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Apr 20, 2024
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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
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Define performance as a paradigm for communications studies.
- Explore the relationship between ritual, play, culture, identity, performance process, and communication.
- Analyze the relationship between language, performativity, and communication.
- Explore the relationship between social justice organizing and performance.
- Conduct a field study using one of these performance methods: performance ethnography, autobiographical performance, ethnography of performance, and autoethnographic performance.
- Create and perform a performance text/performances from the field study.
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