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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Interdisciplinary, contemporary arts-based model of healing applicable to persons leading Western modernist lifestyles and coping with two kinds of social crises during their lifetimes: (1) developmental transitions that are disruptive life-cycle changes that have potential to promote self-regeneration or self-fragmentation and (2) external transitions that are situational catastrophic events that evoke great terror and trigger fears of annihilation and chaos, but if successfully negotiated, have potential to promote revitalized sense of self, greater compassion for others, and restored sense of trust and hope in humanity. Concurrently scheduled with course C247. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study/research, eight hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to historical, theoretical, methodological, and ethical considerations involved in practice of dance as healing and therapy. Concurrently scheduled with course C248. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; studio, two hours; outside study, six hours. Introduction to key figures in creation of modern dance, with special attention to their theories and philosophies and tracing of radical shift to postmodern dance that occurred in the mid- 20th century. Contemporary developments, both historical and theoretical. Student projects involve choreography and writing. Concurrently scheduled with course C252. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Consideration of vernacular tradition as site for cultural configuration, social construction, representation, and display of national, ethnic, and other affinity identities. Emphasis on various European and European-American dance idioms. Concurrently scheduled with course C254. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, eight hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of critical developmental processes and situational factors contributing to construction of sense of self and emergence of creativity and subjective relatedness in different cultural contexts. Concurrently scheduled with course C255. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
(Formerly numbered 26.) Lecture, four hours. Examination of life of renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in light of (1) Mexico's political, religious, and social history that gave rise to mestizaje and machismo, two social conditions that strongly influenced construction of her mestiza and gender identity, as well as her revolutionary political ideals, (2) obstacles that 20th-century female artists living in patriarchal societies had to confront, (3) way her significant attachments influenced her construction of subjective sense of self and kinds of artwork she produced, (4) transcendent and self-regulatory functions her self-portraits served in maintaining her emotional equilibrium, (5) conversion of Kahlo's image after her death into cultural icon by culturally disenfranchised groups, and (6) psychosocial conditions and processes that tend to promote creation of cultural icons. Concurrently scheduled with course C256. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Survey of journalistic approaches to writing about the arts, with eye toward shaping critique of public writing practices and putting that critique into practice. Exploration of new modes of (and venues for) writing that rebalance power differential between art makers and commentators. Concurrently scheduled with course C264. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Focus on understanding bureaucratic structures and regional histories conditioning creation of art in the real world, including such practical issues as publicity and grantwriting. Concurrently scheduled with course C268. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; studio, one hour; outside study, eight hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of music, in search of the interesting, new, and unusual. Investigation of musical possibilities via record store, Internet, and music library; environmental sounds and patterns; body (clapping, stepping, and singing); and hardware store (found sound). Participants collaborate with fellow students in creative efforts and in presentations of research results. Concurrently scheduled with course C273. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to methods and issues in application of folklore studies to such areas as education, health, museums, organization development, tourism, environmental planning, economic and community development, aging, art therapy, and public sector folklife. Concurrently scheduled with course C275. P/NP or letter grading.
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