Spring 2021 Update 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Spring 2021 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ETH (0893) 526 - Exploring the Arts: Creative Literacies and Arts Education


Credits: 3.00

Practice introducing artist books, graphic novels, and performances into curricula to inspire curiosity and creativity.  Explore literacy skills and creative teaching activities across the arts.  Engage with interdisciplinary, meaningful methods of teaching theatre literacy, visual/media literacy, and museum literacy with selected poetry, performance, and other works of art.

Course Learning Goals:
  1. Students will build their skills in locating and integrating arts teaching and learning resources that build content literacy in the arts (e,g, Visual Thinking Strategies and Readers Theatre activities that build observation and writing skills through works of art and performance)
  2. Students will evaluate by compare/contrasting resources at the intersection of arts learning, media literacy, and literacy building (e.g. analysis of the Guggenheim’s Learning Through Art program or New Victory Theatre children’s performances and curricula)
  3. Students will practice curriculum planning that includes arts and literacy activities (specifically, students develop a mini-unit of instruction applying complementary resources, principles, and learning goals of arts and literacies)