First Year Seminar 191HFA23 - FYS-Performing Power, Progress

Can the "lie" of art reveal truths about our society? Whose stories are told onstage and what can this telling teach us? In this course, we will use plays as an entry point to discuss race, gender, sexuality, ability and class--and where "we" fit into their intersections. Working with playwrights like Jackie Sibblies Drury, Young Jean Lee, and Larissa FastHorse, we will build community and learn alongside each other about societal structures, artistic activism, and ourselves.

First year students only - (Freshmen or Sophomore status) First year (Fr or Soph)