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: 1/20 
 | Introduction / Overview of Course | *Note: Many online readings require Adobe Acrobat Reader: free download here Info sheets | 
| Week 2: | Definitions & Processes: Performance Theories and Methods | Bell - Chapter 1  | 
| 1/27 | Bell - Chapter 2  | |
| Week 3:  | Textuality | Bell - Chapter 3 | 
| 2/3 | Semiotics | Roseda T., Lily T., Tony M. | 
| Week 4: | Eruption and 
        Social Drama: Public Liminality | Bell - Chapter 4 | 
| 2/10 | ||
| Week 5: | Performance, Power & Cultural Processes view Between Two Worlds | Bell - Chapter 5 added: Randy Lewis, "Chieftans Write Musical History with 'San Patricio'" LA Times, 2/13/2010. | 
| 2/17 | ||
| Week 6:  | Performing Social Roles | online: E.J. Westlake, "Friend Me if You Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance," TDR: The Drama Review 52:4, Winter 2008. Bell - Chapter 6 Toni R., Erin C., Katrina R. 
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| 2/24 | Performing Social Roles | Bell - Chapter 6 Katherine M., Kelly B., Brian K., Sam B. | 
| Week 7: 3/1 | Performing Identity | Bell - Chapter 7 Savonne W., BiBi M., Ginelle C., Karina R. | 
| 3/3 | Technology & Perf. | Bell - Chapter 9 Sara T., Ben W., Josh S., Angela F. 
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| Week 8:  | Identity Performances | Identity Performances & papers due | 
| 3/10 | ||
| Week 9: 3/15 | Identity Performances | ID Perf's continued  | 
| 3/17 | ||
| Week 10: | Identity Performances | ID Perf's completed 
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| 3/24 | click here for assignment guidelines for the LA Ethnography project Ethics & Ethnography | online: review Bell, Chapter 5 Jared C., Alycia T., Brittany D. Maria (Lupe) R. 
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 Exam | Exam - bring blue books  | 
| 3/31 | Cesar Chavez Day - campus closed 
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| week 12: | Spring Break    | |
| Week 13: 
 | Ethnography Prospectus due - posted on newsgroup Public Space, Power 
 set performance ethnography groups | online: Scott E., Vanessa G., Emilie N. | 
| 4/14 | *new: online:  Aronstam: Brandi K., Suzy M., Bart K., Gaby D. | |
| Week 14: 4/19 | Resistant Performance and Social Change view Couple in a Cage | Bell - Chapter 8, pp. 199-207  Vanessa B., Olivia S. | 
| 4/21 | Furlough day for Dr. Logan -- groups workday | |
| Week 15: 4/26 | Resistant Perf cont'd | Bell - Chapter 8, 207 - 231 online: Joni L. Jones, "sista docta: Performance as Critique of the Academy," TDR 41, 2, Summer 1997 | 
| 4/28 | Groups workday | |
| Week 16: 5/3 & 5/5 | Group Presentations | Group presentations | 
| Week 17: 5/10 | Final Exam Period  | Group presentations completed Individual Papers due | 
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Last Update: March 17, 2010 
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