PMA 4680

Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Transformation

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

To explore cultural aspects of imprisonment through a focus on theatre produced by those incarcerated.  Does making theatre in prison seem to assist in transformation? Students create work with PPTG members in lab sessions, do narrative interviews, create annotated Internet data base.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: some evidence of previous community engaged learning.

Course Attribute (CU-CEL)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2023FA, 2019SP, 2017SP

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, SCD-AS) (CA-AG, D-AG, LA-AG)

When Offered Spring.

Course Subfield (HTC)

Comments Students enrolled must be able to pass a background check and will be limited in number by the Department of Corrections--probably between six and eight students each semester the course is offered.

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