TH 435 - Howlround Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Theatre Practice

Credits: 4 credits
This seminar offers graduate students and senior undergraduate students the opportunity to engage closely with researching and writing on contemporary theatre practices through close engagement with HowlRound Theatre Commons, a knowledge commons that encourages freely sharing intellectual and artistic resources and expertise to amplify progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitate connection between diverse practitioners. To that end, students explore and familiarize themselves with the values, systems and practices of HowlRound by engaging with it as a database/research tool, a teaching tool, as a meeting place of ideas and peers, and an aspirational home for students’ own interests and developing expertise. Additionally, this seminar provides students with an opportunity to practice writing accessible “public-facing scholarship” geared toward fellow theatre-makers and contemporary practitioners. Prerequisite: PA majors and senior standing for the 400-level class. Class is cross-listed with a graduate section.

Liberal Arts Perspective(s):
Foundations Requirement(s):