Christie
  Logan, Ph.D. 
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revised 3/17/2010 - changes & additions in red; reading presentation groups in red
| DATE | TOPIC | Reading / Assignment
        Due | 
| Week 1: 1/22 
 | Introduction / Overview of Course | *Note: Many online readings require Adobe Acrobat Reader: free download here Info sheets | 
| Week 2: 1/29 | Definitions & Processes: Performance Theories and Methods | Bell - Chapters 1 & 2  | 
| 
 | Textuality and Semiotics | Bell - Chapter 3 Oliver W., Angela L., Alexis A., Jamie C. | 
| Week 4: | Eruption and 
        Social Drama: Public Liminality | Bell - Chapter 4 Katherine C., April S., Jesse C. | 
| Week 5: 2/19 | Performance, Power & Cultural Processes | Bell - Chapter 5 Joni L. Jones, "sista docta: Performance as Critique of the Academy," TDR 41, 2, Summer 1997 added 2/13: Randy Lewis, "Chieftans Write Musical History with 'San Patricio'" LA Times, 2/13/2010.  Montana G., Valentina D., Kamilah R., Brittany T. | 
| Week 6:  | Performing Social Roles | Bell - Chapter 6  online: E.J. Westlake, "Friend Me if You Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance," TDR: The Drama Review 52:4, Winter 2008. Carrie S., Monica I., Jonathan V., Noel K. | 
| Week 7: 3/5 | Performing Identity and Culture | Bell - Chapter 7  Bell - Chapter  9  | 
| Week 8:  | Identity Performances | Identity Performances & papers due | 
| Week 9: 3/19 | Identity Performances | ID Perf's continued | 
| Week 10: | Exam | Exam: Bring blue books. *new: click here for assignment guidelines for the LA Ethnography project | 
| Week 11:  | Performing Ethnography view Broken Circles | online: Chabri S., Christiana M., Tiffany B. | 
| week 12: 4/9 | Spring Break 4/5 - 11 Performance West Festival 4/8-11 | |
| Week 13: 
 | 
 Public Space, Power set performance ethnography groups | Aronstam: online:  Stacia S., Lindsay A., Christina A. | 
| Week 14: 4/23 | Ethnography groups | Furlough day for Dr. Logan -- groups workday | 
| Week 15: 4/30 | Resistant Performance and Social Change view Couple in a Cage | Bell - Chapter 8 online: Coco Fusco, "The
                    Other History of Intercultural
                    Performance," TDR 38,1 (1994) | 
| Week 16: 5/7 | Group Presentations | Group presentations | 
| Week 17: 5/14 | Final Exam  | Group presentations completed Individual Papers due | 
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