Bachelor in Theatre Arts
Redlands, USA
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
USD 53,716 **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Introduction
The strengths of our department lie in our size and our depth. Our professors are experienced professionals as well as teachers, scholars, and artists. We offer our students a rich range of expertise in many aspects of the performing arts.
Housed within our liberal arts university, Theatre provides a strong academic major integrating performance, the creative process at all levels, and unique production opportunities.
Located between the cultural centers of Los Angeles and Palm Springs, theatre students have access to world-class productions and companies. Theatre Arts students are introduced to a provocative range of human experiences, passions, and ideas. Whether reading a play in class, performing a role on stage, or working behind the scenes, students share ideas and grapple with larger questions-how we as a society express ourselves, how we communicate our needs and how we reconcile our differences.
The University of Redlands Theatre Arts Department emphasizes theatre's uniquely collaborative nature and invites each of our students to participate in something larger than him or herself.
Theatre Arts Degree Programs
The Theatre Arts Department offers two Majors: the Theatre Arts Major and the Theatre Business Major. Both paths require a set of foundation courses and engagement with the application of theatre practices achieved through required Production Credit experiences. Theatre Arts Majors choose a minimum number of course units from a set of Theatre Arts Electives, while Theatre Business students also have core foundation requirements in the Business Department. Students who are interested in theatre, in any of its disciplines, begin enrolling in foundational courses during their first year. All students are encouraged to investigate each season’s offerings for Production Credit, where we offer a wide range of opportunities for individualized and project-based learning, application of theory to practice, experiential learning, community building, and collaboration.
Theatre Arts Building
The Theatre Arts Building is part of the new Center for the Arts, which includes 42,000 square feet of space for the art, art history, and theatre programs. The Theatre Arts Department facilities, which includes the original 326 seats Glenn Wallichs Theater and 55 seat Student Black Box, also features the Frederick Loewe Theatre, a 50' x 50' laboratory performance space designed to support a variety of audience/performer relationships and more innovative, developmental and experimental theatre works. The Theatre Arts Building also includes specially designed, technology-enhanced theatre classrooms, new faculty offices, and community space.
Statement on Diversity and Inclusion
The Theatre department (Theatre Arts and Theatre Business) of the University of Redlands is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive environment for the community that it serves, including students, staff, faculty, and our audiences on campus and in the Redlands community. We embrace difference as a key building block in our work as artists and citizens while recognizing that developing a more diverse and inclusive environment does not happen by chance or positive thinking. Diversity and inclusion require intentional, conscious efforts in all the many areas that academic theatre operates including, but not limited to, curriculum, faculty, staff, students, production, season planning, casting, and guest artists.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and inclusion in our Theatre department. We will strive to carry out this commitment according to the University of Redlands' understanding of diversity which includes sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, class, nationality, religion, race/ethnicity, veteran status, and other important groups.
General Education Requirements
General Education is a broad description of the curriculum that embodies our commitment to a liberal arts education at the University of Redlands. Our general education conveys the range of fields of study, ways of thinking, and practices of scholarship and creativity that enable students to graduate as critical thinkers capable of innovatively and collaboratively adapting to challenges that come their way in the future.
Our general education is comprised of a Liberal Arts Inquiry (LAI) or Liberal Arts Foundation (LAF) curriculum.
- Entering first-year students and transfer students arriving with fewer than 32 credits in Fall 2018 will follow the LAI curriculum.
- All transfer and returning students with 32 credits or more (i.e., sophomores, juniors, and seniors) in Fall 2018 will follow the LAF curriculum.
Admissions
Program Outcome
Program Learning Outcomes
Theatre Arts graduates will:
- Effectively use the theatre artist’s instrument—body, voice, and imagination;
- Identify and evaluate the research to support critical and creative work;
- Interpret performance texts within historical, ethical, political, social, national, and aesthetic contexts;
- Participate effectively in theatre’s collaborative process of finding the intersection of common artistic, technical, social, and intellectual goals;
- Evaluate their critical and creative work through an informed sense of the past and with an awareness of current best practices in the field; and,
- Integrate and synthesize theory and practice in performance, design, and/or dramaturgy.
Theatre Business graduates will:
- Effectively use the theatre artist’s instrument-body, voice, and imagination;
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the principles of economics, business, and accounting through their application in sustainable business practices;
- Demonstrate entrepreneurial and managerial skills necessary to succeed as creative individuals in the increasingly complex economic environment of contemporary art-making;
- Participate effectively in theatre’s collaborative process of finding the intersection of common artistic, technical, social, and intellectual goals;
- Evaluate their commercial, critical and creative work through an informed sense of the past and with an awareness of current best practices in the field;
- Integrate and synthesize theory and practice in theatre management; and,
- Create practical solutions to presenting theatrical projects.
English Language Requirements
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