Department
of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts
Department Assessment Plan Link to
measures:
Professional
Communications
Film
and Telecommunications (Film Track)
Film
and Telecommunications (Television Track)
Theatre
Arts (Acting)
Theatre
Arts (Directing)
Theatre
Arts (Technical Theatre)
1. Determine specific long range and annual goals for the
Department. (See Appendix A.)
2. Determine and submit specific student outcome goals. (See
Appendix A.)
3. Provide a capstone experience for seniors. Each senior
will prepare and present a major project which will receive written evaluations from a
jury of three. The jury will be composed of the Senior Seminar instructor, the students
department faculty advisor, and an individual from outside the department. At least one
member of the jury will not be a member of the department for example, a student
completing a Theatre Arts degree with an emphasis in Directing might have for his jury
members a Theatre Arts professor at MSU (his advisor), a Speech Communication professor at
MSU (the Senior Seminar instructor), and the Artistic Director of the Fargo/Moorhead
Community Theatre (the outside member). Senior Seminar projects in speech communication,
film, telecommunications, and theatre arts vary greatly in their content. The evaluators
will be asked to examine, based on their own expertise, the quality of the project and the
merit of the presentation. (See Appendix B.)
4. Formally evaluate the academic abilities of graduating
seniors, and make a summary of the data available to faculty and administration. This
evaluation will be done by the Senior Seminar instructor utilizing the presentation of the
Senior Seminar Project, the Evaluation Forms from the Project Jury Members, and the
Individualized Senior Seminar Essay Exam. (Note: Questions for the Senior Seminar Essay
Exam are written to specifically address the career goals of each individual student.)
(See Appendix. 9.)
Direct Measures to Assess Student Learning for Bachelor of
Science (Teaching)
Majors
1. Determine specific long range and annual goals for the Department. (See
Appendix A.)
2. Determine and submit specific student outcome goals. (See
Appendix A.)
3. Formally evaluate the academic abilities of junior and
senior level BS students, and make a summary of the data available to faculty and
administration. This evaluation will be done by the Teaching Methods Course instructor.
This course will include the
following assessment instruments from each student: public presentations of discipline
specific lessons designed for the secondary level, an essay on educational philosophy, a
written project describing a discipline specific course plan at the secondary level, an
analysis of a secondary level discipline specific textbook, oral presentation of an
analysis of two discipline specific lessons presented in regional secondary schools. (See
Appendix D.)
Indirect Measures to Assess Department Effectiveness
5. Survey graduating seniors about their levels of
satisfaction or dissatisfaction with Department programs and faculty. (See Appendix E.)
6. Retain data concerning student, faculty, and staff
achievements in Department sponsored or institutional sponsored programs.
7. Record anecdotal information about graduates.
8. Prepare and publish an annual Department Assessment
Report.
DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION/THEATRE ARTS
MOORHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY
Goals and Objectives I.
(revised 11.17-92)
The Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts at
Moorhead State University recognizes its unique place within a broad and diverse
community. We endeavor to fulfill our long-standing commitment to educate entertain and
serve by:
* providing a challenging, contemporary, relevant curriculum
within the context of the Liberal Arts which prepares our graduates to become contributing
citizens in a diverse, global community.
* focusing our efforts upon teaching learning and advising in
keeping with the university's mission as a teaching institution.
* providing courses which Integrate theory and history with
practice and application, promoting creativity, critical thinking, and lifelong learning.
* cultivating both breadth and depth of understanding among
students, faculty, and staff that develop skill, artistry. and professionalism.
providing stimulating thought-provoking and entertaining
presentations, productions and other cultural events for the campus, community, and
region.
* promoting excellence for our students, faculty, staff and
program through ongoing evaluation and revision.
* addressing regional, national, and International
developments within our various academic fields.
* reviewing the relationships among the various disciplines
within the department -
effectively utilizing current resources and developing new
resources which improve our educational programs.
Moorhead State University
Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts
Annual Goals (Examined and Approved or Revised Each Year)
1. Provide course offerings which meet the demands of both major requirements and
Liberal Studies service.
2. Provide a season of four major theatre productions during the academic year and
four major productions during the Straw Hat summer season.
3. Provide an active and successful individual events and Lincoln/Douglas debate
forensics team.
4. Sponsor local invitational speech tournaments for area high students.
5. Provide activities in film and television production - this includes student film
showings and classic American and international film festivals open to the campus and
community.
6. Manage the theatre spaces in the Center for the Arts and provide technical
support in those spaces.
7. Provide a safe environment in both the public and backstage areas of the
theatres.
8. Administer our expanded department student scholarship program.
9. Continue to refine the department's assessment procedures.
10. Conduct faculty and staff searches, as needed.
11. Monitor and manage the department's secondary teaching programs so that they
stay current with Minnesota State Teaching Standards and the changing expectations of MSU
Teaching programs in general.
12. Continue ongoing and specific efforts to recruit freshman and new majors.
13. Monitor the satisfaction level of our majors and continually seek to encourage
their retention in our department and the university.
14. Continue to our commitment to the interests of the university by advising
students with undeclared majors and serving on committees.
15. To assist students with developing study programs that will permit them to
graduate in a four-year period.
Moorhead State University
Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts
Student Outcome Goals
Student Outcomes General to the Department
1. Students will write correctly and effectively.
2. Students will make effective oral presentations.
Bachelor of Arts Degree
Student Outcomes for Speech Communication Majors - Professional Communication
Emphasis
1. Students will effectively create, deliver, and analyze
persuasive and informative public addresses.
2. Students will imaginatively and effectively make oral
presentations of literature.
3. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
communication theories.
4. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
the history, practices
and analysis of rhetoric and rhetorical criticism, argumentation debate, and persuasion.
5. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
the theory, practices, and analysis of communication in interpersonal, small group, and
intercultural situations.
6. Students will demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge
and understanding about the history, literature, and practices of theatre arts and
telecommunications.
Student Outcomes for Speech Communication Majors - Film and
Telecommunication Emphasis (Television Track)
1. Students will effectively create, deliver, and analyze
persuasive and informative public addresses.
2. Students will imaginatively and effectively make oral
presentations of literature.
3. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
communication
theories
4. Students will demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge and understanding about the
history, literature, and practices of rhetoric, theatre arts, and film.
5. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
the history, theory and practices of television.
6. Students will demonstrate imaginative and technically
competent skills while producing, directing, and performing in a television studio
environment.
Student Outcomes for Speech Communication Majors - Film and
Telecommunication Emphasis (Film Track)
1. Students will effectively create, deliver, and analyze
persuasive and informative public addresses.
2. Students will imaginatively and effectively make oral
presentations of literature.
3. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
communication theories.
4. Students will demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge
and understanding about the history, literature, and practices of rhetoric, theatre arts,
and telecommunication.
5. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
the history, theory, and practices of films and film making.
6. Students will demonstrate imaginative and technically
competent skills while writing, producing, and directing their own films.
Student Outcomes for Theatre Arts Majors - Emphasis in Acting
1. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical
proficiency, and artistic creativity with theatre dance forms and styles.
2. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical
proficiency, and artistic creativity about scenic design and technical theatre methods.
3. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
the history, literature, and theory of drama and the theatre.
4. Students will demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge,
technical proficiency,
and artistic creativity about theatre directing.
5. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical proficiency, and artistic creativity
about acting.
6. Students will demonstrate experience, commitment, and
artistic creativity with theatre arts production.
Student Outcomes for Theatre Arts Majors - Emphasis in
Directing
1. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical
proficiency, and artistic creativity with theatre dance forms' and styles.
2. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical
proficiency, and artistic creativity about scenic design and technical theatre methods.
3. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding
about the history, literature and theory of drama and the theatre.
4. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical
proficiency, and artistic creativity about acting.
5. Students will demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge,
technical proficiency, and artistic creativity about theatre directing.
6. Students will demonstrate experience, commitment, and
artistic creativity with theatre arts production.
Student Outcomes for Theatre Arts Majors - Emphasis in
Technical Theatre
1. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical
proficiency, and artistic creativity with theatre dance forms and styles.
2. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding
about the history, literature, and theory of drama and the theatre.
3. Students will demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge,
technical proficiency, and artistic creativity about acting.
4. Students will demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge,
technical proficiency, and artistic creativity about theatre directing.
5. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical
proficiency, and artistic creativity
about scenic and lighting design and technical theatre methods.
6. Students will demonstrate experience, commitment, and artistic engagement with theatre
arts production.
Bachelor of Science Degree
Student Outcomes for Speech Communication and Theatre Arts Majors (Teaching)
1. Students will effectively create, deliver and analyze
persuasive and informative public addresses.
2. Students will imaginatively and effectively make oral
presentations of literature.
3. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding
about the history, practices, and analysis of rhetoric, argumentation, and debate.
4. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding
about the history, literature and theory of drama and the theatre.
5. Students will demonstrate knowledge, technical
proficiency, and artistic creativity about acting and directing in the theatre.
6. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding
about the history, literature and practices of either film or telecommunications.
7. Students will demonstrate experience, commitment, and
artistic creativity with theatre arts production and forensics competition.
8. Students will demonstrate knowledge and technical
proficiency with secondary level teaching methods in speech communication and theatre
arts.
|
