Drama360/Introduction ***

Required Readings

This course will utilize journal articles, book chapters, performance documents, podcasts, and videos in support of our investigation of performance creation. Readings are either on “Reserve” in the library, on-line, to be photocopied by the student, or on our course blog. For each required reading, students will be provided two sets of “reading” material. Students will be expected to engage with one of the sets of material, but are free to tackle both. All required readings are listed in the schedule below.

10 Wiki-Response

As a way of extending the collaborative emphasis of the course beyond performance, students will be required to contribute to a collaborative analysis for each set of readings. This will be facilitated by a wiki. The wiki-response operates as follows:

1.	Each student will be responsible for initiating one (1), 250-word wiki-response that identifies some of the major themes of the material.

a.	Initial wiki-responses must be online (2) days before the assigned material is scheduled (i.e. on Wednesday morning for material scheduled for Friday); b.	On occasions where one or more students are responsible for initiating a wiki-response, students should not cover the same set of material.

2.	After this initial response has been posted each student will contribute an additional 100 words of original material to the wiki. a.	Successful contributions should be analytical in nature and should expand on the responses already posted, put into question some of the information in the required material or on the wiki, or start a new thread of exploration; b.	Students should avoid repeating information posted by other students on the wiki; c.	Each student is responsible to print a “before” and “after” of the wiki-response and hand it in at the beginning of each class or by June 15.

3.	Students are responsible to contribute nine (9) 100-word wiki-responses and one (1) initiating response for a total of ten (10) wiki-responses.

4.	Each wiki-responses is valued at (1%) of the student’s final grade.

5.	Wiki-responses are pass or fail.

6.	Specific references, quotes, and major themes must be cited using MLA formatting.