Program: Theatre (BA)
Degree: Bachelor's
Date: Mon Oct 08, 2012 - 1:53:03 pm
1) Below are your program's student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.
1. Students can recognize and distinguish between various styles and forms of
World Theatre (i.e., Asian, Western, Pacific, Youth Theatre).
2. Students can create and demonstrate informed and personal artistic choices in
coursework and productions (i.e, design, directing, acting).
3. Students can effectively communicate creative ideas and critical judgments
through appropriate means (oral, written, practical).
4. Students can demonstrate ethical and self-disciplined behaviors appropriate to
the field of theatre.
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Department Website URL: http://hawaii.edu/theatre/undergrad/ug-slo.pdf
Student Handbook. URL, if available online: Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: UHM Catalog. Page Number: Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: Other: Other: 3) Select one option:
- File (03/16/2020)
4) For your program, the percentage of courses that have course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is as follows. Please update as needed.
0% 1-50% 51-80% 81-99%
100%5) Did your program engage in any program assessment activities between June 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012? (e.g., establishing/revising outcomes, aligning the curriculum to outcomes, collecting evidence, interpreting evidence, using results, revising the assessment plan, creating surveys or tests, etc.)
Yes No (skip to question 14)6) For the period June 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.
All four SLOs were targeted:
What did the program want to do or to find out?
1. Students can recognize and distinguish between various styles and forms of
World Theatre (i.e., Asian, Western, Pacific, Youth Theatre).
2. Students can create and demonstrate informed and personal artistic choices in
coursework and productions (i.e, design, directing, acting).
3. Students can effectively communicate creative ideas and critical judgments
through appropriate means (oral, written, practical).
4. Students can demonstrate ethical and self-disciplined behaviors appropriate to
the field of theatre.
7) State the type(s) of evidence gathered to answer the assessment question and/or meet the assessment goals that were given in Question #6.
a. Exit Interviews
b. Reflection Papers (with connections to SLOs)
c. Resumes
d. Portfolios (with connections to SLOs)
e. Students’ Exit Surveys (online survey format)
f. Faculty ratings of exit materials
8) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
9) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)
Course instructor(s) Faculty committee Ad hoc faculty group Department chairperson Persons or organization outside the university Faculty advisor Advisors (in student support services) Students (graduate or undergraduate) Dean/Director Other: 10) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)
Used a rubric or scoring guide Scored exams/tests/quizzes Used professional judgment (no rubric or scoring guide used) Compiled survey results Used qualitative methods on interview, focus group, open-ended response data External organization/person analyzed data (e.g., external organization administered and scored the nursing licensing exam) Other: 11) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #6:
Summarize the actual results.
Faculty Exit Rubrics: (on a scale from 1-4, 4 being highest)*
Learning Outcome #1: 75% at 4, 25% at 3 average 3.75
#2: 69% at 4, 31% at 3 average 3.69
#3: 81% at 4, 29% at 3 average 3.81
#4 81% at 4, 6% at 3, 12.5% at 2 average 3.69
*Fall 2011 graduates only due to technical problem
Student Exit Surveys:
These surveys ask students to rate their abilities in 19 different questions treating five main curricular areas: Acting, History/Theory, Directing, Design, and Stagecraft. The responses, on a 1-5 scale, are varied and more difficult to summarize, but are used by faculty to make some of the changes detailed below.
Exit Interviews:
Changes suggested by interviews are noted in question #12.
12) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
The requirements for the BA program are being examined and proposed changes are anticipated in the next year. These may include but are not limited to the following changes, all inspired by recent exit interviews and faculty assessments:
1. possible reconfiguration of the four-semester World Theatre History course series (required of all majors) into a 3-semester series;
2. addition of a script analysis for undergraduates as a required or elective course;
3. Providing more latitude in the choice of courses that can fulfill the generalist BA degree in order to allow students who wish to focus on a particular area the opportunity to do so
4. the addition of a new course in Hawaiian theatre as an elective option. (We have a new departmental area in Hawaiian Theatre, so two new courses in this area are planned for the coming year: Drama & Theatre of Hawaiʻi; and Hawaiian Acting Workshop.)
5. the curriculum committee is examining how to more effectively implement the practicum courses (THEA 200 B,C,D,E) and possibly revisions to the requirement that all students have experience in all four areas (acting,costuming, theatre mgmt. and technical theatre)
In response to student requests for more O (Oral) courses, we have applied for Oral Designation for 2 courses for spring semester: THEA 356 Costumes for the Stage THEA 445 Intermediate Lighting Design.
The Design program is also working on a revision of the teaching rotation, so that the design and technology courses are not competing with each other for enrollment. We will resume our conversation about design area revisions in spring 2013, when Joe Dodd, Head of Design, returns from sabbatical.
We are looking at adding choices for performance classes in the future, e.g., Betsy Fisher and Mark Branner offering a team-taught physical comedy class.
13) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries?
This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, program aspects and so on.
n/a