L530:  Drama as Critical Literacy

Instructor: Gus Weltsek
Contact Information:  gweltsek@indiana.edu

For more information, please contact Distance Education at deregstr@indiana.edu

Course Description

This course explores a wide range of connections between drama and critical literacy across the curriculum.  Focus is given to current theories, practice/strategies and research that articulate this connection.  One of the major foci will be upon the place Drama as Critical Literacy may play within an ESL/EFL setting.  Our engagements include participatory drama sessions, theoretical discussions and lesson construction and execution.  Areas covered include: process drama, drama for social justice and equity, drama across the curriculum and alternate spaces, as well as, evaluation and assessment all framed trough the connection across the curriculum.