Focus

What is the Critical Encounters Focus for this coming school year?

During the 2007-2008 school year, Columbia College Chicago will critically encounter the complex relationship between poverty and privilege.  Building upon the focus of our inaugural year's theme of HIV&AIDS—this year’s Critical Encounters focus presents us with the opportunity to further expand conversations already begun, as well as to invite new and different aspect of civic engagement and community concerns regarding the myriad ideas, mythologies, beliefs, realities, and responses to poverty and privilege.  As before, the overarching goal will be to explore definitions and implications of these terms on multiple levels—as citizens, as artists, as scholars, as individuals, as a college, as a community.  Through these multiple lenses, we hope to sharpen the point, to better iterate, the places and spaces where and when art and activism intersect.