Flipping the Script 1: The Need for New Stories and Storytellers

Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 2:303:15 p.m.

Monica Ganas, Ph.D., Theater Arts

This session will explore the ever-increasing role diversity plays in the stories we tell about ourselves in America, from films with ever more diverse casts to real life experiences in everyday life. For instance, what can we learn from High School Musical about the actual high school experience? Are there insights to be gained about what students need in order to thrive that can inspire actual change? Or what redemptive lessons can the slowly growing presence of Asian stories in cinema prompt culture wide? These and other such topics will be explored in this symposium.

Sharpey was the Victim: The Lessons of High School Musical, Hannah Martinez, Undergraduate Student, Theater Arts

Incorporating Multiple Intelligences in American Education and Standardized Testing with an Emphasis on Public Education, Skyler Priest, Undergraduate Student, Theater Arts

Does the Success of Crazy Rich Asians Signal a New Era in Cinema? David Kim, Undergraduate Student, Music

Location

Classrooms (DUKE), 517
701 E. Foothill Blvd.
Azusa, CA 91702
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