An Issue about the Fundamental Education of the Specific Department of Drama

Abstract

The Drama Department at Nihon University has been teaching both theatre theory and practical training since the early stage of its establishment. However, the curriculum is now divided into too many sections of theatrical arts, so that the purpose of our teaching has become rather vague.

Every drama department at the university level should be based on a fundamental education. For we are training not only those students who will pursue professional careers in the theatre world, but also those who will live as good citizens in many different fields, other than the theatre world. Therefore our department has been trying to enrich the general education in the first year curriculum. The present paper will examine how the acting course and drama study course should be incorporated into the curriculum of the general education.