This course considers the practice and aesthetics of music and sound design in film, television, video games, advertising, podcasts, and other multi-disciplinary art forms. Students will learn about synchronization techniques in linear media as well as techniques for non-linear media such as games. We will read key theoretical texts in the world of sound for film including Michel Chion and Claudia Gorbman. We will also study different techniques for sound design including foley, synthesis, and working with libraries.

(Offered as SPAN-347, FAMS-328, & SWAG-357) Emerging from the ashes of the Franco dictatorship, director Pedro Almodóvar lit up Spain's movie screens beginning in the 1980s with his unconventional takes on gender, sexuality, religion, and family. Now a globally-recognized and award-winning filmmaker, Almodóvar has matured from his raunchy and risqué beginnings in the Madrid punk scene to become a director sensitive to marginalized people and human rights.

Fall semester. The Department.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Emphasis on independent research and writing.

Independent reading course.

Fall and spring semesters. The Department.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Emphasis on independent research and writing.

An in-depth chronological examination of translation in all its facets, from ancient times to the present, involving close reading, research analysis, discussion, and exercises in the practice of translation. The survey starts with myths like the Tower of Babel and the construction of the Library of Alexandria.

(Offered as SPAN 384 and EUST 233) This panoramic, interdisciplinary course will explore the concept of love as it changes epoch to epoch and culture to culture. Poetry, novels, paintings, sculptures, movies, TV, and music will be featured. Starting with the Song of Songs, it will include discussions of Plato, Aristotle, Catullus, and other Greek classics, move on to Dante and Petrarch, contemplate Chinese, Arabic, African, and Mesoamerican literatures, devote a central unit to Shakespeare, continue with the Metaphysical poets, and move on to American literature.

(Offered as GERM-224 and EUST-224) This class will embark on an in-depth study of the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. We will be guided by Benjamin’s notion of “the time of the now,” which the critic “blasts” out of the seemingly homogeneous continuum of history.

(Offered as ENGL- 123 and EUST-121) [Before 1800] Over a thousand years ago, a group of peoples began to form themselves into what we now call “Europe,” a geopolitical space that identifies itself as a shared culture. This course reads classic texts from the European tradition in order to study some of the most influential works of Western culture as well as to interrogate and critique the foundations of an idea of the European tradition. We will put philosophy and literature from antiquity and the Middle Ages in dialogue with selected scholarship on the formation of European culture.

Fall semester. The Department.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Emphasis on research and writing.

The Senior Seminar is the capstone course in the environmental studies major, which serves as the comprehensive requirement, and is taken by all seniors in the fall of their senior year.