Art & Social Practice for Paraprofessionals ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

Social Practice describes a conversation between the arts and the social sciences and an engagement in the creative process in ways that are relevant to students' lives as workers and citizens. People who are a part of this conversation can be practitioners educated in, inspired by, or who adopt methods, ideas and attitudes from conventional and historical art forms. They then use these artistic approaches to address major questions in social life or to affect it in a variety of ways. This first practitioner makes an art out of being social. Or, secondly, it can describe practitioners who are educated in, inspired by, or who adopt methods, ideas and attitudes from the social sciences. Thus, Social Practice is an experiment, which could begin with asking a series of questions. These questions are answered in many different ways, using our thoughts, our actions and a variety of materials. Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course is offered as part of union partnership programs and is open to non-partnership students subject to availability.