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DRAM 103 Theatre and Pop Culture Units: 3.00
Explores collisions between theatre and pop culture in media including film, theatre, pop music, television, and social media. Concepts including but not limited to theatricality, liveness, affect, and performativity will provide students with critical analysis skills applicable to pop culture.
NOTE Also offered online; consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered online; consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Learning Hours: 114 (18 Lecture, 18 Online Activity, 78 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Equivalency DRAM 205/3.0*.
Course Equivalencies: DRAM 103/3.0, DRAM 205/3.0*
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Define key concepts from theatre studies applicable to analyzing performance in pop culture and media, including theatricality, affect, performativity and representation.
- Reflect upon your personal experience as a spectator/consumer of popular culture and media using insights from theatre studies (and without extrapolating or universalizing your experience).
- Identify and develop productive and well-grounded connections between course concepts and examples of performance in popular culture and media.
- Apply course concepts to critically analyze performance in popular culture and media with an emphasis towards Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Indigeneity (EDII).
- Communicate connections worth sharing with others in an accessible, engaging and concise way that is well-supported by analysis.