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1.00 Credits
This course studies the history, art, architecture, and symbolic imagery of the city of Rome from its legendary founding by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. to the Fascist era and its aftermath following World War II. Readings and discussion will be oriented toward an understanding of the city's symbolic significance to its inhabitants and visitors during the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, with emphasis on the ongoing appropriation and transformation of Roman antiquity. Additional issues to be explored include the complex and shifting political and artistic interconnections between the papacy, the Senate, and the city's feudal nobility, and the refashioning of the city's identity during the Fascist era. This 300-level seminar will require intensive reading and class participation, two papers, and a class presentation. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
The art museum in the United States is a unique social institution because of its blend of public and private support and its intricate involvement with artists, art historians, collectors, the art market, and the government. This course will study the art museum's history and status in our society today. Special consideration will be given to financial, legal, and ethical issues that face art museums in our time. The emphasis will be on American institutions and particularly on the Wadsworth Atheneum. Short papers, oral reports, and visits with directors, curators, and other museum officials in nearby museums will be included along with a detailed study of a topic of one's choice. (Enrollment limited) 1.00 units, Seminar
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0.50 Credits
Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and program director are required for enrollment. 0.50 units min / 1.00 units max, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's office, and the approval of the instructor and programs director are required for enrollment. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
An individual tutorial to prepare an extended paper on a topic in art history. An oral presentation of a summary of the paper will be delivered in the spring term. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and program director are required for enrollment in this single-semester thesis. (1 course credit to be completed in one semester.) 1.00 units, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
A survey of the music of black Americans from the antebellum period to the 1990s, the emphasis being on the cultural functions of the music composed. Major genres include slave songs, blues, jazz and rap. Readings from the works of black American novelists, essayists, and poets complement discussions of the music itself. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
An appreciation of the corpus of recent Broadway musicals, that, beginning with Stephen Sondheim's Company (1970), brought new aesthetic and intellectual vigor to an art form grown stale on the outmoded formulas of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe. "Musical comedy" no longer constitutes an appropriate form for these works born of contemporary consciousness and realism, works influenced by some of the most advanced streams of 20th-century artistic thought. Works to be studied include Hair, Pippin, Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line, Cats, and many others. No previous training in music is required. Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Walt Whitman, in 1868, hoped that the wisdom and art of India might act as a foil against the functionalized personality of industrial America ("Passage to India"). From Whitman to New Age, Asia appears in the U.S. as an exotic antidote to industrial modernity, despite the fact that Asian labor participated actively in that very modernity. This class will study the ways in which North Americans have represented Asia as well as Asian Americans. We will explore immigration policy, the travels of Asian spiritual healers to the U.S., the many journeys of U.S. hippies to Asia, and the status of Asian goods in the U.S. marketplace. Readings include writings of (Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder) and about (Gita Mehta) hippies, legal documents, documents of exotica (Kung Fu, Sushi) and histories of New Age and alternative healing (Deepak Chipra, Chinese Medicine); we will also listen to music and watch movies (such as the work of Bruce Lee) that fashioned an "Asia" in the minds of Americans. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
The central focus of this course will be American identities-the various ways in which Americans have defined themselves, and have been defined. We will proceed chronologically, looking at contact between Amerindians, Puritans, and Cavaliers; the creation of a national identity; the contested meanings of race, class, gender, and ethnicity; and the role played by such forces as religion, region, technology, and empire. The course will also serve to introduce students to some of the central themes, theories, and sources of American studies, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of American culture. Readings will include poems, essays, autobiographies, novels, images, films, and the interpretive work of scholars in a number of disciplines. 1.00 units, Lecture
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