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A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society, Spring 2005
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Abstract: This course introduces students to Indian Culture through films, short-stories, novels, essays, and newspaper articles. The course examines some major social and political controversies of contemporary India through discussions centered on India's history, politics and religion. The focus is on issues ... More »
Acids and Bases: Making a Film Canister Rocket
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Abstract: In this video segment, ZOOM cast members mix different amounts of baking soda and vinegar to see which combination produces the most carbon dioxide for launching a film-canister rocket.
After Columbus, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Sometime after 1492, the concept of the New World or America came into being, and this concept appeared differently — as an experience or an idea — for different people and in different places. This semester, we will read three groups of texts: first, participant accounts of contact between native Americans ... More »
Basic Filmmaking for High School Drama Departments
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Abstract: This is a course in Narrative Film Production which shows how drama departments can create short motion pictures as part of a drama class. Currently, we have only one lesson. But eventually, there will be more. And with each lesson, you will participate in the making of a movie based on your own story.
Dissociative Disorders from the course Clinical Psychology
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Abstract: Psych 130: Clinical Psychology - Fall 2006. Theoretical and empirical approaches to the explanation of psychological dysfunction. The relation between theories of psychopathology and theories of intervention. A critical evaluation of the effects of individual, family, and community approaches to therapeutic ... More »
East Asian Cultures: From Zen to Pop, Fall 2002
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Abstract: Examines traditional forms of East Asian culture (including literature, art, performance, food, and religion) as well as contemporary forms of popular culture (film, pop music, karaoke, and manga). Covers China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with an emphasis on China. Attention given to women's ... More »
Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking, Fall 2005
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Abstract: This course examines problems in the philosophy of film as well as literature studied in relation to their making of myths. The readings and films that are discussed in this course draw upon classic myths of the western world. Emphasis is placed on meaning and technique as the basis of creative value ... More »
Film Scoring Introduction
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Abstract: Here is a series of lessons in film scoring for anyone who wants to create music for motion pictures but is not a musician.
Final Discussion of Film; Filling the Communist Vacuum: From Prague Spring to the Color ...
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Abstract: Nonviolence Today - Spring 2007 - The development of nonviolence since the Civil Rights movement. Nonviolent theory and practice seen in recent insurrectionary movements (freedom struggles), social justice struggles, nonviolent intervention across borders and protection of the environment in the emerging ... More »
Final Discussion of Film; Filling the Communist Vacuum: From Prague Spring to the Color Revolutions
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Abstract: Nonviolence Today - Spring 2007 - The development of nonviolence since the Civil Rights movement. Nonviolent theory and practice seen in recent insurrectionary movements (freedom struggles), social justice struggles, nonviolent intervention across borders and protection of the environment in the emerging ... More »
Forms of Western Narrative, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Major narrative texts from diverse Western cultures, beginning with Homer and concluding with at least one film. Emphasis on literary and cultural issues: on the artistic significance of the chosen texts and on their identity as anthropological artifacts whose conventions and assumptions are rooted in ... More »
From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Examines interactions across the Eurasian continent between Russians, Chinese, Mongolian nomads, and Turkic oasis dwellers during the last millennium and a half. As empires rose and fell, religions, trade, and war flowed back and forth continuously across this vast space. Britain and Russia competed ... More »
German Culture, Media, and Society, Fall 2004
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Abstract: Studies major texts and artistic expressions by analyzing them within the larger context of German cultural history. Investigates the German enlightenment, the culture of German liberalism and its increasingly nationalistic turn in Wilhelmine Germany; explores cultural manifestations of German modernism ... More »
German Culture, Media, and Society, Fall 2006
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Abstract: The topic for Fall 2006 is short film and radio plays. This course investigates current trends and topics in German literary, theater, film, television, radio, and other media arts productions. Students analyze media texts in the context of their production, reception, and distribution as well as the ... More »
Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Techniques of creating narratives that take advantage of the flexibility of form offered by the computer. Study of the structural properties of book-based narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time and of storyline. Analysis of the structure and evaluation ... More »
Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice, Spring 2006
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Abstract: Techniques of creating narratives that take advantage of the flexibility of form offered by the computer. Study of the structural properties of book-based narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time and of storyline. Analysis of the structure and evaluation ... More »
Introduction to Asian American Studies: Literature, Culture, and Historical Experience, Fall 2002
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Abstract: An interdisciplinary subject that draws on literature, history, anthropology, film, and cultural studies to examine the experiences of Asian Americans in US society. Covers the first wave of Asian immigration in the nineteenth century, the rise of anti-Asian movements, the experiences of Asian Americans ... More »
Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature, Spring 2005
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Abstract: Studies important twentieth-century texts from Spain and Latin America that represent the principal fictional genrespoetry, theatre, short story, and the novel. Includes works by Bombal, Lorca, Neruda, Vallejo, Machado, and Garca Mrquez. Taught in Spanish. Subject offered Spring 2003 and Fall 2004.
Introduction to Literary Theory, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Examines the ways texts can be read and the questions that readers ask of texts. Aims to provide students with a sense of the different critical approaches to literature. Topics include: structuralism and semiotics; post-structuralism and post-modernism; historicism and historicist paradigms; psychoanalysis; ... More »
Introduction to Media Studies, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Offers an overview of the social, cultural, political, and economic impact of mediated communication on modern culture. Combines critical discussions with hands-on "experiments" working with different media. Media covered include radio, television, film, the printed word, and digital technologies. Topics ... More »