Theatre Studies

Overview

This Theatre Studies program from Kent State University serves students who seek a wider range of possibilities to fulfill individual creative goals, whether as theatre artists, scholars, educators and/or contributors in related fields. Students receive thorough grounding in theatre history and theory and learn imaginative and critical thinking, the process of making theatre, and leadership skills.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be able to:

• Understand procedures and approaches for realizing a variety of theatrical styles and techniques.

• Understand the playwriting and production processes, aesthetic properties of style, and the way these shape and are shaped by artistic and cultural forces.

• Develop intermediate to advanced competence in one or more theatre specializations in creation, performance or scholarship.

• Become acquainted with a diverse selection of theatre repertory, including the principal eras, genres and cultural sources.

• Understand the basic process involved in mounting a theatre production through both verbal and written articulation of ideas and vocabulary, as well as in actual practice.

• Form and defend value judgments about theatre.

• Know common theatrical elements and the interaction of those elements through both written and practicum work.

• Think conceptually and critically about text, performance and production.