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LITPA-2000-2: Race and Performance

Spring 2022

Subject: Literary and Performing Arts Studies
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: January 18, 2022 — May 08, 2022
Meetings: Wed 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - N13
Instructor: Devorah Major

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 14/18

Description:

LITPA 200 courses introduce students to the study of literature or the performing arts, emphasizing analysis of both particular works and of the range of genres, periods and traditions. Frequent reading and writing assignments will be made.This class will look at how and why the concept of race was invented and its impact on current social constructs. Students will investigate and write about their own relationships to race, caste, and class, based on class discussions and readings. They will create performance monologues and duets based on their own writing. Performances by different cultural actors and storytellers addressing these issues will be shown and discussed.

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