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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Studio, three hours; outside study, three hours. Advanced-level study of world arts practices originating from North America, including the U.S., Canada, and Native America. Variable topics, such as Native American dance, jazz, and jazz-tap, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Concurrently scheduled with course C409A. P/NP or letter grading.
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2.00 Credits
Studio, three hours; outside study, three hours. Advanced-level study of world arts practices originating from Europe and extending to cultures of European diaspora, including the U.S. Variable topics, such as flamenco, Balkan folk dances, and classical ballet, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Concurrently scheduled with course C413A. P/NP or letter grading.
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2.00 Credits
Studio, six hours. Requisite: course 65. Studies in advanced modern/postmodern dance technique, with emphasis on performing skills. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Concurrently scheduled with course C415. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Introduction to study of arts, performance, and creativity in cultural context. Special attention to relationship between arts and identity and to role of artists in cultural survival and transformation. Concurrently scheduled with course C223. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to foodways, with particular attention to customs and symbolism in America. Topics include sensory realm, child rearing practices, foodsharing, food and identity, food and its emotional significance, aversions and taboos, advertising, changing food habits, and American diet. Concurrently scheduled with course C229. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/ seniors. Ethnography of diaspora African religions, including Vodou, SanterÃa, and Candomble. Lectures, readings, and video material focus on performance of ritual and its expression in religious art. Concurrently scheduled with course C239. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; fieldwork, one hour. Study of traditional calendrical, religious, and local festivals and related events in their cultural and historical contexts, with emphasis on American festival occasions and their Old World antecedents. Topics include carnival and carnivalesque and politics of celebration. Concurrently scheduled with course C241. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Designed for juniors/ seniors. Consideration of metaphor and symbol, reflexive anthropology, and notion of culture as text applied to such examples as trickster figures, rhetorical devices including parable and irony, and arguably magical experience of humans "shape-shifting" to becomeanimals. Concurrently scheduled with course C242. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Selected topics in study of dance and corporeality. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Concurrently scheduled with course C245. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Designed for juniors/ seniors. Opportunity to reflect on artists and intellectuals as cultural workers operating in domains of ideology, aesthetics, and theory. Analysis of such keywords as ideology, aesthetics, theory, art, politics, intervention, intellectuals, and artists. Concurrently scheduled with course C246. P/NP or letter grading.
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