Stanford students can study and receive an IDA thematic concentration through the Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CSRE) major. Students can also emphasize in Black Performance through the African and African-American Studies major.

fall 2008

CSRE 201B - From Racial Justice to Multiculturalism: Movement-based Arts Organizing in the Post Civil Rights Era
Instructor: Gina Hernandez-Clarke
5 Units, Tuesdays/Thursdays 3:15–5:05 pm

winter 2009

Drama 110 - Identity, Diversity & Aesthetics
Instructor: Professor Harry J. Elam, Jr.
5 units
This course is the core of our annual program. Each year students may apply for enrollment in the popular IDA Visiting Artists Workshops. Read our press release about the 2009 Visiting Artists.
***APPLICATION REQUIRED TO ENROLL***

ADDITIONAL COURSES OF INTEREST

winter 2009

Drama/CSRE 17N/  DocuDrama
Instructor: Cherrié Moraga

3units

This course provides an introduction to "Docu-drama" as a form of dramatic writing, which provides a social critique of current or historical events through creative documentation and dramatization.

spring 2009

CSRE 179G/  Indigenous Identity in Diaspora--People of Color Art Practice in North America

Instructor: Cherrie Moraga

5 units (This course fulfills CSRE IDA Core Course Requirement)

This is a core CSRE course in the Identities, Diversity and Aesthetics (IDA) Track.  CSRE majors who wish to emphasize in IDA must take 179G as one of two core core CSRE requirements.  With special emphasis on performance and literary art, this seminar serves as a critical and creative gateway to the IDA emphasis for emerging artist-scholars. The course offers a 21st century examination of people of color aesthetics; drawing from contemporary works in conversation with their native origins.

Creative Writing
Instructor: Patricia Powell
Explore new possibilities for writing and art. Classes will be structured around writing experiments, assigned readings, museum visits, performance of students' works, and frequent visits from poets, fiction writers and artists who blur these boundaries.