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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with CAMS Extra Departmental · returned 10 results
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AMST 260 Sexuality in American Film since 1945 3 credits
This five-week class uses feature-length films to examine debates around sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II. Designed to allow students to develop both a deeper understanding of modern American gender & sexual history as well as a fuller appreciation for film as a rich, historically-contingent artform. Explores a number of themes, including but not limited to: sexual identity, gender identity, censorship, racial politics and racism, class anxieties, cultural production, trans experiences, and representation. Will include films like Some Like it Hot (1959), The Graduate (1967), Philadelphia (1993), and Tangerine (2015).
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AMST 260.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Christopher Elias 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FHasenstab 109 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTS 339 Advanced Photography 6 credits
In this course students explore photography as a means of understanding and interacting with both the world and the inner self. We will emphasize a balance of technical skills, exploration of personal vision, and development of critical thinking and vocabulary relating to photography. Advanced students will focus on developing a concise body of work independently through two self-directed longer projects. Instruction includes: use of large format cameras with a hand meter, film scanning, and strobe lighting. Students will learn to develop a portfolio as an ongoing process that requires informed and critical decision making to assemble a body of work. Collectively we will critique, analyze, give feedback on work and discuss readings that are pertinent to the production of images in contemporary times.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 139, 142, 244, 245 or instructor permission
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ARTS 339.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 130 1:15pm-3:45pm
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CCST 245 Meaning and Power: Introduction to Analytical Approaches in the Humanities 6 credits
How can it be that a single text means different things to different people at different times, and who or what controls those meanings? What is allowed to count as a “text” in the first place, and why? How might one understand texts differently, and can different forms of reading serve as resistance or activism within the social world? Together we will respond to these questions by developing skills in close reading and discussing diverse essays and ideas. We will also focus on advanced academic writing skills designed to prepare students for comps in their own humanities department.
Formerly LCST 245
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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At least one 200- or 300-level course in Literary/Artistic Analysis (in any language) or instructor permission
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CCST 245.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 114 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CHIN 239 Digital China: Media, Culture, and Society 6 credits
This course invites students to critically examine digital media technologies in relation to social change, cultural innovation, and popular entertainment. Drawing on literature from media, literary, and cultural studies, the course engages in topics such as new media institutions, Internet businesses, global activism, gender and sexuality, and mobile applications. Special attention is paid to the implications that digital media bring forth within particular social and historical contexts, as well as the ways in which the Internet serves as the site for the negotiation of various political, economic, and cultural forces. In translation.
In translation
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 239.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 395 Narrative 6 credits
Roland Barthes claims that “narrative is international, transhistorical, transcultural: it is simply there, like life itself.” Yet metahistorian Hayden White wonders, “Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of well-made stories?” To study narrative is to confront art’s distinctive interplay of fiction and nonfiction, invention and truth. We will read contemporary narrative theory by critics from several disciplines and apply their theories to textual and visual narratives such as literary texts, graphic novels, films, images, television shows, advertisements, and music videos. Students will collaborate on a digital storytelling project.
Not open to students who have taken ENGL 362
- Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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English 295 and one 300 level English course
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ENGL 395.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GERM 156 Introduction to German Cinema: Film, Nature, and Nation 6 credits
How do films reflect and impact the cultures, societies, and physical environments within which they circulate? How do the complexities of German history offer a special case within film history? In this course, we examine German film history through the lens of environmental critique, from the stylized landscapes of 1920s expressionism to the filmic environments of multicultural contemporary Germany. Topics include propaganda, postwar rubble, and antifascist student-inspired rebel cinema. Alongside each film, we will discuss texts and theories that offer frameworks for understanding the complex interplay of ideas about film art, environmental understanding, and national identity. Taught in English.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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GERM 156.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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In translation
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MUSC 115 Listening to the Movies 6 credits
We all watch movies, whether it’s in a theater, on television, a computer, or a smartphone. But we rarely listen to movies. This class is an introduction to film music and sound. The course begins with a module on how film music generally works within a narrative. With this foundation, the course then concentrates on the role film music and sound play in shaping our understanding of the film’ stories. Over the course of the term, students will study a variety of films and learn about theories of film music and sound. Class assignments include a terminology quiz, cue chart, and a short comparative essay. The course will culminate in a final project that may take the form of a term paper or creative project.
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MUSC 115.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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SPAN 244 Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film 6 credits
Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has undergone huge political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations. Changes in the traditional roles of women, the legalization of gay marriage, the decline of the Catholic church, the increase of immigrants, Catalan and Basque nationalisms, and the integration of Spain in the European Union, have all challenged the definition of a national identity. Through contemporary narrative and film, this course will examine some of these changes and how they contribute to the creation of what we call Spain today.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or equivalent
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SPAN 244.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 356 The Political and Cultural History of the Cuban Revolution 6 credits
In 2014 Obama and Castro simultaneously announced the end of an era: the Cold War. This announcement was a turning point for one of the most influential and symbolically important political movements in Latin America: The Cuban Revolution. We will study the political and historical background that sustained this revolution for over fifty years. We will read historical, political, philosophical, and cultural texts to understand this process and the fascination that it commanded around the world. We will also examine the different exoduses that this revolution provoked and the exile communities that Cubans constructed in different parts of the world.
- Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 356.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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THEA 320 Live Performance and Digital Media 6 credits
We live in a world where the presence of digital technology is ubiquitous. Our reality is augmented by portals that open up universes of undiscovered possibilities for expanding, creating, archiving and documenting art. Yet these media have a physical presence that demands the artist find new ways of negotiating space and time on a stage. This class explores the ways in which digital media shape the everyday and ways in which they relate to performing and performance art in a historical, cultural and technological sense. Students will experiment with processes for incorporating digital technologies into their performances, while engaging in conversations around embodiment, identity and space.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Any course in Theater Arts, Dance, Cinema and Media Studies, Studio Art, creative writing or musical composition.
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THEA 320.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 172 3:10pm-4:55pm
- T, THWeitz Center 136 3:10pm-4:55pm