Performance as Social Change
Learning Outcomes
An academic microcredential for students interested in understanding the critical role arts-based performances play in facilitating and advancing social change through interdisciplinary coursework.
The microcredential includes the creation of a Capstone experimental performance.
Students will exit the microcredential program with a broad array of transferable skills and competencies related to social change, leadership, multiculturalism, civic engagement, research, communication and performance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Current Geneseo students can begin any microcredential by taking the course and contacting the chair or the coordinator listed.
CONTACT
Mark Broomfield
English and Creative Writing
broomfield@geneseo.edu
SKILLS
- Collaboration
- Complex Problem Solving
- Creativity
- Cultural Competency
REQUIREMENTS
1. Required (4 credits)
- PASC 105 – Performance as Social Change I Credit(s): 4
2. Required (1 credit)
3. Select one of the options below:
Option A: One of the following
- PASC 205 – Performance as Social Change II Credit(s): 4
- THEA 221 – Acting I Credit(s): 3
Option B: Two of the following
2 credits each
Option C:
Option D: One of the following
- ANTH 100 – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH 120 – Language and Culture
- BIOL 105 – Contemporary Biology
- BLKS 188
- WRTG 105 – Writing Seminar: (subtitle)
- WRTG 288
- COMN 102 – Principles of Public Speaking
- COMN 103 – Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
- COMN 160 – Introduction to Mass Communication
- COMN 251
- COMN 355
- ENGL 101 – Topics in Literature: (subtitle)
- ENGL 201 – Foundations of Creative Writing
- ENGL 203 – Reader and Text: (subtitle)
- ENVR 124 – Environmental Issues
- HIST 162 – History Matters, U.S.: (subtitle)
- HIST 249 – Studies in American History: (subtitle)
- HIST 260 – Issues in the History of American Women
- HIST 275 – Global History of Sexual Science
- HUMN 222 – Black Humanities
- (recommended courses include but are not limited to these)
4. Required (4 credits)
- PASC 341 – Capstone in Performance as Social Change Credit(s): 4