For this week I would like you toconsider the areas of history and rise of Multiculturalism in Theatre,Film and T.V. that we have studied and covered this semester. I wouldlike you to think about and consider how these areas of study haveimpacted your point of view overall about the power of the Artsgenerally, and Theatre, T.V and Film more specifically to bring oursociety away from the trenches of racism, ethnic class systems, thepolitics and culture of American “Jim Crow”, ethnic and culturalxenophobia, gender inequality, poverty, crime, upward mobility and allof the other topics and issues that you researched and thoughtfullyspoke to during this course.

Which of our areas of study: African American Theatre, Asian American Theatre, LGBT Theatre, Latino Theatre, Women in Theatre, Urban Theatre, didyou feel you learned or were impacted by the most? Which area of studydid you feel most passionate about? Perhaps the question is which areaof study was closest to you? Perhaps one of these weeks of study led youto discover a more specific Theatre group, play, playwright, orspecific artist(s) that inspired you, challenged you, touched you orperhaps, even provoked you?

For your assignment I would like you to choose an area ofstudy from our course work that you would like to do further study andresearch on.

You will write up a one page double spaced proposal as to why you chose this specific topic to further research.

Why does this specific topic interest you or what about the topic struck you when first studied?

Why do you believe this specific area of study should be research further?

What do you hope to learn more about with this study and research?