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
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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: |
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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 |
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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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