EDU 290 Imagine, Create, Connect, Perform!
This course explores the value of teaching the arts in both discipline-based arts classrooms and through arts integration in school and community settings. The core concepts of the Arts Literacy Project, originally developed at Brown University, which is a pedagogical approach that focuses on developing literacy skills through rich and sustained arts instruction will form the basis of the class. Students will explore learning in and through the arts using a process-based approach that allows for deeper contextual comprehension, while taking into consideration a variety of learning styles. There will be opportunities for in class exploration through readings, discussions, and experiential learning. As students become proficient in using these practices and develop an understanding of the theory behind the practices, there will be opportunities to take this work into schools and/or community settings. Students’ final work will be exhibited for the larger community in the form of art, music or drama. This course is interactive and community-based! This course is appropriate for students interested in theatre, dance, music, art, and/or literature; future educators attentive to innovative strategies for both teaching and learning; psychology majors or education minors interested in the effects of kinesthetic approaches to learning on cognitive development or the connection between the arts and learning.
Cross Listed Courses
THR 334.