THEA 254 - Acting and Diversity

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C2; Diversity
Contemporary American theatrical expression and performance. Organized around ethnic and cultural identity. Analyzing samples of Native American, Chicano, African American, Asian American and LGBTQ theatre with consideration for their historical and political contexts. Discussion Units: 2; Activity Units: 1.

Equivalent Quarter Course: THEA 2037.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C2 - Lower Division Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

demonstrate greater control over their individual artistic and creative voices by exploring the role that Native, African, Asian, Latino/a and LGBTQ Americans have played in shaping the American cultural voice and how these factors have impacted American theatre.
identify how the diverse cultural image of America was shaped and artistic expression for all people limited through theater like minstrelsy and wild west shows.
examine the plays for their historical and thematic content.
collaborate in creation of original presentations involving issues of race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation

C2. Humanities Learning Outcomes

Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.