IMMIGRANTS AND THE MUSICAL
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
   

THEA 1408 - IMMIGRANTS AND THE MUSICAL


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course examines how immigrants helped shape musical theatre into the form audiences know and love today. It also will analyze the transformation of musical theatre's representation of immigrants over three centuries. Through the analysis of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality, the class will examine how the experiences of immigrant artists and musical theatre representation reflected, responded to, and rebelled against prevailing anxieties and tensions surrounding immigrants in U.S. society and globally.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis


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