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3.00 Credits
By studying both major and lesser known religions of the world, students relate religious traditions to questions about belief, death, ethics, and the divine in human life. 3 CREDIT S
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4.00 Credits
Course develops self-knowledge and personal growth by strengthening communication skills of writing, reading, public speaking, and listening. Through examining humanistic prose models for writing and speaking and through working with and sharing their own experiences, students become more effective communicators. 4 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
Period of artistic experimentation among black creative artists in the 1920s is studied through the works of black writers from the Harlem Renaissance. Their relationship with emerging American avant-garde writers and the evolution of the Afro- American literary tradition is explored. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the acts and meanings of performance and ritual in the Black world. Study of sacred and secular practices that influence theatre, ritual, ceremony, carnival, rites of passage, the blues, improvisation, "Negro Spirituals",the "word" (as in: spoken-word, playwriting, use of physicalvoice as a tool, of specific characters in film), performance art, representation and perceptions of the black body, performance as expressed in sports culture, hip-hop, storytelling, and other performative modes of expression rooted in the ancestral ethos of Africans in the Diaspora. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
Course probes ideas and terminology that help students enjoy and appraise achievements in the arts. Students experience performing and visual arts and explore how art is created and perceived. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
The 1960s was a period when many "revolutionary" BlackAmericans, artists, dramatists, writers, critics and philosophers engaged in intense debates over the role of the artist in the making of a cultural revolution, and over what constitutes a "genuine" or "true" black aesthetic. The Black ArMovement explicitly targeted a number of long-standing assumptions of literary critics and historians; in particular, the role of the text, the timelessness of art, the responsibility of artists to their communities, and the significance of oral forms in cultural struggles. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
In this interdisciplinary survey course, students are introduced to the socio-political history and culture of black peoples around the world and the concept of "blackness." The courseis team taught and divided up into units that cover interrelated components: history, humanities, and social sciences. The course is divided into seven units, beginning with a history of the field of Black Studies. Students will then be taken through the history and historiography of the peoples and their expressive arts. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
Twentieth century classical music demands that we listen in new ways, that we test our assumptions regarding sound, and that we question our understanding of aesthetics. It may be described as the expansion, emancipation and re-merger of those features defining music prior to the 1900s: melody, harmony, form, timbre, texture and orchestration. We will examine this transformation, highlighting the events that catalyzed new directions in composition and performance. Wherever possible, the music examined is tied to general historical developments at the period of its conception. Ancillary figures, those generating functions or art achievements not strictly related to music, are studied whenever their activity seems to be germane to heightened understanding on the part of the student. All concert music heard is primarily of a "classical." genre. Whenever any other music is referred to,such as jazz, folk or world, brief examples are used. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
What do revolutions do to the arts How does a radical change in society affect the production, distribution and consumption of the arts What do the arts do to revolutions This course is a study of artistic production during twentiethcentury revolutionary periods in Latin America. Students examine issues of popular/official culture, censorship, propaganda, and the main contributions of these revolutions in literature, film, music, and the visual arts. This is a rotating topics course. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
This course presents the major issues, as well as the regional and cultural differences that exist amongst the peoples of present-day Africa. The class will critically review the stereotypical myths which are usually associated with Africa. Through a variety of multi-disciplinary approaches, including literary and musical analysis, students will be introduced to the diverse cultures and traditions across Africa as well as the important political, social, and economic issues of post-colonial African nations. 3 CREDIT S
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