Community

A City Divided: History, Arts, Culture, and Erasure in East Austin
Faculty member teaching this course: Liza Manjarrez

The 1928 Plan drew a line in the city’s physical and social fabric forcefully making East Austin the primary home for Black and Latinx residents. Over the last fifteen years, the face(s) has been changing with new developments once again displacing the community. Explore the history, art, culture of East Austin. 

Community: Finding Spaces of Belonging
Faculty member teaching this course: Jennifer Jefferson

Welcome to your new St. Edward’s college community! What does that mean? What are communities? How are they shaped and maintained? How can they help people feel more connected and give a sense of belonging? In this course, we'll explore a range of communities and try to identify ways that they provide people with a sense of connection and belonging.

The Self and the World: Music, Movies, and Essays 
Faculty member teaching this course: Chris Flynn

Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, and many more … This class looks at how artists write, film, and sing versions of themselves, and explores how self expression moves us into community with others. Film critic Timothy Corrigan has written: “the essayistic indicates a kind of encounter between the self and the public domain.” In this class students will analyze and express their own journeys and links with the world around them.

Theater and Community
Faculty member teaching this course: Michelle Polgar

If, as Charles Vogl writes, we are living in the loneliest period in American history, then what role might theatre play in bringing us back together? How do we define “community;” what constitutes “theatre,” and what makes it enticing? Though performance, guest lectures, field trips, readings and class discussion, students will investigate theatre as a means to build, reflect, engage and inspire communities. There will be show tunes.