Performance Studies

Catalog description

This course introduces students to Performance Studies, an interdisciplinary field that integrates theatre studies, anthropology, sociology, art history, and cultural studies. Performance includes framed genres such as theatre, film/television, and dance, as well as unframed genres such as social media, social rituals, sports, and enactments of self-identity. Students will learn key concepts in the field and apply them to a broad range of performances in a variety of communication modalities, including signed language. Students will also consider the social significance of performance and how it structures our lives. This course is writing intensive.