Exploring Arts for Social Change: Communities in Action to be offered again this fall

Course number Education 496, 13 weeks

Credit and non-credit

The course is an overview of the field that includes historical, local and global case studies; goals and strategies; overview of discipline-specific forms; forms and roles of dialogue processes; arts and social change writing by Canadian and international scholars; issues in the field, including ethics; invited practitioner-guests from the field; hands-on, collective arts-creation projects; and reflective writing.

The details:

Exploring Arts for Social Change: Communities in Action will run for 13 weeks, from 7 September through 30 November 2011, 6:30-9:20 PM, at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver. It will be taught by doctors Lynn Fels and Judith Marcuse.

If you are a current undergraduate student interested in taking the course for three units of credit, please contact the Education Department’s advisor, Jacquie Breadon. Her e-mail is educuga@sfu.ca; her phone number is 778.782.3436.

If you are not a current university student and want to take the course on a non-credit basis, please subscribe to an ICASC mail-list by sending an e-mail to cep-icasc-interestlist-request@sfu.ca with the word subscribe in the subject line. You don’t need to add anything in the body of the message. Subscribing this way means that staff in Continuing Studies will be able to inform you when formal registration is open.

For more information, please contact the Community Education Program at community-ed@sfu.ca or visit http://www.sfu.ca/community/arts/ for program updates. You can also call Megan Frazer, Program Assistant, Continuing Studies, if you require more information. She’s at 778.782.7925. If you need to connect with Judith, her e-mail is judith@jmprojects.ca.