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Year of the Arts: Academics

As part of the Year of the Arts mission to bring cultural enrichment to the beloved Camden community, Rutgers University–Camden is committed to creating educational opportunities for its students and for school-age children throughout the South Jersey region.

Year of the Arts centers on fulfilling the promise of the arts as highlighted in these important statistics:

  • Students with high arts participation and low socioeconomic status have a four percent dropout rate—five times lower than their peers.
  • Students who take four years of arts and music classes score an average of more than 150 points higher on the SAT than students who take them for half a year or less.
  • Low-income students who are highly engaged in the arts are twice as likely to graduate college as their peers with no arts education.

To that end, Rutgers–Camden is sponsoring academic programming to actively engage students in the arts within traditional and non-traditional settings.

  • Bridging Science and Art:  Restoring Camden’s Soils and Beautifying the Land with Native Plant Seed Balls
    I    nstructor: Jennifer Orberle (Biology) / Elizabeth Demaray (VMPA)
    Course: Ecology of Soil Organizations (50:120:422)

    Public art in Rutgers-Camden’s back yard:  Street and mural arts in Philadelphia
    Instructor: Sean Duffy (Psychology)
    Course: Culture, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Urban Life:  An environmental psychology of Philadelphia and Paris (Psychology 457)

    Environmental Stories in Latin American Cultures:  Linking Local and Global Perspectives Through Art
    Instructor: Carla Giaudrone (World Languages)
    Course: Environmental Stories in Latin American Cultures (50:940:291, Special Topic)

    Cleopatra: Gender, Power, Race and History
    Instructor: Evan Jewel (History)
    Course: Perspectives on History, HIST 299

    Emerging Media and the Art of Lauren McCarthy
    Instructors and Courses: Creative Coding (Travis DuBose), Choose Your Own Adventure (Robert Emmons); AI & Society (Nathan Walker); Feminist and Cultural Studies (Allison Page); Interactive Music and Media (Mark Zaki)

    Black Camden: Urban History and the African American Experience
    Instructor:  Kendra Boyd (History)
    Course: Black Camden:  Urban History and the African American Experience

    Theatre & Democracy
    Instructor: Shauna Shames (Political Science)
    Course: Theatre and Democracy (New)

    Masculinities with the Arts
    Instructor: Gail Caputo (SACJ)
    Course: Masculinities (443:314 and 920:348)

     

  • Enhancing Visual Perception, an Asset in Healthcare: Looking is Not Seeing, Using Art to Develop Observational Skills

  • How IP Shapes the Creative Process