Daily Life in Palestine-H.Crse

Daily Life in Palestine: a HALF COURSE engaging essays, history, ethnography and film: This experimental half-course will focus on accounts of community life in Gaza and the West Bank, engaging work about specific communities and individuals at specific moments in time with an alertness to materiality, memory, affect, and the politics of representation. We will also reflect together on the effects of different kinds of narratives.

Introduction to Drawing

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of visual art in general and drawing in particular. While focusing on perception, composition, line and materiality, students will draw from objects, the human figure, interior/exterior spaces, and from imagined sources. We will work with a variety of materials and challenge the limits of scale, by investigating the navigation of landscapes as accumulative drawn lines. We will develop strategies to visualize histories, topographies, individual perspectives and inner worlds embedded in landscape.

The Field & Its Mist

The writer must explore the world to write about the world accurately and honestly. This course is designed to incorporate creative writing field trips around campus and the areas immediately outside of campus. These explorative trips will provide writers with creatively immersive experiences designed to help writers generate new material for prose, CNF, and/or poetry. Activities may include hiking, journaling, image gathering, sensory scrutiny, collaborative notekeeping, plein-air drafting, field guide development, and improvisational readings.

The Magic & the Real

Hybrid creative writing and literature course examining the etymology and creative practice of Magical Realism in fiction. Our topics of discussion may include cultural perspectives on the preternatural, artistic dissemination, pathways to cultural production, ethnic commodification, as well as questions on race and power related the literary arts. We will read short stories, one or more novellas, and a single novel written by a recent practitioner of the form.

Banned Books

We will read books that have recently been banned from libraries, schools, and other institutions in the United States. We will attend closely to the books themselves, understanding our reading as an act of collective resistance.

Div II Visual Arts Seminar

This studio seminar is tailored for Division II students concentrating in the visual arts. Participating students will create, present, and discuss their art work with an explicit focus on "space". Through a curatorial lens, we will first examine various strategies of putting art on display; the museum, the white cube, public spaces, institutional spaces, digital space, and perhaps even imaginary spaces. These examinations will be centered around visits of exhibitions, performances, and screenings in the Five Colleges and in the region.

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. We will also develop additional techniques (through improvisational trial and error) that enliven and engage our different voices, stories, imaginations and emotions.

Reclaming Black Theater

(Offered as THDA 231 and BLST 231) Did you know that James Hewlett, a 19th-century Black actor, was among the first to perform solo plays? Yet, despite its rich two-century-old history, Black American Theater has consistently been overlooked and excluded from the annals of American theater.  With "Reclamation," we will embark on an exciting journey to excavate the legacy of Black American theater pioneers and their incredible impact on contemporary theater.

Hist Asian Amer. Women

(Offered as HIST 348 [US/TR/TS] and SWAG 348) This seminar will explore the intersections of gender, migration, and labor, with a particular focus on Asian American women in the United States (broadly defined to include the U.S.’s territories and military bases), from 1870 to the present. Through transnational and woman-of color feminist lenses, we will investigate U.S.

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