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This course explores how K-12 teachers and others interested in education can engage students in dialogue and academic projects about contemporary social and political issues through arts-based pedagogies. Arts-based approaches include performance, drama, the spoken word, visual arts, film and music. These approaches represent unique and engaging ways to study complex and often baffling global events.

Our theoretical and pedagogical approach in this course views art-based education as a multifaceted phenomenon. That is, it is many things at once: academic, experimental, political, emotional, democratic and subversive. Just as important, arts-based education is dialogic, meaning that interactions about art - whether verbal or visual -- involve more than a single voice, and those interactions are always embedded in the social and cultural worlds of individuals and groups. In classroom settings, students and teachers can collaboratively experience and negotiate their own \"truths\" about the meaning of art and how art might speak to or \"transform\" the world.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate