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Read and analyse play/performance texts for their literary, artistic, and performative values, as well as assessing how these values potentially redefine what students already understand about theatre and performance.
Contextualise performances within historical, geographic, political, and cultural milieus.
Encounter various techniques applied in performance, such as music, dance, singing, masks, makeup, costume, and puppetry.
Critique shortcomings in the global exchange of art and performance, including issues of translation, adaptation, gaps of scholarship, cultural appropriation, and more.
Articulating through discussion and writing an understanding of how drama and artistic expression correlate to performance practices beyond certain theatre norms.
Investigate and write about a topic of the student’s choosing that demonstrates a grasp of understanding theatre globally and that addresses the benefits and hurdles of undertaking such a research project.
Class 1: Introduction: Theatre in a Global Perspective
Class 2: South American Theatre and Adaptation: Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig –Argentina
Class 3: Dance and Music in Latin and South America
Class 4: Indigenous Theatre of North America, New Zealand, and Australia
Class 5: Middle Eastern Theatre and Translating Language and Sentiment: Goats by Liwaa Yazji – Syria
Class 6: Watch Performance in Class. TBD. Midterm Assignment due.
Class 7: Puppets Across the Globe
Class 8: Asian Theatre and Limits of Universality: The Elephant by Betsuyaku Minoru – Japan
Class 9: Costume, Masks, and Makeup: Asian Theatre
Class 10: African Theatre and Critiques of Power: Femi Osofisan’s The Chattering and the Song – Nigeria
Class 11: African Theatre: The Stories Told on Stage and Cultural Exchange
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 11 |
Tutorial | 11 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 78 |
Total | 100 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Reflective Assignment: Critical reflections to reading/lecture/discussion (3 xs, 200 words each) that are expected to be discussed in tutoring sessions the day after they are due. | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
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Assignment(Including Essay): A Midterm Assignment that proposes original final paper plan through an MLA outline and brief reflection on what hurdles and pathways this paper has and may continue to provide | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
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Assignment(Including Essay): A research paper based on proposed midterm MLA outline. Will also include reflection and reattached midterm outline to discuss what had to change or what could stay the same from midterm to this final | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Self-assessment activities
Feedback on shorter assessments will be provided within two weeks of submission. Feedback on Midterm Assignment will be given within two-three weeks of submission. Feedback on final essay be offered in the post-assessment period.