Elective

ANTH 116 PO-01: Anthropology of Digital Culture

• Instructor: Lippman, Alexandra Sharp
  • Tuesday; 1:15-4:00PM
  • Room 107 (Hahn Social Science Bldg)
  • Elective

Technology from the wheel to the printing press has influenced identity, community and society throughout time. Currently, we are in the midst of one of the most significant technological shifts in human history because of digital technologies. Using anthropology as cultural critique, we will examine the new (and not-so-new) cultural, political and material practices connected digital technology. Topics covered include activism, identity, friendship, hacking, piracy, property, privacy, identity, labor, and embodiment. Course is equivalent to ANTH116 PZ.

ARHI 140 PO-01: The Arts of Africa

• Instructor: Jackson, Phyllis J.
  • Tuesday; 1:15-4:00PM
  • 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 135 SC-01: Experimental Relief Printing

• Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
  • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:00PM
  • Room 100, Lang Art Building
  • 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; 1:30-3:30PM
  • Room 100, Lang Art Building
  • 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.

CLAS 019 SC-01: Classical Myth in Film

• Instructor: Roselli, David
  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
  • Room 100, Vita Nova Hall
  • Elective

From Cleopatra’s beguiling charms and Medea’s torrid love affair with Jason to Homer’s wily Odysseus, ancient culture still provides material for conceptualizing modern political, racial, social, and sexual issues as imagined in modern Hollywood films and European cinema. This course explores contradictions in the relationship between modernity and antiquity through a study of cinematic adaptations of ancient narratives; central to these discussions are the relationship between aesthetics and politics and the shifting role of culture from common ground to culture industry and beyond. In addition to screening films, students will also read plays, poetry, historical narratives, film criticism, and works of critical theory.

FREN 133 CM-01: Africa in France

• Instructor: Aitel, Fazia
  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
  • KRV Room 166 (The Kravis Center)
  • Elective

Since the late 1960s, new generations of French citizens has emerged to redefine France and Frenchness. These new generations are French citizens whose parents or grandparents were originally from North Africa or sub-Saharan Africa, yet who grew up or were born in France, often in the suburbs of major French cities. This course will focus on their experience and more broadly the experience of being African in France in the 21st Century, an experience rooted in migration and colonial history between France and the African continent. Specifically, however, we will also examine the place this new generation occupies in France today through close readings of selected literary and critical texts and through a range of media, old and new, aural and visual.

ITAL 140 SC-01: Italian Cinema

• Instructor: Ovan, Sabrina
  • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00PM
  • Room 102, Humanities Building
  • Elective

This course will explore the history and criticism of Italian cinema from its origin to the 21st century through the showing of a number of iconic films and the criticism surrounding them. It will also help student better understand contemporary Italian history through film. Taught alternately in Italian and English.

LIT 034 CM-01: Creative Journalism

• Instructor: TBA
  • Wednesday; 2:45-5:30PM
  • RS Room 105 (Roberts South)
  • Elective

An intensive hands-on course in feature writing styles and journalistic ethics; a primer for writing in today’s urban America. Essentially, journalism, like all art, tells a story. How that story is told is as critical to the success of a piece as the importance of its theme. A series of writing exercises and reporting “assignments” will give both inexperienced and more advanced writers the tools to explore their writerly “voice.” Special attention will be devoted to discussions of the role of the journalist in society. All registered students must attend the first class.

MS 052 PZ-01: Introduction to Sound Studies

• Instructor: Ma, Ming-Yuen
  • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-10:50AM
  • West Hall Q116
  • Elective

This is an introductory level course exploring different areas of study within sound culture, an emerging field in the human sciences. This course will introduce students to ways of thinking historically and culturally about sound and listening. Sound studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field. While this course is grounded in media studies, it also intersects with history, visual and performing art, architecture, music, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, as well as other disciplines. The course will survey wide ranging topics and cultures including American and European industrialization; rainforest soundscapes of Papua New Guinea; cassette sermons by Islamic preacher in Cairo, Egypt; avant-garde music and DJ culture, to name a few.

MS 196 PZ-01: Media Internship

• Instructor: Affuso, Elizabeth
  • Time & Location 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; 1:15-4:30PM
  • 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. HSA Writing Intensive: No

MUS 091 PO-01: Sound, Cognition, and History

• Instructor: Cramer, Alfred W.
  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
  • Room 109 (Thatcher Music Bldg)
  • Elective

This multi-disciplinary course examines sound as a cultural and technological artifact. Surveying recent scholarship in cognitive science, history, musicology, media studies and psychoacoustics, we study film, music, historical recording devices and other technologies, architectural and urban spaces and other sites of sound in the world from roughly 1500 to the present

MUS 096A PO-01: Electronic Music Studio

• Instructor: TBA
  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
  • STDO (Thatcher Music Bldg)
  • Elective

Introductory laboratory course designed to develop electronic compositions using techniques of analog and digital synthesis. Permission of instructor required.

PSYC 160 PO-01: Cognitive Psychology with Lab

• Instructor: Sher, Shlomo
  • Monday/Wednesday; 11:00AM-12:15PM
  • Room 108 (Hahn Social Science Bldg)
  • Wednesday; 7:00-9:50PM
  • Room 101 (Edmunds)
  • Elective

Survey of major models, methods, and findings in cognitive psychology. Topics will include perception, attention, memory, reasoning, decision making, and the development of expertise. Insights will be drawn from behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and the study of brain mechanisms. Prerequisites: 51.

RLST 171 CM-01: Religion and Film

• Instructor: Espinosa, Gaston
  • Thursday; 6:00-10:00PM
  • RS Room 104 (Roberts South)
  • Elective

This course employs critical social, race, gender, and post-colonial theories to analyze the role of religious symbols, rhetoric, values, and world-views in American film. After briefly examining film genre, structure, and screenwriting, the course will explore religious sensibilities in six genres such as: Historical Epic, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama, and Politics.

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

• Instructor: Ratteray, Carolyn
  • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:30PM
  • 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: Klein, Talya
  • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35AM-12:05PM
  • Room 130 (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-03: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

• Instructor: Knox, Jill
  • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-3:45PM
  • 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 002 PO-01: Intro to Theatrical Design

• Instructor: French, Monica M.
  • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-10:50AM
  • 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: Ratteray, Carolyn
  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-3:45PM
  • Room 122 (Seaver Theater)
  • Elective

ElectiveThis 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.