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3.00 Credits
This course treats some aspect of literary and cultural politics in the 20th-Century with emphasis varying by instructor.
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Staff. A comprehensive review of theories and research on international migration. The course introduces the basic precepts of neoclassical economics, the new economics of labor migration, segmented labor market theory, world systems theory, social capital theory, and the theory of cumulative causation. Readings examine patterns and processes of global migration during the classic age from 1800-1914 as well as during the postwar period from 1945 to the present. The course concludes with an evaluation of immigration policies in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Topics vary. Previous topics have included Latin American Narrative and Art in Times of Globalization, Modernismo / fin de siglo, Art, Literature, and Society in Latin America at the End of the 20th Century.
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3.00 Credits
Martinez-San Miguel. Study of the historical context of the colonial period in Spanish America and of major works in prose and poetry.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. The course will be an investigation of the most influential syles of conceptualizing the relationship between artistic or literary productions and political practices in Latin America between the 1950s and the present. We will pay special attention to the genesis and structure of the notion of "liberation", and to its subsequent crisis. We will also try to determine the predicament of political art and literature in times of globalization. We will read texts by, among others, Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortazar, Glauber Rocha, Reinaldo Arenas, Osvaldo Lamborghini, and Diamela Eltit, and analyze images of several artists, from Antonio Berni and Helio Oiticica, to Doris Salcedo and Cildo Meireles.
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3.00 Credits
Tomlinson. Seminar on selected topics in the music of the Renaissance.
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3.00 Credits
Arboretum Staff. The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania provides a case study in public garden management. Aspects of horticulture, landscape design, education, conservation, history, preservation, and management are considered. Work often includes seminars followed by outdoor practical sessions. For more information contact Jan McFarlan at the Arboretum, 215-247-5777, ext. 156. (This course is an internship that meets at the Morris Arboretum in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia on Thursday afternoons during the Fall term.)
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3.00 Credits
Faculty. The focus of this foundation studio is to explore ways of recording and representing landscape - with an emphasis on material, space, rhythm and measure - through a range of drawings and constructions. The studio attempts to create a sensibility toward landscape where the act of surveying a site is as much an imaginative endeavor as is the crafting of an artifact or the construction of a path in a landscape. Emphasis is placed on visual and manual skills in two dimensional and three dimensional constructions (drawing, fabrications, model-making, etc.), while developing ways to "see" landscape. The studio is structured around the themes of wetness/dryness and enclosure/disclosure, and works with one or more sites in the Philadelphia region. In the past, the studio has focused on a territory around Martha's Furnace in the Pine Barrens, N.J.; a part of the Meadowlands in northern N.J.; an anthracite strip-mine in part of Pennsylvania's Appalachian Mountains; Great Falls in Paterson, N.J.; and the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia. Projects involve the making of pathways, platforms, and arkings in these otherwise undesigned environments.
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3.00 Credits
Faculty. This foundation design studio explores the relationship between sites, drawings, and the making of landscape architectural projects. The sites are typically urban, complex, and large in scale. Students begin with a series of site interpretations (ranging from photographic recordings and sketches to measured surveys and documentation). They are then asked to build a large model of the site, emphasizing its topographical form. The first design project is for an enclosure, "a civic garden," where the emphasis is upon the relationship of "inside" to "outside" and the architecture of spatial fabrication. The second project is for a large urban park that is to accommodate a diverse series of urban events and gatherings. Students work with a wide-range of conceptual, graphic, and projective techniques. At the end of the studio, each student is asked to graft each of their individual projects into a large plan of the existing precinct, presenting the urban landscape as an interactive field of accretive forces and entities. Past studios have proposed new urban gardens and parks for the Schuylkill Waterfront surrounding the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Camden Waterfront, N.J.; the derelict Venice Island territory of Manayunk, PA; and the North Delaware Riverfront in Philadelphia; and Bergen Point in Bayonne, N.J.
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