Course Name: Foundations in Performance Studies
Instructor:
SLN: 13399
Meeting Time: T/Th 2:30-4:50pm
Term: Spring 2021
oundations in Performance Studies: This course focuses on the emerging “knowledge formation” of performance studies. It includes discourses concerning the relationship between text and practice; performance as a reflection of society, a witnessing to an experience, or a challenge to social structures or ways of knowing; emerging ideas of audience reception theory; and so forth. By the end of the course, students will have 1. a basic comprehensive knowledge of some of the “canonical” theorists and texts associated with performance studies, 2. a knowledge of several recent case-studies to which these theories can be applied for deeper understanding, and 3. a knowledge of the ways in which meaning is produced through both textual and performative discourses.