Award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s universal drama “A Raisin in the Sun” is being read collectively by Chicagoans as the “One Book, One Chicago” program continues, and DePaul University is offering a course and special events in conjunction with the Chicago Public Library-sponsored program.

DePaul’s graduate-level course, “Chicago’s One Book: Issues and Perspectives,” will explore such themes of the play as class difference, generational conflict and segregated housing in Chicago in the 1940s. The course will be offered Thursday evenings, beginning April 3 on the university’s Lincoln Park Campus. The course is open to anyone who has earned a bachelor’s degree. For more information about the course, which is offered through DePaul’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) Program, visit: http://condor.depaul.edu/~mals.

DePaul University Theatre School faculty will direct a cast of students in a dramatic reading of key scenes from “A Raisin in the Sun” April 6 at 1 p.m. in the Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., Room 120. A discussion of the play will follow the performance. A panel of DePaul faculty also will lead a discussion on Hansberry, Chicago and “Raisin” April 8 at 6 p.m. in the Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave.

The dramatic performance and panel discussion are free and open to the public.

For more information about DePaul’s “One Book, One Chicago” events or course, call Mary Miritello, director of the MALS program, at 773-325-7839.