculty. The department offers a course of study that encourages you to explore all possibilities for personal expression in theatre. In course work and production, there is a balance of theory and practice. The program is designed to give theatre arts majors the opportunity to work on-stage, backstage, behind and in front of the camera, in booth, and on a dance floor. Students build, write, perform, design, and produce. The best way to learn about the Castleton Theatre Arts Department is to see one of our productions.

The Theater Arts Department offers students an opportunity to approach the study of theater in a liberal arts context; the program is designed to foster an appreciation for theater as an art, while at the same time preparing students for the demands of professional lives in theater and related fields.

The department offers four concentrations:

Acting and Directing (BA.THA.AAD)

Technical Theater and Design (BA.THA.TTD)

Theater Studies (BA.THA.THS)

Theater and Media Studies (BA.THA.TMS)

The Acting - Directing and Technical Theater - Design concentrations are designed to prepare students for professional careers and/or graduate or conservatory level study in theater. The Theater Studies concentration prepares students intending to teach general theater survey, history, aesthetics and production; the Theater and Media Studies concentration is offered in cooperation with the Communication Department, and prepares students to teach general theater survey, history, aesthetics and production as well as general courses in media literacy, film studies, video and digital production. The latter two concentrations are designed for those students also pursuing a program of study in the Education Department leading to licensure in elementary education. Licensure in secondary education is pending State Department of Education approval.

All students graduating with a degree in Theater Arts should be able to:

1. Discuss and analyze productions in terms of thematic concerns, literary qualities, and artistic approaches.

2. Demonstrate a high degree of competency in one or more areas of theatrical pro- duction, such as directing, design, acting, writing, stage management, or theater education.

3. Utilize materials in appropriate manners to achieve desired effects and communi-cation to an audience.

4. Incorporate input and ideas generated through the collaborative process of produc-tion into their own creative work.

5. Present their work for review in a professional manner consistent with their areas of concentration.

 
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