Spotlight Recovery: Harnessing the Power of Therapeutic Drama in a Community Setting
Please join Associate Professor of Social Work, Dr. Jonel Thaller and Registered Drama Therapist, Tracena Marie to facilitate an IMMERSIVE LEARNING project with Delaware County Community Corrections.
Fall 2023 | 3 credit hours | Mondays (10:00 - 12:50) | SOCW 470 or THEA 434
The project is recruiting students from various disciplines such as theater, dance, music, art, social work, psychology, teaching, English literature, among others to plan and implement the creative arts-based intervention Playback Theatre for Delaware County Community Corrections' staff members.
This course will provide students to gain knowledge about vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and workplace burnout in a public agency setting.
If interested in exploring ways to intersect the emotional wellness, arts, storytelling, and activism this course may be of interest to you!
For more information and to join the class, please contact Dr. Jonel Thaller, Department of Social Work or Tracena Marie, Department of Theatre and Dance.
MASTS of Whitely: A Community-Based Mapping and Story-Telling System
Fall 2023
GEOG434: Maps, Environment, and Society
Theme: MASTS of Whitely: A Community-Based Mapping and Story-Telling System
Tuesdays, 4:00pm - 6:40pm
GEOG 434 is a student- and community driven immersive learning project that seeks to build a partnership between researchers and students at Ball State University and the Whitely community to create a community-centered, open-ended online platform that gathers and shares place-based histories of the neighborhood, historical sources and documents, and personal spatial biographies that can serve to consolidate the cultural identity of the neighborhood and as reference material and educational tool to learn about Whitely. The course welcomes from any area, e.g., geography, history, anthropology, computer science, interested in interacting and collaborating with the Whitely neighborhood.
For more information, contact Dr. Jörn Seemann, Department of Geography and Meteorology.