A New Opportunity for University Students of Theatre, Film, and Dance
The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95512
707
826-3566
Humboldt State
University is the most northern campus in the California State
University system and is situated on the coast in a serene and pastoral
setting 270 miles
north of San Francisco.
The campus uses its redwood location as a natural resource to attract
adventurous, self-reliant and inquisitive students who want to
experience
hands-on, learning and research.
The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance offers to students
opportunities to enliven their imaginations, to arouse their passions, and to
engage their feelings through performance and production in theatre, film or
dance. Our courses and programs are designed to provide breadth of experience
by developing reading, writing, collaborating, designing,
directing/choreographing, and ensemble skills. Through hands-on learning we
foster in students a greater understanding of themselves in relationship to the
larger world picture as they explore the social, cultural and artistic milieu
of the world and its peoples.
Our students participate as actors, dancers, choreographers,
directors, filmmakers, designers and writers in our production program. We
sponsor the International Short Film Festival,
the oldest student run festival of its kind in the country. We mount never
before produced new plays every three years in the New Plays Season.
Last year we hosted the Earth Matters Onstage~Ecodrama Playwrights
Festival that brought together students, playwrights and artists
concerned with theatrical works that addressed environmental justice, our link
with the natural world, our sense of responsibility to our world, and the
questions we all face as cultures and communities of one world. We offer an Interdisciplinary
Dance Stuidies Program that provides students the opportunity to link
their enthusiasm for dance with language and culture, arts integration, or
sacred tradition. Our production program is diverse and rigorous in the skills
essential to the practice of theatre, film and dance.
We have developed a brand new and unique BA major that
integrates the disciplines of theatre, film and dance into a series of core
courses for all majors that offers cross disciplinary training and flexibility
in career choices for students. This major provides interdisciplinary
opportunities inherent among the three disciplines while allowing students to
explore more depth by pursuing an emphasis in one of the disciplines. The goals
of the integrated theatre, film and dance major are to address contemporary trends
in the disciplines, and to enlarge the student’s understanding for all three
disciplines to cross cultural, social and political boundaries through
examination of human issues through these art forms.
If you are an independent thinker and a self-motivated
individual who believes in the power of the arts to transform society, please
check out our web site or give us a call.
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