MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE

Same as WLT 232. Can literature inspire personal and social transformation? How have modern Chinese writers pursued freedom, fulfillment, memory and social justice? From short stories and novels to drama and film, we'll explore class, gender and the cultures of China, Taiwan, Tibet and the Chinese diaspora. Readings are in English translation and no background in China or Chinese is required. Open to students at all levels.

MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE

Same as EAL 232. Can literature inspire personal and social transformation? How have modern Chinese writers pursued freedom, fulfillment, memory and social justice? From short stories and novels to drama and film, we explore class, gender and thecultures of China, Taiwan, Tibet and theChinese diaspora. Readings are in English translation and no background in China or Chinese is required. Open to students at all levels.

Advanced Astrophysics

This course applies physics to understand the astronomical phenomena related to galaxies. The structure and evolution of galaxies will be examined, exploring both the interrelationship of stars, gas, and dust in galaxies and the interaction of galaxies in groups or clusters. Concepts of stellar populations and the feedback between stars and galaxies through star formation and death will be used to understand the differences between elliptical, spiral, and irregular galaxies and their structure as seen using radio, optical, and high-energy telescopes.

Youth School Pop Culture

(Offered as AMST 203 and SOCI 203) What do we understand about schools, teachers, and students through our engagement with popular culture? How do we interrogate youth clothing as a site of cultural expression and school-based control? How do race, class, and gender shape how youth make sense of and navigate cultural events such as the prom? Contemporary educational debates often position schools and popular culture as oppositional and as vying for youth's allegiance. Yet schools and popular culture overlap as educational sites in the lives of youth.

SEM: ADV CLINICAL PSYCH-FREUD

Topics Course: Sigmund Freud is the father of psychotherapy. With psychoanalysis, Freud claimed to discover a technique for peering into the hidden urges and conflicts of the unconscious mind that underlie many psychological maladies. This seminar will closely examine Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and psychotherapy methods. Freud’s original writings and cases will be discussed. Freud’s work will be placed and critiqued in the historical context of his contemporaries and competitors.

Ode, Awe, Keen

In this introductory workshop, we will consider varieties of artistic impulses and poetic forms. Through readings, class discussions, and guided writing prompts, students will explore and engage with questions of song, trace, silence, desire, mourning, and fury. Readings may include Sappho, Audre Lorde, Myung Mi Kim, Don Mee Choi, Ocean Vuong, and Essex Hemphill, among others. (keywords: creative writing, interdisciplinary arts, literature)

Production Studio

A course in integrating previously studied skills, while developing collaborative and leadership roles in the making of Theater and Dance works, within the Department’s producing structure.  With permission, enrolled student will accept a specific assignment within a departmental production team. A half course.

Admission with consent of the Chair. Not open to first-year students. Fall and spring semesters. Professor Bashford.

Solo Performance

In this studio course, we will explore different skills and approaches towards creating solo performance. We will examine examples of historical and contemporary solo performances in theater, dance, video, music, radio plays, street, stand up and in political/social arenas to inform and ask what makes these effective (or not). We will use what we learn from these examples to inspire our own solo material.

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