Creating Meaning through Community Drama: Making Theatre Based on a Community's Own Stories

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Overview

Subject area

APTH

Catalog Number

613

Course Title

Creating Meaning through Community Drama: Making Theatre Based on a Community's Own Stories

Department(s)

Description

This course is designed to prepare students to devise and perform appropriate, theatre-based community interventions based on the community's own stories. They will gain a theoretical and practical grounding in the study of community theatre processes through which practitioners work in, with and for a specific community. They will intervene using theatre strategies, to interrogate particular interests, problems or issues that the community wishes to share.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring

Academic Career

Graduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Course Schedule