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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Explore concepts of taste developed within science, sociology, and philosophy over the past three centuries alongside poetry and fiction from the same timeframe. Considers the sources, uses, and ways aesthetic judgments are entangled in debates over nature/nurture, class, democracy, education, consumption, rebellion, and ethics. Authors to be read include Lehrer, Pope, Hume, Austen, Bourdieu, James, Calinescu, and Nabokov.
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4.00 Credits
Norse mythology culminates apocalyptically, with giants, fire-demons and various monsters destroying Odin, Thor and the other gods, a battle from which a peaceful new world emerges. This seminar situates this Viking Age eschatological vision against both specific historical data (e.g., the 6th-c. climate crisis) and the comparanda of world mythologies (e.g., the Armageddon of the Abrahamic religions) and investigates how it is employed in such modern contexts as opera, Viking metal, art, literature and politics.
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4.00 Credits
People everywhere tell stories to express both the verities and contradictions found in experiences of everyday life. Based on storytelling traditions, a narrator shapes the story to reflect his or her own intentions, making it personally expressive as well as publicly meaningful to a particular audience. This seminar examines the nature of storytelling, its enduring appeal, and its ability to adapt to multiple technologies (print, film, internet). Participants engage in the storytelling process itself.
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4.00 Credits
By considering the image of the courtier at the Sun King's court, this course has three related purposes. Firstly, students read a range of various texts (mostly drama, memoirs, letters, novels) within their political and cultural context (theorists of manner, paintings, royal control over arts). Secondly, they view videos of performances and historical movies in order to question our "modern" vision of the "classical" century. Finally, they experience theater as form of physical and vocal expression through two performance-oriented presentations.
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4.00 Credits
Experimentation with a variety of animation techniques leads to new perspectives on time in this practice-based seminar. Practical assignments using drawing, pixillation, strata-cut and time-lapse will build into students making a short animated film, individually or in groups.
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4.00 Credits
Before the novel was the romance, a genre responsible for some of the West's most powerful imaginings, from the story of King Arthur to chivalry and courtly love. This course considers the place of romance in fashioning ideas of selfhood, sexuality, society, and secular ethics in medieval Europe ; in offering pleasure and release to pre-modern readers; and in shaping the crucial modern notion of "fiction," the powerful written description of non-existent events and people.
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4.00 Credits
The seminar is an introduction to Buddhism and art history by focusing on a fifth-century Chinese cave. The images therein show episodes from the Buddha's past and present lives (his bodily sacrifices and demon-subjugation, etc.), which involve key concepts of Buddhism, including body, time, and cosmos. Poor visibility in the cave calls for inquiries into modes of cognition and religious functions. The interdisciplinary study explores issues of art, religion, anthropology, and cognitive psychology.
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4.00 Credits
Dynamic forms of visual storytelling abound in Japan, from twelfth-century narrative scrolls, to twentieth-century manga, to contemporary anime. This seminar examines the fundamentals of Japanese pictorial narrative by analyzing formal characteristics of both images (composition, framing, line, color), and narrative texts (plot, temporality, character) and how these elements interact to generate meaning. Students will create their own illustrated scrolls, manga, and storyboards to understand the potential and limitations of visual narrative.
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4.00 Credits
Do inherited forms found in literature permit only certain variations within experience to reach lucidity? Investigates literature's limits in giving account of mind, everyday experience, thought, memory, full character, and situation in time. Studies Shakespeare's Hamlet and Joyce's Ulysses, a modern work of unusual complexity and resistance to both interpretation and to simple comfortable reading. Reading these two works suggests potential meanings for terms like complexity, resistance, openness of meaning, and experimentation within form.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar explores what women have to say about growing up female in contemporary America. Sources analyzed include memoirs, documentary films, photographs, and diaries. These sources both depict individual experiences and reflect more broadly on the role gender plays in American society. Topics considered include the various ways gender impacts the experience of athletics, academic achievement, illness, self-esteem, body image, and family dynamics.
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