Elective

ARHI 140 PO-01: The Arts of Africa

• Instructor: Jackson, Phyllis
  • Tuesday, 1:15- 4:00 PM
  • LE Room 110 (LeBus Court)
  • Elective

Survey exploring aesthetic, formal, cultural and national diversity of African arts and architecture. Emphasis on the social, political and religious dynamics fostering art production, iconographic themes, and aesthetic philosophies at specific historic moments in West, Central and North Africa. Critical study of Western art historical approaches and methods used to study diverse traditional African arts and post- independence cinema. Letter grade only.

ART 123 PO-01: Mending: Practical & Symbolic

• Instructor: O’Malley, Michael
  • Tuesday/Thursday, 9:35-12:05 PM
  • STAR Room 206 (Studio Arts)
  • Elective

Mending is a course that engages material through the cultural lens of repairing, cobbling and honoring. Students will learn both the practical skills of mending while directing the narrative implications. The class draws on a long tradition of mending, from fixing furniture to Kintsugi and enlists material culture in cyclical rather than linear terms.

ART 135 SC-01: Experimental Relief Printing

• Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
  • Monday/Wednesday, 1:15-3:45 PM
  • Lang Art Bldg, Room 100
  • Elective

Through open and structured assignments, students will learn the basics of experimental and relief printing. In library and artist visits, the class will explore how artists utilize printmaking with original text to entertain, educate, connect, shift consciousness, and build community. Unique and editioned prints will represent the effort and vision of each student.

ART 136 SC-01: The Artist’s Book

• Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
  • Monday/Wednesday, 10:00-12:30 PM
  • Lang Arts Bldg, Room 100
  • Elective

In this studio course at the Scripps College Press, each student will create a unique, limited-edition artist’s book. Students write text, generate imagery using traditional and alternative printing techniques, hand set metal and wooden type, letterpress print on antique printing presses, and hand-bind an edition of 12-15 copies of an artist’s book. While some assignments will be collaborative, the final book project will represent each student’s individual vision and effort.

HIST 096 CM-01: The Amazon

• Instructor: Sarynski, Sarah
  • Tuesday/Thursday, 9:35-10:50 PM
  • The Hive
  • Elective

From the time of the conquest, the outside world turned the Amazon into an imagined place to unleash their fantasies and fears. This course introduces students to the gendered and racialized narratives of the Amazon focusing on how such narratives have been imagined in visual culture. We examine images (wood carvings and photography), explorers’ accounts, ethnography, novels, advertisements, environmental campaigns and films from the time of the conquest to the present day. The point is to understand how the Amazon and its people have been imagined externally and internally, and why certain narratives hold power in the Western world.

HIST 096 CM-02: The Amazon

• Instructor: Sarynski, Sarah
  • Tuesday/Thursday, 11:00-12:15 PM
  • The Hive
  • Elective

From the time of the conquest, the outside world turned the Amazon into an imagined place to unleash their fantasies and fears. This course introduces students to the gendered and racialized narratives of the Amazon focusing on how such narratives have been imagined in visual culture. We examine images (wood carvings and photography), explorers’ accounts, ethnography, novels, advertisements, environmental campaigns and films from the time of the conquest to the present day. The point is to understand how the Amazon and its people have been imagined externally and internally, and why certain narratives hold power in the Western world.

KRNT 130 CM-01: Korean Cinema & Culture

• Instructor: Pak, Sooran
  • Tuesday/Thursday, 1:15-2:30 PM
  • Room 12 (Roberts North)
  • Elective

This course examines Korean history, politics, culture, and society through analysis of their representation in contemporary Korean cinema. This course will follow the history of Korea chronologically from Yi Dynasty to the present focusing on the topics such as Confucianism, Colonial period, nationalism, Korean War, national division, military government, democratic movements, and urbanization. The focus of the class will be equally distributed between the films themselves and the historical time and people captured on these films. Knowledge of Korean is not required.

MS 196 PZ-01: Media Internship

• Instructor: Affuso, Elizabeth
  • To be Arranged
  • To be Arranged
  • Elective

Internship in media related industry or institution integrated with significant and clear connection to academic curriculum through independent written or production project.

MUS 096B PO-01: Electronic Media Studio

• Instructor: Flaherty, Thomas
  • Monday/Wednesday, 1:15-2:30 PM
  • Music Studio (Thatcher Music Building)
  • Elective

Laboratory course designed to continue developing electronic compositions using techniques of analog and digital synthesis. Permission of instructor required. Prerequisite: MUS 096A PO.

RLST 125 CM-01: Race/Religion in Hollywood Films

• Instructor: Espinosa, Gaston
  • Tuesday, 6:00-10:00PM
  • Room 105 (Roberts South)
  • Elective

This course critically examines how Blacks, Latinos/as, and Native Americans have been depicted and socially constructed in Hollywood-distributed films over the past century. We start by exploring screenwriting and critical theories about film, race, religion, gender, and social change and then how Hollywood has served as a vehicle for both affirming racial-ethnic stereotypes and/or challenging and resisting them in their desire to rewrite the visual narrative of American history. We analyze and interpret how film can function as a vehicle for racial, religious, political, gender, and/or social commentary, conscientization, protest, and reconciliation.

SPAN 106 PO-01: Images of Latin America

• Instructor: Montenegro, Nivia
  • Monday/Wednesday, 2:45-4:00 PM
  • MA Room 04 (Mason Hall)
  • Elective

Images of Latin America in Fiction and Film. Explores the construction and dissemination of predominant images of Latin America through topics such as women, family, sexuality, religion and violence. A close examination of both narrative and film. Emphasis on the development of oral and writing skills, including oral presentations. Prerequisite: 44 or 50.

THEA 001A PO-01: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

• Instructor: Ratteray, Carolyn
  • Monday/Wednesday, 10:00-12:30 PM
  • Room 122, Seaver Theater
  • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA 001A PO-02: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

• Instructor: Knox, Jill
  • Tuesday/Thursday, 1:15-3:45 PM
  • Room 122, Seaver Theater
  • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA 001A PO-01: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

• Instructor: Staff TBD
  • Monday/Wednesday, 10:00-12:30 PM
  • Room 120, Seaver Theater
  • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA 002 PO-01: Intro to Theatrical Design

• Instructor: Bransky, Amelia
  • Tuesday/Thursday, 9:35-10:50 AM
  • Room 200, Seaver Theater
  • Elective

This course is an introduction to the design process for a wide range of performance-based productions including theatre, dance, opera, and film. Readings, discussions, and writing are supplemented by creative projects, interviews with Designers in each field and attendance at live performances when possible.

THEA 012 PO-01: Intermediate Acting

• Instructor: Klein, Talya
  • Tuesday/Thursday, 1:15-3:45 PM
  • Room 120, Seaver Theater
  • Elective

This course continues the investigation of the tools and techniques explored in the Beginning Acting class. Students will delve into scene study, improvisation, and Stanislavski-based analysis techniques as well as deepen the connection between the truth of their emotional life and how it is expressed vocally and physically. May be repeated twice for credit. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: THEA 001A PO or THEA 001G PO.