printer friendly pageTAPS 314: Performing Identities
This course focuses on contemporary South Asian and Black diasporic art work that concerns itself with questions of atrocity and activism. We will ask how artists engage world-historical events and what constitutes activism. Theoretical work will be wide-ranging as will the kinds of art and topics studied: indeed, we will discuss everything from Agamben to AIDS, Ai Wei-Wei to feminist punk in Russia, female circumcision in Sweden to U.N. aid workers in Afghanistan, queer subjects and global ideas freedom.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
TAPS 321: Proseminar
Workshop. Skills needed to participate in the academic profession including abstract, conference presentation, and dissertation or book chapter.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
TAPS 334: Stage Management Techniques (TAPS 34)
The production process, duties, and responsibilities of a stage manager. Skills needed to stage manage a production.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Apperson, L. (PI)
TAPS 336: Comprehensive 1st Year Exam
Required course for first-year Ph.D. students in Theater & Performance Studies. Credits for work toward the Comprehensive 1st-year Exam taken in late February or Early March.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Phelan, P. (PI)
TAPS 344: Puppetry with a Twist (TAPS 144)
Creative course is an introduction to puppetry with a survey of important styles and techniques from around the world including Twist's own. Hands on and individualized experience with the aim of each student creating or contributing to a puppet or object/figure performance. Course is as broad as the individual's creative expression. Concludes with a class showing/performance of the student's work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Twist, B. (PI)
;
Vittori, G. (TA)
TAPS 351: Great Books: Dramatic Traditions (TAPS 151T)
The most influential and enduring texts in the dramatic canon from Sophocles to Shakepeare, Chekhov to Soyinka. Their historical and geopolitical contexts. Questions about the power dynamics involved in the formation of canons.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Menon, J. (PI)
;
Tacata, R. (TA)
TAPS 353: Representation and Theatre Culture in 20th Century France (FRENCH 210)
This course will examine some major French playwrights such as Alfred Jarry, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Jean Tardieu, Albert Camus or Jean Anouilh in their global cultural environment. Discussion in English; French majors read in French.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Apostolides, J. (PI)
TAPS 354: The Nervous Age: Neurosis, Neurology, and Nineteenth-century Theatre (GERMAN 284, HUMBIO 162)
The nineteenth century witnessed profound developments in neurological and psychological sciences, developments that fundamentally altered conceptions of embodiment, agency, and mind. This course will place these scientific shifts in conversation with theatrical transformations of the period. We will read nineteenth-century neuropsychologists such as Charles Bell, Johannes Müller, George Miller Beard, Jean-Martin Charcot, and Hippolyte Bernheim alongside artists such as Percy Shelley, Georg Büchner, Richard Wagner, Émile Zola, and August Strindberg.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Smith, M. (PI)
TAPS 356: Performing History: Race, Politics, and Staging the Plays of August Wilson (AFRICAAM 156, TAPS 156)
This course purposefully and explicitly mixes theory and practice. Students will read and discuss the plays of August Wilson, the most celebrated and most produced contemporary American playwright, that comprise his 20th Century History Cycle. Class stages scenes from each of these plays, culminating in a final showcase of longer scenes from his work as a final project.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Elam, H. (PI)
;
Farr Schiller, A. (TA)
TAPS 357: World Drama and Performance (TAPS 157)
This course takes up a geographically expansive conversation by looking at modern and contemporary drama from nations including Ghana, Egypt, India, Argentina, among others. Considering influential texts from the Global South will also enable us to explore a range of themes and methodologies that are radically re-shaping the field of Performance Studies. We will examine the relationship between colonialism and globalization, empire and capital, cosmopolitanism and neoliberalism. Re-situating our perspective from the Global South and the non-western world, we will 'provincialize Europe' and probe the limits of its universalizing discourses.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Menon, J. (PI)
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