This first year Connections class connects students to each other in an exploration of arts and activism and how to balance life as students and scholars interested in justice and social change. It connects students to campus programs about arts and justice, and it connects students to the community by introducing them to the work of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS) and its work with incarcerated women.
At the start, the particular focus of class examples is theatre and prisons, including but not limited to: plays that depict performances by incarcerated people, plays made from the narratives of incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people, prison performance programs focused on Shakespeare, and programs that support incarcerated people to explore playwriting. As the course goes, students will have the option to explore arts activism in other mediums as they develop culminating projects and reflections.