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4.00 Credits
Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
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4.00 Credits
This seminar offers a survey of film theory: its history, its important concepts and figures and its key theoretical movements. We begin with "classical" film theory, including auteur theory, realism,genre theory and political criticism. Much of the course, however, is given to contemporary film theory: semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism/masculinity studies, African-American film studies, postmodernism, postcolonial and global studies. To ground all this theory, we will view, discuss and write about an eclectic collection of films.
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4.00 Credits
The course blends sociological analysis, semiotics, discourse analysis and theories of representation both to explore the social consequences of advertising and to deconstruct ads and commercials as commodity signs and narratives. The course approaches advertising as a system of signs composed of signifiers, signifieds, referents and relational structures tying these elements together. Students apply a semiotic analysis to both commodity and corporate advertising to explore how representations of race, gender, class and age are constructed in this discourse. Focusing on the effects of advertising on social institutions, gender relations, self-conception, the organization of everyday life and the environment, the course constructs a critical history of advertising from the 1920s to the present.
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4.00 Credits
Independent Study
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the historical development of art forms from Paleolithic times to the late Middle Ages. Emphasis is placed upon the relationship between the formal aspects of art and the political and social history of a culture. Fulfills the distribution requirement in humanities.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the historical development of art forms from the Renaissance to the present. Emphasis is placed upon the relationship between the formal aspects of art and the political and social history of a culture. Fulfills the distribution requirement in humanities. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course that raises fundamental questions about the nature of artistic activity. Students should expect to be engaged in both the process of making art and discussion related to the theoretical basis of such activity. Open to all undergraduates; required of fine arts majors. Fine Arts 121 is prerequisite to all other studio courses, and it is suggested that this course be taken during the first year or sophomore year. Fulfills the distribution requirement in arts and forms of expression.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy from the late Gothic period through the High Renaissance and Mannerism. The course surveys the changing forms, themes and imagery of Renaissance art, within the larger cultural and political worlds of Florence, Siena, Rome, Urbino, Mantua and Venice. The course also introduces various ways of interpreting Renaissance imagery, through the study of religious iconography, humanism and academically based artistic theory; and through approaches ranging from the social history of art to gender-based interpretations. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 116 or 117 or permission of the instructor. Offered on rotation. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A study of painting and sculpture in northern and central Europe from the late 13th to the late 16th centuries. This course focuses on such artists as Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer, as well as such themes as the evolving representation of nature, witchcraft and other gendered imagery in art, and the early history of printmaking. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 116 or 117 or permission of the instructor. Offered on rotation. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A study of painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. This course explores such artists as Velázquez, Bernini, Artemisia Gentileschi and Rembrandt, evocative images of nature and mystical experience, and major architectural and decorative programs. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 116 or 117 or permission of the instructor. Offered on rotation. Also offered through European Studies.
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