Pedagogy Seminar

Catalog description

Each generation of theatre artists, technicians, and scholars trains the next generation. This seminar has two goals: 1) to cover the nuts and bolts of preparing and teaching a theatre course, and 2) to do so in a way that proceeds from personal artist/citizen values. These two goals can be difficult to reconcile. Many if not most theatre instructors learn from key teachers of practice who teach the skills they know. This is one necessary dimension of teaching-imparting knowledge-but this course stretches the idea of teaching beyond this idea. The goal of this course is for students to discover how they fit into the field as a teacher and scholar, and how they might develop a portfolio of materials to be a successful job candidate and a successful teacher.