H48.1060/ 2060 Sem 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Marta Vega
Cultural Equity and the Community Arts Imperative
Professor Marta Vega
H48.1060.001 (Undergraduate)
H48.2060.001 (Graduate)
Undergraduate and Graduate
Undergraduates – Sophmores, Juniors and Seniors only
Thursday, 2:00 – 4:45pm
4 points – will count toward general education requirements (Humanities)
This course provides the opportunity for students to historically contextualize the growth of the community cultural arts movement grounded in the social and cultural equity activists movements that grew out of the Civil Rights Movement. The continuing mission and work of multidisciplinary community based cultural arts organizations challenge cultural and social inequities framing their creative work and organizational practices to assure equitable inclusion of the varying aesthetic criteria and expressions that reflect the multiethnic communities that are integral to the nations cultural identity.
The first section of the course will take place in advocacy cultural arts community based organizations in the city. Community arts leaders in the field in collaboration with the class instructor will teach the course. This team teaching approach will afford students direct exposure and learning experiences with practitioners in the field within the communities they serve. Students will have direct immersion within the community and the community organization understanding the operational and programmatic realities of the field as well as direct engagement in advocacy creative work. Students will be exposed to teaching strategies for working within communities that include readings, open discussions, as well as working on multidisciplinary collaborations in the field.
