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3.00 Credits
Continued study of ballet technique and theory. Class includes kinesiological applications as well as historical and compositional investigations. The course emphasizes not only the practice of dancing but also of writing, thinking, and speaking critically and clearly about ballet. Prerequisite: TDF 117 or permission of the instructor. Vail
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Emphasizes the design process and the visual idea, and analyzes designs and designers. Students prepare models and renderings of assigned productions. Same as ART 228. Whiting
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Explores theoretical fundamentals of light and visual perception, and the process of lighting design from concept through execution. Whiting
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A lecture-survey, supplemented by studio experiences, of musical stage dancing in America from the colonial period to the present. Dance styles covered include acrobatic, ballet, ballroom, melodrama, exotic, folk, jazz, modern, and tap. Same as AMS 238. Brooks
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An examination of the first one hundred years of the medium from its invention to the documentary photography produced under the Farm Security Administration in the late 1930s. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of photography to the arts of painting and literature, as well as on contextualizing photographs as documents of scientific investigation, ethnographic research, social history, and personal expression. Prerequisite: Strongly recommended that students have had at least one art history course. Same as ART 245. Kent
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Beginning with Ibsen and continuing to the postmodern experiments of Churchill and Muller, this course surveys representative European plays within a broad historical, philosophical, and artistic context. Naturalism, realism, impressionism, expressionism, the Theatre of Cruelty, and alienation, among others, are considered in connection to specific plays. Silberman
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A literary and theatrical examination of representative American drama from the Revolution to the present, emphasizing developments since 1920. The focus of this study is on how and why Americans have been depicted onstage as they have, and the powerful effect this range of depictions has had on American identity and the American imagination. Same as AMS/ENG 251. Silberman
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Examination of diverse films by African directors from former French and Belgian colonies. Interpreting their creations as both a visual text and a cultural document will help students explore a multiplicity of issues related to identity and its representation in cinema. Discussions will include a representation of gender, race, social, political, religious, and cultural questions. Viewing films from French-speaking Africa, in mostly African languages with English subtitles, students will begin to understand different cultures studied and their national identifiers. Prerequisite: FRN 305 or 306. Same as AFS 259/FRN 359. Diakité
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The practice of improvisation not only as a tool for choreography, but also as an art and performance form in itself, offering profound experiences and discoveries. Students learn how to be fully present, both in body and in mind, making conscious choices and composing in the moment. Reading, writing, and movement assignments support in-class practice. Vail
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to doing history with movies. Treats movies from the 1890s to the 1960s. Provides an overview of the evolution of popular movies and of influential artistic and rhetorical counter-currents, including national film movements, experimental cinema, and documentary. Same as ART 267. Eitzen
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