| FYS II: Hollywoodland |
Liberal Arts |
1005 (029) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
FYS II are theme-based writing courses designed for first-year students, with an emphasis on further developing the foundational writing skills students learned in FYS I. Students will continue to hone the intellectual skills of reading critically, and writing responsively, which forms the basis of each student's career at the School. While faculty have autonomy in determining course theme, the theme is an accessory to the writing; the balance in these classes is weighed toward explicit writing instruction and workshopping of student writing, not content. This course provides guided experience in writing college-level essays of various kinds, which may include critical, analytical and argumentative essays, and must include the research paper. It is a policy of the department that at least one essay be a research paper which may involve searching for sources in a library or online, learning to make citations, and preparing an annotated bibliography. A significant amount of time is devoted to the craft of writing, and more sophisticated methods of argumentation and use of evidence and developing independent claims and ideas are explored. Students should expect to write 20-25 pages of formal, revisable writing across the course of the semester. A significant amount of time may be devoted to re-writing essays, so as to develop first drafts into final versions. In-class writing, short homework exercises, and workshopping of student work may be included. Individual meetings to discuss each student's papers should be expected.
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Class Number
1339
Credits
3
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| Storytelling, Narrative, and Design |
Liberal Arts |
2198 (001) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
This studio symposium joins an exploration of narrative theory (narratology) with workshops where students write and make their own narrative art across different forms and media. Narratology is concerned with big questions about storytelling: What are the fundamental concepts of narrative? How do narratives work, and how do we process and understand them? What are the key differences between alternative narrative forms? How do differences in media, genre, and cultural traditions inform how stories are designed and understood? How have narrative forms changed over time, up to our digital present? Even: what is the function of narrative and are we ever outside it? Why do we share a common drive to tell stories in and with our making? We will read foundational theoretical texts (from Plato to twentieth-century and contemporary authors) and discuss them in relation to mythic, literary, cinematic, graphic, and serial narratives. Students will bring new ideas to the studio, where they will develop and complete narrative works individually and collectively.
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Class Number
1659
Credits
3
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| Storytelling, Narrative, and Design |
Undergraduate Studies |
2198 (001) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
This studio symposium joins an exploration of narrative theory (narratology) with workshops where students write and make their own narrative art across different forms and media. Narratology is concerned with big questions about storytelling: What are the fundamental concepts of narrative? How do narratives work, and how do we process and understand them? What are the key differences between alternative narrative forms? How do differences in media, genre, and cultural traditions inform how stories are designed and understood? How have narrative forms changed over time, up to our digital present? Even: what is the function of narrative and are we ever outside it? Why do we share a common drive to tell stories in and with our making? We will read foundational theoretical texts (from Plato to twentieth-century and contemporary authors) and discuss them in relation to mythic, literary, cinematic, graphic, and serial narratives. Students will bring new ideas to the studio, where they will develop and complete narrative works individually and collectively.
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Class Number
1664
Credits
3
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| Top: Marxism, Art, and Culture |
Visual and Critical Studies |
3001 (004) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
Marxism isn't just about the 'real world' critique of capitalism and the potential rise of communism. Many thinkers and critics who have written in the wake of Karl Marx have tried to articulate what it means (and why it's important) to read like a Marxist, to understand literature, art, and all the rest of human culture as a historical expression of the human condition under capital. This course serves as an introduction to Marxism and Marxist aesthetics, literary criticism, and cultural critique. We will begin by reading Marx and Engels, and then spend most of the semester considering core concepts as they develop over the subsequent century and a half of Marxist art, literary, and cultural criticism. We will ask questions like: what is the relationship between narrative representation, socio-political life, and its underlying economic forces? Do artworks produce autonomous worlds and meanings or are they entirely shaped by capitalism and class society? How do artifacts like novels, poems, theatrical texts, films, or visual artworks theorize history and society? What do the rise of specific forms, genres, and popular cultural practices tell us about social history? To what extent is it useful to read like/as a Marxist (and are there limitations in doing so)?
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Class Number
1774
Credits
3
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| Literature In Historical Contexts |
Liberal Arts |
3190 (003) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
Mastering a body of literature in the context of its specific historical, sociological, and ideological period is emphasized. The period and works vary.
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Class Number
2377
Credits
3
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| Top: Ecocriticism |
Liberal Arts |
3192 (001) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
Detailed and ongoing study of thematic material related to climate crisis, including historic and present-day responses in literature. The period and works may vary.
To be determined, based on the specific course being offered under this topic.
Assignments will vary depending on the instructor and topic, including readings, reading responses, essays, mid-terms, and finals.
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Class Number
2256
Credits
3
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