COMS 7370 - Performance Methods in Communication Studies

This course focuses on performance as a paradigm for the study of communication processes, broadly defined. Performance is approached as method, experience, metaphor, and subject of analysis. The course is both conceptual and practical. It introduces students to key concepts in performance theory such as ritual, identity performance, culture, play, performativity, performing, performance texts, and performance process. Students gain experiential training in performance ethnography, ethnography of performance, autobiographical performance, autoethnographic performance, social justice organizing and performance, and performative writing. This training is accomplished through exercises in textual, aural, performative, material, poetic, and other sense-based representation of performance and everyday life.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I