TA 253 Community Engaged Theater
Community Engaged Theatre is an introduction to the history, theories, and practice of community-based theatre. Hallmark troupes and artists, and techniques of theatre for social change. Involves outreach in the community, critical reflection, and the creation our own community-based performance. Course includes a service-learning project during the semester that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. Students will be involved in the planning and implementation of the project(s) and may spend time outside of the classroom. Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 25-50% of overall instructional time.
Offered
Offered Spring only
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AAOT Arts & Letters,
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
To become familiar with the field of community based theatre and performance. To learn and practice techniques to use theatre for social change in the community. To find precise language to evaluate democratic, humanist, radical, antiracist, anti sexist, and anti heterosexist performances. To exercise the capacity to connect theory and practice regarding the roles of the arts in community. To develop the capacity to forward campus community partnerships involving the arts. To become comfortable facilitating a community arts workshop or participating in a community based performance. To practice articulating their own ideas about the values of the arts in community contexts. To collaboratively create a community based performance. To interpret and engage in the arts, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life. Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues through the creation of a piece of theatre.