THEA 321 - History of Black Theatre
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity
The influence of 400 years of African Diaspora on North American theatre traditions. The African American influence on playwriting, music, slave narratives, minstrel shows, The Harlem Renaissance, The Civil Rights Movement, The Black Arts Movement, and contemporary African American theatre.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Use play texts, recordings, essays, and live performances to dissect the ways in which black playwrights have contributed to theatre and drama;
- Use black plays to critique race, gender, class, and sexuality;
- Explore the ways in which sociopolitical issues and events, including but not limited to, the Middle Passage, Slavery, Minstrelsy, the Great Migration, Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Hip-Hop culture, Gay Rights Movement, and Black Lives Matter Movement have shaped black theatre and drama;
- Analyze how Africana culture(s) have influenced and shaped black theatre in America through exploration of the themes and historical context presented in the plays, videos, films, and other material explored in the course; and
- Describe the relationship between African American history and the development of African America theatre.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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