Dr. Christie
  Logan
  office hours:  T/Th 1-2, 
  Wed. 5:30 - 6:30, & by appointment
*Check this online schedule regularly for changes*
| DATE | TOPIC | Reading / Assignment Due | 
| Week 1: 1/23 
 | Introduction / Overview of Course Definitions & Processes: | *Note: Many online readings require Adobe Acrobat Reader: free download here Info sheets | 
| Week 2: | Performance and Cultural Processes | 
 COMS 303 Reader [RDR]: Judith Hamera, "Introduction," Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies. Sage, 2006. 1-10. | 
| Week 3:  | Liminality and Performance: Ritual, Tradition and Power | 
 online: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11," TDR 47,1, Spring 2003 | 
| Week 4: | Eruption and Performance:   Communitas in | new **PS: pp. 75-77 Steve Lopez, "Fires
            in Malibu Ignite Rage" (10/22/07) and "Katrina
            Comparisons..." LA Times 10/26/07. | 
| Week 5: 2/20 | Analyzing Performance Processes: Efficacy and Power | 
 RDR: | 
| Week 6:  | Resistant Performance and Social Change view Couple in a Cage | 
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| Week 7:  | Performing Identity and Culture | 
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| Week 8:  |          | |
| Week 9: 3/19 | Spring Break | |
| Week 10: | Semiotics of  Consuming Practices | RDR: | 
| Week 11: | Performing Consumption, "Consuming" Performance | 
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| Week 12: 
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 Ethics of Ethnography 
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 set performance ethnography groups | 
| Week 13:  | Performing Ethnography view Broken Circles Performance Ethnography as Critical Method | 
 online: Joni L. Jones,
          "Performance
          Ethnography: The Role of Embodiment in Cultural Authenticity," Theatre
          Topics 12, 1 (2002) 1-15. | 
| Week 14: 4/23 | Public Space and Everyday Performance Tourism as Performance | RDR: Michael Bowman, "Looking for Stonewall's Arm: Tourist Performance as Research Method,"102-33. Opening Acts: Performance in/as Comm. & Cultural Studies. Judith Hamera, ed. SAGE, 2006 | 
| Week 15: 4/30 | 
 |  Exam 2 | 
| Week 16: 5/7 | 
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| Week 17: 5/14 | Final Exam  | Group presentations completed Individual Papers due | 
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Last Update: April 24, 2008 
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