Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss theatre as both a creative medium and a vital mode of human cultural communication.
2. Accurately use basic concepts from theatre studies (including ideas about audiences, reception, dramaturgy, scenography, performance, and history) to investigate and analyze relevant examples from theatrical productions and/or prior learning towards realizing new insights and knowledge.
3. Apply a thoughtful approach to the creative process that blends both intuitive and structural impulses.
4. Use a similar process to unpack, analyze, and thoughtfully critique the theatrical choices of peers and other artists. Deliver and receive feedback in a way that is productive, insightful, and that promotes positive development and exploration.
5. Embrace the uncertainty of creating work in the theatre by realizing the value of Version 2.0, both in terms of how it influences creative development, but also in how it offers the freedom to fail.
6. Encounter new, challenging, and/or unfamiliar artistic work with an open, inquisitive attitude and a willingness to engage with, rather than reject the work because it is unfamiliar.
7. Question how theatrical choices impact the world around us (asking ‘why’ and ‘so what’ for those choices).
8. Explain what the point is, if any, to making theatre in this day and age.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Define key concepts from theatre studies applicable to analyzing performance in pop culture and media, including theatricality, affect, performativity and representation.
2. Reflect upon your personal experience as a spectator/consumer of popular culture and media using insights from theatre studies (and without extrapolating or universalizing your experience).
3. Identify and develop productive and well-grounded connections between course concepts and examples of performance in popular culture and media.
4. Apply course concepts to critically analyze performance in popular culture and media with an emphasis towards Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Indigeneity (EDII).
5. Communicate connections worth sharing with others in an accessible, engaging and concise way that is well-supported by analysis.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Accurately use a basic chronology of global theatre history to organize and compare relevant examples of theatrical productions.
2. Analyze the relationship between aspects of theatre history and contemporary performance.
3. Develop confidence and competency in written communication skills in order to tailor writing to the needs of different audiences.
4. Embrace the uncertainty of historiography as an imprecise art.
5. Encounter new, challenging, and/or unfamiliar artistic works, viewpoints, or opinions with an open, inquisitive attitude and a willingness to engage with, rather than reject those works or positions.
6. Question how theatrical choices impact the world around us and have throughout history (asking "why" and "so what" for those choices).
7. Use historiography to critically consider primary and secondary sources and reflect upon one's own positionality.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate an informed opinion regarding the role of TYA in contemporary society and propose ways in which it can benefit young audiences.
2. Describe the unique characteristics and expectations of young audiences.
3. Discuss the importance of theatre for young audiences in terms of child development.
4. Identify and discuss some of the prominent theories, trends, and themes in Theatre for Young Audiences (with a particular focus on TYA organizations and practitioners in Canada).
5. Reflect critically on one's own subjective experiences of the course materials by making connections between personal experience and insights gleaned from contemporary theory, practitioners, and organizations in the field of TYA.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Read a dramatic script and be able to approach it in a class or rehearsal context.
2. Understand how to analyze and discuss the structure of a play, including how to discuss what is not clear in a text.
3. Understand key terminology used by scholars, practitioners, and spectators of theatre.
4. Write about and discuss elements of plot structure, genre, character, and design that relate to a play.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze stand-up comedy performances of some of the masters of the genre with a focus on structure and craft.
2. Critique and assess stand-up comedy's complicated history of engagement with issues of gender, class, and race.
3. Develop comedic writing and performance through discipline-specific exercises.
4. Understand the history of stand-up comedy in the United States and Canada.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a productive attitude as a life-long-learner by integrating the knowledge, skills, and values that are addressed in this class.
2. Demonstrate effective oral communication skills by participating in class projects and recorded assignments.
3. Demonstrate effective vocal and physical public speaking skills as well as articulate a personal artistic approach to public presentation.
4. Demonstrate effective written communication skills by completing various assignments.
5. Recognize key aspects and offer critiques about the art of public presentation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore creativity and performance in a way that contributes to one’s own quality of life and personal situation and context.
2. Sensitively observe and respond to course exercises and activities through peer feedback and individual reflection.
3. Build capacity for public presentation of one's self through acting and performance exercises.
4. Develop an understanding of the basic components that make up the art of acting.
5. Build collaboration, communication, and team-building skills through engaged participation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an understanding of the various skills that make up the art of acting and by developing these skills through participation in class exercises on topics such as emotional recall, sensitivity, vocal and physical characterization and text analysis.
2. Develop an understanding of the interdependence of the actor's internal life, thinking and feeling and its physical manifestation.
3. Begin to develop one's own professional practice, including how to warm up and how to get into a character.
4. Develop communication and collaboration skills by sharing personal observations with others in the class and by actively participating in group exercises and presentations.
5. Further develop a critical perspective about the world in which we live and in which we create by sensitively observing and responding to class experiences through the writing of personal reflections.
6. Extend one's capacity for public performance and tolerance of stressful situations with bravery and audacity.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Work collaboratively with other students to produce new materials, performances, production elements, etc.
2. Demonstrate new skills in a practical or performance area.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify elements of theatre space; and analyze stage configurations that support community activation.
2. Interpret ground plans from a design sketch of a theatrical production and generate ground plans using computer assisted design (CAD), specifically Vectorworks.
3. Interpret stage carpentry plans to assemble a project.
4. Develop a stage management prompt-book for a production using applied theory through collaboration.
5. Demonstrate collaborative skills and creative community to envision theatre space, organize theatre space, and communicate in the theatrical arts quotidian.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate the relationship between design, construction, and performance.
2. Design principles and elements of theatre.
3. Design research.
4. Present their designs using design language.
5. Use research to inform and present contemporary and historical costume design.
6. Use research to inform and present scenic designs.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate rigging methods for performance, and practice entry level rigging techniques.
2. Identify and maintain parts of a lighting fixture.
3. Draft a lighting plot and extract pertinent information using Vectorworks Spotlight.
4. Program an entry level design using ETC EOS and QLab 5 software.
5. Practice wardrobe techniques to produce a made-to-measure garment.
6. Foster a collaborative and supportive multi department work environment.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Work effectively in collaborative and team situations, displaying good interpersonal skills, and conflict resolution strategies.
2. Self-regulate their time and effort in support of a collective artistic project.
3. Set individual learning goals and assess the progression towards those goals.
4. Reflect productively on a learning experience, feeding past experience into new future goals.
5. Contribute in a meaningful way to the successful execution of an artistic project or event.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Work effectively in collaborative and team situations, displaying good interpersonal skills, and conflict resolution strategies.
2. Self-regulate their time and effort in support of a collective artistic project.
3. Set individual learning goals and assess the progression towards those goals.
4. Reflect productively on a learning experience, feeding past experience into new future goals.
5. Contribute in a meaningful way to the successful execution of an artistic project or event.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Construct a believable and engaging plot.
2. Create characters and dialogue that is believable and engaging.
3. Give, accept and use pertinent dramaturgical advice and analysis in a professional manner.
4. Understand and exploit limitations of live theatre (and performance).
5. Understand the playwright's role in the development, "workshopping", rehearsal and production of a new play.
6. Understand, identify and use such terms as theme, action, motivation, message, exposition, conflict, plot, character, genre, etc.
7. Write the first draft of a short one-act play.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and assess medieval dramatic texts to identify practical cues for physical or vocal action.
2. Apply intensive training in present-day performance techniques and practices in order to create historically-engaged productions of pre-modern texts.
3. Develop facility with strategies of dramaturgical and directorial practice to generate understandings of "how plays mean."
4. Immerse themselves in scholarly reconstructions of the cultural and social practices of early England, while at the same time engaging in informed critiques of those reconstructions, to deepen and complicate their understanding of the status and function of performance in medieval society.
5. In the process of those productions, historicize, reframe, and think critically about the conventions of present-day theatrical performance, particularly those that would otherwise seem fundamental or traditional.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the process of musicalization in music theatre.
2. Analyze several prominent collaborative teams in music theatre creation history in North America, and describe their collaborative models.
3. Distinguish how these processes differ in musical theatre, opera, and avant-garde genres.
4. Deconstruct pieces of music theatre to explain how the combination of libretto, music, choreography, staging, design, renders a story.
5. Analyze and assess production choices in live and recorded productions.
6. Evaluate and compare examples of music theatre using disciplinary theoretical, analysis, and criticism skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of choreographic techniques through solo and ensemble performance of a selection from the Broadway or London musical theatre canon.
2. Discuss readings, recordings and lecture material to compare and contrast the various techniques and styles of dancers and choreographers in musicals from different eras.
3. Analyze and discuss physically sound techniques, in an accepting and open environment, through critical analysis of live and recorded performances.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the physiology and an appreciation for the health and care of the body, including the physiological differences in various dance styles.
5. Learn helpful strategies of how to deal with performance anxiety.
6. Review principles of acting such as subtext, character development, conflict, process, and apply them to various pieces of repertoire in a workshop or master class setting.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the central recurring social issues engaged through the representation of sex and violence in performance.
2. Differentiate a range of aesthetic strategies for representing controversial aspects of human experience.
3. Explain the use of performance to moderate the tensions between psychological impulses and cultural imperatives.
4. Demonstrate how controversial works engage philosophical and practical issues of censorship.
5. Demonstrate how appeals to both pleasure and disgust play a role in formulating an intellectual response to a performance.
6. Critique how the interplay between emotion and artistic form works to affect the judgement of an audience.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an approach to drama, theatre and performance of the twentieth century that appreciates the contribution of individual artists, theatre companies, and the scholarship of the period.
2. Develop skills of close reading of a play for a complex understanding of a context of the culture of composition and performance.
3. Develop a facility in the use of a critical continuum as an analytic tool to bring aspects of the study into relation as practice.
4. Engage in designing studio investigation as practical research into theatre history.
5. Develop individual writing skills to communicate one's own findings as written thought with clarity and appreciation for a reader.
6. Develop a facility to work with archival recordings, critical documents and performance analysis.
7. Practice collaborative research protocols and conduct lab experiments using the internet platforms.

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.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Combine and synthesize existing ideas and images in original ways that are marked by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking and risk taking in their work as playwrights and scholar-critics.
2. Develop and effectively express ideas in writing using a variety of genres and styles.
3. Gain familiarity with the dramaturgical strategies and the political effects of those strategies in contemporary plays by Indigenous playwrights.
4. Identify, locate, evaluate and effectively and responsibly use and share information in support of their work as playwrights and thinkers to understand the contextual foundation of selected plays.
5. Understand the historical and contemporary social/political/economic circumstances that inform the creative work of Indigenous playwrights in 21st century Canada.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Begin to work on processes of reconciliation drawing on the work of Indigenous playwrights, performers and theorists.
2. Contextualize theatre activity as literary, performance and technological activity.
3. Develop a complex inquiry for research about dramatic or performance activity on these territories.
4. Draw attention to the diversity of artists to be included in the discussion of theatre on these territories.
5. Engage in critical discussion in written and oral forms.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and assess how creative choices impact theatre production and audience reception, specifically for young audiences.
2. Communicate effectively in writing, performance, presentations and other media forms, using appropriate structure and style to convey content clearly to a variety of different audiences, from children to school administrators.
3. Reflect upon their own subjective experiences of the course content by making connections between personal theatre-going experiences and diverse examples of theatre for young audiences.
4. Use that knowledge to collaboratively create theatre and performance designed for young audiences.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and assess how directorial choices impact theatre productions using examples drawn from both modern-day and historical practice.
2. Communicate effectively in writing, using appropriate structure and style to convey content clearly.
3. Identify and comprehend major theories of directing, with an emphasis on contributions to contemporary performance techniques.
4. Reflect upon one's own subjective experiences of the course content by making connections between personal theatre-going experiences and theories and histories of directing.
5. Trace genealogies of practice to compare and contrast a variety of directing methodologies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze a script for its dramaturgical structure, including its rhythms, meanings, and imagery.
2. Create a production schedule and rehearsal plan that makes smart use of rehearsal time and artist labour.
3. Develop a plan for staging scenes from a particular script, and execute that plan thoughtfully, efficiently, and professionally.
4. Develop and offer productive, constructive, and analytically sound feedback on the creative work of others, and respond thoughtfully to that feedback, when offered.
5. Formulate a directorial approach that both addresses the practicalities of staging a particular script and proposes a unique interpretive & creative perspective for the project.
6. Work independently and collaboratively, with discipline, self-sufficiency, and a sense of professionalism both in the preparation process and in the rehearsal room.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an understanding of the various skills that make up the art of acting including sensitivity, vocal and physical characterization, and text analysis.
2. Understand the interdependence of the actor’s internal life, thinking and feeling and its physical manifestation.
3. Enhance communication and collaboration skills by sharing personal observations with others in the class and by actively participating in group exercises and presentations.
4. Foster a critical perspective about the world in which we live and in which we create by sensitively observing and responding to class experiences through the writing of personal reflections.
5. Analyze and apply different acting methodologies and techniques, including in reference to your own process.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Use a vocal warm-up to prepare them for the rigours of speaking verse.
2. Demonstrate an ability to analyze and speak verse.
3. Develop listening skills.
4. Develop movement skills to connect mind and body through speech.
5. Use the text to define character, emotional state, objectives, and situation.
6. Choose, examine, explore, and learn one monologue for presentation.
7. Examine, explore, and present one assigned scene study.
8. Learn effective self-reflection skills that will lead to professional development.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an appreciation for the art of theatre performance through the use of masks.
2. Develop an understanding of the various skills that make up the art of mask performance including mime by developing these skills through participation in class exercises and assignments.
3. Develop an understanding of the interdependence of the performer’s internal life (thinking and feeling) and its physical manifestation.
4. Develop communication and collaboration skills by sharing personal observations with others in the class and by actively participating in group exercises and presentations.
5. Further develop a critical perspective about the world in which we live and in which we create by sensitively observing and responding to class experiences through written reflections.
6. You will also be encouraged to further develop as a life-long-learner by integrating the knowledge, skills and values that are addressed in this class into your daily practice.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply acting techniques and character to the performance of a role in television and film at a professional standard.
2. Identify and use specific acting approaches and techniques for on-screen acting.
3. Prepare and present audition material at a professional standard.
4. Work independently with discipline, self-sufficiency, and a sense of professionalism.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate new skills in a practical or performance area.
2. Work collaboratively with other students to produce new materials, performances, production elements, etc.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Clearly present design ideas using the correct terminology.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how to work as a member of a creative team.
3. Demonstrate the ability to clearly communicate design ideas in sketches and writing.
4. Show familiarity with a range of materials and methods used in the area of design.
5. Show familiarity with a specific area of theatre design and its relation to performance.
6. Understand how that area of theatre design contributes to character and to the audience's understanding of the story.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical assessment skills of various scenographic forms.
2. Create a living definition of Scenography culturally specific to the cohort.
3. Construct compelling artistic statements that reflect personal identity in collaboration with encompassing design theory.
4. Practice space cognition and research methodologies.
5. Create a preliminary seed concept for exhibition.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical leadership skills fostering equitable communication standards and hiring ethos.
2. Thoroughly practice applied technical theatre skills in at least one, specific, head technical production field.
3. Practice applied technical theatre workshops or interviews in a minimum of three, adjacent, technical production fields.
4. Establish an ethical working community founded on sharing, training, and inter- dependent leadership models.
5. Identify and problem solve technical theatre case studies for a wide range of performance types.
6. Generate paperwork, records, and archives of a scholastic major theatrical production.
7. Contribute to post-mortem and legacy planning for a theatre company.
8. How to be a contributory part of an intergenerational procedure of theatre creation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental elements and principles of prop design, including aesthetics, functionality, and storytelling.
2. Recognize the role of props in representing diverse characters and cultures in theatre.
3. Consider the authenticity of props when working with plays that involve diverse cultural backgrounds, ensuring respect for traditions and cultures.
4. Understand the role of a Props Master and a Prop Builder in theatre.
5. Use script analysis to identify and interpret prop requirements within a play.
6. Use a wide range of prop design and building techniques.
7. Apply prop research and design techniques for plays set in historical periods and contemporary settings.
8. Select and use a variety of tools and materials, considering safety and cost.
9. Understand sustainable and environmentally friendly practices in prop design and demonstrate a consideration of the ecological impact of materials and techniques they use.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Be familiar with historical and contemporary puppetry design and performance.
2. Have an understanding of puppetry and how it contributes to character and performance.
3. Have basic puppet design and construction skills in a variety of techniques.
4. Have an understanding of the relationship between puppet design, construction, and performance.
5. Have an understanding of the basic skills for puppetry performance.
6. Have the skills to create a puppetry performance that applies the principles of design, building, and performance.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Be familiar with historical and contemporary mask design and performance.
2. Have an understanding of mask and how it contributes to character and performance.
3. Have basic mask design and construction skills in a variety of techniques.
4. Be familiar with working with a variety of materials.
5. Have an understanding of the relationship between mask design and performance.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Expand upon skills and concepts learned in previous playwriting courses, such as building a plot, creating characters, and writing believable and interesting dialogue.
2. Understand the concepts of action and motivation.
3. Exploit the limitations of live theatre and use them expressively.
4. Develop playwriting skills in the context of a full-length play.
5. Explore the craft of rewriting and expanding upon first drafts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Accurately use basic concepts acquired from this and other courses in theatre studies (including ideas about audiences, reception, dramaturgy, scenography, performance, and theatre history) to investigate and analyse relevant examples from the productions at the Festival towards realizing new insights and knowledge.
2. Discuss George Bernard Shaw, some of his modern contemporaries, and what they were trying to do with the theatre of their time.
3. Discuss how a period play interfaces with a contemporary audience and how the theatre artists (designers, directors, actors, etc.) help negotiate that interface.
4. Discuss the mandate and identity of the Shaw Festival, debate its function in a contemporary context, and analyze its programming.
5. Explain why modern is not a synonym for contemporary when we are referring to "modern drama."
6. Read a play to identify its production challenges, to discern its potential relevance for a contemporary audience, and to formulate possible production solutions for bringing it to the stage.
7. Realize the essential value of paying careful attention to detail across all disciplines (direction, scenography, performance, dramaturgy) when transferring a play from page to stage.
8. Truly comprehend how smart scenographic and performance choices affect the interface between an audience and a text, and realize how pivotal they are to the process of theatre creation.
9. Understand how and why everything that is put onstage should arrive there as the result of a deliberate choice, and realize why that is crucial for the creation of great theatre.