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2019 - 2020 Academic Catalog 
    
2019 - 2020 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

THD 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Race and Gender on Stage

4 credits (Spring)
This course delves into questions concerning the social categories of race and gender by investigating the theatrical works of people of color and women. Our study will engage a spectrum that includes landmark plays of the mid and late twentieth century and also recent twenty-first century works. Particularly, we will attend closely to theatrical works by African American, Native American, Latinx, and Asian American theatermakers. Our discussions, critical writing, and creative engagements with plays by and about people of color and women will help us develop a more thorough comprehension of the ways in which playwrights of color and women have deployed theater to interrogate and theorize their racialized and gendered social contexts, histories, and subjectivities.

Prerequisite: Any 200-level THD course.
Instructor: Mayorga