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Mission Statement and Core Values

The Department of Theater empowers students with the critical and creative tools, the artistic courage, and the human empathy that are essential to engaging with the world through embodied storytelling.  

  • Professor Carol Dunne teaching THEA 35: Acting for Musical Theater, 2018.

  • Guest artist Hope Azeda visits Professor Laura Edmondson's African Theater course.

  • Students from THEA 10.08: Creativity and Collaboration work on a project exploring spaces. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Mission Statement and Core Values

 

MISSION STATEMENT 
The Department of Theater empowers students with the critical and creative tools, the artistic courage, and the human empathy that are essential to engaging with the world through embodied storytelling.  

 

CORE VALUES 
We embrace and are led by these core values:

Acceptance and Appreciation - We seek to nurture our majors and minors through an academic environment based on respect, artistic endeavor, and collaboration, where all Dartmouth students, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, country of origin, or ability, can feel at home and thrive.  

Global Awareness - We commit to joining history/theory/criticism with practice as the most impactful way to develop students' perspective and awareness of the many cultures and modes of communication that theatrical crafts celebrate.

Rigor - We aim to prepare students for lifelong community-building, leadership, and global citizenship. Our program trains students for an engagement with Theater as a multidisciplinary form in which the arts and humanities intersect. This engagement may lead to graduate study and/or a professional career.  

Community for All - We believe that engaging in the arts is essential to the human experience and that arts education should be available to all. We strive to create artistic spaces that honor creativity, diversity, and inclusion, as the core strengths of every theatrical practice.  

Generosity and Kindness - We celebrate theater majors and non-majors alike in every role of theater practice, scholarship and as audience members eager to learn regardless of differing levels of prior experience. 

Learning Outcomes

Students understand the multidisciplinary nature of theater, as well as its historical legacies and contemporary challenges.

Students comprehend a variety of roles within theatrical activity, through active and sustained participation in theatrical productions and scholarship.

Students demonstrate concrete skills in theatrical production; collaboration; synthesis of vision and practice; criticism and analysis.