Performing Canada

Three credits · Undergraduate

What is performance and why/how do we study it? In this class, students explore how performance impacts all of our identities. Considering that Nova Scotia was the site of the first documented performance in what we now call Canada, this course investigates theatre as history-making and nation-building acts. Introducing students to theatrical forms such as vaudeville, minstrelsy, and verbatim theatre, this course simultaneously considers how theatre influences social justice issues of race, culture, and gender. Credit will be granted for only one of ENGL 338 or ENGL 366. Prerequisite: 9 credits ENGL. Three credits.