Attention Theater Majors, Theater Minors, and anyone who has a free elective to fill!
Consider taking THTR 281 in Spring 2017! The course CRN is 23263 and it will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-1:45 pm.
This course invites and welcomes students from all disciplines to engage in an interdisciplinary environment for the exploration of theatrical tools used for SOCIAL JUSTICE.
How can theatre represent and generate social and political transformation? This course investigates this question by introducing and leading students through a process of creating social change on issues pertinent to their own lives through various forms of performative activism with a focus on the methods of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. The course emphasizes student collaboration and addresses issues of power, privilege, social identity, and structures of oppression utilizing Applied Theatre models. Students will be introduced to the political, cultural, and historical contexts of contemporary movements for social change and to key theoretical frameworks with which to analyze and create performance. Students will apply theatrical tools for creative and non-violent action for social justice through seminar discussions, games, exercises, community performance projects, inter-group dialogue, and identity awareness activities.
For more information, contact Rachel DeSoto Jackson at: jackson@iup.edu