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4.00 Credits
This class is designed for students interested in directing either theater or film. The course consists of numerous short assignments throughout the semester where students create a variety of short pieces (either live or on film) that experiment with how form and content can influence each other when directors tell stories. The class accommodates beginning to advanced levels of work.
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4.00 Credits
The practice of designing scenery for the theatre is explored through the history of stage design and the architecture of the theater building. Students complete projects of research and design for plays from various periods. The projects will introduce basic techniques in drawing, drafting, and model making. No previous experience in design or art necessary.
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4.00 Credits
Students prepare and present for criticism stage design projects based on play texts that suggest varying interpretive and stylistic problems. Focus is on examining ideas through research of visual material and analysis of text. Through their design projects, students also complete assignments in perspective drawing, drafting, model making, and lighting design. No previous experience in design or art necessary.
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4.00 Credits
Through a mix of theoretical and practical explorations, introduces students to a range of social, political, and artistic applications of surveillance technologies in the 20th and early 21st Centuries. Beginning with foundational cultural theories of discipline and social subjecthood in modernity, we will examine surveillance technologies as tools of socio-political discipline, their ongoing impact, and contemporary theatre and performance work that engagess with and responds to them, for instance the work of the Surveillance Camera Players, the Institute for Applied Autonomy, and the Shunt Collective; Reality TV, social software systems such as Facebook, etc.
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4.00 Credits
Through embodied practice and critical investigation, this course aims to cultivate an understanding of improvisation as a discrete mode of performance, as a constituent element of all theatrical and performance arts, and as a practice and function of everyday life. We will look at historical practices of improvisation including 17th-and 18th-century commedia dell'arte, 19th-century French boulevard pantomime blanche, 20th-century North American (historical) avant-garde theatre; the cinema of Jean Rouch, Orleans, Bebop, and Free Jazz, as well as performances not typically associated with improvisation, including early Shakespearean production, Brechtian theatre, and late 20th-century feminist theatres.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on body-based performance practices that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s through a combination of studio- and seminar-based work. Our goal is to develop an understanding of the overlapping methodologies that were explored in performance art and postmodern dance, both in relation to their historical/political contexts and as potentially generative structures for devising your own performances. The class culminates with a publicly-performed piece that utilizes the research undertaken throughout the course.
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4.00 Credits
What is meaning, and how do we use it to communicate? We address the first of these questions via the second, presenting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human languages. We investigate language as the product of a natural algorithm, that is, a computational facility which grows spontaneously in our species and enables us to expose our thoughts and feelings. Our investigation uses formal models from logic, linguistics, and computer science. These models will also shed light on human nature and basic philosophical issues concerning language.
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4.00 Credits
How can vast quantities of information-movies, text, voices, etc.-be moved instantaneously from place to place, reproduced in unlimited perfect copies, stored forever, and searched to discover needles in haystacks, all at virtually no cost? The secret life of "bits"-the zeroes and ones of which all digital documents and communications are comprised. We develop the mathematics of digital information using only high school algebra, and explore the human consequences of those digital principles: how they challenge our understanding of secrecy, privacy, security, free speech, and property, and pose dilemmas for free societies.
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4.00 Credits
This course has three objectives: to learn to calculate probabilities precisely, when we can; to learn how to estimate them, when we can't; and to say exactly what we can and can't infer from these calculations. The course is not mathematically demanding-we assume no mathematical background beyond high-school algebra-but the goal is serious: given that we're asked everyday to make consequential decisions on the basis of incomplete knowledge, an understanding of basic probability is an essential tool for life.
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4.00 Credits
Why is there confusion in the scientific community as to whether butter or margarine is worse for your health? How do epidemiologists find out whether cell phone use increases your risk for brain cancer? What is your risk of contracting diabetes? Discover how researchers draw on quantitative skills to detect causes of acute disease outbreaks and chronic diseases. This course introduces the techniques and methods for empirically based analyses, decisions, and actions in the context of current public health problems.
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