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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with DGAHREFLECTN · returned 14 results
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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 š« š¤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 130 1:15pm-3:45pm
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CAMS 214 Film History III 6 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to recent film history, 1970-present, and the multiple permutations of cinema around the globe. The course charts the development of national cinemas since the 1970s while considering the effects of media consolidation and digital convergence. Moreover, the course examines how global cinemas have reacted to and dealt with the formal influence and economic domination of Hollywood on international audiences. Class lectures, screenings, and discussions will consider how cinema has changed from a primarily national phenomenon to a transnational form in the twenty-first century.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 214.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 228 Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema 6 credits
This course examines the history and theory of avant-garde and experimental cinema practices from the 1920s to the present, focusing upon radical innovations in style and technique. The course places particular emphasis on the social and historical contexts that have shaped alternative and underground film movements. Attention will be paid not only to the influence of parallel modern art movements, but the ways in which filmmakers have challenged conventional means of production, exhibition, and distribution. Topics include city symphonies, abstraction, found footage, seriality, Surrealism, psychedelia, experimental documentaries, video art, essay films, feminist critiques, and the transition from analogue to digital. Requirements include class attendance and participation, readings, evening film screenings, and various written assignments.
Extra time, evening film screenings
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 228.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 252 Media Archaeology: History and Theory of New Media 6 credits
This course offers a historical survey of developments in media technology from the nineteenth century to the present day. Particular attention will be given to the ways in which moving images, video games, computers, tape recorders, videocassettes, photography, the internet, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence have been instrumental in shaping human interaction and augmenting the senses. Individual units will examine how the origins of our contemporary media culture can be traced back to earlier—often obsolete—formats and technologies. Weekly screenings will demonstrate how filmmakers have grappled with the cultural and social impacts of emerging technologies. Requirements include attendance and participation, readings, and various written assignments.
Extra time for evening screenings
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 252.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 254 Cinematic Spectacle 6 credits
This course traces developments in film technology from the nineteenth century to the present-day information age. Individual units will consider the ways in which technical and aesthetic innovations have further bolstered cinema’s status as a medium of mass entertainment. Particular attention will be given to immersive formats that have inaugurated seismic shifts in cinematic storytelling. Topics will include special effects, CinemaScope, Cinerama, Technicolor, World’s Fairs, theme parks, 3-D cinema, the emergence of the Hollywood blockbuster, IMAX, expanded cinema, digital cinematography, and computer-generated imagery. Requirements include attendance and participation, weekly screenings, readings, and various written assignments.
Extra time
- Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 254.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 340 Television Studies Seminar 6 credits
This seminar aims to develop students into savvy critical theorists of television, knowledgeable about the field, and capable of challenging previous scholarship to invent new paradigms. The first half of the course surveys texts foundational to television studies while the second half focuses primarily on television theory and criticism produced over the last two decades. Television Studies covers a spectrum of approaches to thinking and writing critically about television, including: semiotics; ideological critique; cultural studies; genre and narrative theories; audience studies; production studies; and scholarship positioning post-network television within the contexts of media convergence and digital media.
- Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or instructor permission
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CAMS 340.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Candace Moore š« š¤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CCST 233 The Art of Translation in the Age of the Machine 6 credits
In an era when AI tools can produce a translation that is indistinguishable from the work of a professional translator, what role is left for humans? In this course students study the history and theory of translation, while gaining practical experience in literary translation. Topics include the visibility of the translator, questions of identity, authority, and power, and challenges to Eurocentric traditions of translation. Students will become familiar with available translation tools and practice using them ethically and effectively in a workshop setting. The final project will be an annotated translation into English of a literary text of the student’s choice.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies
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Proficiency in a modern language taught at Carleton (204 or above). Native or near-native fluency in English.
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CCST 233.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laura Goering š« š¤
- Size:16
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
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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 š« š¤
- 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 š« š¤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 10:10am-11:55am
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CS 314 Data Visualization 6 credits
Understanding the wealth of data that surrounds us can be challenging. Luckily, we have evolved incredible tools for finding patterns in large amounts of information: our eyes! Data visualization is concerned with taking information and turning it into pictures to better communicate patterns or discover new insights. It combines aspects of computer graphics, human-computer interaction, design, and perceptual psychology. In this course, we will learn the different ways in which data can be expressed visually and which methods work best for which tasks. Using this knowledge, we will critique existing visualizations as well as design and build new ones.
- Spring 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Computer Science 200 or 201
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CS 314.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Eric Alexander š« š¤
- Size:16
- M, WHulings 316 9:50am-11:00am
- FHulings 316 9:40am-10:40am
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CS 344 Human-Computer Interaction 6 credits
The field of human-computer interaction addresses two fundamental questions: how do people interact with technology, and how can technology enhance the human experience? In this course, we will explore technology through the lens of the end user: how can we design effective, aesthetically pleasing technology, particularly user interfaces, to satisfy user needs and improve the human condition? How do people react to technology and learn to use technology? What are the social, societal, health, and ethical implications of technology? The course will focus on design methodologies, techniques, and processes for developing, testing, and deploying user interfaces.
- Spring 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Computer Science 200 or 201 or instructor permission
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CS 344.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Amy Csizmar Dalal š« š¤
- Size:34
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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 š« š¤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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 Ćlvarez-Blanco š« š¤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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