Modern-Contemporary Dance Technique 4 is designed for advanced-intermediate level dancers, as we continue to build on students' previous study of modern dance technique. As is true in Modern-Contemporary 3, the studio will be our laboratory for a semester-long exploration of a wide range of modern dance concepts with a focus on deepening sensation, clarifying points of initiation in the body, expansive use of space, connectivity and increasingly complex phrase work.

Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 2 is an advanced-beginning level class, which will build on the foundations of modern dance technique. By practicing in-class exercises and phrase-studies, students will refine bodily awareness and articulation, hone spatial and rhythmic clarity, develop facility in perceiving and interpreting movement, and practice moving with our dance musicians' scores.

In this course we deeply investigate works of original art and material culture from the Americas, ancient to contemporary, in the Five College area. We experience works by artists such as Diego Rivera, Carmen Lomas Garza, Jean Charlot, Enrique Chagoya, Leopoldo Mendez, and Jose Guadalupe Posada as well as material objects such as textile fragments, religious figurines, and ceramics. Questioning a culture constantly propagating the rushed assimilation of images, we engage in slow and meaningful looking.

Marxist writer Marshall Berman has argued, "To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are." In this introductory course, we will explore multiple aesthetic and cultural responses to the processes of modernization-colonialism, industrialization, urbanization, mechanized war, mass communication, mass migration, and mass social movements-by poets, fiction-writers, and intellectuals circu

As a 19th century phenomenon, slave narratives cataloged the pain and trauma enslaved people endured on the journey to freedom. As both autobiography and a tool in the fight for abolition, these narratives became a window into the inner lives of the enslaved. Twentieth century novelists sought to repair the trauma of enslavement in neo-slave narratives, often placing agency at the center of plotlines for enslaved actors.

An introduction to the archaeology, myth, history, art, literature, and religion of ancient Ireland: 4000 BCE to 1200 CE, from the earliest megalithic monuments to the Norman conquest. Consideration will be given, then, to these distinct periods: Pre-Celtic (Neolithic and Bronze Ages--4000 BCE-700 BCE); Pre-Christian Celtic (Late Bronze & Iron Ages--700 BCE-400 CE); and Early Christian Celtic (Irish Golden Ages and Medieval--700-1200 CE). The emphasis throughout will be on the study of primary material, whether artifacts or documents.

This seminar delves into the dynamics, debates, and desires that drive pop fandom. In this class, we ask: What is fan culture? Does it build community? Are fans different from other consumers? What are the ethics and politics of fandom? What are the aesthetic, social, and legal ramifications of fan-produced forms such as mash-ups, remixes, youtube videos, and fanfic/slash that borrow, customize, and reinterpret pop commodities? How do such textual appropriations call into question the boundaries between high and low, production and consumption, intellectual property and fair use?

This course will explore irony as a literary trope and as a broader rhetorical, discursive, and psycho-social phenomenon. Often defined as "saying the opposite of what one means" or "saying one thing and meaning another," irony crosses literary genres, periods, and cultures to become entangled with philosophical inquiry, dialectical negativity, and social critique.

As dance concentrators or enthusiasts, how many full-length ballets/dance works have you seen, become familiar with, been influenced by? Five? Ten? This course, which focuses on "dance visual literacy," challenges us to view 100 full-length dance works, for the express purpose of deepening awareness to the legacy of major twentieth-century choreographies.

This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of media studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that analyzes the complex interactions between media, culture, art, politics and ideology. We will use various forms of US media as lenses through which to focus our study, as well as to develop an understanding of the relationship between media institutions, texts and audiences.