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An interdisciplinary approach to literature and film, this course examines specific literary works and their translation into film. Selections range from the classic to the popular and course content may vary from semester to semester. Satisfies: Humanities/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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Women and Art: Japan provides a historical survey of the complex relationships between women and the arts in Japan. Because of the relatively late arrival of patriarchy and the unique role women's voices assumed in literature, women's roles as artists, audience, patrons and subjects of the arts were far more important than in other modernized countries. Unified around themes of empowerment and status as subject, the course will begin with an examination of women's roles in early culture, particularly their importance as patrons, and then proceed to explore the impact of women's voices: from the aesthetic influence of the 11th century Tale of Genji, and late Heian and Kamakara illustrated hand-scrolls, through medieval Noh theater, the court arts of Tosa painters and the architecture of Katsura, to the popular 18th century Ukiyo-e prints as well as modern film and video. Satisfies: Art History, Humanities or Liberal Arts NW Elective Requirement
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This course will examine the work of authors whose voices represent a variety of cultural backgrounds found in America. Readings are drawn from the explosion of ethnic literature that has occurred since the mid-twentieth century. Selections will include poetry, short stories and novels by Native American, African American and Asian American authors, such as Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and Amy Tan, among others. While much of the focus will be on individual authors, we will also consider how these authors handle themes such as self-definition, cultural survival, story-telling and social mobility, in addition to their use of narrative structure and literary devices such as the double or doppelganger. Satisfies: Humanities/Liberal Arts elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Explore cinematic representations of women in classical Hollywood films, in world cinema and in films by women and independents.
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3.00 Credits
Speaking for Success features public speaking for the artist who wants to develop stronger presentation skills and confidence, while enhancing her research, organizational and critical thinking skills. Students develop their ability to make presentations and deliver speeches by concentrating on speaking extemporaneously and using body language, the voice and visual aids effectively. Speeches are videotaped and students engage in self and group critique as part of the learning process. Specific skills emphasize the development and organization of ideas, understanding the emotional effect of language, effective listening and the use of voice and body to communicate. Satisfies: Humanities/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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3.00 Credits
Creative Writing is structured as a workshop in which students write and revise their own fictional prose and give feedback to their peer writers. Creative experiments will be assigned throughout the semester as practice and inspiration. The class will also read fiction by major modern and contemporary writers in a variety of genres and discuss authors' various approaches to style, narrative strategy, and the writing process. Satisfies: Humanities/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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In this course we will read and write literature that doesn ? behav e ?ove poems disguised as comic books, fairy tales that elope with memoirs, pulp fiction that steals techniques from documentary film. These texts refuse to stay put in one category of literature or another; instead, they overstep the very boundaries that define them. As you read this diverse roster of disobedient writers, you too will learn all the rules fit to be broken. The course will be conducted as a writing and reading laboratory in which you will spawn your own literary crossbreed and foster the conditions in which your classmates?rare species can thrive.
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3.00 Credits
Creative Writing: Poetry is structured as a workshop in which students write and revise their own poetry and give feedback to their peer writers. Creative experiments will be assigned throughout the semester as practice and inspiration. The class will also read poetry by major modern and contemporary writers in a variety of styles. Discussion will focus on the poets' approaches to form and the writing process. Satisfies: Humanities/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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3.00 Credits
Visual Poetries will function as a workshop in which students write their own poetry while examining the work of a variety of modern and contemporary poets. Readings will focus on poems that emphasize visual elements, including imagist, symbolist, concrete, and ? language?poetry, and explore how poetry takes inspiration from other forms of art such as painting, graphic design, and illustration. Students will consider how each poet makes use of the page as a material canvas and how the placement of words, punctuation, and white space affects the meaning of a poem. Creative experiments assigned throughout the semester will help each student write, design, and present her own brand of visual poetry.Satisfies: Humanities/Liberal Arts elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
What does it mean to exist as a human being? What does it mean to exist as the particular human being you are? How can we create meaning in our lives? What is in the way? Using texts and literature from the Existential tradition, the class will explore, individually and together, how we can respond to these questions. Satisfies: Liberal Arts elective requirement.
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