learning outcomes
When they have completed the Performing Arts Program, students will be able to:
- Employ basic technical terms used in an art form when discussing individual works;
- Identify specific elements of the aesthetic, historical, and cultural context of a work of art by comparing it to others from the same context;
- Use a cross-disciplinary perspective in the arts and the Great Books/liberal arts tradition to identify how performing artists draw inspiration from nature, history, imagination, and the creative ideas and influences of others;
- Recognize similarities in structure (such as elements of phrasing) shared by all 3 performing arts and describe the significance of structural elements in a work’s form and meaning;
- Engage in critical discourse that transcends personal opinion and acknowledges, respects, and integrates the insights of other students from diverse cultural backgrounds;
- Demonstrate the capacity for sustained, focused rehearsal and collaboration with different directors and performers;
- Perform the works of great choreographers, composers, playwrights and original/contemporary works of living artists;
- Master the technical demands of specific masterworks of various styles and eras, including original/contemporary works;
- Exhibit performance skills beyond the foundational level while handling the anxiety/excitement of live performance; and
- Be conversant with advanced techniques of the discipline.
