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Film is a unique art form, a revolutionary mode of communication, and an expansive industrial enterprise that has made an indelible mark on world culture since its introduction at the end of the nineteenth century. In part, this course is a chronological journey through world cinema's first half-century, though it also requires students to think critically about the themes and aesthetics of the films, movements, and national cinemas discussed, and how they at once helped to shape and were products of the cultural, historical, and industrial moments in which they were made. Topics include cinema's precursors, early documentary forms, the emergence of sound cinema, German expressionism, and early Hollywood classics. 3 credits
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This class is about the craft of writing. Students will read mostly contemporary essays to study how an author's subject---and a reader's understanding of it-can be shaped and illuminated by diction, syntax, tone, form and structure. Through assigned readings, students will explore how techniques such as description, dialogue, digression, anecdote, narrative and setting are used to convey information with power and style. Students will take the insights gleaned from class readings and discussion and apply them to their own writing projects. As a result, students in The Creative Eye will become more accomplished writers capable of producing sophisticated and compelling written work. 3 credits
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Film is a unique art form, a revolutionary mode of communication, and an expansive industrial enterprise that has made an indelible mark on world culture since its introduction at the end of the nineteenth century. In part, this course is a chronological journey through world cinema after World War II, though it also requires students to think critically about the themes and aesthetics of the films, movements, and national cinemas discussed, and how they at once helped to shape and were products of the cultural, historical, and industrial moments in which they were made. Topics include Italian neorealism, film noir the Hollywood blacklist, the French new wave, and new Hollywood. 3 credits.
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This "Values" course explores alienation in the modern and postmodern worlds. Students will investigate how the experience of a profound loss of meaning is articulated and communicated via literature, art, philosophy, the media, and other cultural expressions. The course will examine how love and longing together contribute to both the complex nature of human relationships and the experience of anxiety and alienation in the contemporary era. 3 credits
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This "Values" course examines texts (e.g., novels, short stories, non-fiction, and film) to survey the remarkably diverse assumptions that have defined good and evil in the last 100 years. Through a rigorous sequence of reading and writing assignments, students in this course will develop a more informed appreciation of the contemporary world-view and the expressive forces (social, cultural, religious, political) that shape it. 3 credits
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Through the lens of literature, film, and cultural politics, this "Values" course critically interrogates the ideology of heroism from the ancient world to the present. It explores how notions of heroism have been transformed in response to the implicit and explicit assumptions that define our evolving ideas of greatness. Both western and non-western ideals will be examined. 3 credits
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Film is a unique art form with its own language, techniques, and practitioners. In this "Aesthetics" class students will learn to become engaged with and think critically about film as film-as well as how to communicate clearly, thoughtfully, and convincingly about it. Students will learn the language of film and be introduced to some of the techniques by which we, as both viewers and scholars, interpret film. Topics include aspects of film aesthetics such as cinematography, acting, editing, sound, and screenplays. 3 credits
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"What if...?" Much science fiction asks this question after looking at contemporary life. Students are introduced to the pleasures and the utility of science fiction imagination. Emphasis is on reading novels and short stories and writing short stories and critical essays. 3 credits
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This Individual and Society course explores other cultures as a way of enriching our sense both of where we come from as interpreters of culture and where others find themselves in the dynamic process of coming to terms with the world. The course is a passport to understanding cultural paradigms different from our own through novels, short stories, essays, films, and cross-cultural activities. A fieldwork project investigating one or more aspects of cultural difference is required. 3 credits
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