Staging Dissent: Theatre & Social Change
Students work with local citizens to devise community-based plays on a variety of pressing issues, most recently climate change.
Laughter
“17 of the Most Innovative Classes,” Medium 2 Feb 2020
Explores the art, craft and skill of “making funny,” including joke writing, stand-up, wit, physical comedy, improvisation, masks, and clowning.
Staging Gay and Trans Histories
Investigates how movements for sexual liberation use performance as modes of self-expression and strategies for social justice.
Global Stages I & II
Offers a comparative approach to world theater organized around keywords rather than chronologies, in an effort to decenter the West and its attendant structures of white supremacy.
American Drama I & II
Examines theater’s contribution to the construction and deconstruction of an American identities, entertainments, and political actors.
Performance Studies: Theories & Methods
Charts the rise of this field of study and its ever-shifting parameters.
Passionate Politics
Examines the role feelings and emotions play in creating and sustaining social bonds and collective formations.
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