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524 Course Descriptions/Performance Studies602. Research Methods in Performance Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Examination and assessment of primaryresearch methods in performance studies; emphasis on post-positivist methods; includes examinationof ethical imperatives in research. Prerequisite: Admission to the MA in Performance Studies orapproval of instructor.603. Performance, Power, and Identity. (3-0). Credit 3. Issues in, and production of, power and identityin expressive culture, examines how forms of power and varieties of social identity shape, and areshaped by, performance. Prerequisites: PERF 600 or approval of instructor.604. Performing Vernacular Culture. (3-0). Credit 3. Examines populist and counter-traditions in expressiveculture; emphasis on contemporary cultures of performance and/as practices of everyday life.Prerequisites: PERF 600 or approval of instructor.605. Topics in Globalization and Performance Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Examines expressive cultures inglobal contexts; theoretical and methodological approaches to globalization and/in performance. Maybe taken two times for credit. Prerequisites: PERF 600 or approval of instructor.610. Graduate Studies in Dance Research. (3-0). Credit 3. Examines key theoretical and methodologicalissues in dance studies from a performance studies perspective. Prerequisite: PERF 602 or approval ofinstructor.611. Contemporary Religions and Performance. (3-0). Credit 3. Examines the intricate relationship betweenreligious traditions and performance. Focus on contemporary religious movements. Prerequisite:Graduate classification.612. Music Capitalism. (3-0). Credit 3. Explores the production, distribution, and consumption of musicgenres as a performance of capitalism. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.613. Performing Texas. (3-0). Credit 3. Explores “Texas” as a set of complex performances that constructspecific identities and communities. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.614. Soundscapes. (3-0). Credit 3. Explores sound in social life; sound as performative of identity; soundperformance. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.615. Spectacle, Performance, and Politics. (3-0). Credit 3. Interdisciplinary and international explorationof spectacle as political performance. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.616. Sport as Performance. (3-0). Credit 3. Explores sport as manifold modes of cultural performance;focus on embodiment, gender, race, nationalism, spectacle, politics, warfare, and media. Prerequisite:Graduate classification.620. Critical Ethnographic Methods in Performance Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Critical methods in performanceethnography; emphasis on political dimensions of field encounter. May be taken two times forcredit. Prerequisites: PERF 600; PERF 602.621. Topics in Popular Music Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Examination of context, politics, and politicaleconomy of specific popular music forms. May be repeated for a total of 9 credits. Prerequisites:PERF 600, PERF 601, PERF 602, or approval of instructor.622. Performance and the Construction of American Identity. (3-0). Credit 3. Role of performancein construction of national identity; special emphasis on post-Civil War US. Prerequisites: PERF 600,PEF 601, PERF 602, or approval of instructor.623. Phenomenology and Music. (3-0). Credit 3. Theoretical and methodological potentials of phenomenologyin analyses of music; special emphasis on use of phenomenology to examine multiple aspects ofmusic production, including embodiment. Prerequisites: PERF 600, PERF 601, PERF 602, or approvalof instructor.682. American Theatre: Gender on the U.S. Stage. (3-0). Credit 3. Focuses on 18th-21st century textsand performers in order to account for transformations in representations as well as lived experiencesof gender. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MA in Performance Studies or approval of instructor.685. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 3. Directed studies in specific areas of performance studies. Studentmay take up to two sections of directed studies in the same semester, with a maximum of 6 credits.Prerequisites: PERF 600, PERF 601, PERF 602, or approval of instructor.689. Special Topics in Performance Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Selected topics in an identified area ofperformance studies. May be repeated for a total of 9 credits. Prerequisites: PERF 600, PERF 601,PERF 602, or approval of instructor.691. Research. Credit 1 to 3. Research for thesis. Prerequisites: Approval of department head.