Elective

ART 135 SC-01: Experimental Relief Printing

• Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
  • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00-12:00 p.m.
  • Room 100, Lang Art Bldg
  • 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.

ASAM086 HM-01: Social Documenation/Asian-Amer

• Instructor: Staff
  • Friday; 1:15-4:00 p.m.
  • Room 2421, Shanahan Center
  • Elective

Viewing of films and other documentary forms by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) for critique and discussion. Basic instruction in use of digital video technology to document social issues relevant to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Community-project. HSA Writing Intensive: See your HSA advisor

GRMT114 SC-01: Plotting Crime

• Instructor: Katz, Marc
  • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00 p.m.
  • Room 202, Humanities Bldg
  • Elective

This course covers various “genres” of criminality in modern European fiction and film, including murder, criminal vice, theft, sex crimes, white-collar corporate conspiracy, crimes of passion, and domestic violence. We explore two related (but distinct) topics: how crimes are planned and executed; and how they are then turned, step-by-step, into compelling literary and cinematic storylines. Course and materials are entirely in English.

HIST046 PZ-01: African History through Film

• Instructor: O’Rourke, Harmony
  • Monday; 2:45-5:30 p.m.
  • Room 207, Broad Hall
  • Elective

To understand Africa today, one must be able to place current issues within the broader historical trends that have dominated the continent?s past. This course will introduce students to the major themes of modern African history, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Fortunately for those studying Africa today, this history has been captured with quite extraordinary skill by African and non-African film directors alike. Ousmane Semb�ne, Djibril Diop Mamb�ty, Moussa Sene Absa, Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Claire Denis, and Abbas Kiarostami have enriched and challenged our understanding of the continent through their art. This course, therefore, will examine the history of Africa through film. The class is interdisciplinary at its core, as it blends historical inquiry with anthropology and film studies. Lectures and short readings will address Africa?s history and complement the films. No previous experience with African studies is required.

KRNT 130 CM-01: Korean Cinema & Culture

• Instructor: Aitel, Fazia
  • Tuesday/Thursday; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
  • 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.

LIT 163 AF-01: North African Literature/Culture

• Instructor: Aitel, Fazia
  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30 p.m.
  • Room 166, The Kravis Center
  • Elective

This course is an introduction to North African Studies which offers an overview of North African literature and culture, through a selection of the works of some of the most important North African authors from diverse ethnic backgrounds (Arab, Berber, French and Jewish). In addition, we will consider a selection of films, photographs, and other visual culture which will provide further insights into the complex social political and religious fabric of each country and the region as a whole. And, of course, we will consider music, which, along with poetry, is a cultural practice and form which is oral and an essential aspect of the everyday life in North Africa.

MS 196 PZ-01: Media Internship

• Instructor: Affuso, Elizabeth
  • TBA
  • TBA
  • Elective

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

MUS 067 HM-01: Film Music

• Instructor: Alves, Bill
  • Friday; 1:15- 4:00 p.m.
  • Room B480, Shanahan Center
  • Elective

This course is an exploration of the history and aesthetics of the use of music in cinema, primarily the Hollywood film from the so-called silent era to the present. (We will not cover musicals, documentaries, or short films.) The course will include the development of skills of listening analysis and writing about music in the context of narrative film. No background in music or film history is required.

MUS 096B PO-01: Electronic Music Studio

Instructor: De Araujo Santas, Igor Seiti

• Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-2:30 p.m.
• Studio, Thatcher Music Bldg
• Elective

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

RUST110 PO-01: Russian and East European Cinema

Instructor: Rudova, Larissa V.

• Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00 p.m.
• Room 11, Mason Hall
• Elective

A survey of Russian and Eastern European film from Soviet to post-Soviet times. Focus on the most innovative films and directors from Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia (and its successor states), Hungary, and former Yugoslavia in their relation to social, cultural, and political discourses. The course includes such topics as the communist past and its aftermath, aesthetics and ideology, historical memory, migration, human trafficking, ethnicity, and gender. Film genres, styles, and basic notions of film theory.

SPAN105 PO-01: Spanish Film

Instructor: Cahill, Paul H.

• Monday/Wednesday/Friday; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
• Room 04, Mason Hall
• Elective

Spanish Film: Tradition and Transgression. Explores a selection of representative Spanish cinematic production and highlights the tension between tradition and transgression. Class discussions situate these films within their socio-historical context as well as within the context of the development of Spanish film and the Spanish film industry. Emphasis on gender, aesthetics and politics. Prerequisite: 44 or 50. Letter grade only.

THEA001A PO-01: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

Instructor: Giles, Timothy Paul

• Monday/Wednesday; 10:00-12:30 p.m.
• Room 130, Seaver Theatre
• 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.

THEA001A PO-02: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

Instructor: Giles, Timothy Paul

• Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-3:45 p.m.
• Room 122, Seaver Theatre
• 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.

THEA001A PO-03: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

Instructor: Knox, Jill

• Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-12:05 p.m.
• Room 130, Seaver Theatre
• 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.

THEA001A PO-04: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

Instructor: Staff

• Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-3:45 p.m.
• Room 130, Seaver Theatre
• 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.

THEA002 PO-01: Introduction to Theatrical Design

Instructor: Bransky, Amelia

• Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-10:50 p.m.
• Room 200, Seaver Theatre
• 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.

THEA012 PO-01: Intermediate Acting

Instructor: Klein, Talya

• Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-12:05 p.m.
• Room 122, Seaver Theatre
• 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.