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Concentration in Arts for Community
The Arts for Community concentration is ideal for students who are interested in utilizing theatre and performance as tools towards more equitable, just, and sustainable futures. This concentration prioritizes putting the craft students learn through our curriculum into practice, inviting them to devise innovative, collaborative solutions to real-world problems.
Students in this program will pursue coursework and practicums including:
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- Performance Studies: an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the concept of “performance” across various aspects of life, including theatre, dance, rituals, social interactions, political events, and everyday behaviors
- Applied Performance: applying performance and arts practice to non-performance/artistic context including community engaged practice, professional contexts such as medicine or the law, as well as social justice movements.
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Community Engaged Praxis: working with communities in and around the Portland area through performance based projects including incarcerated students at CRCI through Inside/Out, and the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Portland.
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This concentration opens up potential career pathways for our students as lawyers, critics, educators, activists, organizers, curators, design researchers, and thought-leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion principles among others.
Learning outcomes include the ability to:
- Apply interdisciplinary skills
- Analyze the concept of “performance” across various aspects of life, including theatre, dance, rituals, social interactions, political events and everyday behaviors
- Apply performance and arts practice to non-performance/ artistic context including community engaged practice, professional contexts such as medicine or the law, as well as social justice movements.
- Collaborate to solve real-world problems
To fulfill a concentration in Arts for Community, a minimum of 47 semester credits is required, distributed as follows:
- TH 110A Theatre Laboratory
- TH 280 Theatre and Society: Global Foundations
- TH 356 Devised Performance
- TH 450 Senior Seminar
- TH 490 Senior Seminar Prep
- 4 semester credits in design
- 4 additional semester credits in dance OR performance
- 4 semester credits in dramatic literature/history
- 4 additional semester credits in internship (TH444)
- 16 semester credits in Applied Arts (minimum of 8 credits from Theatre) chosen from the following:
In the Theatre department:
| TH 238 | Performance from the Inside Out |
| TH 285 | Playing at the Border: Migration and Art |
| TH 340 | Theatre Theory |
| TH 383 | Topics in Global Theatre and Performance |
| TH 382 | American Drama: Performing Identities |
Beyond the Theatre department:
| Art 229 | Art & Ecology: Material Matters |
| MUS 142 | Music and Social Justice |
| Art 327 | Documenting Change or Useful Art |
| ELI 270 | Nonprofit Management |
Theatre is located in Fir Acres Theatre on the Undergraduate Campus.
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email theatre@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7491
fax 503-768-7671
Chair Štěpán S. Šimek
Theatre
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219