Justice & the Arts
Facilitator: Kristin Kusanovich, Theatre and Dance; Co-Director, Justice and the Arts Initiative
Courses in this Pathway will help students develop an understanding of historical and/or contemporary works of art (music, theatre, dance and visual art) and literature as responsive, complex, critical or instigative in relation to issues of justice. Students in this pathway may be asked to analyze and reflect on artifacts already created, to experience live performance, or to create work themselves as a part of this inquiry.
Courses in this pathway expose students to a wide array of artistic processes and products that take as their theme issues of justice. Encountering these practices expands our notion of how art is a critical response to our world. It is through the incarnational arts, the visual, dramatic/literary, music, theatre and dance arts, that we are presented with all of the complexity, richness and difficulty of lived experience. Learning that occurs in and through these disciplines is never merely abstract, but engages the entire brain, all of the learning modalities and all of the learning styles. Art and art-making have a way of moving us to compassion and empathy, of expanding perception, of challenging the intellect, and of creating community. This pathway helps create a well-educated solidarity and gives students the tools to shape a better society and a more creative life.
Associated Courses
Foundations Courses
(Please note that only the specific Foundation course topics qualify for the Pathway requirements,
and only one Foundations course may be applied to a Pathway)
ENGL 12A Justice & Literature
PHIL 12A Justice & the Just Society
Art and Art History
ARTH 144 18th & 19th Century American Art and Visual Culture
ARTH 145 20th Century American Art and Visual Culture
ARTH 186 History of Photography
*ARTH 188 Women in the Visual Arts
Arts and Sciences
ASCI 30 Ethics and Globalization
Communication
COMM 132 Documentary Video Prod L&L
*COMM 132B Short Documentary Production
Classics
CLAS 188 Classical Origins of Justice
English
*ENGL 54 Shakespeare
ENGL 66 Radical Imagination
ENGL 100 Literature and Democracy
ENGL 116 Shakespeare's Tragedies (cross-listed with THTR 116)
ENGL 117 Shakespeare's Comedies (cross-listed with THTR 117)
ENGL 118 Shakespeare Studies (cross-listed with THTR 118)
ENGL 122 Film, Gender, and Sexuality (cross-listed with WGST 134)
ENGL 126 Creative Writing & Social Justice
ENGL 150EL Contemporary Literature
ENGL 192 American Theatre from the Black Perspective (cross-listed with THTR 161)
Ethnic Studies
ETHN 65 Drama of Diversity (cross-listed with THTR 65)
ETHN 132 The History of Hip Hop (cross-listed with MUSC 132)
Music
MUSC 21 Music in American Culture II
MUSC 119 Music, Technology and Society
MUSC 132 The History of Hip Hop (cross-listed with ETHN 132)
MUSC 134 Popular Music, Race and American Culture
*MUSC 156 Improvisation
Religious Studies
*TESP 46 Faith, Justice, and Poverty
*RSOC 136 Religion in Latin America
Sociology
SOCI 153 Race, Class, and Gender in the United States (cross-listed with WGST 115)
Theatre and Dance
DANC 59 Teaching the Performing Arts (cross-listed with DANC 159)
DANC 159 Teaching the Performing Arts (cross-listed with DANC 59)
DANC 62 African American Dance History (cross-listed with DANC 162)
DANC 162 African American Dance History (cross-listed with DANC 62)
DANC 189 Social Justice and the Arts
THTR 27 Children's Theatre Production
THTR 44 Modern American Theatre History: Censorship, Arts Funding and Theatre Unions
THTR 65 Drama of Diversity (cross-listed with ETHN 65)
THTR 66 People's Theatre
THTR 116 Shakespeare's Tragedies (cross-listed with ENGL 116)
THTR 117 Shakespeare's Comedies (cross-listed with ENGL 117)
THTR 118 Shakespeare Studies (cross-listed with ENGL 118)
THTR 151 Fashion, Politics and Issues of Gender (cross-listed with WGST 183)
THTR 161 American Theatre from the Black Perspective (cross-listed with ENGL 192)
THTR 167 Gender and Performance (cross-listed with WGST 139)
Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 115 Race, Class, and Gender in the United States (cross-listed with SOCI 153)
WGST 134 Film, Gender and Sexuality (cross-listed with ENGL 122)
WGST 139 Gender and Performance(cross-listed with THTR 167)
WGST 183 Fashion, Politics and Issues of Gender (cross-listed with THTR 151)
* Indicates Course Has Prerequisites
