Mar 29, 2024  
2015-2016 SGPP Catalog and Handbook 
    
2015-2016 SGPP Catalog and Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GN330 Arts and Social Change (3 cr.)


This course examines the role and responsibility of the performing, visual, and literary arts in creating social identity and change. The role of the artist, the controversy around censorship, and examples from both historical and contemporary societies are explored.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

  1. Define social identity and social change.
  2. Compare methods used by organizations and individuals that create social change.
  3. Identify the role of the artist in performing, literary, and visual arts effecting social change.
  4. Compare the development and evolution of art forms from contemporary to historic cultures.
  5. Differentiate limited and unlimited governments and identify how they may support or suppress the arts.
  6. Examine various governments’ implementation of censorship.
  7. Identify methods of funding the arts, stakeholders, and decision makers on what art is made available and promoted to the public.
     



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