PERF ST 307-1,2 Studies in Gender and Performance (1) (1) 1. Theories of gender in relation to selected literary texts. Performance used as a critical methodology to highlight the interplay between gender theory and literary representation. 2. How gender theory applies to live performance; role of the critic, especially concerning race, class, and sexuality.

PERF ST 308 Performing Modern and Contemporary Poetry (1) Use of performance in analysis and criticism of selected genres in modern and contemporary poetry.

PERF ST 309 Performance of Black Literature (1) Exploration of black poetry, short fiction and novels, as literary and cultural texts, through solo, duo, and group performance. The literary genre will vary from year to year.

PERF ST 311 Performance in Everyday Life (1) Conceptual view of human beings as actors. Dramatism and the perspective of life as theatre.

PERF ST 315 Nonfiction Studies (1) The dramatic impulse in nonfiction texts. Emphasis on autobiographical and intercultural works.

PERF ST 316 Folklore and Oral Traditions (1) Genres of oral literature. Introduction to methods and aims of folklore research. Emphasizes two themes in modern folkloristics: the nature of verbal art as performance and the importance of cultural context.

PERF ST 318-1 Shakespeare's English Histories (1) Use of performance in the analysis and criticism of Shakespeare's two tetralogies of English history plays.

PERF ST 318-2 Shakespeare Adaptations (1) Use of performance in the analysis and criticism of selected Shakespeare plays and their adaptations by other writers.

PERF ST 320 Languages of the Body (1) Nonverbal body movement and gestural vocabularies in theatre, dance, and performance art (with reference to cinema and to productions of the body in the visual and commercial media); uses illustrations specific to a particular genre, repertoire, historical time, cultural context, and/or performance situation.

PERF ST 321 Performing the American Fifties (1) Use of performance in the analysis and criticism of selected postwar American literature. Emphasis on the relationship between literature, film, and American popular culture.

PERF ST 322 Performing the Psychological Novel (1) Use of performance in the analysis and criticism of selected 19th- and 20th-century novels. Emphasis on the representation of character psychology in novelistic discourse.

PERF ST 324-1,2 Presentational Aesthetics (1) (1) First Quarter: theatrical convention, presentational mode, and conscious artifice in the performance of dramatic literature, poetry, and nonfiction. Second Quarter: chamber theatre: its conventions and presentational modes. Adaptation, staging, and performance of prose fiction. Chamber theatre from the performer's or director's perspective.

PERF ST 326-1,2 Performance Art (1) (1) First Quarter: history, development, and theories of performance art from Dadaism to the present. Proxemics of text to performer and audience; creation and performance of image; development of individual style. Second Quarter: relationship of media to performance art; development of media interaction and collaboration; writing and designing performance pieces.

PERF ST 327 Field Methods in Performance Studies (1) Theory and practice of fieldwork in performance, from the collection of data to the write-up of material; practical fieldwork experience.

PERF ST 328 Studies in James Joyce (1) Primary emphasis on extensive critical study of Ulysses, resulting in either a lecture-performance or a research paper. Screening of the film version of Ulysses.

PERF ST 329 Performing Individual Poetic Styles (1) Content varies, but course focuses on the major poems of one or at most three writers, permitting an in-depth encounter with the writer, cultural context, and performance-related issues.

PERF ST 330 Topics in Performance Studies (1) Significant areas of performance studies research and artistic practice. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with a change of topic.

PERF ST 331 Field Study/Internship in Performance Studies (1) Intensive participation in off-campus production and/or field research experience. Department approval required. Only one unit of credit may be applied toward the MA degree. Up to three units may be applied toward the Ph.D. degree.

PERF ST 332 Urban Festivity (1) Ethnographic study of festivals, parades, spectacles, civic celebrations, and other genres of urban cultural performance. Emphasis on multiethnic expressions of Chicago identity. Fieldwork required.

PERF ST 410 Studies in Performance (1) Principles governing the congruence of literary texts and their oral presentation.

PERF ST 412 Performance of Individual Literary Styles (1) Critical study of the work of one writer, resulting in a lecture recital.

PERF ST 414 Studies in the History of Performance Traditions (1) Critical writings from ancient times to the present, tracing uses of and development in the performance of text; analysis of contemporary principles and practices.

PERF ST 416 Seminar in Cultural Studies and Performance (1) Contemporary theories on the dialogical relationship between culture and performance (performative anthropology, interpretive and symbolic ethnography). Creative, dynamic, and processual energies of culture as expressed in performance genres.

PERF ST 424 Practicum in the Adaptation and Staging of Texts (1) Participatory apprenticeship seminar: observation of the scripting process and rehearsal for a production of a narrative work. Major research papers by seminar members.

PERF ST 425 Critical and Aesthetic Principles (1) Principles and methods of literary criticism and their bearing on the aesthetics of performance. Texts considered historically from Plato and Aristotle to Deconstructionism.

PERF ST 426 Seminar on Media and Performance (1) Interdisciplinary seminar introducing methods of performance research that explore, both analytically and creatively, the movement of performance across the traditional boundaries of the live arts and the visual and electronic media.

PERF ST 427 Seminar on Modes of Representation (1) Theories of representation applied to performance; repetition and improvisation, the ideology of form, intertextuality, metaphor, irony, parody, synesthesia, idiophonics, and effort qualities in human action.

PERF ST 499 Independent Study (1, 2, or 3) May be repeated for credit. Permission of instructor and department required.

PERF ST 515 Seminar: Problems in Performance Studies (1) Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

PERF ST 518 Seminar: Problems in Research (1) For MA and PhD students only.

PERF ST 590 Research (1, 2, or 3) Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.