Course Outline of Record Los Medanos College 2700 East Leland Road Pittsburg CA 94565 (925) 439-2181

Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Subject Area/Course Number: -015

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Instructor(s)/Author(s): Casy Cann-Figel

Subject Area/Course No.: DRAMA-015 Units: 3 Course Name/Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Theatre Discipline(s): Drama

Pre-Requisite(s): None Co-Requisite(s): None

Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL-100

Catalog Description: This is an interdisciplinary course that focuses on the relationships of experience, imagination and expression in dramatic forms, particularly as they pertain to Asian American, African American, Latino American and European American theatre. This course also explores dramatic art as a cultural force in combination with visual arts, music and other art forms in relationship to the plays studied and includes analysis of both the individual and collaborative contributions of the playwright, director, actors and designers as they relate to live theatre productions.

Schedule Description:

Come explore theatre of many cultures. Students will read plays, discuss, and view theatre productions from African American, Asian American, European American, and Latino American and other cultures to discover the world around us that can only be explored in a dramatic setting.

Hours/Mode of Instruction: Lecture 54 Lab Composition Activity Total Hours 54 (Total for course)

Credit Credit Degree Applicable () Grading Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Repeatability 0 Credit Non-Degree (NDA) Letter (LR) 1 (If Non-Credit desired, contact Dean.) Student Choice (SC) 2 3

Please apply for: LMC General Education Requirement and/or Competency & Graduation Requirement(s): Creative Arts/Humanities

Transfer to: CSU UC IGETC LDTP Course is Baccalaureate Level: Yes No

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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015

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FOR OFFICE OF INSTRUCTION ONLY. DO NOT WRITE IN THE SECTION BELOW. Begin in Semester ______Catalog year 20____/20_____ Class Max: ______Dept. Code/Name:______T.O.P.s Code: ______Crossover course 1/ 2: ______ESL Class: ____Yes / No______DSPS Class: ____Yes / No_____ Coop Work Exp: ___Yes / No_____ Class Code A Liberal Arts & Sciences SAM Code A Apprenticeship Remediation Level B Basic Skills B Developmental Preparatory B Advanced Occupational NBS Not Basic Skills C Adult/Secondary Basic Education C Clearly Occupational D Personal Development/Survival D Possibly Occupational E For Substantially Handicapped E* Non-Occupational F Parenting/Family Support F Transfer, Non-Occupational G Community/Civic Development *Additional criteria needed H General and Cultural 1 One level below transfer I Career/Technical Education 2 Two levels below transfer J Workforce Preparation Enhanced 3 Three levels below transfer K Other non-credit enhanced Not eligible for enhanced

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Distribution: Original: Office of Instruction Copies: Admissions Office, Department Chairperson Rev 09-17-2008

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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015

Institutional Student Learning Outcomes

General Education SLOs (Recommended by GE Committee) At the completion of the LMC general education program, a student will: 1. read critically and communicate effectively as a writer and speaker. 2. understand connections among disciplines and apply interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. 3. think critically and creatively 4. consider the ethical implications inherent in knowledge, decision-making and action. 5. possess a worldview informed by diverse social, multicultural and global perspectives. (Each of the above student learning outcomes for the general education program has a written explanation with illustrations and examples of its application within courses, as well as specific assessment criteria. Consult the GE program information pages.)

Occupational Education SLOs (Recommended by Occupational Education Committee) At the completion of the LMC occupational certificate or degree, a student will: 1. Be academically prepared to obtain an entry-level or a mid-level position in their industry. 2. Apply critical thinking to research, evaluate, analyze and synthesize information. 3. Demonstrate strong communication skills (written and/or oral) and interpersonal skills (customer service and team work). 4. Appropriately apply industry materials and technology. 5. Demonstrate the skills and knowledge necessary to take and pass certification exams for career advancement in their industry. (Individual certificates or degree programs in occupational education may adopt some or all of these SLOs. Please check all those that apply to this course.)

Developmental Education SLOs (Recommended by Developmental Education Committee) At the completion of the LMC Developmental Education Program, a student will: 1. Demonstrate the skills necessary for the first transfer level courses in English and Math or for the English and Math competencies for the Certificate of Achievement. 2. Think critically to construct meaning and solve problems. 3. Read with comprehension. 4. Communicate effectively both in writing and orally. 5. Demonstrate the characteristics, habits, and attitudes of an effective learner.

Student Services SLOs 1. LMC students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of college on-line services. 2. LMC students will demonstrate proficiency in self-advocacy.

Library and Learning Support Services SLOs LMC students utilizing various Library and Learning Support Services will: 1. access and effectively utilize available campus Library and Learning Support Services. 2. apply knowledge learned and competencies gained from using Library and Learning Support Services to academic coursework and assignments. 3. demonstrate information competency skills needed to meet the research demands of academic course work and life long learning.

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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015

Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes (PSLOs)

1. Critically evaluate a film and/or play by writing an essay which synthesizes social and historical events and important themes in the films and plays (DRAMA-030, DRAMA-070, DRAMA-015) 2. Effectively communicate onstage as a performer or direct others in scenes to create a dramatic statement. This is evaluated through clear and projected speech, body fluidity and movement and specific, conscious choices a student makes. (DRAMA 20, 21, 42, 60, 62, etc) 3. Write a short screenplay or play which has at least 2 characters in conflict with one another that deals with interpersonal, social or political issues in a way which shows creativity and innovation. Or critically evaluate a short screenplay or play or a full length screenplay or play in an essay which shows the student understands the essential elements of dramatic writing. (DRAMA-062) 4. Show appreciation for a stage production by writing an essay or critique which reflects on the qualities which make for excellence on the stage and which draws upon historical knowledge and understanding of the entire theatrical process (DRAMA-016) 5. Write, shoot and direct a short documentary film which is coherent and shows creativity of thought and process. Or write an essay or answer questions which shows an appreciation of the documentary film (DRAMA-071) 6. Observe, monitor and evaluate strengths and weaknesses of oneself, then apply feedback to improve skills and learning. (All Drama courses)

Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes (CSLOs):

At the completion of Drama 15, students will:

1. Critically read, analyze and discuss plays from a socio-historic and/or artistic perspective and write critical evaluations of plays using the vocabulary, skills, tools and language of drama. (GESLO 1) (PSLO 1, 4)

2. Synthesize ideas, concepts and facts from a variety of disciplines, such as theatre, film, dance, visual art, music, literature, science, philosophy, ethics and sociology in order to evaluate the content and meaning of theater. (GESLO 2) (PSLO 1, 4)

3. Analyze the impact of theater on society. (GESLO 3) (PSLO 1)

4. Identify and evaluate ethical dilemmas and moral issues inherent in filmed, written and/or performed works. (GESLO 4) (PSLO 1, 4)

5. Compare and contrast how the cultural context of a dramatic work conveys meaningful connections and experiences across cultures. (GESLO 5) (PSLO 1)

Assessments:

Performance Quizzes on Plays Midterm Group Final Exam Review or Presentations/Peer Research Paper Review

CSLO 1 X X X CSLO 2 X CSLO 3 X X X CSLO 4 X X CSLO 5 X X

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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015

CSLO 1: Critically read, analyze and discuss plays from a socio-historic and/or artistic perspective; write critical evaluations of plays using the vocabulary, skills, tools and language of drama. (GESLO 1)

Performance Review or Research Paper: The student shall attend live theater production(s) and write review(s) that evaluate in detail, his/her observation of the six elements of theatre (actor, director, script, space, design, and audience). Or the student may select to write a 5-7 page research paper on a controversial theatre topic related to a play that requires student to evaluate critique and analyze subject of play.

Rationale: This assignment allows students to analyze critique and evaluate live theatre or controversial theatre topic using the skills, tools, vocabulary and language of drama.

Group Presentations/Peer Review: From a list of plays a group of students research a play from various perspectives such as biographical information about the playwright, the cultural context of the play, the cultural context during the time the play was written, history of the play itself, moral and ethical dilemmas, and artistic perspectives. Each student is responsible for researching a specific focus of the play and contributing to an oral presentation. The student audience reviews the presentation and writes a peer review about the presentation documenting what he/she learned about the play.

Rationale: This assignment allows students to analyze plays from a socio-historic and artistic perspective using the language of drama and to be exposed to the analysis of many plays via the student presentations.

Final Exam: On the final exam students answer a compare and contrast question between two plays regarding the socio-historic or cultural context of the plays.

Rationale: This question allows students to analyze the connection between plays in terms of the socio-historic and/or cultural context of the plays.

CSLO 2: Synthesize ideas, concepts and facts from a variety of disciplines, such as theatre, film, dance, visual art, music, literature, science, philosophy, ethics and sociology in order to evaluate the content and meaning of theater. (GESLO 2)

Group Presentations/Peer Review: From a list of plays a group of students research a play from various perspectives such as sociology, ethics, literature, philosophy and other art forms. Each student is responsible to research a specific focus of the play and make a presentation. The student audience reviews the presentation and writes a peer review about the presentation documenting what he/she learned about the play.

Rationale: This assignment allows students to analyze plays from an interdisciplinary perspective as well as exposing students to the analysis of many plays via the student presentations.

CSLO 3: Analyze the impact of theater on society. (GESLO 3)

Performance Review or Research Paper: The students will be asked to assess the ways in which a particular live performance can impact change or affect the status quo.

Rationale: This assignment allows students to analyze the different ways in which society is or has been changed by theatre

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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015

Rationale: The quizzes offer students the opportunity to examine the way in which material is evaluated or interpreted in a social context.

Final Exam: Students answer a question analyzing the role of theatre on society in the context of a given play.

Rationale: This question allows students to analyze the connection between theatre and society.

CSLO 4: Identify and evaluate ethical dilemmas and moral issues inherent in filmed, written and/or performed works. (GESLO 4)

Midterm: A question on the midterm asks students to identify the ethical dilemmas and moral issues in a play and/or filmed material and analyze how the subject matter of the piece approaches these issues.

Rationale: This question on the midterm allows students to isolate ethical and moral issues within a play/filmed material and grapple with the difficult choices and issues characters/people were faced with.

Final Exam: A question on the final exam asks students to identify the ethical dilemmas and moral issues in a selected play. The student will analyze how the subject matter of the piece approaches these issues.

Rationale: This question on the final exam allows students to isolate ethical and moral issues within a play and grapple with the difficult choices and issues characters are faced with.

CSLO 5: Compare and contrast how the cultural context of a dramatic work conveys meaningful connections and experiences across cultures. (GESLO 5)

Group Presentations/Peer Review: Plotline of one play can be compared and presented for similarities and/or differences with another play where cultural context is difference, analyzing how similarities do not always produce similar results. Students reviewing presentations will evaluate how cultural differences can produce similar and/or divergent outcomes.

Rational: The presentation allows students to bring out of the literature events that are similar and/or different within a give circumstance and how, culturally the outcome was changed (or not) due to the context of the subject. In the Peer Review the student audience will evaluate the context of the cultural response to the given outcome of a play.

Final Exam: A question on the final exam asks students to compare and contrast the cultural context of specific characters within two plays and identify how different cultures experience similar events yet interpret them in varying ways.

Rationale: This question on the final exam allows students to view isolated ethical and moral issues within a play and grapple with the difficult choices and issues characters are faced with.

Method of Evaluation/Grading:

A level work is characterized by: performance reviews or a research paper that includes careful analysis, meaningful connections among plays and course material, multiple examples in support of a clear thesis, identifies and expresses themes and underlying structures of both the literature itself and the productions, an explanation of how techniques of theatre create understanding for the audience through specific visual and auditory effects, and demonstrates insight into how theatre relates to their own lives and the lives of others; quizzes on plays that score

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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015

90% or above and include an answer to a short essay question that provides in depth specific examples that support the question; a midterm that includes critical written analysis of a video that identifies pertinent information from course notes and uses the course notes to accurately, concisely and effectively answer the questions; oral group presentations and peer reviews that include in depth research into the historic and cultural aspects of their project play, the playwright’s biography and relates that to the play, and a creative oral report that is well organized and includes original visual aids; peer reviews that provide examples of information learned and a critical review of the group project; and a final exam that identifies the ethical and moral dilemmas of the play, includes a succinct analysis of the play, identifies play structure, plot themes, and evaluates if the goal of the play was reached.

C level work is characterized by: performance reviews or a research paper that includes analysis, connections among plays and course material, an example that supports the thesis, identifies and expresses themes or underlying structures of the literature or the productions, and demonstrates limited insight into how theatre relates to their own lives and the lives of others ; quizzes on plays that score 70% to 79.9% and includes an answer to a short essay question that provides a general example that supports the question; a midterm that includes written analysis of a video that includes information from course notes and uses the course notes to accurately answer the questions; oral group presentations and peer reviews that includes research into the historic and cultural aspects of their project play, the playwright’s biography, and a creative oral report that is organized and some includes visual aids; peer reviews that provide an example of information learned and a review of the group project; and a final exam that identifies the ethical and moral dilemmas of the play, includes an analysis of the play, identifies play structure or plot themes, and provides a limited evaluation of the goal of the play.

Grading:

Quizzes 10%-15% Performance Review or Research Paper 15%- 20% Midterm 10%-15% Group Presentation/Peer Review 25% Final Exam 25%

CSLO Weighting:

CSLO 1 20% CSLO 2 10% CSLO 3 27.5% CSLO 4 22.5% CSLO 5 20%

Course Content: Course content may be drawn from the outline below (list may include newly written plays).

Theatre (theatre, film, dance, visual art, music, literature)

o Context: Cultural, Social, Political o Terms and Definitions o Six elements: Actor; Director; Script; Space; Design; Audience o Development in America o Agitprop o Environmental o Protest/ Civil disobedience

Drama o Play structure o Elements of plot o Plot devices o Genre o Style

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o Themes Cultural and Ethnic awareness o Cultural stereotypes in dramatic forms o Redefining stereotypes

Latino/Chicano American Theatre

o Identify and examine social & cultural elements o Analyze effect and impact on American culture o Ethical dilemmas and moral issues o Political Agenda o Playwrights may include: Luis Valdez, Sylvia Gonzalez S., Cherrie Moraga, Octavio Solis. o Plays may include: Zoot Suit, The Migrant Farmworker’s Son, Waiting Women, Boxcar, La Extranjera, Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in 2 Acts, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints, Santos & Santos.

African American Theatre

o Identify and examine social & cultural elements o Analyze effect and impact on American culture o Ethical dilemmas and moral issues o Political Agenda o Civil Rights Movement o Playwrights may include: Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, , Amiri Baraka, Lonne Elder, , , , Suzan-Lori Parks, Nadine Graham, Louis Felder, Max Bush, Charles Smith. George C. Wolfe o Plays may include: Colored Museum; Trouble in Mind, Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, , Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, , Seven Guitars, Venus, Jitney, Dutchman, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, , Day of Absence, A Soldier’s Play, Bring in da’ Noise, Bring in da’ Funk, Jelly’s Last Jam, Spunk, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, The Basement at the Bottom at the End of the World, The Magic Kingdom, Ezigbo, the Spirit Child, Takunda.

Asian American Theatre o Identify and examine social & cultural elements o Analyze effect and impact on American culture o Ethical dilemmas and moral issues o Political Agenda o Playwrights may include: Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Elizabeth Wong, Karen Huie, Kipp Erante Cheng, Michael Golamco o Plays may include: Song for a Nisea Fisherman, FOB, The Dance and The Railroad, M. Butterfly, Golden Child, Miss Saigon, Letters to a Student Revolutionary, Yasuko and the Young S-S- Samurai, The China Crisis, Achievers

European American Theatre o Identify and examine social & cultural elements o Analyze effect and impact on American culture o Ethical dilemmas and moral issues o Political Agenda o Playwrights may include: , , Christopher Durang, , Lillian Hellman, , , Caryl Churchill, Catherine Butterfield, , Shanley o Plays may include: , , , Baby With The Bathwater, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, , The Children’s Hour, Angel’s in America, , Top Girls, Joined at the Head, , Doubt

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Course Title: Multicultural Perspectives within Theatre Subject Area/Course Number: DRAMA-015

Multi-Ethnic/Multi-Cultural American Theatre o Identify and examine social & cultural elements o Analyze effect and impact on American culture o Political Agenda o Theatre for Social Justice o LGBT Theatre o Gender issues o Indigenous America Theatre o Immigrant Theatre o Playwrights may include: Eve Ensler, Moises Kaufman, Doug Wright, , Tony Kushner, Eric Bogosian, Richard Greenberg, Drew Hayden Taylor, William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., , Anna Deavere Smith. o Plays may include: The Vagina Monologues; The Laramie Project; I Am My Own Wife; Doubt, , Sex Drugs Rock & Roll, !, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, The Independence of Eddie Rose, , Twilight Los Angeles.. Instructional Methods:

Lecture Lab Activity Problem-based Learning/Case Studies Collaborative Learning/Peer Review Demonstration/Modeling Role-Playing Discussion Computer Assisted Instruction Other (explain) Group Projects

Textbooks: Play scripts are drawn from the itemized listed Course Content above and/or are revised periodically as new titles become available. It is the intent of this course to remain current, informative and relevant to students as content aligns with GESLOs.

Possible: Multicultural Theatre II, Contemporary Hispanic, Asian and African-American Plays Edited by Roger Ellis, Meriwether Publishing Ltd, 1998.

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