Course Description

CAS 213 PIONEER SCHOLARS WILD IRISH SPIRITS   1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
This course designed for the Pioneer Scholars program examines the liberal arts, Irish drama and complex spiritualities through experimental and site-specific performance. Do we still believe that land and spirit can be wild with us? We will explore how stories, improvisation, history, and ritual can teach us, in the words of the Irish ecological mystic John Moriarty, to "walk beautifully on the earth." Ritual and performance-from a celebration of the Catholic Mass to walking a graveyard to a night at the pub after seeing a good play-can "re-wild" our own spirits in relationship to the natural world and each other. This unique course introduces the theory and practice of site-specific and embodied liberal arts study, ritual, and theatre by taking place amid the drama of waves, mountains, people, and stories of a journey to Ireland and back.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years