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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - ORI6020
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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: 6020
- Full Title: Performing Social Resistance
- 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): Performing Social Resistance
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: Explores performance as a site of and means for creating social resistance and change.
- 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 courses in cultural criticism and action research (Performance Criticism, Feminism and Performance, Contemporary Cultural Studies, Cultural Production of Space and Time, Media, Race, and Identity, Action Research).
This course will contribute to a sequence of graduate offerings in performance that feature the relationships among analysis, critique, and practice: Performance and Technology, Performance Art and Performance Criticism. Approximately one fourth of graduate students in the Communication program claim Performance as their area of interest and research.
Students from a variety of disciplines would be interested in this course, including Women’s Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and American Studies, Mass Communications, and Theatre. Disciplines that study the issues surrounding social resistance and change could benefit from this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Performing Social Resistance has been offered once as a Selected Topics course in the past five years with an enrollment of 17 students.
- 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 role of performance and performance practitioners in opening up a space for reflecting on, debating, creating, and sustaining social resistance and change
to understand how theater practitioners, performance scholars, and a host of cultural critics theorize and create a resistive performance praxis
to discover how the ideas and techniques described by these theorists/practitioners can be put to use in student’s own performance practices
to explore how student work contributes to current thinking about performance and social resistance theory and praxis
- Learning Outcomes: students will read and discuss the use of performance as a means of engaging in democratic debate and dialogue
students will read, discuss, and use specific performance theory and techniques in creating three performances that explore the socially resistive possibilities of live performance
students will demonstrate their understanding of course texts by summarizing and presenting these texts
students will apply their knowledge of socially resistant performance theory and practices in an analysis of a selected performer, performance, or company
- Major Topics: The intersections of performance and social resistance
Socially resistant theater
Street and community theater
Solo performance and social resistance
Learning and using Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed techniques
Performing race, ethnicity, and culture
Feminist performance
Queer performance
Performing everyday resistance
- Textbooks: Jill Dolan, Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance, Middleton CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.
Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed, Trans. Charles A. McBride and Maria-Odilia Leal McBride, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1985.
Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors, Trans. Adrian Jackson: New York: Routledge, 1992.
Theater 31(3): 2001.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.