THEA 101 - Doing The Right Thing: Social Justice Theatre

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C1; Social Justice
The legacy of American social change artists and how ethnic, racial, and gender obstacles helped forge creative expression in theatre and spoken word. Artists as outlaws, rebels, and change makers outside the mainstream.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C1 - Lower Division Arts, Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

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

apply problem-solving skills, especially translating written instructions to live situations.
prepare and make presentations that require clear reading, writing, and speaking; especially presentations that involve monologue, auto-ethnography, oral history, and acting.
demonstrate fundamental critical thinking skills and information competency that involve research, analysis, and organizing data from diverse sources.
exercise leadership in a profession and community by noticing and integrating the effects of critical social justice contributions of artists in history, American theatre and pop culture.

C1. Arts Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.