PMA 3750 - Global Stages I

(GHB) (LA-AS, ALC-AS, GLC-AS) (EC-LASP)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

J.E. Gainor.

This course is designed to introduce students to a range of historical, cross-cultural, and transnational performance texts, theories, and practices; to motivate students to examine the broad social, political, cultural, and economic contexts in which performances take place; and to familiarize students with the major methodologies and paradigms for the creation, spectatorship, and interpretation of embodied performances. Our investigations of these issues will be routed through three organizing concepts: ritual, realism, and revolution. (HTC)