{"id":1765,"date":"2022-02-28T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/?post_type=course&#038;p=1765"},"modified":"2023-02-15T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:24:36","slug":"acting-up-teaching-theater-for-change","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/acting-up-teaching-theater-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Up: Teaching Theater for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DRAMA 490F\/599C<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this multidisciplinary course, students practice using the language and methods of<br \/>theater to challenge institutional oppression and advance community dialogue about power<br \/>and privilege. This practice generates opportunities for collective problem-solving. The<br \/>course culminates in a student-generated interactive theater performance and dialogue.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do you make positive change in classroom and institutional<br \/>climates so that all of our students thrive?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s an increasingly urgent question in higher education and beyond. One evidencebased<br \/>answer: by building practical skills in Theatre of the Oppressed, social change theater,<br \/>and other arts-based pedagogies. These skills promote inclusive educational environments,<br \/>whether in a classroom, online, or in community contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1765","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 18:27:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}