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4.00 Credits
Survey of Drama courses, which study the major styles and periods in drama from a literary, stylistic, and performance perspective, are at the center of the Theater Program. They are practical courses, applying text to scene work. All theater majors take four such courses over two years. Recent Survey of Drama courses have included African American Theater, 1858 - Present; The American Musical; Beckett, Brecht, and Pirandello; Blackface Minstrelsy in the Making of America; Büchner and Strindberg; Chekhov and His Predecessors; Dissent and Its Performance; Feminist Theater; French Neoclassicism; German Theater; The Greeks; Grotesque in Theater; Ibsen, Shaw, and O'Neill; Jacobean Theater; Japanese Theater; Performance Art in Theory and Practice; Philosophies of Acting: Stanislavsky, Brecht, and Grotowski; Post-Colonial Theater; Shakespeare; TennesseeWilliams; Theater of the Absurd; Women Playwrights in History; and Yiddish Theater.
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4.00 Credits
Integrated Arts, Studio Arts As taught by leading theatrical designers and directors, this course examines the explosive prominence of visual ideas on the stage in the past 30 years, the emergence of a new form of collaboration between directors and designers, and the inclusion of new media on the stage. Required for theater majors.
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4.00 Credits
This course serves as a meeting/workshop involving faculty, students, and visitors from the field of theater-playwrights, directors, designers, and actors. Group projects might include adaptations or shared readings and discussion, but this is mainly a forum for the discussion of ongoing work. Students visit New York theaters and opera productions. Enrollment is limited to theater majors, for whom this is a required course.
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4.00 Credits
This course for students who have already had some training in voice concentrates on addressing demands on the voice that occur in performance, such as speaking over underscoring, sustaining dialogue in fights or dances, and developing power and range. Technical exercises are used to promote coordination of speech and movement, and the class works on selections from Under Milkwood and Fa?ade. Prerequisites: Theater 131 and 231, or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Religion The Bible is of pivotal importance in understanding the development of literature and history in the West, and offers unique insights into the nature of the religious consciousness of humanity. Through lectures, discussions, and essays, the course is designed to help students become biblically literate.
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4.00 Credits
Jewish Studies, Philosophy, Religion In two senses, the Bible has been an object of excavation. Artifacts and archaeological investigations have played a major part in the reconstruction of the meanings involved, while the depth of texts-as compositions that took shape over time-hasbeen increasingly appreciated. This seminar examines the way the social histories of Israel and the early Church shaped biblical texts. The unfolding of meanings within texts during the whole of their development explodes the claim of a single, exclusive meaning in biblical exegesis. The seminar attends to the variety of meanings inherent within the Scriptures, without limitation to a particular theory of interpretation and with constant attention to issues of historical context.
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4.00 Credits
Jewish Studies, Religion At the beginning of the common era, Judaism presented a view of God so appealing in its rationality that it competed seriously with various philosophical schools for the loyalty of educated people in the Graeco-Roman world. Christianity, meanwhile, appeared to be a marginal sect, neither fully Judaic nor seriously philosophical. Six centuries later, the Talmud emerged as the model of Judaism, and the creeds defined the limits and the core of Christianity. By that time, Judaism and Christianity had traded places: Christianity was the principal religion of the empire, and philosophy was its most powerful vehicle for conversion; Judaism was seen as a local anomaly, its traditions grounded in customary use rather than reflection.
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4.00 Credits
Jewish Studies, Religion This course in comparative religions aims at gaining perspective on religion through comparison and contrast: what do religions have in common, where do they differ, and how can we make sense of the points in common and in conflict? The focus is on comparison of the theologies of the three monotheist religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-and of law in Judaism and Islam. The goal is to define what we mean by "religion?n the encounter with the facts of religions. Readings include the Hebrew Scriptures, aka the Old Testament, as interpreted by the rabbis of the Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash; the New Testament; and the Qu'ran, Sunna, and Hadith. Texts by contemporary theologians and religious thinkers and historians are also reviewed.
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4.00 Credits
Jewish Studies For more than two centuries, the study of Judaism and the study of Christianity have been revolutionized by attempts to understand those religions in historical terms. During that period, history has been portrayed as both the friend and the enemy of religious insight. Profound controversies regarding the aims and methods of historical knowledge have also characterized discussion since the Enlightenment. The purpose of this course, which convenes during a weekly seminar and also during a conference over several days, is to enable students to develop approaches to historical study that they believe are viable.
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4.00 Credits
Between the second and fourth centuries B.C.E., Christianity spread through the Roman Empire, largely through philosophical dialogue. The first Christian philosophers did not work with a predetermined system of thought, but forged new ways of thinking during the course of prolonged interaction with their diverse environments. By the end of the period, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and Catholicism emerged as welldefined positions, and yet continued in dedicated debate, dialogue, and dispute.
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