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Advanced practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Criticism by professionals and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.
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This course explores the different methods and forms for organizing a novel. It will pay special attention to the following topics: the narrator, time in the novel, points of view, the function of style, what is told?, what is left out?, narrating by eliding, motives, the tale and its autonomy and dependance in relation to context.
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The course will introduce students to basic screenwriting techniques and principles, using cross-cultural film examples of European/Asian and US classics. Course will examine the visual power of story movement in film and the use of visual moments/behavior in creating memorable characters Students will be asked to write one short silent film and two narrative films using cross-cultural examples of European, Middle Eastern and U.S. Cinema.
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This class will familiarize students with the complex use of metaphorical, emotional, and visual threads in screenplay writing. Analyzing examples of international, independent, and classical structures, students will be exposed to the rhythms and demands of the process of conceiving and writing a long form narrative film.
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This course will introduce students to Screenwriting Adaptation techniques, focusing on adapting "true stories" pulled from historical sources or the news. Issues of documentary technique versus fiction, the ethics of adaptation, how to turn facts into dramatic structure and the questions surrounding the need to fictionalize truth for dramatic purposes will accompany the analysis of World Cinema examples of film adaptations through the 20th century. Students will be asked to write one short silent film and one 30 minute film, adapted from a story they find in the news.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Can the emotional fabric of a world, a space, or a country be adapted into a work for the screen? Can a cultural space be used as the source material in the same way that a literary text could be used to create a screenplay adaptation? Using Greece and Greek culture as a source of inspiration, students will explore their own approach of transposing a physical and metaphorical space into the fabric of a short film/screenplay. Traditional screen adaptations of memoirs, novels, and plays taking place in Greece will be used as filmic study-texts. An intermediate course in screenwriting technique, also open to beginners.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A mix of movement techniques, improvisation, and composition. Students with no previous dance training will learn how to recognize their own movement potential and how to build their own dances. The essential principles and evolution of 20th-century modern and post-modern dance will be studied through readings and viewings of live and videotaped dance performances.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A studio course introducing students to American dance aesthetics and practices, with a focus on how its evolution has been influenced by African American choreographers and dancers. An ongoing study of movement practices from traditional African dances and those of the African diaspora, touching on American jazz dance, modern dance, and American ballet. Studio work will be complemented by readings, video viewings, guest speakers, and dance studies.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
To understand Dance through experiencing the technical discipline required, as well as the historical and creative aspects of the art. The practice of modern dance and some ballet techniques, structured improvisations and dance compositions are designed to explore abstract movement in relation to time, space, and energy, as well as theatrical aspects of movement in human behavior and group dynamics.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Dance technique and choreography for beginning and intermediate levels. Technique class will emphasize placement and the increase of movement efficiency through proper alignment. Students will also explore dancing to different rhythms, tempos and styles of music while emphasizing weight of the body and its relationship to space and gravity. In choreography class students will develop their understanding of the ways in which structural elements and movement vocabularies contribute to a dance's overarching impact and content.
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