Making Connections: Performing Arts in Writing and Speaking Courses

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar Presents: Because the (Inter)Personal is the Political or Expanded Notions of Relationships and Personal Identity
  In Paper Session: A Scholar to Scholar Roundtable: Building Bridges to Academic Success in the Basic Course: Four Models for a First-Year Program

Abstract

This paper examines both the possibilities of and problems with creating core or basic classes specifically designed for performing arts majors and minors. The paper explains how different theoretical and pedagogical approaches are both obstacles and advantages to the development of such classes. In the end, it argues that such classes can be opportunities for new learning pathways that bridge the divide between freshman requirements and the special aspects of performing arts programs.

Author

• Michelle Lavigne, University of San Francisco