THEA 246 - Women in Performance

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C1
Roots of roles women artists play in U.S. culture; traditional gender-based performance forms; and, the female body in theatre. Includes some women artists of Europe, Africa, and Pacific Rim who have influenced or been influenced by U.S. culture.

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

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

write about how women in theatre throughout U.S. history have dealt with issues of enduring human concern to create stimulating performance
identify important, contemporary women performers, including their work and its effect in shaping and changing attitudes towards women in U.S. society and around the world
discuss how women’s issues have arisen, been portrayed, and resulted in change in differing intellectual and cultural traditions

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.