Education 301A - ST:Performance,Pedagogy,and Place

Institution:

Whitman College

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Kitchens This class will investigate devisive and interactive theatre as well as other combinations of performance, ethnography, education, and community activism. As such, this class explores the intersections of various disciplines including theatre, curriculum studies, sociology, and others. Specific traditions and examples of community-based and collective theatre will be studied including the work of Augusto Boal, Micahel Rohd, and Rhodessa Jones as well as theorists associated with critical pedagogy such as Paulo Freire and bell hooks. Specific topics include historical and contemporary examples of improvisational, grassroots, and guerilla theatre, methods of qualitative research, and notions such as identity, power, and place. This course uses various theoretical perspectives within critical theory, aesthetics, dramaturgy, etc., to engage in local research and activism. Particularly structured around notions of place, the class will produce theatrical events based on readings and cooperative research. Distribution area: social science.

Credits:

3.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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