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1.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:None Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Fall Description This course is a study of the Japanese language focusing on spoken Japanese and everyday conversation techniques. The areas covered include reading and pronunciation of the written language as well as study of Japanese traditions, customs, and literature. This course will focus primarily on speaking and conversation. Note: This course is not available for credit to students for whom this is a first language.
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2.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LHUM-171 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring Description LHUM-172 is a study of the Japanese language focusing on spoken Japanese and everyday conversational techniques. The course covers reading and pronunciation of the written language, and a continued study of Japanese traditions, customs, and literature. The emphasis will continue to be on speaking and conversation. Note: This course is not available for credit to students for whom this is a first language.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-111 or LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring, Fall Description This course is designed to improve the student's performance in public speaking. Emphasis will be placed on the development of personal style, confidence, and security; the construction, and delivery of various forms of speeches; and on the acceptance and use of evaluative, constructive criticism.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:Third- and fourth-semester MUED majors Electable by:MUED majors third semester and above Offered:Spring, Fall Description This course is designed to address the reading and writing skills necessary to prepare for the Massachusetts State Teacher's Test on Communications Skills and Literacy. It will further address techniques developed in LCOR-111 and LCOR-112.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Fall Description This course will focus on the elements of poetry: the relationship between meaning and rhythm, meaning and sound, and meaning and form. These topics are explored in the context of a survey of poetry, both traditional and modern.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Fall Description This course focuses on film adaptations of novels and short stories, paying special attention to similarities and differences in narrative technique. Students view various types of film adaptations and consider reasons for changes from the works of fiction. The course emphasizes the challenges in adapting a work of literature to the screen, the limits and possibilities of both art forms, and the techniques writers and filmmakers use to express their ideas. In addition to discussing works of fiction, film adaptations, and the roles of the film director, screenwriter, and film scorer, students will have the opportunity to work on their own cinematic adaptation of a novel or short story, including writing original music for the screen. Such authors as George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Toni Morrison, and Kurt Vonnegut will be considered, as well as such film directors as Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, John Huston, Francis Ford Coppola, and Akira Kurosawa.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring Description Students will explore the creative forces that go into making films and film adaptations of plays. Movies by directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, Ang Lee, Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, Neil Jordan, and Sam Mendes will be explored. Film adaptations of plays by such dramatists as Anton Chekov, Sam Shepard, Harold Pinter, Beth Henley, and David Mamet will also be investigated. Discussions of the elements of drama and film will focus on topics such as dramatic structure, film scoring, screenwriting, directing, acting, and the use of myth and archetype in contemporary films. As a way of understanding the dramatic techniques and approaches used by playwrights and screenwriters, students will have the opportunity to write original dramatic scenes. Scenes by writers such as Shakespeare, Pinter, and Stoppard will be read aloud in order to hear a drama's phrasing, cadences, and architecture. This is a writing-intensive course.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring Description In a workshop setting, students will participate in acting exercises and theater games as well as perform character monologues and improvisational scenes. Then, from the point of view of the actor, they will study several play scripts. The final demonstration of their understanding of the play scripts and characters will be the performance of a scene from the play.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 credits Prerequisites: LCOR-112 Course Chair: C. Colatosti Required of: None Electable by: All Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Description This is an intensive workshop (seminar format) in which the student concentrates on the writing of poetry, on the use of metrics and form (plus free verse), and on the use of symbolism and metaphor
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 (LCOR-231 or LCOR-232 also recommended but not required) Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring, Fall Description This course explores the critical and theoretical approaches to understanding the meanings we make of images, icons, and visual representations. Visual culture refers to what has traditionally been thought of as the fine arts as well as more popular forms of visible media such as comics, advertising, television, film, decorative arts, video, installations, performance art, and digital and new media art. Assignments will be both analytical and creative, incorporating writing, drawing, and collage. Readings and classroom discussions will be supplemented by viewings of Boston art collections. *Note:LCOR-231 or LCOR-232 are also recommended but not required.
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