Morocco in Performance

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This 3-credit 2-week immersive course explores the performances of a nation known for its rich culture and history, in its architecture, arts, music, folklore, food, and films. Taught on-site in Morocco, the course takes students from our study base in Sevilla via Cadiz to Tangier. Exploring the so-called white villages that echo those of Southern Spain, through the Amazigh cultures of the Rif and mountains, to the Saharawi and Haratin cultures of the South, students will visit Tangier, Chefchaouen, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Fes, Meknes and the Moroccan desert. Students will study the performances and performativity of cultural identities, circulation and variation of cultural performances, and sources in national cultures and transnational models. The course builds upon FREN 4850 Morocco in Film and Literature (taught in English), taught by Prof. McCarren in Sevilla, during the first 2 weeks of the summer program. That course, or any other course offered on the Spain/Morocco summer program, is a pre-requisite for the course.