The Department of Drama and Dance provides a strong liberal arts approach to the creative, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of theater arts. It fosters critical thinking and imaginative challenges, whether through experiences with literature and history or participation in performance.
The performance of drama, dance, and film creates an immediate, physical relationship to major themes of life for audience and performers alike. They are art forms based on human communication, arenas where psychology, politics, religion, and gender all come into play. Drama and dance have forever been powerful forces in world civilization and are an imaginative mirror, both reflective and refractive.