TH 0310 - Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in the Performing Arts

Fall 3 Credit Hours
Participants will examine organizational and professional access and equity in the contexts of culture, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, ability, and gender-viewing these contexts through connections among divisions of labor, class structures, power relationships, group marginalization, cultural images, residential patterns, health, family life, employment, education, and values. In addition to the challenges related to diversity, participants will also explore aspects of diversity as potential assets in creating rich and productive professional environments. Students will then apply the knowledge they gain from these explorations to the framing, analysis, and generation of solutions to problems in the contemporary performing arts. Prerequisite: none