In a culturally and socially diverse society, discussion about issues of difference, conflict and community are needed to facilitate understanding between social/cultural groups. In this intergroup dialogue, students will actively participate in two days (16 hours) of semi-structured, face-to-face meetings with students from other social identity groups. Students will learn from each others' perspectives, read and discuss relevant reading material, and explore their own and other groups' experiences in various social and institutional contexts.

This course is designed for intermediate and advanced dancers interested in performing. The work developed will be performed in the Fall Faculty Concert.

This course will investigate the contributions of Black Women Activists to the Black Radical Tradition. Beginning with abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, students will study the lines of continuity that link this generation to later figures in the Labor and Civil Rights movements, such as Ella Baker, as well as Black Feminists including the Combahee River Collective, poet Audre Lorde, and the leadership of the current Movement for Black Lives.

This course will examine everyday urban life in Spain from the post-Civil War period (1939) to 2019. We will approach cities as dynamic global networks shaped by cultures, politics, economies, demographics, ideologies, memories, and imaginations. Through literary, visual, and theoretical texts, we will explore the in/exclusivity of large-scale urban phenomena such as street design, gentrification, city ordinances, globalization, and mass tourism.

This class explores African approaches to performance, premised on the interdisciplinarity of theatre in many African societies. We take our inspiration from centuries of apprentice-style artist training in some indigenous West African societies. The evolution of oral and popular performance traditions into literary theatre has also necessitated a similar trend in the training of the modern actor. The primary object of this class is to be able to embody a plethora of idiomatic expressions.

This class explores African approaches to performance, premised on the interdisciplinarity of theatre in many African societies. We take our inspiration from centuries of apprentice-style artist training in some indigenous West African societies. The evolution of oral and popular performance traditions into literary theatre has also necessitated a similar trend in the training of the modern actor. The primary object of this class is to be able to embody a plethora of idiomatic expressions.

The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the challenges that accompany auditioning for film and theatre. During the semester students will be asked to work on a series of monologues (4-6) that range from classical to contemporary in style. Time will also be spent on cold readings, taped auditions, resume and headshot workshops, and singing auditions. This is an advanced level course and is intended for students interested in pursuing audition both at Mount Holyoke College and outside of academic institutions.

An introduction to the art and work of the set designer in the performing arts. Students will learn how a designer approaches a script, how this work impacts a production, and what means are used in the execution of the process. They will learn how to develop their own visual imaginations and how to create visual concepts through discussion, renderings, models, and some hand drafting.

An exploration of theatre history and dramaturgy. Students learn to apply historical methods to theatre, exploring a range of materials including scholarship, images and archival items. Class discussions and assignments address the matter at the heart of theatre history: how do we interpret something as ephemeral as theatrical production? The second half of the course turns to the application of techniques of research and analysis learned in the first: specifically, the work of the dramaturg.

This course engages with the rich tradition of French writing from Haiti. Beginning with Emeric Bergeaud's Stella (1859), the first novel of the first Black republic, students will explore the history of Haitian writing across literary genres and movements, including the Indigénisme that anticipated Négritude. We will study this tradition both on the island and abroad.