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DRAM 303 Indigenous Playwrights Units: 3.00
A survey of the work of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis playwrights, exploring the stories, concerns and aesthetics of these contemporary theatrical practitioners. Course work involves reading, discussion, and writing descriptively, critically or creatively about selected pieces in artistic, social and/or political contexts.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Seminar, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 3 or above.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Combine and synthesize existing ideas and images in original ways that are marked by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking and risk taking in their work as playwrights and scholar-critics.
- Develop and effectively express ideas in writing using a variety of genres and styles.
- Gain familiarity with the dramaturgical strategies and the political effects of those strategies in contemporary plays by Indigenous playwrights.
- Identify, locate, evaluate and effectively and responsibly use and share information in support of their work as playwrights and thinkers to understand the contextual foundation of selected plays.
- Understand the historical and contemporary social/political/economic circumstances that inform the creative work of Indigenous playwrights in 21st century Canada.