President of Beni-Suef University : Establishment of Drama and Theatrical Criticism Department at the Faculty of Arts
Prof. Dr. Amin Lotfy, President of Beni-Suef University, announced the approval of the Arts Sector Committee of the Supreme Council of Universities on establishing Department of Drama and Theatrical Criticism at the Faculty of Arts.
The Rector said that the department aims to produce academic researcher and theatrical teachers in the fields of text and displaying, combining theory and practice on academic grounds, in which students are prepared theoretically and practically through three levels. The first is the theoretical level, in which the student studies theater theory and technical criticism rules.
While the practical level aims to prepare the student to engage in theatrical work practically on scientific bases in all areas such as acting, directing, decoration, make-up, theatrical criticism, writing and theatrical craft, while the laboratory or experimental level displays students' production of artworks in the field of acting, directing and writing.
Prof. Dr. Gouda Mabrouk, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, said that the subjects that will be studied in the section include specialized subjects such as theater history, analysis of theatrical texts, acting and directing, theatrical criticism, in addition to a number of subjects indirectly related to theater study such as (Psychology - Sociology - Music - Acoustics)
It is worth mentioning that the Board of Beni-Suef University under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Amin Lotfy, President of the University, approved in the sixth session No. (142) held on January 24th, 2017 on establishing three new departments at the Faculty of Arts, Drama and Criticism Department, Department of Coptic Studies and Department of Criticism Sciences .