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DRAM 296 Sex and Violence in Performance Units: 3.00
This course is structured around a series of case studies of particular moments in the history of the representation of sex and violence in dramatic and musical performances.
NOTE Only offered online; Consult Arts and Science Online.
NOTE This course is also listed/offered as MUSC 296/3.0.
NOTE Only offered online; Consult Arts and Science Online.
NOTE This course is also listed/offered as MUSC 296/3.0.
Learning Hours: 120 (60 Online Activity, 60 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 2 or above) or (registration in the MUTH Plan).
Exclusion MUSC 296/3.0.
Equivalency MUTH 201/3.0*.
Course Equivalencies: DRAM296, MUSC296, MUTH201/3.0*
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the central recurring social issues engaged through the representation of sex and violence in performance.
- Differentiate a range of aesthetic strategies for representing controversial aspects of human experience.
- Explain the use of performance to moderate the tensions between psychological impulses and cultural imperatives.
- Demonstrate how controversial works engage philosophical and practical issues of censorship.
- Demonstrate how appeals to both pleasure and disgust play a role in formulating an intellectual response to a performance.
- Critique how the interplay between emotion and artistic form works to affect the judgement of an audience.