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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - ORI6250
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2003-10-27
- Department: Communication
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: 1217000
- Contact Person: Gil Rodman
- Phone: 9743025
- Email: grodman@chuma.cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: ORI
- Number: 6250
- Full Title: Performance and Technology
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: D -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Performance and Technology
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: Explores the relationship between live and mediated performance, the use of media technologies in performance, and the place of live performance in a Western mediated society.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Performance Studies is an emergent interdisciplinary field; it is one of seventeen new research areas the National Research Council will add to its Ph.D. taxonomy in 2004. Performance Studies is enjoying an explosion of interest across the academy in Ant
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? In the Department of Communication, this course will complement and extend existing Performance Studies courses, as well as courses in Cultural, Media, and Documentary Studies. Approximately one fourth of graduate students in the Communication program claim Performance as their area of interest and research. This course would fit their theory requirement.
All disciplines that do performance or study performance—on stage, in media, and as roles in every day life—could benefit from this course. Students from any discipline who are interested in media production and/or theory would benefit from this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Performance and Technology has been offered once as a Selected Topics course.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in Communication or closely related field.
- Objectives: to explore the ways in which live performance and various technologies inform, occupy, and resist one another
to examine the ontological components of audiovisual mass media (film, video, television, and the Internet)
to examine the ontological components of live performance
to contemplate the purposes, tensions, and effects of mixing live and mediated performance
to ponder the place of live performance in an increasingly mediated society
- Learning Outcomes: students will facilitate discussion of course readings through synthesis, analysis, and inquiry
students will complete 3-5 critical written responses to the course readings
students will build a cumulative project in the form of an individual or group paper or performance that draws on or relates to course readings and topics
- Major Topics: Ontology of Live Performance
Ontology of Various Media
Phelan-Auslander Debate
The Technological/Body
Mediated Identity Construction
Performing in Cyberspace
Future of Performance Studies
- Textbooks: Selected readings (see course syllabus)
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.