Catalog Number: COR 153
Suffix: CR, RI
Gen Ed Substitute For: Creative Expression, Creative Production
Instructor: Leah Page
Literacy: Creativity
Value Pathway: Respectful and Inclusive Community
Description: In this course, students will collaboratively create an original theatre piece connected to a social justice issue. To prepare for this culminating project, students will watch excerpts or full productions of scripted and devised theatre works rooted in social justice and will build specific skills in ensemble-based theatre-making. Required readings and subsequent discussions around the chosen topic will inform the work. In mid-late October, students will begin devising their final piece. Devising involves generating material, providing critical feedback, editing and reshaping the material, and repeating this three-step process until the piece is ready to be rehearsed. Students will develop their critical eye by being actively involved in the feedback process.
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Suffix: CR, RI
Gen Ed Substitute For: Creative Expression, Creative Aesthetics
Instructor: Jason Schwab
Literacy: Creativity
Value Pathway: Respectful and Inclusive Community
Description: Art can and should be more than an aesthetically captivating object. Art can provide a unique access point to any and all challenging questions we find ourselves presented with. While it doesn’t often provide answers, it does elicit self-reflection, critical analysis, and complex dialogue. In this class, we will analyze important works of art from the post-modern era to contemporary works that have facilitated critical dialogue on issues of racism, sexism, gender equality, and sexuality. We will examine the structures of power that have historically oppressed individuals and the visual techniques artists have utilized in response to these injustices. Students will then be given the opportunity to create unique works of art that respond to current injustices or systems of oppression they themselves experience, have experienced, or potentially perpetuate. This course will challenge students to critically examine themselves, analyze cultures outside of their own, develop an informed and compassionate understanding of diverse cultures and identities, and create works of art that stimulate others to engage in this critical discourse.
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Suffix: OC, CI
Gen Ed Substitute For: Speech Communication
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Literacy: Oral Communication
Value Pathway: Citizenship with Integrity
Description: Contemporary society approaches speech as an ethically charged activity practiced in civic and professional contexts. In this new Public Speaking In Contemporary Society course, students will develop communication skills that invite transformation of both speaker and audience. As a speaker, an audience member, and/or an engaged participant, the students will learn to negotiate their own role in the contemporary public space as they take responsibility for the on-going/evolving community discussion. This course will help them contribute to the community discussion by studying, attending, and speaking about local history, local issues, and solutions to local social problems. In this course, students will learn how to tailor messages to different audiences across all contexts. The course will culminate in group work to produce oral performances toward social justice as either an interpersonal presentation or a podcast.
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Suffix: SC, RI
Gen Ed Substitute For: Ways of Knowing A (Social, Behavioral, Philosophical Inquiry)
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Literacy: Social and Cultural Inquiry
Value Pathway: Respectful and Inclusive Community
Description: In 2007, Time Magazine wrote that the Bible, “has done more to shape literature, history, entertainment, and culture than any book ever written. Its influence on world history is unparalleled and shows no signs of abating.” No wonder then that the first book to come off of Johnannes Guttenberg’s press was the Bible and it remains the best-selling book ever and ubiquitous online. This book boldly claims to encompass the expanse of cosmic history, from the creation of the universe to its apocalyptic finale, thus providing a linear view of time that still permeates American culture. Despite the cultural forces it unleashes, the ethical questions it engages, the political perspectives it provides, and the religious imagination it inspired, few people have more than a fleeting knowledge of the Bible. This course entails a close reading of selected sections of the Bible, accompanied by a critical analysis of social and cultural forces that shaped them and their multiple interpretations today.
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