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4.00 Credits
Conductor, composer, teacher, television personality, Bernstein embraced new technologies with gusto, bringing classical music to a wider audience than ever before. As composer of a series of innovative Broadway musicals, including West Side Story (1957), he also challenged the status quo. Explores Bernstein's career in the round, looking at concurrent cultural patterns. Special focus on his relationship to mass media. Course includes an opportunity to dance to the choreography of Jerome Robbins.
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4.00 Credits
Anarchists, asylum-seekers, gun-runners, sea captains and corporate agents gone rogue: all these figures and more populated the world of Joseph Conrad, the greatest novelist to explore the workings of modern imperialism. This course uses three major works-The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, and Heart of Darkness-as windows onto empire and globalization c. 1900. Topics under consideration include informal imperialism, "going native," migration, seafaring, and technological change. Readings and assignments facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to history.
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4.00 Credits
A wide-ranging introduction to the Beethoven String Quartets, focused on selected works from all periods of his creative life. A primary focus will be on the composer's changing approach to what contemporaries called "this noble genre" and on the ways in which performers seek to realize the expressive and structural dimensions of the music. Visits by the Chiara Quartet will be arranged, and students who can perform the quartets are encouraged to do so.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar makes art out of language, letter, and type. We print poetry with a vintage letterpress, turn poems into drawings, and transform books into sculptures. To make this art, we rely on a variety of tools: metal type, disappearing inks, and even drill bits will help us physically expose how poetry uses language. In the process, we learn to work with a variety of limits to see constraint as fundamental to creativity.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar is for writers who would like to explore painting, painters who would like to explore writing, and for anyone who wishes to enrich the quality of his sight and the descriptive resonance of her language through a combination of guided research and creative practice. As we consider what is "painterly," our discussions will center on literary materials from Melville to Elizabeth Bishop, and visual materials from John Singer Sargent to Ezra Jack Keats.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar explores the relationship of history and memory in the context of war and genocide in 20th century Europe. It charts the shifting "politics of memory" from the First and Second World Wars, to wars of decolonization in the 1950s and 60s, to post-Cold War ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. Assignments include short response papers, and a research project with an oral presentation.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to acting by combining elements of a discussion seminar with exercises, improvisations, performance activities including the analysis, rehearsal, presentation of monologues and scenes. Uses improvisation to develop characters, improve group/ensemble dynamics and to minimize habitual behaviors. Explores a range of historical and contemporary acting techniques including those of Stanislavsky, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, Jerzy Grotowksi, Peter Brook, others. Students also attend and critique performances at the Loeb Drama Center.
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4.00 Credits
The United States is a young nation. As both historical actors and evocative symbols, children and ideas about childhood are and have been a central part of American history and cultural life. This interdisciplinary seminar draws upon many different archives of childhood from diaries and photographs to toys and memorials to consider the ways diverse children's experiences and representations have shaped American life from the eighteenth century through the 1970s.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the role of storytelling in the study of addiction. Much of what is known about addiction is expressed through the medium of the life-story, whether told by addicts, researchers, or imaginative writers. At the same time, stories of addiction and recovery have helped to define modern society's deepest beliefs about the nature of the self and the qualities of the well-lived life. Readings will include memoirs, research publications, fiction, and film.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the history of Western theatrical and social dance through the course of the twentieth century, including the development of modern dance, contemporary ballet, popular dance, and dance in film and television. Students will be invited to think critically about dance and also to dance themselves (no prior dance experience required). Artists under consideration include Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Alvin Ailey, Judson Church Dance Theater, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, among many others.
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