Course Details

Plays With a Social Conscience

 

LITR1-CE9325 / $370
SPRING 2012
Continuing Education: Humanities and Performing Arts

Examine how eight well-known playwrights bring moving, memorable stories to the stage and illuminate the injustices evident in cultures and communities. Issues of gender, race, and class are given special focus in this course as students read the works of George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Miller, Caryl Churchill, Charles Fuller, Larry Kramer, Athol Fugard, Lynn Nottage, and Lisa Ramirez. Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions.

Please read Shaw's Pygmalion for the first class.

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Related Subject Areas: Literature, Humanities

 

 

 

Section 1

 

Tuesday 1:00pm-2:40pm
March 20 - May 8

8 Sessions

Instructor: Bob Lamm  
Location: Midtown Center