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AMST 222 Indigenous Film 6 credits
This course introduces students to the world of Indigenous films, beginning with representations of Indians and how these images shape what most people “know” about “Indians.” Simultaneously, Indigenous filmmakers exercise visual sovereignty by not only refusing representations of Indigenous people, but by creating visual representations of Indigenous peoples that speak to the urgent issues of the present. Through Indigenous films, we will examine genres, develop an appreciation for historical and cultural contexts of films, and consider how these films are forms of Indigenous resurgence. We will also learn the basics of media literacy and film analysis. Our key concepts include visual sovereignty, Indigenous, Indians, settler colonialism, decolonization, resurgence, tradition, and gender.
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AMST 222.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 246 What Has Been Happening in Modern Architectural Design? 6 credits
Architecture in our culture has become the art of solving spatial problems with large-scale constructions, at first in drawings but now as patterns on computer screens. This course examines four aspects of this Western building conceptualization during the last two hundred years, beginning with the exploration of it as the art of building and ending in coding–in our digital world today. We will focus on four fundamental moments in this historical development: 1) the emergence of the architect as a new exploring, reasoning figure in European culture in the early nineteenth-century (Labrouste, Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc); 2) transforming into a broad conceiver of whole cities facing the demands of the late-nineteenth century urban “explosion” (Haussmann, Burnham); 3) but rapidly progressing to the abstraction of “building art,” a web of machine-like systems during the first half of the twentieth century (F. L. Wright, Le Corbusier, Hilberseimer); 4) to now sink—with struggles and false-starts—into our new computerized world.
Extra time
- Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Any one art history course
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ARTH 246.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTS 244 Alternative Processes 6 credits
Over the last half century, the media environment has become dominantly digital, and the practice of photography has been transformed into a digital one. In response, contemporary artists and image makers have recently been pursuing analog practices in a search for more engaging material output. In this course, students will be introduced to a series of alternative printing methods that will result in tangible works. Instruction will be given in cyanotype, liquid light, Van Dyke brown printing, and Platinum Palladium. Experimentation and creative departures will be highly encouraged.
- Winter 2023
- Arts Practice
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Previous Studio Art course
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ARTS 244.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WBoliou 130 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 339 Advanced Photo: Digital Imaging 6 credits
This course will explore the technical, aesthetic and critical issues of digital media. The student will work with digital cameras, scanners, printers and the Photoshop program. Through specific assignments, field trips and personal experimentation students will broaden their understanding of this new media. Students will need their own digital camera.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 139, 142, 244, 245 or instructor permission
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ARTS 339.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Linda Rossi 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 130 1:15pm-3:45pm
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ARTS 339.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Linda Rossi 🏫 👤 · Arielle Rebek 🏫 👤
- Size:10
- M, WBoliou 130 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 339.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Ryan Arthurs 🏫 👤
- Size:9
- T, THBoliou 130 1:15pm-3:45pm
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ARTS 339.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:13
- T, THBoliou 130 9:00am-11:30am
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Crosslisted with ARTS 139 Materials fee
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ARTS 339.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WBoliou 130 12:30pm-3:00pm
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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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CAMS 187 Cult Television and Fan Cultures 6 credits
This course focuses on the history, production, and consumption of cult television. The beginning of the seminar will be focused on critically examining a number of theoretical approaches to the study of genre and fandom. Building on these approaches, the remainder of the course will focus on cult television case studies from the last eight decades. We will draw on recent scholarship to explore how cult television functions textually, industrially, and culturally. Additionally, we will study fan communities on the Internet and consider how fansites, webisodes, and sites like YouTube and Netflix transform television genres.
Extra time, evening screenings
- Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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CAMS 187.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
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CAMS 187.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 233 8:15am-10:00am
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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.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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 246 Documentary Studies 6 credits
This course explores the relevance and influence of documentary films by closely examining the aesthetic concerns and ethical implications inherent in these productions. We study these works both as artistic undertakings and as documents produced within a specific time, culture, and ideology. Central to our understanding of the form are issues of technology, methodology, and ethics, which are examined thematically as well as chronologically. The course offers an overview of the major historical movements in documentary film along more recent works; it combines screenings, readings, and discussions with the goal of preparing students to both understand and analyze documentary films.
Extra Time Required, weekly evening in-person screenings Tuesdays
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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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 257 Video Games and Identity 6 credits
As video games have emerged as a dominant cultural form, they have become deeply intertwined with broader cultural debates around identity. By analyzing a variety of specific games as well as the industry that creates them and the communities who play them, we will think through topics such as liberal multiculturalism, neoliberal capitalism, feminism, queerness, ethical design, the military-entertainment complex, GamerGate, and discourses of political correctness. This course will avoid categorizing games as having “positive” or “negative” social effects and will instead focus on how video games function as a window into issues of identity in U.S. culture.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 257.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 257.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 330 Cinema Studies Seminar 6 credits
The purpose of this seminar is guide students in developing and consolidating their conceptual understanding of theories central to the field of cinema studies. Emphasis is on close reading and discussion of classical and contemporary theories ranging from Eisenstein, Kracauer, Balazs, Bazin and Barthes to theories of authorship, genre and ideology and trends in contemporary theory influenced by psychoanalysis, phenomenology and cognitive studies.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or instructor permission
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CAMS 330.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 330.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 330.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 330.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 330.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:15pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 330.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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 2021, 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 2021
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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CAMS 340.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- 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 🏫 👤
- 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 🏫 👤
- 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 2021, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 239.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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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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CHIN 240 Chinese Cinema in Translation 6 credits
This course introduces to students the drastic transformation of Chinese society, culture, and politics over the past three decades through the camera lens. We will examine representative films from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Particular attention will be paid to the entangled relationship between art, commerce, and politics, as well as the role digital technologies and international communities play in reshaping the contemporary cultural landscape in China. This class requires no prior knowledge of Chinese language, literature, or culture.
Extra Time required.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 240.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CHIN 240.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CHIN 250 Chinese Popular Culture 6 credits
This course (taught in English) provides an overview of Chinese popular culture from 1949 to the contemporary era, including popular literature, film, posters, music, and blog entries. The course examines both old and new forms of popular culture in relation to social change, cultural spaces, new media technologies, the state, individual expressions, and gender politics. Throughout this course, special attention is paid to the alliance between popular literature and the booming entertainment industry, the making of celebrity culture, and the role digital media plays in shaping China’s cultural landscape. The course requires no prior knowledge of Chinese language, literature, or culture.
In translation
- Spring 2017, Fall 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 250.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CHIN 250.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLibrary 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CHIN 250.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- 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 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Spring 2023, 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 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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CS 314.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- M, WWeitz Center 235 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 235 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CS 314.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
- 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 2018, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, 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 2018
- Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- M, WWeitz Center 235 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 235 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CS 344.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sneha Narayan 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CS 344.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- M, WWeitz Center 235 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 235 9:40am-10:40am
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CS 344.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Amy Csizmar Dalal 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 362 Narrative Theory 6 credits
“Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of well-made stories?” asks Hayden White, metahistoriographer. To try to answer that question, we will read contemporary narrative theory by critics from several disciplines and apply their theories to literary texts, films, and cultural objects such as graphic novels, television shows, advertisements, and music videos.
- Fall 2018, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One 6-credit English foundations course and one additional 6-credit English course or permission of the instructor
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ENGL 362.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 362.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 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 2020, 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 2020
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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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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LCST 245 The Critical Toolbox: Who’s Afraid of Theory? 6 credits
This class introduces students to the various theoretical frameworks and the many approaches scholars can use when analyzing a text (whether this text is a film, an image, a literary piece or a performance). What do words like ‘structuralism,’ ‘ecocriticism,’ ‘cultural studies,’ and ‘postcolonial studies’ refer to? Most importantly, how do they help us understand the world around us? This class will be organized around interdisciplinary theoretical readings and exercises in cultural analysis.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- 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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LCST 245.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤 · Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 345 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 345 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WAnderson Hall 323 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FAnderson Hall 323 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WHasenstab 105 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 105 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 208 Computer Music and Sound 6 credits
This course will survey computer techniques for analyzing, synthesizing, manipulating and creating musical sounds. We’ll study the basic components of digital sound: waveforms, oscillators, envelopes, delay lines, and filters. We’ll analyze and modify sounds using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). We’ll study several methods of sound synthesis and create and play original music using open source computer music languages. Course projects will include real-time performances on multiple computers using video game controllers.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Spring 2023
- Arts Practice
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Music 108 or Computer Science 111 or Instructor permission
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MUSC 208.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Andrea Mazzariello 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- T, THWeitz Center 138 3:10pm-4:55pm
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MUSC 208.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Andrea Mazzariello 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THWeitz Center 138 3:10pm-4:55pm
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MUSC 208.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Andrea Mazzariello 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 138 9:40am-10:40am
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MUSC 208.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Andrea Mazzariello 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 138 9:40am-10:40am
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MUSC 208.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Andrea Mazzariello 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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MUSC 208.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 138 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MUSC 208.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 138 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MUSC 313 Video Game Music: History, Interpretation, Practice 6 credits
Over the decades, video game music has evolved from simple beeps and boops into a genre that has garnered millions of fans worldwide. This course traces the history of video game music aesthetics and technology. We will consider how it relates to a variety of musical traditions and engages with broader social issues. We will learn to listen for loops, styles, structures, and function in games via direct engagement with primary sources: the games themselves. The course culminates in the practical application of knowledge via a creative project.
- Winter 2022, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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MUSC 313.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 313.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 214 Visual Representations of Political Thought and Action 3 credits
Visual media offer an alternative method of framing political ideas and events. Images found in such texts as film, posters, and even in statistical tables can enlighten–or mislead. Readings in visual theory, political psychology, and graphic representation will enable you to read images and use these powerful media to convey your ideas and research.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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POSC 214.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 10:10am-11:55am
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1st 5 weeks
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POSC 214.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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1st 5 weeks
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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.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or equivalent
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SPAN 244.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 244.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 244.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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SPAN 244.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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 345 Culture, Capitalism and the Commons 6 credits
Have you ever wondered if not capitalism, then what? In this course we will critically approach the historical background, the causes and, most importantly, the consequences of the civil and ecological crisis unleashed globally in 2008. Both in its origin and its consequences, this crisis went beyond the financial field, extending into the realms of politics, economics, culture, media and ecology. In light of this context, we will take a transdisciplinary approach to the study of capitalist culture and analyze the main changes that have developed from the cycle of social mobilizations surrounding the “indignados” movement or Spanish 15M in 2011. With a primary focus on Spain, we will concentrate on analyzing cultural artifacts that mark a paradigm shift from a capitalist culture towards the development of a culture of the commons that seeks to improve the living conditions of the social majority, defending both human rights and ecological justice.
- Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Spanish 205 or equivalent
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SPAN 345.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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SPAN 345.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 10:10am-11:55am
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THEA 320 Live Performance and Digital Media 6 credits
Digital media has so infiltrated live performance that it has become almost as common as sets, lights, and costumes. With video technology becoming increasingly powerful and affordable, the screen has become ubiquitous on stage, sometimes eclipsing the performers. Media culture has also become a recurrent subject for critical exploration both on and off stage. In this class, students will learn the software and hardware skills necessary to incorporate digital media into performance projects, as well as the historical and theoretical context necessary to bring a critical approach to their work.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, 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 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am
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THEA 320.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am
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THEA 320.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 172 3:10pm-4:55pm
- T, THWeitz Center 133 3:10pm-4:55pm
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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