Courses

Social or community-engaged storytelling is rooted in empowering a community to lead the telling of its own story. This class looks at ways in which those stories facilitate a community or constituent messaging outcome. Those who practice creative engagement serve as stewards for a greater narrative.  Students will have the opportunity to work with local advocacy organizations and artists around issues of houselessness and economic vulnerability, racial justice, and environmental resiliency. The culmination of the class will task groups of students to develop the full design of a new project proposal in response to one of these advocacy issues.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Develop a vocabulary around community engagement and creative engagement.
• Design the messaging, narrative, and measurable impact for a creative intervention.
• Understand the difference and intention between live and reproduced (digitally-distributed) work - what role each serves within a creative intervention.
• Assess the roles live and reproduced (digitally-distributed) work serve within a creative intervention.
• Articulate ways creative engagement can be applied or observed to fail.
• Design a project that applies the principles as outlined above, inclusive of producer plan, intervention outline, and community outreach and partnership plan.