Performance Studies courses are generally open only for students in the Department of Performance Studies. Non-departmental students require approval from the Department of Performance Studies prior to registering.
Sample syllabi listed below are intended as examples and may not be up-to-date for current courses.
- Performance Studies Past Course Offerings
- Archived PDFs of previous course offerings. More

- Documenting Performance: Queering the Archive; Prof. Tavia Nyong'o (pdf)
- Jewish Performance; Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (pdf)
- Disciplining Gender and Sexuality; Profs. Ann Pellegrini and Lisa Duggan (pdf)
- Body Politics: Foriegn Bodies; Prof. Karen Shimakawa (pdf)
- Movement Theory; Prof. Andre Lepecki (pdf)
- Dance Ethnography; Prof. Barbara Browning (pdf)
- Theories of Directing; Prof. Richard Schechner (pdf)
- Feminist Ethnography; Prof. Deborah Kapchan (pdf)
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