Transcript General Education Aesthetic Perspective Analyzing Style

How do artists respond to the world around them? In
this theme, students could explore how they might use
the performing and visual arts as a response to current
social problems and their related cultural,
interpersonal, and personal concerns.
Themes in General Education are
Designed to:
 assist students in making systematic and deliberate
connections between the ways various disciplinary
perspectives address the same topic.
 provide a framework for faculty in different
departments to collaborate on research projects and
share innovative teaching strategies.
 encourage students to explore areas of specific interest
at a deeper level .
 This theme is taught in a learning community format.
 In Fall semester, students take SOC 1100 and ART 3534
to complete their 6 hour theme in Aesthetics.
 In spring students take SOC 1100 and THR 2017 to
complete their 6 hour theme in Aesthetics.
 Students choose either the fall learning community or
the spring learning community, but not both.
ART 3534 – Art for Social Change
3 hours
Fine Arts Designation
 Faculty Member needs to add Course Description
SOC 1100 – Social Problems in
American Society
3 hours
 A survey course which examines the major social
problems in America today, such as poverty, racism,
sexism, aging, militarism and war, environmental abuse,
crime, mental illness, drug abuse and alcoholism.
THR 2017 – Theatre for Social
Change
3 hours
 This course is a practical and seminar class focused on the
history and theory behind “theatre for social change” and
is grounded in participation, research, analysis, and
performance. Students study and apply various theories
and methodologies of theatre for social change (image,
forum, playback, invisible theatre, etc.) to effect change
related to social, economic, cultural, political, and
interpersonal issues.