2025 Fall

THEATER 26 001 - LEC 001

Introduction to Performance Studies

Julia H Fawcett

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025

Mo, We, Fr

10:00 am - 10:59 am

Valley Life Sciences 2060

Class #:22852

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 116

Enrolled: 4

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 120

Waitlist Max: 40

Open Reserved Seats:

82 unreserved seats

5 reserved for New Undergraduate Transfer Students

10 reserved for Students with 3-4 Terms in Attendance

12 reserved for Students with 1-2 Terms in Attendance

7 reserved for Dance & Performance Studies and Theater & Performance Studies Majors

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Other classes by Julia H Fawcett

This course introduces the critical terms and practices of the contemporary study of performance. Several key terms and important genres of artistic and social performance will be engaged; the course will draw critical and disciplinary methods from anthropology and ethnography, from the theory of dance and theater, from literary and cultural theory. Critical and theoretical concepts will be used to analyze a wide range of live and recorded performances, as well as performance texts.