SoC First Year Seminar: Interdisciplinary Topics in Communication Arts & Sciences (101-0-1)
Topic
Thinking Performance
Instructors
Elondust Johnson
David Paul Chavannes
Meeting Info
Willard Hall B72: Wed 10:30AM - 11:50AM
Overview of class
Title: Thinking Performance 
This course will examine how Western and Non-Western thinkers defined performance throughout history, and how performance can help us to understand the social and cultural dynamics, processes, and relations that unfold around us. The course will employ a practice-based learning focus to teach two skills: application (using a concept learned in one context in another context), and notetaking a "hidden" skill that all courses require but few actually teach. Students will use performance to analyze or interrogate a social problem of concern to the student and develop a system for taking and storing notes on texts and audiovisual materials.
Registration Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to SoC undergraduate first year students.
Learning Objectives
1.To deepen understanding about, and encourage enthusiasm for, research related to diversity. 2.To learn about how scholars from different disciplines examine scientific questions, including the varied methods they use in the process. 3.To engage with scholars from across SoC, including through thoughtful in-class questions and discussion. 4.To consider the many different aspects of the field for communication could be examined and understood and even what cross-disciplinary collaboration might look like.
Class Attributes
SOC First-Year Seminar