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3.00 Credits
Primarily for writing minors, this course helps students polish their work for publication, providing advanced training in techniques of fiction writing through workshops and revisions. Students produce work for a public forum. Prerequisite: CREA 262.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course examines the subject and concept of cultural landscape by exploring environments that have been shaped or modified by human beings. Cultural landscape is viewed from the perspectives of anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, folklore, historic preservation and interior design. Its impact within the social and urban setting is examined. Students become familiar with the language of cultural landscape and develop the tools and skills necessary to identify, observe and interpret its meaning and development. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the history of landscape design from ancient times to the present. This course's primary focus is the work of the post-Renaissance era, including the Baroque, picturesque and other 19th-century movements. Special attention is given to landscape design in urban settings. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, HIPR 101.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture course explores the impact of cultural landscape from the perspective of both exterior and interior environments as they have been shaped or modified by human beings. Topics covered include structures, interiors, gardens and gathering places, and the influence each component has on the others. Prerequisite: HIPR 101.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar course introduces students to landmark texts and readings relevant to the study of cultural landscapes. Readings from architectural history, architecture, historic preservation, interior design, urban design and the social sciences are emphasized as they relate to the diverse and complex definition of cultural landscape. Prerequisite: CULT 305.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the history of dance from origins in ancient civilizations through European, Asian and Afro-Caribbean contributions, culminating with the study of social movements and the emergence of ballet and modern dance in America and Europe just prior to the advent of post-modern dance in the late 1950s. This course provides a wide anthropological and expressive overview of the evolution of this uniquely human form of expression. Lectures are supplemented with a variety of presentations, along with explanations of influential sociological occurrences and at least one in-studio movement experience. Prerequisite: ARTH 110.
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3.00 Credits
This performance course provides students with beginning-level dance technique in jazz styles. Students are introduced to challenging choreography, rhythm work, combinations, ethnic and multicultural movement, and criticism and critique.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to modern dance styles for stage, video, film and company movement. Students are expected to develop an understanding of the reality of dance and of the professional competitive ethic.
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3.00 Credits
In this beginning-level course, students are introduced to the fundamental principles of basic ballet technique and the basic components of a classical ballet course. Principal areas of development include basic ballet positions, musicality, terminology and anatomical principles.
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3.00 Credits
This studio/lecture course involves the creation of dance work. Students are introduced to a cache, or tool kit, of devices that enables them to discover and manipulate effective form and movement for successful dances. The tools are derived from the descriptive vocabulary of devices from the Harvard Music Dictionary; modes of creation of dance from the study of basic shape, form and effort (from the German Bauhaus and Rudolph Laban's studies); and devices from the instructor's own repertoire. The course is supplemented with research into the artistic process of renowned choreographers from a wide range of dance idioms. Prerequisite: DANC 211 or DANC 212 or DANC 213 or MPRA 210.
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