Critical and analytic study of jazz idioms from the turn of the century to the present, including the blues, ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, and modern jazz. Emphasis on such figures as Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Monk, and Coleman.

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An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.

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An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.

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An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.

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An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.

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The purpose of this course is to examine African American art and some of the historical and cultural considerations that affected the nature of its developments.

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This course considers the idea of Black Music. What is it? What does it sound like? Who created it? These musical questions are set in the context of an equally complicated web of ideas about race and the relationship between racial expectation and black music/cultural production.

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The 1960s was a decade of turbulence and dramatic social and cultural change. The war in Vietnam, the civil rights and Black Nationalist movements, the so-called sexual revolution, and the popularization of psychedelic drugs all had considerable impact in shaping the musical culture of the day. This course considers the music of the period, the relationships between musical forms, and the shifting relationships between the communities associated with them.

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Designed to introduce the student to the music associated with the so-called Harlem Renaissance. The course will examine African American and American works, composers, and performers referred to in the famous essays and controversies of this important period.

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Designed to introduce the student to the music associated with the so-called Harlem Renaissance. The course will examine African American and American works, composers, and performers referred to in the famous essays and controversies of this important period.

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This more advanced jazz history course focuses on the various styles and trends in jazz since 1945. The course will look specifically at Bebop, the Post Bop musics such as Hard Bop and Funky Bop, and the Cool School, Third Stream, avant-garde expressions, Fusion, Jazz Rock, and Acid Jazz.

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The purpose of this class is to examine how African American art forms have addressed social issues and affected social change over time. Visual art, literature, music and contemporary media may be discussed.

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Spiritual transformations involving worship, magic and healing, ritual, and aesthetic performance in Black speech and literature, music, and drama; and spiritual uses of Biblical themes to empower social political movements.

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Spiritual transformations involving worship, magic and healing, ritual, and aesthetic performance in Black speech and literature, music, and drama; and spiritual uses of Biblical themes to empower social political movements.

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Traditional genres of African art with a focus on masks and figure sculpture in West and Central African city-states and chiefdoms from 1500 to European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Major literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.

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Major literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.

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A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.

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A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.

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The course examines how constructions of race and gender control the way black women are represented in literature, film and popular culture from the 19th c. to the present. Students will look carefully at American and Western ideologies of black women.

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This course will examine the relationships of black cultural movements to their historical periods and approach the movements as interdisciplinary phenomena. Movements that have been covered in the past include the Black Arts Movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Black Power movement.

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This course explores one of a wide range of topics pertaining to the African American experience in the fields of human and civil rights, social and literary texts, and the social sciences.

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This course explores one of a wide range of topics pertaining to the African American experience in the fields of human and civil rights, social and literary texts, and the social sciences.

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The "South" has played a central role in our national imagination.This course explores the ways in which certain stereotypes suchas Southern Bell, Mammy, Southern Gentleman, Jezebel, and Uncle Tom remain relevant across the decades.

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Course focuses on the works of 19th and 20th century black women writers. Writers vary but may include the works of Harriet Jacobs,Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor.

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This course explores the life, literary work, and legacy of novelist Alice Walker.

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This course explores the life, literary work, and legacy of novelist Alice Walker.

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This advanced course explores one of a wide range of topics pertaining to the African American experience in the fields of human and civil rights, social and literary texts, and the social sciences.

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This advanced course explores one of a wide range of topics pertaining to the African American experience in the fields of human and civil rights, social and literary texts, and the social sciences.

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Introduction to the African humanities and social sciences through in-depth study of three African regions. Explores major historical trends and their impact on culture, including the slave trade, colonialism, and postcolonial international contacts. Content is drawn from literature (both written literature and oral traditions), film, history, religion, anthropology, sociology, and art.

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This course focuses on arts linked to the African continent as well as operations of museums. It examines how objects enter museum collections and what information accompanies objects when they arrive at museums. The course does not require previous study of Africa, African arts, or museums.

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Traditional genres of African art with a focus on masks and figure sculpture in West and Central African city-states and chiefdoms from 1500 to European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Treatment of the major issues raised by the new genres of art that have resulted from the African experience of European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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An interdisciplinary, historically grounded introduction to scholarly approaches to the U.S. and the broader Americas, with emphasis on issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and cross-cultural studies. Pre-requisite: ENG 223 Rhetorical Grammar (1 credit), which can be taken simultaneously.

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An interdisciplinary, historically grounded introduction to scholarly approaches to the U.S. and the broader Americas, with emphasis on issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and cross-cultural studies. Pre-requisite: ENG 223 Rhetorical Grammar (1 credit), which can be taken simultaneously.

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Explores the variety of traditional musical cultures in the United States, their historical and geographical influences on each other, and their influences on contemporary popular music.

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Examines the history if the sport from its nineteenth-century beginnings to the present day, including its engagement with changing social realities and persistent social myths.

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Examines the history if the sport from its nineteenth-century beginnings to the present day, including its engagement with changing social realities and persistent social myths.

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This course examines the interaction of race relations and ordinary leisure of movie-going from 1895-1996. Attention to the business of distribution and the content of film shown in segregated venues.

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The "South" has played a central role in our national imagination.This course explores the ways in which certain stereotypes suchas Southern Bell, Mammy, Southern Gentleman, Jezebel, and Uncle Tom remain relevant across the decades.

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IDS 491 senior seminar serves as the capstone experience for all each class of interdisciplinary undergraduate scholars. Students write and present a portion of their senior project, read contemporary debates about interdisciplinarity, and design a shared unit of interdisciplinary study.

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IDS 491 senior seminar serves as the capstone experience for all each class of interdisciplinary undergraduate scholars. Students write and present a portion of their senior project, read contemporary debates about interdisciplinarity, and design a shared unit of interdisciplinary study.

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Fall, spring. Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Open only to honors candidates in their senior year. Independent research, culminating in the thesis. .

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Fall, spring. Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Open only to honors candidates in their senior year. Independent research, culminating in the thesis.

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Interdisciplinary study of texts and themes from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and the Near East, and their reception in Western and Near Eastern traditions from antiquity to the present.

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Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

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Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

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This course introduces students to ethnographic fieldwork methods and explores through both case study analysis and class-based ethnodrama processes how applied theater and performance (theater, dance, and spoken word) can be used to present anthropological insights and ethnographic material.

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This course introduces students to ethnographic fieldwork methods and explores through both case study analysis and class-based ethnodrama processes how applied theater and performance (theater, dance, and spoken word) can be used to present anthropological insights and ethnographic material.

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Introduction to fundamental concepts of art history through 101 representative works of art and architecture produced in Egypt, the Near East, Europe, the Americas, and the Islamic world before 1600. Focus on the formal structure and historical contexts in which the works were made and understood.

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Introduction to the fundamental concepts of art history through 102 representative works of art and architecture produced in Europe, Africa, and the U.S. between 1600 and the present day. Focus on the works' formal structure as well as the historical contexts in which they were made and understood.

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An introduction to architecture considering the built environment we experience daily as well as historical buildings and practices. We will study architecture as a process of design, negotiation, construction, and reception and explore critical and social issues of representation and meaning.

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Great buildings stand as icons to their cultures: the pyramids, Parthenon, St. Peter's, Center Pompidou. In this course, we explore these and other monuments asking why and how they have driven the development of western architecture from antiquity to contemporary America.

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An introduction to the art of ancient Egypt from the late Predynastic Period through the Old and Middle Kingdoms to the end of the Second Intermediate Period.

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An introduction to the art of ancient Egypt from the beginning of the New Kingdom to the conquest of Egypt by Rome.

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Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

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Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

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The material culture of the Greek Bronze Age architecture. ceramic, glyptic, sculpture, and metalwork; an investigation of the human activities surrounding these artifacts, the cultural systems in which they operated, the conditions and methods of production use and exchange.

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An investigation of ancient Greek art and architecture from its Iron Age beginnings through the legacy of Alexander the Great, concentrating on the creation of monumental stone sculpture and ordered buildings, visual interpretation of Greek mythology, and the interaction of art, ritual and politics.

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The Roman genius for cultural assimilation and innovative techniques transformed the art of the ancient Mediterranean. The course investigates major achievements in sculpture, painting, and architecture and their resonances with Roman politics, society, and religion.

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Introduction to the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica (lower Mexico and upper Central America), particularly the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec cultures. Includes artworks in jade, ceramic, stone, obsidian, and bone from the Carlos Museum.

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Introduction to the art and architecture of ancient Central and South America (Northern and Central Andes) with emphasis on Costa Rica and Peru. Art of various media in the Carlos Museum collection will be featured.

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Explores of the world of late antiquity including the Roman mystery cults, arts of the Jews and early Christians. From these diverse beginnings, we will examine the rise of major new cultural centers in Ravenna, Byzantium, the British Isles, and Damascus.

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Arts of the Romanesque and Gothic period, including architecture, sculpture, stained glass, and manuscript illumination. Major topics include the revival of monumental sculpture, the cult of relics, the rise of urban centers, and the development of a stone-vaulted architecture.

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Innovations in painting and sculpture of Germany and the Low Countries between 1400 and 1600; emphasis on methods of verisimilar imitation, on art as an instrument of soul formation, on the rise of new pictorial genres.

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An introduction to the art and architecture of Italy from the late thirteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth, featuring such artists as Giotto, Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Titian.

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An introduction to the masters who transformed the visual arts in Europe between 1400 and 1600, from the age of Jan van Eyck to that of Michelangelo and his followers.

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Architectural styles and urban design in such centers as Rome, Venice, Turin, Paris, Versailles, London, Bath, Dublin, Vienna, Berlin, and Leningrad. Architects include Bramante, Sansovino, Palladio, Michelangelo, Bernini, Boromini, Cortona, Longhena, Mansart, Wren, von Erlach, Neumann, and Gabriel.

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Painting in Italy, Spain, France, Flanders, Holland, and England to the time of the French Revolution. Emphasis on the production of such artists as Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, El Greco, Velasquez, Hals, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vermeer, Watteau, Fragonard, Boucher, and Greuze.

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The cultural context of selected traditions of European art and architecture, from ancient Mediterranean to eighteenth century, exploring the interplay of culture with historical circumstances. May be repeated when topic changes.

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The cultural context of selected traditions of European art and architecture, from ancient Mediterranean to eighteenth century, exploring the interplay of culture with historical circumstances. May be repeated when topic changes.

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An introductory survey of European art and architecture (with some consideration of the decorative arts) from the Louis XV period through the age of revolution. Concentration on neoclassicism and romanticism in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

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Focused survey of European art from around 1851 to 1900, including works by the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Symbolists. Integrates art with the political, philosophical, and cultural currents of the time and examines the evolution of modernism.

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Focused survey of modern art in Europe with an emphasis on aesthetic, social, and historical dimensions of modernist practices. Movements include Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism. Writings by artists and critics will be considered in relation to the art.

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Focused survey of modern art in Europe with an emphasis on aesthetic, social, and historical dimensions of modernist practices. Movements include Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism. Writings by artists and critics will be considered in relation to the art.

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Focused survey of avant-garde developments in the visual arts from 1945 to the present, ranging from painting and sculpture to performance and installation. Emphasis will be placed on the critical concepts and the aesthetic, social, and historical implications of these cultural activities.

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American painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Colonial, Federal and early Victorian periods. Topics include the work of John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Latrobe, A. J. Downing, William Sidney Mount, and Winslow Homer.

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American painting, sculpture, and architecture of the later Victorian and modern periods. Topics include the work of John Singer Sargent, J. A. M. Whistler, Thomas Eakins, H. H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

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A survey of U.S. painting and its context from the colonial period to within two decades of the present. Artists considered include Copley, Peale, Church, Eakins, Whistler, Ryder, O'Keeffe, Hopper, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Rothko, and others.

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An introduction to the history and interpretation of major developments in architectural theory and practice in Europe and the United States from the late nineteenth century to World War II.

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Introduces students to the ideas and forms of the built environment from WWII to the present, investigating how buildings and urban spaces of the late 20th?? early 21st century were conceived and realized to affect local, and increasingly global, debates about the role of spatial design in society.

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The purpose of this course is to examine African American art and some of the historical and cultural considerations that affected the nature of its developments.

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This course focuses on arts linked to the African continent as well as operations of museums. It examines how objects enter museum collections and what information accompanies objects when they arrive at museums. The course does not require previous study of Africa, African arts, or museums.

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Focuses on one of several diverse, non-European art historical traditions, such as ancient Egypt, pre-Hispanic Americas, medieval Islam, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.

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Focuses on one of several diverse, non-European art historical traditions, such as ancient Egypt, pre-Hispanic Americas, medieval Islam, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.

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Monuments and art collections studied in important cities such as Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice. Details can be obtained from the art history department. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Topics could include the treasures of Tutankhamun; images of women in Egyptian art; and the art of New Kingdom Egypt. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Topics could include ancient sanctuaries; early Greece: real and imagined and religious festivals; myth and art in ancient Greece; and Greek architecture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Topics could include ancient sanctuaries; early Greece: real and imagined and religious festivals; myth and art in ancient Greece; and Greek architecture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Topics include textiles of the Americas; sculpture and museology; Aztec and Inka art; art and shamanism. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Topics include: Medieval Monumental Stained Glass, Hagiography,and Manuscript Illumination. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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The cathedral is a symbol of the Heavenly Jerusalem, masterpiece of structural engineering, reflection of Scholastic ideals, visual Bible for the illiterate, and house of worship. This course will explore all these aspects in the earliest French monuments that gave birth to Gothic architecture.

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An introduction to the early formative period of Islamic art in the sixth through the thirteenth centuries, drawing upon architecture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and manuscript illumination.

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Topics in Italian or Northern art, ranging from Giotto to Pieter Bruegel. From artistic centers such as Florence, Rome, and Venice, to Bruges, Antwerp, and Haarlem. May be repeated for credit when topic changes up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Topics in Italian or Northern art, ranging from Giotto to Pieter Bruegel. From artistic centers such as Florence, Rome, and Venice, to Bruges, Antwerp, and Haarlem. May be repeated for credit when topic changes up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Traditional genres of African art with a focus on masks and figure sculpture in West and Central African city-states and chiefdoms from 1500 to European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Topics could include problems in the study of Rubens; poetics and painting; the Carraci reform of art and its consequences; and problems in the study of Rembrandt. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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An exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.

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An exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.

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Treatment of the major issues raised by the new genres of art that have resulted from the African experience of European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Developments in African American art in the United States in the twentieth century considering the key artists/movement/moments and larger themes in African American society and culture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Possible topics include Post-Impressionism and its consequences; Matisse & Picasso; Art and Politics between the Wars; Dada and Surrealism; the Avant-Garde; Abstract Art; What is Art?; Theories of Modernism. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Possible topics include Post-Impressionism and its consequences; Matisse & Picasso; Art and Politics between the Wars; Dada and Surrealism; the Avant-Garde; Abstract Art; What is Art?; Theories of Modernism. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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This course focuses on American art created in the decades surrounding the Civil War (1861??65), exploring the ways American artists responded to that turbulent era through paintings, sculpture, photography, and popular prints.

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This course focuses on American art created in the decades surrounding the Civil War (1861??65), exploring the ways American artists responded to that turbulent era through paintings, sculpture, photography, and popular prints.

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Topics could include romanticism in England and the United States, issues in American painting; African diaspora ritual arts; and African American painting and sculpture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Students will explore the principle issues surrounding the care and preservation of art and cultural property, considering materials, deterioration, object history, and treatment.

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Through technical investigation of museum objects, students will explore material choice, working process, authenticity, provenance, and restoration history.

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Topics could include African art and architecture; colonial and contemporary African art; and arts of ancient Africa. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.

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Advanced seminars dealing with various specialized problems in the history of art from antiquity to modern times, such as individual artists, genres (e.g. portraiture, landscape); themes (e.g. theory, iconography); artistic movements and museum studies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.

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Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.

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Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.

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Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.

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Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. Permission from instructor required.

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Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. Permission from instructor required.

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Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. For requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.

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Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. For requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.

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This course uses the tools/concepts of drawing and printmaking to develop skills in representation and observation. Students will acquire skills with the fundamental of visual observation, and the extrapolation to visual problem solving.

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Offered in rotation. Credit, four hours. This course uses the tools and concepts of painting to develop skills in visual thinking. The fundamentals of visual observation and articulation are developed through visual problem solving.

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Creative as well as technical problems in these related media are examined; techniques in using cameras, projectors, and video editing equipment.

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This course is designed to introduce students to the discipline of hand building in Ceramics. Students will learn the technical processes involved in forming and firing centered on fundamental sculptural concerns. Basic glaze and clay chemistry will also be covered. These techniques will be explored in the context of history of ceramic art history and in its contemporary concerns and theory.

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Offered in rotation. Credit, four hours. A course designed to provide a firm grounding in the rudiments of sculptural practice. Students are exposed to an overview of processes, tools, and materials used in sculpture.

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This course explores historical media and art practices from Prehistory to the Renaissance. Students will study materials, techniques and practices of drawing, painting, print making, sculpture and architecture. Specific projects will be supplemented by readings, presentations and discussion.

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This foundation-level course exposes students to historical media and practices that undergird the creation of art objects. Designed as a studio course to complement ARTHIST 102. Strategies and materials of art-making from the late Renaissance through the present day will be explored.

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Examines mass media (photography, film, music, news reporting, radio, TV, video games) through a variety of approaches in the humanities and social sciences. This course is required for the minor in Media Studies.

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This course builds on the tools and concepts of painting. This course incorporates intermediate levels of conceptual and aesthetic awareness, creative problem solving, aesthetics and critical thinking with an emphasis on the 20th and 21st century aesthetic practices.

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This course will include experimentation and creative problem solving within the field of hand-built ceramics. Students will learn intermediate technical processes in forming, firing and glazing. Ongoing research into ceramic art history, and its contemporary context is an important part of the course. Rotating sub-themes allow this course to be repeated for credit.

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Contemporary sculptural practice is emphasized in both practical and theoretical terms. Students will continue to investigate the relationship of ideas to materials and construction techniques.

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The emphasis in this course is on the exploration of contemporary issues in the twenty-first century. The axis being the artist as they view art making and art theory practices. Visiting artists, art critics, curators, and site visits are integral to this course.

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This course introduces students to Chinese calligraphy in its artistic, cultural and historical contexts. Combining systematic hands-on practice with reading, writing, and research, it engages students in examining the aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria that calligraphy embodies.

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This advanced tutorial uses the tools and concepts of drawing and painting to develop skills in research and project development. Written documentation, oral presentations, critique skills and studio skills that support independent research are developed.

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Offered once a year. In this advanced course, students will continue to develop their skills, ideas and techniques in ceramic hand-building. Emphasis is placed on in-depth study and development of an independent body of work within the context of the contemporary ceramics field. Rotating sub-themes allow this course to be repeated for credit.

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This course focuses on individual student inquiry into advanced sculptural practices utilizing the concepts, histories, practices, and potentialities of the field. Advanced level allows students to assume a greater role in defining the parameters of projects.

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An historical/theoretical survey of the experimental avantgarde as an alternative to mainstream narrative, with an emphasis on its wide variety of forms. May include a filmmaking component. Weekly screenings required.

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Offered once a year during the fall semester. This capstone course is required of all graduating IVAC co-majors and focuses on professional practices including documentation, research, development of an individual body of work situated in contemporary theory and methodology.

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Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. Candidates are required to have a Three Person Faculty advising committee. For additional requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.

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Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. Candidates are required to have a Three Person Faculty advising committee. For additional requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.

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This course introduces students to Chinese calligraphy in its artistic, cultural and historical contexts. Combining systematic hands-on practice with reading, writing, and research, it engages students in examining the aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria that calligraphy embodies.

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Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

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Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

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An overview of important elements of the Chinese language and its use. Students will gain an understanding of the history of the language, as well as the phonological, semantic, and syntactic structures of modern Chinese. Also examines cultural and social issues surrounding the Chinese language.

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"This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects."

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This course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.

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This course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.

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The course is an introduction to traditional Chinese drama, from the13th to the 20th century. We will focus on drama as literature but we will also explore the social, material, and performative dimensions of theater, including modern-day stage adaptations of traditional plays.

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The course is an introduction to traditional Chinese drama, from the 13th to the 20th century. We will focus on drama as literature but we will also explore the social, material, and performative dimensions of theater, including modern-day stage adaptations of traditional plays.

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An examination of woman as a trope in Chinese literature and cinema. It explores how "woman" became a cultural construct and how that construct has redefined gender roles and femininity in changing historical contexts from pre-modern to modern Eras. All readings are in English translation.

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An examination of woman as a trope in Chinese literature and cinema. It explores how "woman" became a cultural construct and how that construct has redefined gender roles and femininity in changing historical contexts from pre-modern to modern Eras. All readings are in English translation.

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This course surveys the rich and varied tradition of women's literature that developed throughout imperial Chinese history (roughly from the 1st c. AD to the early 20th c.)

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This course surveys the rich and varied tradition of women's literature that developed throughout imperial Chinese history (roughly from the 1st c. AD to the early 20th c.)

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There are unmistakable similarities between Italian and Chinese cultures regarding the noodle. In fact, the noodle evokes family traditions, rituals, symbolism, and emotional connection in both cultures. Our class explores how identity, assimilation and cultural integration are manifested in food.

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There are unmistakable similarities between Italian and Chinese cultures regarding the noodle. In fact, the noodle evokes family traditions, rituals, symbolism, and emotional connection in both cultures. Our class explores how identity, assimilation and cultural integration are manifested in food.

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Confucian Classics shaped Chinese literati culture from late antiquity to the early 20th century. The goal of this course is to illustrate the diversity of literary and cultural practices that evolved around Confucius' unique body of writings (551 - 479 BC). Knowledge of Chinese is not necessary. .

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Confucian Classics shaped Chinese literati culture from late antiquity to the early 20th century. The goal of this course is to illustrate the diversity of literary and cultural practices that evolved around Confucius' unique body of writings (551 - 479 BC). Knowledge of Chinese is not necessary.

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Study of Chinese language, literature, thought or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

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Study of Chinese language, literature, thought or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

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A survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976). Students will study revolutionary songs, films, and model plays, in addition to the visual and material culture of the period. Students will also stage a performance of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.

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A survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976). Students will study revolutionary songs, films, and model plays, in addition to the visual and material culture of the period. Students will also stage a performance of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.

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The course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.

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The course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.

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An examination of the heroic figure in Greek and Roman literature and culture, focusing on such famous texts as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid in their historical, political, and/or artistic context.

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An examination of the heroic figure in Greek and Roman literature and culture, focusing on such famous texts as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid in their historical, political, and/or artistic context.

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An introduction to Greek and Roman myths and the variety of approaches available for their study.

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This reading-intensive class introduces students to some of the major authors, works, and genres of the classical canon, stretching from the 8th century BC epics of Homer to the works of Imperial Rome. We will wrestle with the major themes and concerns of a variety of ancient poetic and prose texts.

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A general survey of ancient Greek literature and culture. Study of the major texts of ancient Greece in their social, historical and archaeological context.

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A survey of ancient Rome, from its origins in legend and myth to late antiquity, as seen through its principal literary texts in their historical, social, and cultural context.

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Study of the influence of Greek and Roman culture on films and the film industry.

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A survey of Greek tragedy and comedy of the fifth century BC, focusing on selected plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.

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Readings in such classical epics as Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, and their influence on later works such as Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost, or Kazantzakis' Odyssey: A Sequel.

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"Study in translation of Greek and/or Roman lyric poetry and its influence on later lyric. Selections from Greek poets such as Sappho, Anacreon, Simonides, and Pindar, and Roman poets such as Catullus and Horace."

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An introduction to the plays of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence. Topics include the nature of humor and jokes, parody, and comedy's role in ancient societies.

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A survey of ancient drama, focusing on selected plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.

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Greek and Roman Historians: A survey of Greek and Roman history-writing, with attention to its development, narrative styles, and historical aims.

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A study of ancient fiction and romance and their influence on later Western literature.

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Study of one or more important ancient genre.

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The material culture of the Greek Bronze Age architecture. ceramic, glyptic, sculpture, and metalwork; an investigation of the human activities surrounding these artifacts, the cultural systems in which they operated, the conditions and methods of production use and exchange.

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An investigation of ancient Greek art and architecture from its Iron Age beginnings through the legacy of Alexander the Great, concentrating on the creation of monumental stone sculpture and ordered buildings, visual interpretation of Greek mythology, and the interaction of art, ritual and politics.

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The Roman genius for cultural assimilation and innovative techniques transformed the art of the ancient Mediterranean. The course investigates major achievements in sculpture, painting, and architecture and their resonances with Roman politics, society, and religion.

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Literature, art, and culture from Homer's time to the early Presocratics. Includes examination of archaic conceptions of death, cosmos, community, beauty, justice, and intelligence as reflected in the art, literature, and philosophy of the period.

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Greek literature, art, and culture in the time of Pericles and Socrates. The development of tragedy and comedy, participatory democracy, oratory, history and philosophy, painting, architecture, and sculpture in fifth-century Athens.

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Greek literature, art, and culture in the time of Pericles and Socrates. The development of tragedy and comedy, participatory democracy, oratory, history and philosophy, painting, architecture, and sculpture in fifth-century Athens.

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A study of Golden Age literature, art, and culture during the reign of Rome's first emperor.

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A study of Silver Age literature, art, and culture during the reign of Nero.

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The reception of Greek and Roman literary traditions in English literature as seen in the development of one or more genres, such as epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, and the novel.

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Study of one ancient literary genre in depth (genre topic varies).

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The Greco-Roman tradition in English literature as seen in the development of one or more genres.

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Studies in classical drama and its reception and re-imagination in Renaissance dramatic texts.

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Greek and Roman Historians: Reading of one or more books by ancient historians with attention to narrative styles, critical methods, and historical aims.

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Advanced study of selected themes and characters from Greek mythology.

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Advanced readings in Homer, Vergil, or Ovid and their successors in the genre.

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Reading of Vergil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy in English translation.

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Reading of Vergil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy in English translation.

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The reception of Greek and Roman literary traditions in English literature as seen in the development of one or more genres, such as epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, and the novel.

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Advanced study of one or more specific aspects of Greek drama.

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Study of epic from its origin in oral song through the literate epics of Classical antiquity to contemporary poems, novels, or film.

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Advanced studies in classical drama and its reception and re-imagination in Renaissance dramatic texts.

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Advanced study of one or more ancient dialogues and their influence in later times.

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Studies in Greek and Roman fictional narratives and romances, with attention to their later influence.

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Advanced study of Greek and Latin Pastoral poetry, from its origins in Theocritus to the Byzantine age. Readings include selections from Theocritus, Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan drama, Calpurnius Siculus, Longus, and the pastoral novel.

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Advanced study of themes and topics from the Greek New Testament and the Latin Vulgate.

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Greek and Latin Biography: Reading of one or more works by ancient biographers, with attention to historical and literary issues.

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This course draws on classical, modern, and contemporary texts to introduce skills required for reading comparatively across national traditions and academic disciplines with an emphasis on close reading, critical interpretation, and the multiplicity of linguistic traditions around the world.

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This course draws on classical, modern, and contemporary texts to introduce skills required for reading comparatively across national traditions and academic disciplines with an emphasis on close reading, critical interpretation, and the multiplicity of linguistic traditions around the world.

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This course introduces students to the way translation between different literatures, literary genres, and new media impacts our comparative reading of texts.

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This course introduces students to the way translation between different literatures, literary genres, and new media impacts our comparative reading of texts.

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An introduction to a specific method of literary criticism or theoretical approach as applied through close textual interpretations.

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An introduction to a specific method of literary criticism or theoretical approach as applied through close textual interpretations.

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Learning to read literature from a theoretical viewpoint, its formal properties, distinctive features, origins, purposes, and mode of existence; representative critics and schools from contemporary and earlier periods.

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Learning to read literature from a theoretical viewpoint, its formal properties, distinctive features, origins, purposes, and mode of existence; representative critics and schools from contemporary and earlier periods.

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A study of literary texts and their complex interplay with other disciplines (e.g., literature and psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy, literature and law, and literature and religion.)

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A study of literary texts and their complex interplay with other disciplines (e.g., literature and psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy, literature and law, and literature and religion.)

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Modern literatures form around the world taught in a comparative or global framework. Course may be repeated when topic changes.

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Modern literatures form around the world taught in a comparative or global framework. Course may be repeated when topic changes.

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Lively topical or theoretical approaches to a given set of literary texts or problems. May be repeated for credit when subject varies..

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Lively topical or theoretical approaches to a given set of literary texts or problems. May be repeated for credit when subject varies. Fulfills the post-freshman writing requirement.

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This course is designed to give advanced students the opportunity to investigate intensively an area of special interest. A reading knowledge of one foreign language is prerequisite. Topics may vary, but the goal of the course remains unchanged: the courses focuses on contemporary literary theory.

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This course is designed to give advanced students the opportunity to investigate intensively an area of special interest. A reading knowledge of one foreign language is prerequisite. Topics may vary, but the goal of the course remains unchanged: the courses focuses on contemporary literary theory.

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A seminar devoted to the intensive close reading of literary and other texts.

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A seminar devoted to the intensive close reading of literary and other texts.

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This course for music and dance students to study Argentine tango in Buenos Aires will intersect scholarly studies of tango history and culture with performance practice. It will provide an authentic, holistic learning experience for students to understand how theory and practice inform each other. Music and dance majors and minors only, or by permission of instructor with letter of recommendation by a music or dance professor.

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Introduction to Dance is an overview of dance as an expressive art form, a symbolic language, and an integral aspect of world cultures. The course is designed to help students grasp a range of cultural, aesthetic, and bodily worlds from which dance is born. Course work enables students to develop intuitive and verbal skills which allow them to articulate about movement and its meaning. This is supported by direct physical experience in various dance forms, styles, genres, and through exploring the creative process.

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A theoretical and practical understanding of the process involved in conceiving and executing a stage design and the interrelationship of the various design disciplines.

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This course will provide a framework for observing, analyzing, notating, and understanding movement as an expressive, communicative form. Movement literacy skills are demonstrated through the body by building relationships between Body, Space, Shape, and Effort. By utilizing Rudolph Laban's Movement Analysis system (LMA), emphasis is placed on embodying movement intention and discovering context and meaning in stylistic patterns of movement. Required course for dance and movement studies majors.

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This is a dance composition course designed to allow the student to discover new ideas about movement in a nurturing and experimental environment. Students develop and perform solo studies with an emphasis placed on the development of personal movement vocabulary, phrase building, and the exploration of choreographic tools. Discussion, critiquing, and descriptive writing about their choreographic processes will supplement direct physical work. Required course for dance and movement studies majors and minors. Must be a declared dance and movement studies major or minor, or permission of instructor.

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When taught by Dance faculty, this course examines the practical, aesthetic, and current issues of the performing arts as a profession. When taught by Theater Studies, the course focuses on contemporary theater trends, including artistic movements and social issues.

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This course develops communicative, leadership, and creative skills while preparing the student for his/her role as a dance educator. Movement is developed as a kinesthetic tool for learning. Content includes the history of dance education, educational theories, development of original lesson plans, and practical teaching experiences in the Atlanta community.

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This course will be conducted as a professional workshop. During the semester students will be required to produce a series of critical articles covering a wide spectrum of fields from music to books, to dance, to theater and the visual arts. Class sessions and assignments will be devoted to nurturing the requisite skills needed to become a successful reviewer or critic. The seminar will include talks by faculty from Journalism, Dance, Music and Theater Studies, as well as visiting professional critics.

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This course will be conducted as a professional workshop. During the semester students will be required to produce a series of critical articles covering a wide spectrum of fields from music to books, to dance, to theater and the visual arts. Class sessions and assignments will be devoted to nurturing the requisite skills needed to become a successful reviewer or critic. The seminar will include talks by faculty from Journalism, Dance, Music and Theater Studies, as well as visiting professional critics.

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Students will utilize skills acquired in Choreography I. Choreography II emphasizes deeper exploration and understanding of the elements of space, time, and energy in group works. This course meets twice a week, with an additional evening lab for viewing and critiquing works in progress. Students participate in many aspects of the production process.

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Course based on selected topics in dance or movement studies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Course based on selected topics in dance or movement studies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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This course introduces students to Chinese calligraphy in its artistic, cultural and historical contexts. Combining systematic hands-on practice with reading, writing, and research, it engages students in examining the aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria that calligraphy embodies.

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Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

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Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

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"This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects."

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This course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.

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This course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.

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We examine the interaction between the human and natural world in Japanese cultural and scientific history by looking at maps, literature, scriptures, visual media, and current journalism.

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The course is an introduction to traditional Chinese drama, from the13th to the 20th century. We will focus on drama as literature but we will also explore the social, material, and performative dimensions of theater, including modern-day stage adaptations of traditional plays.

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The course is an introduction to traditional Chinese drama, from the 13th to the 20th century. We will focus on drama as literature but we will also explore the social, material, and performative dimensions of theater, including modern-day stage adaptations of traditional plays.

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An examination of woman as a trope in Chinese literature and cinema. It explores how "woman" became a cultural construct and how that construct has redefined gender roles and femininity in changing historical contexts from pre-modern to modern Eras. All readings are in English translation.

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An examination of woman as a trope in Chinese literature and cinema. It explores how "woman" became a cultural construct and how that construct has redefined gender roles and femininity in changing historical contexts from pre-modern to modern Eras. All readings are in English translation.

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An exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.

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An exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.

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Surveys Japanese literature from the mid-19th century to the present. Introduces the nature and range of literary genres as they developed in the context of Japan's confrontation with modernity. The course opens for discussion issues in contemporary literary theory in order to understand aspects of Japanese literature and culture, such as gender, nationalism, intertextuality, Orientalism, and identity. Texts are in English translation.

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Surveys Japanese literature from the mid-19th century to the present. Introduces the nature and range of literary genres as they developed in the context of Japan's confrontation with modernity. The course opens for discussion issues in contemporary literary theory in order to understand aspects of Japanese literature and culture, such as gender, nationalism, intertextuality, Orientalism, and identity. Texts are in English translation.

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This course familiarizes students with the multiplicity of the female voices that (re-)emerged in Japanese literature from the Meiji period (beginning 1868) to the late twentieth century. Texts are in English translation.

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This course familiarizes students with the multiplicity of the female voices that (re-)emerged in Japanese literature from the Meiji period (beginning 1868) to the late twentieth century. Texts are in English translation.

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This course surveys the rich and varied tradition of women's literature that developed throughout imperial Chinese history (roughly from the 1st c. AD to the early 20th c.)

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This course surveys the rich and varied tradition of women's literature that developed throughout imperial Chinese history (roughly from the 1st c. AD to the early 20th c.)

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Confucian Classics shaped Chinese literati culture from late antiquity to the early 20th century. The goal of this course is to illustrate the diversity of literary and cultural practices that evolved around Confucius' unique body of writings (551 - 479 BC). Knowledge of Chinese is not necessary. .

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Confucian Classics shaped Chinese literati culture from late antiquity to the early 20th century. The goal of this course is to illustrate the diversity of literary and cultural practices that evolved around Confucius' unique body of writings (551 - 479 BC). Knowledge of Chinese is not necessary.

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A survey of Japanese literature in translation from the 8th through the 21st centuries in which students both read representative works from various genres in the Japanese canon and write in those genres themselves. Texts are in English translation.

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A survey of Japanese literature in translation from the 8th through the 21st centuries in which students both read representative works from various genres in the Japanese canon and write in those genres themselves. Texts are in English translation.

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Study of East Asian literature, history, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

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Study of East Asian literature, history, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

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A survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976). Students will study revolutionary songs, films, and model plays, in addition to the visual and material culture of the period. Students will also stage a performance of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.

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A survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976). Students will study revolutionary songs, films, and model plays, in addition to the visual and material culture of the period. Students will also stage a performance of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.

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The course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.

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The course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.

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This advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by a single modern Japanese author who had clearly influenced contemporary Japanese culture, as well as earned international acclaim and recognition for his or her work.

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This advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by a single modern Japanese author who had clearly influenced contemporary Japanese culture, as well as earned international acclaim and recognition for his or her work.

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This course provides students with the opportunity to develop projects to work with institutions and organizations and experience real time issues surrounding Leadership, Ethics and Organizational impact in their respective fields.

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This course introduces students to some of the monumental works of Western civilization. It does not fulfill a writing requirement, but it does have students study classic texts from the ancient and modern worlds.

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Studies in poetry and poetic forms. Readings may vary in individual sections, but all sections emphasize critical reading and writing about poetic art. Required for English majors.

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Studies in poetry and poetic forms. Readings may vary in individual sections, but all sections emphasize critical reading and writing about poetic art. Required for English majors.

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An introduction to the study of narrative, with an emphasis on narrative fiction and the critical vocabulary used to describe it. Readings will vary by semester, and may include examples from other disciplines.

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An introduction to the study of narrative, with an emphasis on narrative fiction and the critical vocabulary used to describe it. Readings will vary by semester, and may include examples from other disciplines.

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An introduction to one or more major authors in English literature, with an emphasis on literary merit and its determination, canon formation, literary movements, and reading strategies.

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An introduction to one or more major authors in English literature, with an emphasis on literary merit and its determination, canon formation, literary movements, and reading strategies.

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An exploration of the connections between literature and various other mimetic and expressive arts, including painting, film, theater, music, sculpture, architecture, and dance.

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An exploration of the connections between literature and various other mimetic and expressive arts, including painting, film, theater, music, sculpture, architecture, and dance.

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An exploration of literary works (fiction, poetry, drama, essays) that have had or have a popular readership, and an examination of the factors governing popular taste and literary production.

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An exploration of literary works (fiction, poetry, drama, essays) that have had or have a popular readership, and an examination of the factors governing popular taste and literary production.

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An inquiry into the various expressions of human desire through readings of selected works of literature. Topics may include romance, psychoanalysis, gay and lesbian studies, or the four loves, classically conceived.

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An inquiry into the various expressions of human desire through readings of selected works of literature. Topics may include romance, psychoanalysis, gay and lesbian studies, or the four loves, classically conceived.

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An exploration of Anglophone literatures from around the world. Regional focus and selection of texts will vary but may include works by Achebe, Cliff, Friel, Head, Lamming, Rushdie, Silko, Soyinka, Tan, and/or Walcott.

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An exploration of Anglophone literatures from around the world. Regional focus and selection of texts will vary but may include works by Achebe, Cliff, Friel, Head, Lamming, Rushdie, Silko, Soyinka, Tan, and/or Walcott.

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Prerequisites: English 101 or 181 and written permission of instructor. Practical introductions to various kinds of media and professional writing. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Prerequisites: English 101 or 181 and written permission of instructor. Practical introductions to various kinds of media and professional writing. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.

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An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.

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An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.

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An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.

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Introduction to the Old English language and readings of representative prose and poetry.

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Introduction to the Old English language and readings of representative prose and poetry.

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The earliest English epic, read in the original language.

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The earliest English epic, read in the original language.

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Representative works of Middle English literature from 1100 to 1500, exclusive of Chaucer.

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Representative works of Middle English literature from 1100 to 1500, exclusive of Chaucer.

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Readings in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and selected other works.

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Readings in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and selected other works.

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Readings in the medieval and subsequent Arthurian tradition.

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Readings in the medieval and subsequent Arthurian tradition.

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Representative medieval, Elizabethan, and Jacobean plays with some attention to the development of early English drama.

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Representative medieval, Elizabethan, and Jacobean plays with some attention to the development of early English drama.

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Selected major plays from the histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Selected major plays from the histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Special topics in the study of Shakespeare. May include historical approaches, thematic emphases, performance studies, etc.

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Special topics in the study of Shakespeare. May include historical approaches, thematic emphases, performance studies, etc.

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Selected works of sixteenth-century literature, including authors such as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.

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Selected works of sixteenth-century literature, including authors such as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.

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Selected works of early to mid-seventeenth century literature, with an emphasis on the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Vaughan, and Marvell.

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Selected works of early to mid-seventeenth century literature, with an emphasis on the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Vaughan, and Marvell.

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Selected major works (poetry and prose) with particular emphasis on the early lyric verse, Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.

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Selected major works (poetry and prose) with particular emphasis on the early lyric verse, Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.

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Selected works of Restoration and Augustan literature, including authors such as Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Swift, Pope, Addison, and Steele.

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Selected works of Restoration and Augustan literature, including authors such as Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Swift, Pope, Addison, and Steele.

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Selected works of later eighteenth-century authors such as Johnson, Boswell, Burke, Burns, Blake, and Wollstonecraft.

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Selected works of later eighteenth-century authors such as Johnson, Boswell, Burke, Burns, Blake, and Wollstonecraft.

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The development of the English novel in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with representative works by novelists such as Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Sterne.

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The development of the English novel in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with representative works by novelists such as Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Sterne.

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Selected works of Romantic literature with an emphasis on poetry, including poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, as well as selections from prose writers such as Hazlitt and DeQuincey.

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Selected works of Romantic literature with an emphasis on poetry, including poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, as well as selections from prose writers such as Hazlitt and DeQuincey.

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Representative works from the Victorian period, including poets such as Tennyson, the Brownings, and the Rossettis, and prose writers such as Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Cobbe.

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Representative works from the Victorian period, including poets such as Tennyson, the Brownings, and the Rossettis, and prose writers such as Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Cobbe.

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The development of the English novel in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including authors such as Austen and Scott and significant genres such as the gothic novel and the novel of education.

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The development of the English novel in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including authors such as Austen and Scott and significant genres such as the gothic novel and the novel of education.

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The development of the British novel during the Victorian period, with representative works by novelists such as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Meredith, Hardy, and Conrad.

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The development of the British novel during the Victorian period, with representative works by novelists such as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Meredith, Hardy, and Conrad.

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Selected works from various genres by twentieth-century authors writing in English such as Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Eliot, Lawrence, Auden, and Thomas.

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Selected works from various genres by twentieth-century authors writing in English such as Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Eliot, Lawrence, Auden, and Thomas.

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The development of the modern English novel with representative works by authors such as Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, and Naipaul.

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The development of the modern English novel with representative works by authors such as Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, and Naipaul.

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An interdisciplinary course which examines the trajectory of Irish writing from the 1890s to the present.

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An interdisciplinary course which examines the trajectory of Irish writing from the 1890s to the present.

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New literatures in English by writers from former British colonies.

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New literatures in English by writers from former British colonies.

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Studies in contemporary British drama with representative works by authors including Pinter, Churchill, Stoppard, and others.

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Studies in contemporary British drama with representative works by authors including Pinter, Churchill, Stoppard, and others.

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Selected works from various genres by writers from the 1950s to the present.

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Selected works from various genres by writers from the 1950s to the present.

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Selected American writings of the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods including authors such as Taylor, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, and Irving.

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Selected American writings of the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods including authors such as Taylor, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, and Irving.

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Selected poetry and prose works of nineteenth century American authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Howells, James, and Twain.

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Selected poetry and prose works of nineteenth century American authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Howells, James, and Twain.

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Selected works from various genres by twentieth-century American writers such as Frost, Eliot, Stevens, W. C. Williams, Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Neill, Miller, and T. Williams.

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Selected works from various genres by twentieth-century American writers such as Frost, Eliot, Stevens, W. C. Williams, Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Neill, Miller, and T. Williams.

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The early development of the American novel with representative works by novelists such as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Howells, and Twain.

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The early development of the American novel with representative works by novelists such as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Howells, and Twain.

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The development of the modern American novel with representative works by novelists such as Wharton, Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, and Bellow.

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The development of the modern American novel with representative works by novelists such as Wharton, Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, and Bellow.

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The traditions of Native American verbal expression in the United States.

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The traditions of Native American verbal expression in the United States.

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The development of Southern literature with representative works by writers such as Mark Twain, Cable, Glasgow, Chesnutt, Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, and Percy.

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The development of Southern literature with representative works by writers such as Mark Twain, Cable, Glasgow, Chesnutt, Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, and Percy.

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Major literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.

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Major literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.

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A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.

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A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.

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Discourse analysis explores language use beyond the sentence level. With an interdisciplinary perspective, students learn about important theoretical frameworks and practice the methodologies associated with them to examine structures of expression and meaning.

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Discourse analysis explores language use beyond the sentence level. With an interdisciplinary perspective, students learn about important theoretical frameworks and practice the methodologies associated with them to examine structures of expression and meaning.

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Development of modern drama from the late nineteenth century to 1950, including dramatists such as Ibsen, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, O'Neill, and Williams.

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Development of modern drama from the late nineteenth century to 1950, including dramatists such as Ibsen, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, O'Neill, and Williams.

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Selected works of the contemporary theater since 1950, including dramatists such as Beckett, Bond, Fornes, Gems, Pinter, Shepard, and Wilson.

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Selected works of the contemporary theater since 1950, including dramatists such as Beckett, Bond, Fornes, Gems, Pinter, Shepard, and Wilson.

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An introduction to the relationship between literary studies and the study of cultural theory and popular culture.

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An introduction to the relationship between literary studies and the study of cultural theory and popular culture.

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A study of major satiric literary works, primarily English and American, with some attention to visual and journalistic satire and to theories of satire.

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A study of major satiric literary works, primarily English and American, with some attention to visual and journalistic satire and to theories of satire.

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Topics and perspectives vary over successive offerings, such as the political novel and feminist poetics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Topics and perspectives vary over successive offerings, such as the political novel and feminist poetics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Selected works of British and American women, including authors such as Browning, Rossetti, Dickinson, Plath, Levertov, Rich, and Lorde. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Selected works of British and American women, including authors such as Browning, Rossetti, Dickinson, Plath, Levertov, Rich, and Lorde. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Selected prose works of British and American women, including authors such as Behn, Austen, Woolf, Lessing, Morrison, and Walker. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Selected prose works of British and American women, including authors such as Behn, Austen, Woolf, Lessing, Morrison, and Walker. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Prerequisites: two courses in literature or the instructor's consent. The relationship of critical theory to various literary forms. Specific material for analysis will vary in successive offerings of this course. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Prerequisites: two courses in literature or the instructor's consent. The relationship of critical theory to various literary forms. Specific material for analysis will vary in successive offerings of this course. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Exploration of the ways in which literary writers have developed scientific ideas and scientists have expressed themselves through creative writing.

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Exploration of the ways in which literary writers have developed scientific ideas and scientists have expressed themselves through creative writing.

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Prerequisites: one course in religion and one in literature or the instructor's consent. Reading and interpretation of literary works (poems, novels, plays) with special attention to the religious issues they address and/or the way they engage the Bible. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Prerequisites: one course in religion and one in literature or the instructor's consent. Reading and interpretation of literary works (poems, novels, plays) with special attention to the religious issues they address and/or the way they engage the Bible. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Literary topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Literary topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Studies focus on groups of plays, dramatic genres, Shakespearean criticism, non-dramatic verse, or similar subjects. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Studies focus on groups of plays, dramatic genres, Shakespearean criticism, non-dramatic verse, or similar subjects. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Studies in poetry. Readings may focus on one or more authors or poetic traditions. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Studies in poetry. Readings may focus on one or more authors or poetic traditions. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Studies in narrative fiction and narrative forms. Readings vary and may focus on one or more authors or on questions of literary art. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Studies in narrative fiction and narrative forms. Readings vary and may focus on one or more authors or on questions of literary art. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Studies in literary criticism, the history of criticism, and literary theory. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Studies in literary criticism, the history of criticism, and literary theory. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Intensive study of specific literary topics, e.g., questions of form or history, or concentrations on one or more authors or literary movements. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Intensive study of specific literary topics, e.g., questions of form or history, or concentrations on one or more authors or literary movements. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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Fall semester. Required of honors students (other seniors may enroll with permission of director of undergraduate studies). Readings in the theory and practice of literary criticism. Designed to assist honors students in researching their theses.

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Fall semester. Required of honors students (other seniors may enroll with permission of director of undergraduate studies). Readings in the theory and practice of literary criticism. Designed to assist honors students in researching their theses.

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Every semester. Introductory workshop in creative writing covering at least two genres from the following: fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, creative nonfiction. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.

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Every semester. Introductory workshop in creative writing covering at least two genres from the following: fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, creative nonfiction. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.

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Every semester. Introductory workshop in poetry writing. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.

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Every semester. Introductory workshop in poetry writing. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.

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Every semester. Introductory workshop in fiction writing. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.

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Every semester. Introductory workshop in fiction writing. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.

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Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in writing fiction. ENG 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in writing fiction. ENG 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in writing poetry. ENG 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in writing poetry. ENG 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Every year. Intermediate level workshop in writing plays.

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Every year. Intermediate level workshop in writing plays.

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Spring semester. Admittance by assessment of readiness for advanced work by intermediate level instructor in genre. Intensive workshop in the writing of fiction for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Spring semester. Admittance by assessment of readiness for advanced work by intermediate level instructor in genre. Intensive workshop in the writing of fiction for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Spring semester. Admittance by assessment of readiness for advanced work by intermediate level instructor in genre. Intensive workshop in the writing of poetry for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Spring semester. Admittance by assessment of readiness for advanced work by intermediate level instructor in genre. Intensive workshop in the writing of poetry for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Spring semester. Admittance by assessment of readiness for advanced work by intermediate level instructor in genre. Intensive workshop in the writing of playwriting for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Spring semester. Admittance by assessment of readiness for advanced work by intermediate level instructor in genre. Intensive workshop in the writing of playwriting for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in nonfiction genres that often use fictional techniques. ENGCW 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in nonfiction genres that often use fictional techniques. ENGCW 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in the theory and practice of translation. ENGCW 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in the theory and practice of translation. ENGCW 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.

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Prerequisite: FILM 270. A writing-intensive course in the construction and formatting of screenplays for upper-level undergraduates, which also broaches various aspects of pre-production planning. Weekly screenings required.

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Prerequisite: FILM 270. A writing-intensive course in the construction and formatting of screenplays for upper-level undergraduates, which also broaches various aspects of pre-production planning. Weekly screenings required.

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Credit, variable; maybe be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit when topic varies. Specific topics to be announced. Typical subjects include the novel, first person narrative, formalist poetry, and nonrealistic forms. ENGCW 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite.

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Credit, variable; maybe be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit when topic varies. Specific topics to be announced. Typical subjects include the novel, first person narrative, formalist poetry, and nonrealistic forms. ENGCW 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite.

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We examine the interaction between the human and natural world in Japanese cultural and scientific history by looking at maps, literature, scriptures, visual media, and current journalism.

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Historical, philosophical, and ethical relationships between religion and ecology; other dimensions include Eastern thought, ecofeminism, animal rights, and literary nature writers.

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Introduces fundamental issues in photography & visual thinking using 35mm film cameras & B/W film. Topics: camera use, film developing, darkroom & printing skills, image selection & presentation, an overview of the history of photography, basic philosophy of photography, & interpretation of images.

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Creative as well as technical problems in these related media are examined; techniques in using cameras, projectors, and video editing equipment.

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Examines mass media (photography, film, music, news reporting, radio, TV, video games) through a variety of approaches in the humanities and social sciences. This course is required for the minor in Media Studies.

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Following a theory-practice model, this course will engage key issues in visual thinking and photographic practice. Rotating topics include documentary photography, the interpretation of urban geography, experimental practices, and photographic books.

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This class looks at the ways computer and digital technologies have changed how we think, communicate, express ourselves, learn, and interact with the world.

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General aesthetic introductions to film as a narrative form, with selected readings in criticism and critical theory. Weekly screenings required. When taught as a WR course, it fulfills the postfreshman writing requirement of the GER.

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General aesthetic introductions to film as a narrative form, with selected readings in criticism and critical theory. Weekly screenings required. When taught as a WR course, it fulfills the postfreshman writing requirement of the GER.

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Provides filmmaking students the opportunity to work under the supervision of faculty on a professional quality narrative or documentary film in creative areas(i.e., writing, cinematography, sound, editing, design) or administrative areas(i.e. budgeting, contracting, management, publicity).

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In this course, each student will realize an in-depth, self-designed body of work. The course is critique-only, and rigorously paced. All photographic technologies are open to use, and all presentational formats, including exhibition, book, and web/DVD.

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This class explores camera acting, including making the transition from stage to screen. Through on-camera exercises, collaborative projects, and screenings, actors will gain the tools they need to perform in a film, web or television shoot with greater confidence, clarity and freedom.

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This course focuses on film and other art-based mediums to explore the function and role media in social change movements and its role in addressing social issues. Students will move between the classroom and working in creative teams to develop a short documentary film or photographic exhibit.

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Explores the historical, cultural, political and aesthetic influence of melodrama in all its forms, particularly blockbuster action drama (Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Hunger Games), television serials, and social or family dramas by such figures as Sirk and Fassbinder.

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Individual topics on film study focusing on a specific period (e.g., primitive era, transition to sound, post-World War II) or national movement (e.g., Italian neorealism, the nouvelle vague, das neue Kino, Latin American militant cinema). Weekly screenings required.

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Prerequisite: FILM 270 or consent of instructor. Individual topics on film study focusing on a specific period (e.g., primitive era, transition to sound, post-WWII) or national movement (e.g., Italian neorealism, the nouvelle vague, Latin American militant cinema). Weekly screenings required.

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This class explores the different facets of animation, including its history, theory, and techniques.

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Film Studies majors and minors only, and with the consent of the instructor. Hands-on introduction to technical and stylistic foundations of moving image production using a variety of film and video formats and to the economic and professional realities of narrative content creation for film.

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For the duration of the semester each student authors their own substantial narrative film. Through workshop and critique students study advanced skills in the techniques, technologies and methods learned in FILM 107 and Narrative Filmmaking I.

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Prerequisite: FILM 270. A writing-intensive course in the construction and formatting of screenplays for upper-level undergraduates, which also broaches various aspects of pre-production planning. Weekly screenings required.

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Prerequisite: FILM 270. A writing-intensive course in the construction and formatting of screenplays for upper-level undergraduates, which also broaches various aspects of pre-production planning. Weekly screenings required.

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An advanced writing-intensive course in the construction and formatting of screenplays for upper-level undergraduates, which also broaches various aspects of pre-production planning.

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An advanced writing-intensive course in the construction and formatting of screenplays for upper-level undergraduates, which also broaches various aspects of pre-production planning.

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This course will serve as an introduction to the history, frm aesthetics, functions, and culture of video games, across their history from the first arcades in the 1970s to the networked, multiplayer, online, and mobile games of today.

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Introduction to the basic concepts that dominated what is known as "classical theory" in the work of Vachel Lindsay, Hugo Munsterberg, Bela Balazs, Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin, Rudolf Arnheim, Siegfried Kracauer and Andre Bazin.

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Introduction to the basic concepts that dominated what is known as "classical theory" in the work of Vachel Lindsay, Hugo Munsterberg, Bela Balazs, Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin, Rudolf Arnheim, Siegfried Kracauer and Andre Bazin.

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An extension of FILM 381 into the structuralist and post-structuralist era, beginning with the work of Christian Metz and extending through that of Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze. Weekly screenings required.

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This writing-intensive seminar explores to what end music is used in political films. How does music affect our perception of political films? How does music manipulate our feelings for or against the subject matter?

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This writing-intensive seminar explores to what end music is used in political films. How does music affect our perception of political films? How does music manipulate our feelings for or against the subject matter?

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An introduction to the relationship between literary studies and the study of cultural theory and popular culture.

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An introduction to the relationship between literary studies and the study of cultural theory and popular culture.

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This course introduces students to basic technical digital video film making skills (camera operation, lighting, sound recording, non-linear editing) and to interview techniques through weekly exercises and study of major, creative documentaries. Weekly studio lab sessions required.

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Prerequisite: FILM 385. It will extend the students' knowledge of the field of documentary media production through the screening and criticism of film and video documentaries. Weekly studio lab sessions required.

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Prerequisite: FILM 385 and 386. This course builds upon FILM 385 and 386 by deepening student knowledge of documentary mediamaking techniques. Students will complete a broadcast-quality television documentary while studying outstanding documentary films. Weekly studio lab sessions required.

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The structural dynamics of the studio system as both a film style and mode of production, with special emphasis on the development of narrative form. Weekly screenings required.

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Individual topics in Media Studies. Topics could include children and the media, an aspect of television, internet culture and identity, global media, and media convergence. Weekly screenings required.

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Individual topics in Media Studies. Topics could include children and the media, an aspect of television, internet culture and identity, global media, and media convergence. Weekly screenings required.

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An intensive, in-depth study of the work of a recognized major figure in world cinema in the class of Griffith, Dreyer, Ford, Renoir, Welles, Ophuls, Kurosawa, Godard, Antonioni, Hitchcock, or Scorscese. Weekly screenings required.

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History and theory of one or more major Hollywood genres, such as the Western, the gangster film, the musical, the horror film, film noir, and science fiction and their international analogues (e.g., the American Western and the Japanese chambara film). Weekly screenings required.

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The history of non-fiction film and media from the perspective of documentary film and media makers.

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The course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.

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The course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.

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A writing-intensive course in critical aesthetics for upper-level undergraduates, with a focus on the critical assumptions underlying various methodologies. Weekly screenings required.

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A writing-intensive course in critical aesthetics for upper-level undergraduates, with a focus on the critical assumptions underlying various methodologies. Weekly screenings required.

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Examines American screen entertainment history, specifically the key trends, individuals, institutions and technologies that have shaped these different forms them from the 19th century through the present day. Students perform practical experiments in industrial analysis.

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Films, television programs, and other media forms analyzed in cultural, historical and political perspective with regard to how societal norms, visual style and aesthetics affect the representation of women and how women have used various media for self-representation. Weekly screenings required.

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An historical/theoretical survey of the experimental avantgarde as an alternative to mainstream narrative, with an emphasis on its wide variety of forms. May include a filmmaking component. Weekly screenings required.

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A seminar in film and media historical methods for upper-level undergraduates that involves extensive reading and some primary research. Weekly screenings required.

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Students work with their peers and learn from established creative professionals to obtain critical perspectives on, and practical experience in, generating media content using technologies, techniques and models used by the media industries.

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This course compares depictions of temporality across a range of media in an effort to understand how particular media are suited to particular conceptions of time, what limitations particular media might have in depicting time and how media can enable new ways of thinking about temporal relations.

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This course is designed to give advanced students the opportunity to investigate intensively a specialized topic in film and media studies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

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In this capstone course for seniors, students will create, direct, and executive produce a work that showcases their accumulated experience as filmmakers and film scholars. Students will advance their skills in film analysis, synthesis, directing, casting, and producing.

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Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program and approval of adviser. Open to students writing honors theses. This course fulfills the postfreshman year writing requirement.

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Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program and approval of adviser. Open to students writing honors theses. This course fulfills the postfreshman year writing requirement.

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A supervised project in an area of study to be determined by the instructor and student in the semester preceding the independent study. Requires faculty approval prior to registration. Only four credit hours can be applied toward fulfillment of the requirement of the major.

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Intensive basic grammar course, with prose selections to develop the reading skill. This course is primarily for graduate students and has no connection with the undergraduate French language sequence. No previous knowledge of French necessary. Does not count toward the major or minor in French.

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Through a variety of texts and artifacts, including but not restricted to literature, travelogues, legal documents, medical, historidal, and political treatises, visual arts, students are introduced to specific interdisciplinary issues in French and Francophone Students. Taught in English.

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