Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Advance professional presentation skills.
2. Apply a variety of analytical skills, including theoretical analysis, critical analysis, and performance-as-theory approaches.
3. Appreciate and understand of the role of risk and play in theory.
4. Articulate a general knowledge of the modern dramatic theoretical canon, including a general overview of major western philosophers.
5. Articulate and apply an understanding of key dramatic theorists in the 20th Century, including major questions, themes and trends.
6. Articulate ideas, passions, and excitements through a theoretical lens.
7. Articulate the different ways that performance both responds to and impacts the political and material forces of its historical moment.
8. Communicate creatively and effectively in a performance context that responds to theatre theory in innovative ways.
9. Deepen their investment in particular performance practices.
10. Demonstrate a curiosity toward exploding binaries including (but not limited to) theory/practice.
11. Develop intellectual stamina and curiosity as artist-citizens and early researchers by engaging in weekly readings, lecture discussions, as well as in-class, group-based think tanks and tasks.
12. Develop performance as a method of theoretical inquiry and analysis.
13. Employ university-level research, reading, and writing skills to craft competitive submissions and applications for community and industry partners.
14. Enhance skills in performance, presentation and professionalism through engagements, calls to action, and activities.
15. Explore and articulate the nuance of different dramatic theories and theorists.
16. Further the understanding of their own learning style and needs and begin to articulate their role in both their education and creative career.
17. Identify key insights, ideas and approaches to theatre theory in a range of cultural contexts and historical moments.
18. Implement critical thinking as it applies to both theoretical texts, dramatic text, and performance analysis.
19. Present a general knowledge of Performance Studies, and the performative turn, and its impact on contemporary performance and theory.