| in terms of the uarts academics, all freshman take First year writing, which is your typical english class...it's not hard haha....but it does what all freshman writing classes are designed to do, which is to teach people how to write properly. We also take freshman year Survey of Theater Arts, which is basically an english-type class for theater majors. We read plays and analyze them. Next semester we have Script Analysis instead, which will go in depth even more with analyzing plays.
The academics are not bad, though. What I really do appreciate is the school of theater's philosophy how we have to be aware of what's going on around us and all. And my acting teacher feels so similarly. She made sure that we all voted and that we all cared what was going on with the election and everything....there is also flexibility for liberal arts classes. I know a girl in my class is planning on taking spanish next semester, so more academics can be taken if desperately desired....I am trying to get some liberal arts credits out of the way over the summer because they do take up a lot of time....
I really feel that UArts does not look for certain "types." They are really big in letting us develop into our own kind of person and not be set in one way. When it came time to picking monologues, my teacher said to people, "I think this monologue is perfect for you. And that is exactly what I DON'T want you to do it." she wants us to discover who we are and not limit ourselves to only being the ingenue or whatever.
I am absolutely in love with Patty Raine, the freshman voice for musical theater teacher. She also directed Urinetown, which was fabulous as well!
There are 2 transfers in my freshman class this year. |