THD 140 - Introduction to Performance Studies

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

This course explores the multifaceted field of performance studies, including how and for whom performances are created, what cultural work they do, and what multiple meanings they may convey. Engaging in an intersectional approach to embodied and scholarly inquiry from a multiplicity of academic fields, we explore performances in order to emphasize the ways we can create critical acts that mobilize performance? theory from the perspective of our own lived experience.

Prerequisite: None.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff