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</style><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Dear Colleagues,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph is accepting applications for the </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">MA in Theatre Studies for 2015-16.<br></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Masters of Arts Degree in Theatre Studies is a
research-based degree that offers students the opportunity of working with
award winning theatre scholars and practitioners. The program applies several
dynamic approaches to theatre studies that merge theory and practice. Students
take five courses, including two mandatory courses and three elective courses.
The required courses include i) THST*6220, which provides a context for
the discipline and establishes a consistent discourse for students working in the
program; and ii) THST*6150, which introduces students to the theory and
practice of theatre-historical analysis, and situates selected aspects of
theatre history as a practice and an institution. The degree provides
opportunities for students to pursue in depth an area of specialized research.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
.1pt;margin-left:0in"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
.1pt;margin-left:0in"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Elective courses are subject to the special
interests of faculty research and practice; these courses will rotate regularly
among core faculty. For their electives students may take any graduate course
offered in English or Theatre Studies, or may apply to take graduate courses in
other programs; however, it is strongly recommended that at least two of the
three electives come from the Theatre Studies course offerings in the Winter
Semester.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">For 2015-16, The Guelph Theatre Studies MA will
offer a suite of five courses:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Theatre
Theory </b>with Ric Knowles: </p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">“How Theatre Means” for both scholars and
practitioners (including practitioners of devised theatre), presenting an
expanded semiotic approach with special focus on cross-cultural issues and on
the relationships between theory and practice.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Theatre
Historiography</b> with Mark Fortier:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">“Ben Jonson Now.” This course approaches theatre
history as a history of reception of the work of one particular dramatist, Ben
Jonson, and the material elements that go into forging and maintaining that
reception: editions, criticism, biography, production.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
FyxedSys;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"> <span lang="EN-CA">It will offer an
exploration of the critical understanding and appreciation of Ben Jonson in
literary and theatrical studies at the present time.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Bodies and
Space in Performance</b> with Sky Gilbert: </p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">“Creating Theatre of the Real:
Confessional/Personal Performance.” Class experiments will involve rehearsing
with self-presentation, theatricalized discussion, and critical consideration
of the question ‘what is real’? </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;
margin-left:0in"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Performance and Difference</b>,
with Mark Lipton:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;
margin-left:0in"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></i></b>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Performing
the Body: Science/Sex/Culture.</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> </i>Critical scholarship on the
history of science and sex(ual construction) is utilized to investigate
semiotic conventions deployed in speech, image, and performance about body
politics, sexological imperatives, the cinematic body, erotic imagination, the
proliferation of deviance, and intersecting structures on sex, gender, sexual
orientation, race and class. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Devising</b>,
with Judith Thompson: </p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Students will be guided in the creation of a solo
piece written around a social/political theme or real life character, created
through research and interviews.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">For information on applications, program details and funding opportunities, please contact:</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Graduate Secretary</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">School of English and Theatre Studies</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">University of Guelph</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Guelph ON</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">N1G 2W1</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="undefined" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT920_com_zimbra_phone"><a href="callto:519-824-4120" target="_blank">519-824-4120</a></span> ext. 56315</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">petriko@uoguelph.ca<br></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br></p>
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