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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Introduction to key concepts and major theoretical and methodological debates that characterize field of cultural studies, including discussion of notions of culture, popular culture, subculture, youth culture, hegemony, gender, race, class, and national identity. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Introduction to methods, techniques, and issues in conducting field-based research, including nature, uses, and limitations of major data-gathering procedures, ethical concerns, sampling, checks and controls, teamwork, interventions, and results as not only tangible and impersonal outcomes of inquiry but also personal and tangible. Through readings, discussion, and hands-on exercises, students learn how to plan fieldwork projects and write proposals, prepare consent forms and deal with ethical issues, observe behavior, construct questionnaires, interview, use audiovisual documentation, and manage and present data. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 10 hours. Cultural/historical survey of role of folklore in development of American civilization and of influence of American experience in shaping folklore in American society; attention also to representative areas of inquiry and analytical procedures. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Use of Fowler Museum's long-term exhibition entitled "Intersections: World Arts/Local Lives" as object of study to examine many insights that arts can offer into social, political, and religious experience. Drawing heavily on cultures of Africa, Asia, Pacific, and indigenous Americas, both ancient and contemporary, consideration of degree to which notions of aesthetics and efficacy are intertwined and interdependent in art forms made to intervene in people's lives in active, instrumental ways. Use of specific case studies to illustrate and interrogate theoretical paradigms. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, two hours; studio, two hours; outside study, 11 hours. Variable topics seminar with focus on practice-based research in arts. Skills may include development of dance/theatrical performance, video/filmic creation, interdisciplinary art-making, text-based creation of work, and more. In-depth investigative experience to understand practice-based research process from conception to presentation. Research inquiry methods may include readings and assigned written analysis, supervised fieldwork, individual and collaborative assignments in selected media, activist orientations, and practice-oriented processes. Substantial practice- based culminating project required. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours; outside study, 11 hours. Variable topics seminar with focus on scholarly research in arts. Study of culture and performance, including individual and cultural identity through arts, arts criticism, theoretical and analytical approaches to arts practice, and arts activism. Substantial culminating research paper required. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Introduction to discipline of dance studies, with focus on study of corporeality as key contemporary perspective on the body. Multidisciplinary approach to dancing bodies conceptualized as social constructs, including attention to gender, race, class, and national identity. P/NP or letter grading.
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2.00 Credits
Studio, three hours. Introduction to dances and their movement characteristics in global context. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Comparative framework for looking at dance practices through time as they have developed around world, questioning relation of dance to culture and politics and providing students with tools for investigating histories of any given dance form. P/NP or letter grading.
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2.00 Credits
Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices crossing national and cultural boundaries. Variable topics, such as body music, crosscultural textile creation, or mural painting, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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