2019-2020 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SCRN 131 - Film Noir and its Contexts
An in-depth study of this highly influential yet much debated category of American cinema. This course considers the status of film noir as a genre, European and American influences, visual and narrative techniques, cultural contexts such as existentialism, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism, and articulations of gender and race in studio-era and contemporary noir. Weekly class screenings are accompanied by out-of-class film viewing and by course readings drawn from a broad variety of historical, analytical, and theoretical studies.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SCRN 140 - Film Authors and Authorship
Examines the theory and practice of film authorship through a consideration of works by major American and international film authors. Studies historical development of the idea of film directors as authors in Europe and the United States. Emphasizes the impact of such theories on the study of various American figures, which may include Hawks, Ford, Hitchcock and Coppola, as well as international figures. Also examines the formation of film authorship in emerging cultural contexts, such as women’s cinema and new national cinemas.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SCRN 209 - Genre Production Workshop
This digital filmmaking course is offered as an advanced level production workshop primarily for Visual and Performing Arts students in their junior or senior years. It builds upon the foundations of cinematic analysis and practice established in the first few years of the Screen major sequence, as well as the introductory sequences of the other programs in the department: Music, Theater, Studio Art, Art History, and MCA. Enrolled students from diverse backgrounds in the arts will work collectively on a single original short film project. The project will showcase each student’s disciplinary training in areas such as directing, producing, acting, cinematography, production design, editing, original music, and sound design. With an equal emphasis placed on theory and practice, this film production workshop employs hands-on demonstrations, screenings, readings, lectures, discussions, and peer-based critiques to assist students in the creative process. Classes stress research, form, style, and technique as integral components of creative inter-media practice.
Note: The genre focus each term may vary. The topic for Spring 2020 is Horror Film. Enrollment is subject to professor approval; interested students should email the professor.
Students will be charged a V & PA lab fee upon registering for this course.
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SCRN 210 - Experimental Production Workshop: Glitch Aesthetics
Whether appearing in the realm of still images, sound recordings, video, or other media, Glitch Art seeks to disrupt the data behind a digital representation in such a way that its simulation of analog can no longer remain covert. Sometimes intentional and sometimes accidental, a glitch flamboyantly undoes the communications platforms that we, as subjects of digital culture, both rely on and take for granted. In this course, students will investigate, theorize, and collaboratively work to produce Glitch Art in its various evolving forms. The course will thus offer both a formal survey of the history and theory of Glitch Art (including some proto-glitch forms and movements) and a workshop for providing critique and inspiration to individual artists. Because Glitch Art typically aims to render digital files unstable-triggering a partial failure of the software that “plays back” encoded sounds and images-the nature of our artistic practice will necessarily be unruly, our output unpredictable. Disciplinary boundaries will be crossed with impunity and oftentimes entirely ignored. In this course, a musician may try her hand at glitchy photography, while a graphic designer may collaborate with a sculptor on a glitched music video. Prior experience with digital technology and software may prove useful in some students’ work, but not in others. “Glitch Aesthetics” is the fourth in a series of Creative InterMedia courses developed by faculty in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and seeks to enroll juniors and seniors from each of the five V&PA majors: Art History, Music, Screen Studies, Studio Art, and Theater Arts. Students will be evaluated on the basis of an online portfolio of works in various media, as well as a substantial term project of the student’s own design, to be presented in a public group exhibition at end of term. Enrollment is by permission only and will be limited to 3-5 students per major; please contact the instructor prior to or during the registration period to discuss your eligibility.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2014
Placement Guidelines
This course (along with “Genre Production Workshop”) requires V&PA students to apply to the instructor for admission during the previous semester’s registration period, demonstrating through a portfolio, short interview, or transcript that they are serious and adequately prepared. Course is listed “PERM ONLY” and will be restricted to V&PA juniors and seniors.
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SCRN 217 - Cult Logics
Twin Peaks and Mystery Science Theater 3000. Punk Rock and Hello Kitty. Johnny Guitar and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter. To study cult fandom is first of all to confront a shopworn cliché about human subjectivity: there’s no accounting for tastes. The cult devotee’s pursuit is by definition a “minor” taste-at once marginal in subject and style, and hard to find as a material object. Cult objects may be passive “sleepers”-films or TV shows we don’t expect to be any good but which turn around and surprise us. More often, however, we encounter cult objects as transgressive confrontations: divisive, rude, and even boring, but above all oblivious to mainstream desires. Cultism frequently valorizes bad taste, excess, and ugliness (or hyper-cuteness, as in Japanese kawaii culture), forcing the beholder to confront their own perversions and anxieties. At the same time, in order to be a bona fide cultist, one has traditionally taken a vow of non-attainment: to pursue the esoteric beyond all reason. But what happens when the well of esoterica runs dry, as it seems to be doing today, with every outré video freely available on Netflix and Amazon? Does the wholesale commodification of cult products (think Hot Topic) paradoxically annihilate the possibility of cult pleasure? By theorizing the self perpetuating beyond-ness of cult fandom, this course will implicitly call into question why cultists desire their own marginalization, subversively refusing conventional enjoyment. One warning however: despite the garish allure of our readings and screenings, this course should not be mistaken as itself providing a “fun” or “entertaining” fan-oriented indulgence in the pleasures of cult representation. Instead, this course will insist on nothing less than your most serious scholarly engagement as we work to theorize cult pleasure, taste, and aesthetics in relation to questions of gender, race, nation, and class. So prepare to enjoy, but also prepare to work hard to understand the weirdness of your own enjoyment.
Prerequisites: SCRN 101 or COMM 101
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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SCRN 225 - National Cinema
Issues in National and Regional Cinemas. Variable topics.
Spring 2019 Topic: India
This course will provide an overview of a diverse range of film production and consumption practices associated with Indian cinema. We will primarily look at Hindi films from the Bombay film industry but also examine films from regional cinemas, and ones that belong to “art cinema” mode. Through exploration of aesthetics within historical and cultural contexts, we will engage with questions like: What makes Indian cinemas different? What is the aesthetic appeal of Hindi popular cinema? Why does Hindi popular cinema have a mass appeal in a multi lingual and multi-cultural country like India, and assumes the position of national cinema, both within the subcontinent and outside of it? How do these ‘song and dance’ movies challenge our Hollywood-based perceptions of narrative forms? How do Indian films negotiate the polarities of tradition and modernity? What role do phenomenon like globalization, diaspora, neo-liberal economic policy, consumerism, and trans-nationalism play in the evolution of Hindi cinema and its genres over the decades? We will also interrogate the implications, and connotations of the transformation of Hindi popular cinema produced by the Bombay film industry into “Bollywood.” Is this linguistic change an index of social and economic transformations, such as globalization? Is it expressive of an attempt to indicate a difference internal to the dominant idiom, a variation that is related to but distinct from the globally hegemonic Hollywood?
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 231 - Film Theory
This seminar examines a wide range of theories regarding motion picture reception, and to a lesser extent, production. Topics will include classic arguments about the aesthetic purpose of film and the place of authorship in screen texts, as well as more contemporary concerns such as queer theory, cognitivism, and post-structuralism. The course will also take up the anti-theory movement that has arisen in recent years.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 261 - Critical Perspectives on Television
This course explores fundamental questions about the cultural significance of television by considering a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to television criticism, including ideological analysis, semiotics, political economy, feminist criticism, narrative, genre and critical race theories. In this course, we use these analytic tools to examine the cultural, political, and economic implications of television as a form of social communication. Our goals are (1) to become familiar with the key aspects of each theoretical perspective and (2) to apply these frameworks in our own analyses of television programs. By requiring students to continuously read, view, discuss, and write about critical perspectives on television, this course cultivates a deep understanding for the ideological and structural dynamics that constitute popular culture.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SCRN 288 - Gender and Film
This course will explore how cinema has participated in the construction, deconstruction, and reimagining of gender across its history. We will read examples of early feminist film theory, which argued that Classical Hollywood and other narrative cinemas have long constructed women as “Woman” through its myths, signs, and appeal to the male gaze. We will also study what happens when women, including queer women and women of color, return the gaze and look back. Finally, the course will investigate the films of feminist, queer, and transgender filmmakers and analyze how they have repurposed this technology of gender towards transformative ends. Readings will be primarily theoretical, and screenings will include fiction, documentary, and experimental films, such as Rebecca (1940), Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Damned If You Don’t (1987), Paris Is Burning (1990), The Matrix (1999), Pariah (2011), and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017).
Prerequisites: SCRN 101 or MCA 101 or permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SCRN 291 - Capstone Course - Variable topics
The Screen Studies capstone involves a seminar-style, intensive exploration of a single subject area relevant to moving-image media. Historical, theoretical, and practical approaches are all considered. Students engage in intensive weekly readings, discussions, and presentations, with the semester culminating in a well-researched and polished 25-page paper, or a carefully developed and refined video project. The goal is to produce work that could be worthy of submission to a graduate admissions committee, or to a writing contest or film festival. Students should expect this course to require considerably more weekly work than a standard 200-level Screen course and adjust their fall schedule accordingly. Topics vary.
Fall 2019 Topic: Transgender and Queer Media Studies Today
This will be devoted to the study of recent scholarship in transgender and queer media studies. These intersecting and overlapping fields of analysis are currently going through an intellectual renaissance as a result of the contributions of a new generation of trans and queer scholars. In their publications of the last few years, scholars such as Quinlan Miller, Eliza Steinbock, and Cáel M. Keegan have begun to delineate trans aesthetics and trans affects across a varied body of film, TV, and new media. This media was at times crafted by trans filmmakers and artists, at others the result of a culture or industry in transition, and quite often both. Meanwhile, scholars such as Laura Horak and Damon Young have dug into the archives of specific production and reception contexts and studied how cinema has participated in changing visions of gender and sexuality, while scholars such as Alexis Lothian, Andre Carrington, Nicole Morse, and micha cárdenas have explored how queer and trans artists and fans of color use digital technologies and digital platforms to imagine queer and trans of color futures. Together these scholars reorient the often rigidly binary canon of feminist film theory and broaden the methodological horizon for the study of gender, sexuality, and media. Like the other Screen capstones offered over the last couple years, this capstone is designed as a seminar, specifically “an intensive, graduate-studies-level experience in which students are encouraged to draw upon their past and current studies both inside and outside the Screen major.” Students will be given the opportunity to put their scholarly knowledge to more “practical” or creative use, while also being pushed to bring creativity to their critical thinking and research. In the case of this particular capstone, Clark students will theorize and create the trans and queer media they wish to see in the world.
Prerequisites: SCRN seniors or Permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every fall
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SCSV 1090 - The Final Chapter: A Study of Death and Dying
Students will develop an understanding of the death and dying process while exploring their own attitudes, feelings and beliefs. Topics covered include what is dying, the grieving process, children and death, suicide, violent deaths, cultural attitudes and euthanasia. Community resources will also be explored.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: -
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SCSV 1130 - Writing to Heal
An exploration of writing as a tool in maintaining health and well being. We will look at the medical and psychological research that supports the belief that writing boosts in the immune system, reduces emotional distress, and lessens physical pain for some people. Through hands-on practice and group sharing we will become familiar with the ways in which the literary arts are tools for personal growth.
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SCSV 1180 - Our Aging Society
In the United States today there are more older people in the population than ever before. Many issues offer new challenges as one enters middle and later life but is there a way “successful aging” can be accomplished? With all of these challenges can one truly grow old gracefully? Topics such as diet, exercise, pensions, family life, and housing will be explored. Theories of the aging process will be discussed as we review the study of aging: past, present and future.
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SCSV 1240 - Drugs and Crime in Society
The physiological, psychological and sociological effects of licit and illicit drugs in society will be studied. A law enforcement perspective into the so called “war on drugs”, the success and failures of various drug prevention and replacement therapy programs as well as the roadblock to recovery being created by the criminal justice system and insurance companies will be discussed. Contemporary topics such as whether addiction is a choice or a disease, the pros and cons of legalization and the issue of medicinal marijuana will also be debated.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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SCSV 2060 - Juvenile Delinquency
An examination of delinquency, the suspected causes of delinquent behavior, and the environmental influences of youthful misbehavior. The use of pretrial detention, shock incarceration, mandatory sentencing, and gang control efforts will be analyzed. Topics such as the role of the courts and police, status offenders, juvenile corrections, transfer of juvenile to adult courts and their impact on the Juvenile Justice system are covered.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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SOC 005 - Health Inequalities in Europe and the United States
Course being offered in Luxembourg May 2020
“Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale”- WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, 2008.
Differences in health that are unjust are greater in the United States compared to European countries. What makes us sick is influenced by where people are born, grow, live, work and age. Structural factors beyond our control such as money, power, and resources at global, national local levels shape the length and quality of our lives. In this course, we will examine health inequities in Europe and the United States and the social conditions that affect our health. We will also compare and contrast the health public policies focused on individual lifestyle factors (smoking, physical exercise, and diet) in the United States and European countries. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to combine theory and praxis through field trips to various local health related organizations and visits with health care practitioners in the community - moving away from a classroom-centered environment in order to learn more about approaches to health and health care outside the U.S. Field trips will include visits to organizations focused on health and well-being and the Ministry of Health in Luxembourg, a major hospital facility in France, and other sites in the region.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: May term-Luxembourg
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SOC 010 - Introduction to Sociology
A broad overview of sociology, its areas of study, modes of inquiry, and context for analysis. This course operates from the premise that individual lives are not just personal but social – as humans we are shaped by the societies in which we live and the social forces at work within them. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts will be discussed, with primary emphasis on the roles that culture, dimensions of inequality, and social change play in shaping individual lives. Students will also explore the influence that social institutions such as family, religion, education, health care, government, economy, and environment have on the ways humans live and work in society. Fulfills introductory course requirement for majors.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SOC 012 - Introduction to Sociology in a Global World
Sociology is a discipline that studies the ways in which society shapes our lives, our relationships, and our identities. It traces the web of influence and connection that often escapes our notice because it falls beyond our immediate vision. In other words, much of what we experience (including such diverse activities as falling in love, getting a job, or committing a crime) can be shown to find its source and meaning in broader forces. Sociologists refer to these factors collectively as culture, social structure and history.
In the past two decades, the scope and reach of these forces have broadened. We often refer to this trend as “globalization.” Time and space have compressed and the world has become increasingly interconnected and interdependent. This course is designed to broaden your analytic vision to examine the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of identity culture and community in a world transformed by globalization.
Fulfills the Global Perspective requirement
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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SOC 110 - Sociology of Gender
Focuses on sociological, historical, psychological, and economic dimensions of gender. This course examines the ways in which social institutions create, maintain, and reproduce gender. The course emphasizes the processes through which gender categories are constructed and represented, as well as the consequences of these categories for the lives of individuals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SOC 130 - Genocide
Provides students with a comparative perspective that highlights theory and concrete examples of genocide. After surveying legal and social scientific definitions of genocide, we explore four cases of genocide that took place over the course of centuries and across several continents. The course ends with discussion of the prevention of genocide.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 160 - Global Cultures and Identities
Explores the impact of local, national, and international forces in the formation of cultural identities at a time of rapid social changes. Focuses on contemporary cultures to examine local and national identities as they are globally determined. Emphasizes the elastic and the plastic nature of cultures and the importance of time, place, and space to understand the emergence of new culturally diverse settings. Examines the nature of social and cultural change in local, national, and global economic and political spaces.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 175 - The Sociology of Families
Examines the assumed decline of “the” American family and the recent changes in family formations. Also considers challenges to the new family, such as dual-career couples and the resulting division of labor in the home as well as divorce. Working-class, African-American and homeless families are also discussed.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 180 - Aging and Society
This course challenges stereotypes about the elderly and aging as a “problem” for society. Focuses on the diversity of the aged and the experience of aging in the United States.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SOC 201 - Classical Sociological Theory
Formerly SOC 107. A critical and comparative survey of the major theorists of early sociology. This course emphasizes the first generation of sociologists, who sought to understand what we have come to call modernity. Beyond this central canon - represented by selected works of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber - the course introduces key theoretical perspectives and related analytical concepts that continue to inform many aspects of social life. Fulfills the social theory requirement for majors.
Prerequisites: SOC 010 or SOC 012
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SOC 202 - Social Research Process
General introduction to logic, techniques, and ethics of social science inquiry. Reviews qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as sampling. Fulfills the method requirement for majors. Not open to seniors.
Course Designation/Attribute: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 203 - American Jewish Life
Provides an introduction to the sociological study of American Jewry by surveying a broad range of topics such as immigration, economic mobility, religious and secular bases of Jewish identity, gender, and intermarriage. In order to identify what is Jewish and what is American about Americans Jews, we will systematically compare Jews with other ethnic groups.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SOC 204 - Doing Qualitative Research
Provides background and experience in the systematic collection and analysis of qualitative data. Covering multiple sources of data - observations, interviews, and documents - this course provides an analytic vocabulary for critiquing qualitative inquiry and practice toward developing research skills. Fulfills one of the methods requirements for majors.
Prerequisites: At least one Sociology course
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Every Year
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SOC 206 - Doing Quantitative Research
Much of the research done by sociologists involves quantitative analysis. This course focuses on the design and execution of quantitative studies. While we do learn to use/interpret some complex statistics (e.g., correlation and regression analysis), this is not a statistics course. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF STATISTICS IS NOT REQUIRED. Our primary focus will be on research design, that is, how to properly construct a study. In the process, we will develop an intuitive understanding of the sorts of data analyses conducted by sociologists. This will enable us to read, interpret, and understand the tables and graphs produced by sociologists. These skills will enable us to engage the core of the course: the use of two data sets, each of which has yielded multiple publications. Initially, we review a number of published studies with an eye to learning how to best design a quantitative study. Subsequently, we will design original research projects using each data set. Finally, we will conduct the research and analyze our findings.
Course Designation/Attribute: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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SOC 208 - Class, Status and Power
Formerly SOC 200. Analyzes the nature, dynamics and historical development of social inequality. The economic and political power of the upper class, social mobility, the process of deindustrialization, feminization of poverty and the intersection of race and class are studied. Required for the major.
Prerequisites: SOC 107 or SOC 201
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SOC 225 - Religion and Society
This course introduces students to key theoretical and empirical works in the sociology of religion. We apply major theoretical perspectives to contemporary religious life. We ask how individuals find meaning in and are shaped by their experience of religion. Special consideration is given to how gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity influence religious life. We explore the rise of new religious movements (historical and contemporary), the relationship between religion and modernity, and between religious fundamentalism and conservatism.
Anticipated Terms Offered: occasionally
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SOC 226 - Sport and Society
Sport and Society will look at the world of sport as an institutional structure that operates autonomously with its own rules, regulation, and authority, yet is inextricably linked to other structures. We will study the significance of sport as a cultural product; the dynamic ways in which it challenges and reenforces our understanding of race, gender, social class, and sexuality, and the ways in which globalization has [re]shaped sport in local and global contexts.
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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SOC 241 - Sociology of Medicine
Examines the role of health-care professionals in the United States, as well as health and illness as social phenomena. The course also addresses problems in the health-care system at the national level and reviews potential solutions to the mounting crisis in the provision of health services. Not open to first year students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 250 - Community and Health: Non-Profit Grant Writing
Students will focus on medically underserved communities by gaining skills in grant writing and grant making that will further their understanding of strategic giving for social change. The goals of the course are: 1) to develop a community-based research experience that will strengthen students’ substantive understanding of community health and the organizations that serve their populations; 2) to offer students the opportunity to hone their social science research skills; 3) to strengthen students’ communication skills by offering them an alternative venue and audience for their writing; and 4) to foster collaboration among students on a project of consequence
Prerequisites: SOC 202 OR SOC 204 OR SOC 206 OR PERM
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
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SOC 252 - Race and American Society
Focuses on the political, economic and social lives of Native Americans, Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and whites. The course begins with an exploration of the social construction of race followed by discussion of racism, protest movements, and the intersection of race, class, and gender. A central assumption of this course is that we must turn to history to understand contemporary race relations.
Course Designation/Attribute: DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SOC 255 - The Creation of Nationalism, Nationalist Cultures and Symbols
At a time of rapid global changes and globalization, nationalisms and nationalist cultures have grown dramatically. This course explores how nationalist identities and resistance are determined by culture and the cultural symbols, such as key consumer commodities, cultural symbols, gender, language, and dress codes.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SOC 258 - Women in Jewish Culture
Uncovers the experiences of Jewish women and uses gender analysis as a means to enrich our understanding of Jewish life. The course begins with images of women in the Hebrew Bible followed by discussion of Rabbinic Judaism. A central focus will be Jewish women’s encounters with modernity in a variety of contexts: Western and Eastern Europe, United States, and Israel.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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SOC 260 - Immigrants and Immigration in the 21st Century
Examines immigrants and the cultures they create through movement and settlement and through the many borders they cross. Also covered are the diasporas immigrants create through the travel they undertake both voluntarily and, in some cases, through forced migration. How do borders, journeys, and migration shape the identities of individuals, groups, cultural objects, and commodities?
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 262 - Law and Society
Examines the relationship between law and other aspects of social life. Relying on case studies and other empirical studies of the legal system, particular attention is paid to the following topics: law and justice, crime and social control, law and social change, civil justice and legality, and everyday life.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 263 - Deviance
Why are some behaviors, differences, and people stigmatized and considered deviant? This course examines theories of social deviance that offer answers to this and related questions. How and why are behaviors designated as deviant? How do individuals enter and exit a deviant lifestyle? And how do various social statuses, such as race and gender, affect the incidence, type, and responses to deviant acts?
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 265 - Activism, Protest, and Social Movements
Modern American movements (labor, civil rights, new left, global justice) are used as examples for discussion of social movements. Problems of framing, resources, and identity are analyzed. The form of the course depends on the number of students registering.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SOC 267 - Poverty and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective
The course compares the U.S., Canadian and (Western) European social policy regimes. It includes an introduction to how poverty is defined in the US and internationally, and the strengths and weaknesses of these measurements and shows students how to use online sources to find local and national data about poverty and low income. Social insurance and income supports, labor relations and health policies are among the topics explored in the relevance for the working poor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SOC 271 - Family Diversity
The family is considered to be one of the most private and pervasive social institutions in society. All of us have had contact with at least one family and many of us will be involved in several different families during our lifetime. Families today are more diverse, they include a complex array of household arrangements, and they are more easily fractured. Throughout the course we will look at how social structures shape and restructure the family. The course will provide an overview of the various family forms giving emphasis to working class families, gay and lesbian families, families of different racial/ethnic backgrounds, singlehood and cohabiting families in the United States. We will also explore research and public policy questions about families from a sociological perspective.
Prerequisites: SOC 200 - Class, Status and Power and SOC 175 - Sociology of Family or by permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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SOC 272 - Punishment, Politics and Culture
In the past forty years the purposes and practices of punishment in the U.S. have changed dramatically, becoming increasingly harsh (death penalty, three strikes, supermax prisons)and retributive (abandonment of all rehabilitation efforts)and far reaching (over 2 million Americans are in prison or jail). These changes represent a near-complete and rapid reversal of fairly long-term trends in penal justice in the U.S. This course will explore what factors-political, cultural, demographic, technological - changed crime from a remote possibility in the minds of most Americans to a defining concern of Americans. Why, despite similar experiences of modernity, are European democracies characterized by such different cultures of control? In what ways, do our penal practices reflect and reinforce major social divisions - of race, ethnicity, gender, and class? What are the effects of such a transformation on the economy, the family, community, schools, and our ideals of justice? In short, what do our penal practices reveal about late twentieth century American culture, social structure and politics?
Prerequisites: (Prerequisites: SOC 262 or SOC 263 , Permission only
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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SOC 281 - Cities and Social Change
This course explores themes - economic development, inequality, social movements, inclusive and exclusive cultural formations, and social control and surveillance - that together comprise a sociological toolkit for approaching broad questions about social justice, public culture, work, housing, crime and punishment, and service provision, both in the U.S. and across the globe. Drawing on readings from not only sociology but also urban planning, geography, history, and anthropology, we will trace how cities have shaped and been shaped by the ways humans and societies answer fundamental questions about how we should live together and why. Throughout the course, students will propose and write a term paper that develops original propositions about cities and social change and tests them through primary qualitative research (i.e., nonparticipant ethnography, interviewing, and/or historical/archival research). Capstone Seminar
Prerequisites: SOC 125 - Cities and Suburbs OR SOC 265 - Activism, Protest, and Social Movements OR Permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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SOC 294 - Global Ethnographies in the 21st Century
Focuses on emergent ethnographic concerns, which attempt to capture fluid cultural processes and connections as they unfold in late-1990s global arenas. Deals with multiple-sited ethnography of movement, displacement, replacement, and the global traffic in culture. It also analyzes traditional ethnographies and ethnographic methods of the founding pioneers, including the work of the famous Clark University ethnographer Franz Boas.
Prerequisites: SOC 160 or instructor’s permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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SOC 297 - Honors
For information about honors in Sociology, please see the “Senior Honors Thesis” section in the Sociology Student Handbook.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offer every year
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SOC 298 - Internship
Academic experience taking place in the field with an opportunity to earn credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SOC 299 - Directed Study
Readings and projects in Sociology.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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SOC 1010 - Introduction to Sociology
Introduces the basic concepts in the field of sociology with emphasis upon the application of these concepts to the understanding of the American institutions of politics, economics, religion, education, marriage and family.
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SOC 1180 - Our Aging Society
In the United States today there are more older people in the population than ever before. Many issues offer new challenges as one enters middle and later life but is there a way “successful aging” can be accomplished? With all of these challenges can one truly grow old gracefully? Topics such as diet, exercise, pensions, family life, and housing will be explored. Theories of the aging process will be discussed as we review the study of aging: past, present and future.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: -
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SOC 1600 - Drugs and Alcohol
Students are asked to explore drug use and abuse in American society, the socio-historical origins of drug and alcohol use from a cross-cultural perspective, the effects of formal organizational studies on the drug rehabilitation users, and independent variables such as family, work and income on chemical dependency. Students investigate society’s use of legal as well as illegal drugs, and medical vs. recreational use of psychoactive substances.
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SOC 2630 - Deviant Behavior
What is deviance and how is it “constructed” within society? While some experts on deviance take a decidedly objective approach to deviance-the idea that all cultures recognize certain behaviors as deviant and unacceptable, this course will focus on the ways in which deviance is socially constructed-the idea that behaviors are deemed “deviant” based on societal definitions and are therefore not static but subject to change. Viewing deviance through a subjective (rather than objective) lens requires that we pay close attention to the dialogue that takes place between individuals and society over time, as it is this dialogue that will help us to determine what is and what is not acceptable within society. This course uses cultural, social, political, and even religious cues as clues to uncover deviance within society in all of its forms and functions.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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SPAN 103 - Elementary Spanish: Intensive
An accelerated elementary course, intended for students who have had no more than two years of Spanish. Three hours per week, plus a discussion section.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 105 - Intermediate Spanish I
An intermediate course intended for students with no more than three years of Spanish. Integrates the essential aspects of Spanish in a structured manner, while at the same time reviewing grammar and enhancing skills in reading, writing and conversation. Also develops awareness and appreciation of Hispanic cultures.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of SPAN 103 or the equivalent. Discussion session required.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester.
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 106 - Intermediate Spanish II
Normally taken after SPAN 105 , SPAN 106 further strengthens skills in the language through grammar reviews, readings on Hispanic themes and class discussions. Emphasis is on activities in reading, writing, speaking and conversational understanding as a preparation for more advanced work. Prerequisite: successful completion of SPAN 105 or the equivalent. Discussion session required.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 127 - Practice in Oral and Written Spanish
A transitional course between intermediate Spanish and the upper-level offerings for students with a strong background in Spanish (4-5 years). Develops fluency and sophistication in spoken and written Spanish. Emphasizes practice in conversation, composition and selected grammar review. Discussion section required.
Prerequisites: SPAN 106 or the equivalent.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 131 - Social Change in Hispanic Literature
In this course we will be studying protest songs, theater plays, and poems by influential writers and musicians in Spain and Latin American in the 20th and 21st century. We will feature artists from Spain, Chile, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Topics include the relationship between music and poetry, theater and concerts as tools for raising awareness about social justice, artists as activists for social change, identity and self representation, symbols and images, autobiographical writings, representations of violence and the body, and depictions of hope, peace, and a better future. Readings by Pablo Neruda, Joan Manuel Serrat, Nicolás Guillén, Violeta Parra, Julia de Burgos, Paloma Pedrero, Diana de Paco Serrano, and Federico García Lorca, among others.¨Native speakers of Spanish are welcomed.
Prerequisites: SPAN 127 or Native Speakers or PERM. Required for majors.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 132 - Analyzing Stories and Poems
One of two “gateway” courses for the Spanish major and minor, this course introduces students to the analysis of literary texts in Spanish, as it explores the diverse cultural production of the Spanish-speaking world. May be taken before or after Span 131.
May be repeatable for credit.
Prerequisites: SPAN 127 or by permission from the instructor.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP, DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Anually
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 133 - Hispanic Cultures
Focus changes with each offering, depending on faculty interest.
Spring 2019 Topic: Hispanic Cultures: Music in Contemporary Spain
Argetine-born musician Andrés Calamaro has stated that “Para mí es importantísimo cantar canciones no mías sino de todos. Se aprende mucho (…) Haciendo eso uno aprende de música, es como ir a la facultad.” In this course we will examine the interrelation between music, culture, and society from the mid-20th century until the present. Music will be studied in relation to constructions and representations of gender, ethnicity, and the nation within Spain. We will listen to and discuss musical pieces from diverse genres such as flamenco, rock, rap, punk, and pop. In addition to the music itself, course materials will include films, documentaries, and critical texts on the cultural study of music. It will be central to the course to examine how music has been influenced by, and commented on, historical, socio-political and cultural processes and transformations. While becoming familiar with Spain’s musical culture over the past century, students will investigate the relationship between culture and society in general.
Fall 2018 Topic: Cultures of exile in the Hispanic World
In ”Cultures of exile in the Hispanic World” we will examine and discuss the effects of exile on a variety of media and genre, from short stories and films, to music and plays. Focusing on issues of national identity, migration, and representation, throughout the course we will analyze culture produced in and on exile on both sides of the Atlantic. Materials for this course include works by Cristina Peri Rossi, Max Aub, Pablo Neruda, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Luisa Valenzuela, among others.
May be repeated for credit (maximum of 3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 131 , SPAN 132 or permission by instructor. Recommended for majors.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 136 - Women in Hispanic Literature & Art
We will discuss writings, movies and paintings by artists from Spain and Latin America. Examples include Frida Kahlo, Pedro Almodóvar, Julia de Burgos, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Sor Juana Inés, Paloma Pedrero and others. Topics to be considered include: self-representation, identity formation, autobiography, motherhood, sexuality, education, and family structure.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically.
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 140 - Spanish Dramatic Expression
Acquaints students with the rhythms, intonations and gestures typical of contemporary spoken Spanish. Through study and presentation of two or more contemporary dramatic works, students gain practical experience in linguistic and cultural skills. Although some consideration is given to the texts as literature, the course is primarily a workshop in advanced oral Spanish.
Prerequisites: SPAN 131 , SPAN 132 , OR SPAN 133 , OR 4-5 years of Spanish, OR Native Speakers.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 155 - Contemporary Cultural Issues in Latin America: Film and Essay
SPAN155 is an analytical and creative course focusing on three expressions of creativity within media: Latin American films, essays and the films of the students. We examine essential questions within the context of the unique perspectives of the essayists and directors. The essays and films illuminate contemporary reality and make the viewer or reader confront the moral and ethical dilemmas of Latin American society.
Prerequisites: SPAN 131 OR SPAN 133 OR PERM; NATIVE SPEAKERS WELCOME
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually, Either Fall or Spring
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 202 - HCH (Herencia y Cultura Hispánicas)
HCH (Herencia y Cultura Hispánicas) (SPAN202) is meant to enable students to develop their knowledge of Hispanic Culture and Spanish Language while working with the Spanish speaking community in Worcester, MA. HCH is a multigenerational collaborative learning space where participants grow and learn from each other culturally, linguistically, and personally through an exploration of Hispanic culture. It is a bi-directional exchange between students at Clark University and Worcester Public Schools students between 8 and 10 years old, with an emphasis on Worcester Public Schools students as leaders in the cultural exchange process and undergraduates as leaders in the facilitation process. Considering the large Hispanic community in Worcester and the plurality of identities, our goal is to create a space of sharing, learning, discussion, and empowerment for Worcester Public Schools students as well as a space for increased cultural enrichment for Clark students.
(graded pass/fail)
Prerequisites: SPAN 133 or higher, native speakers of Spanish. By permission only.
Course Designation/Attribute: POP, DI, LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually, in the fall
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 217 - Hispanic Women Filmmakers
Hispanic Women Filmmakers (SPAN217) is meant to enable students to develop their knowledge of Hispanic Cinema and Hispanic culture of the 20th and 21st century. The materials used for this course aim to offer a significative representation of films by women filmmakers of the past and present century in the context of political, artistic and social change in Spanish speaking countries. We will consider how cultural ideologies, identities and intersectionalities (such as gender or age) are depicted in the big screen.
Prerequisites: SPAN 133 or higher; or Native Speakers; Experience abroad in Spanish speaking countries
Course Designation/Attribute: DI, LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 237 - Advanced Oral & Written Spanish
An advanced language course offering a sophisticated review of grammar. Areas covered are written composition, reading comprehension, vocabulary expansion, and oral skills, such as debates and interviews. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisites: Required for majors.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 239 - Hispanic Caribbean Cultures
Examines culture from Spanish language Caribbean countries: Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Topics include Afro-Antillean cultures, colonialism and post-colonialism, gender studies, migrations, and the construction of national identities. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisites: SPAN 131 , SPAN 132 , SPAN 133 or equivalent. Native speakers welcome.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 246 - Studies in Spanish Cinema
“Film and Society in Contemporary Spain”
Surveys principal Spanish films and filmmakers of the past 25 years in the context of political and social change in Spain. Considers formulation of cultural ideologies and identities through topics such as Immigration, LGTBQ, New Technologies and “Nacionalismos”. Topics vary each time the course is offered. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisites: SPAN 133 OR PERM; NATIVE SPEAKERS WELCOME
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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SPAN 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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STAT 4300 - Data Driven Decision Making
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts, tools, and analytical techniques that are applied in data driven business decision making. Students will learn to explore data with graphs, charts, and summary tables and review topics including probability and probability distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. Applications of linear regressions and multiple regression using Excel is the final topic in the course. The core objective for the course will be to help students understand the value of data driven decision making as managers.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Annually
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STAT 4600 - Big Data Statistics I
Big Data Statistics I, together with Big Data Statistics II, provides an overview of techniques drawn from the fields of advanced machine learning, datamining and statistics. The goal of these two courses is to prepare students with an intellectual framework for problem solving.
Big Data Statistics I emphasizes the understanding of descriptive and diagnostic methodologies to identify key aspects of a business question, from data collection to the formulation and testing of hypotheses. As such, this course is essentially a data science course with an emphasis on statistical methodologies. At the same time, the course emphasizes the practical aspects of business analytics by embedding the methodologies in applications and by underlining the general objective of improving the speed, reliability, and quality of decisions. The course uses real-life data sets as illustrations, and R and Python to build answers to business questions.
Prerequisites: STAT 4450 and MIS 4550
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually
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STAT 4650 - Big Data Statistics II
Big Data Statistics II, together with Big Data Statistics I, provides an overview of techniques drawn from the fields of advanced machine learning, datamining and statistics. The goal of these two courses is to prepare students with an intellectual framework for problem solving.
Big Data Statistics II emphasizes the use of mathematical modelling and scenario optimization to reach optimal business decisions. As such, this course is essentially a data science course with an emphasis on statistical methodologies. At the same time, the course emphasizes the practical aspects of business analytics by embedding the methodologies in applications and by underlining the general objective of improving the speed, reliability, and quality of decisions. The course uses real-life data sets as illustrations, and R and Python to build answers to business questions.
Prerequisites: STAT 4600
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually
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STAT 5910 - Directed Research
For a directed research course, a student and professor design a self-study course based around a common research interest shared by both. A directed research must be approved by the professor and the Associate Dean of GSOM. It can be designed as either a 0.5 unit or 1 unit course. The Directed Research Course Request Form should be completed and submitted to Associate Dean Andrea Aiello (aaiello@clarku.edu). For questions or additional information, contact your academic advisor. This directed research is done in the subject area of statistics.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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TA 012 - How to Act Right-On/Off the Stage FYI
How to Act Right is primarily a basic acting course but with an added research component. The content of the course is presented and explored through lectures and exercises. The students take their newly informed grasp of the art of acting and working from their experience with dramatic structure, character development and improvisation they break into research teams and explore acting throughout their everyday life and culture. Some possible topics would include acting and Presidential politics, the acting process in undercover work, acting and role playing in Psychology, and acting as metaphor in Literature, Philosophy and Spiritual Traditions. The training approach in the course is integral. Because acting demands that its practitioners utilize all aspects of their beings, students will work to develop their many levels of simultaneously, i.e. physically, emotionally, cognitively and spiritually.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
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TA 109 - Contemporary Women Playwrights
This course is designed to introduce the student to the works of major women playwrights of the past 100 years. While there is some focus on the early part of the 20th century, the primary study will be of plays written in the past 30 years. In studying the plays, a number of different points of view and reference will be considered including that of the playwright, actor, director, historian and dramaturge. The student is encouraged to formulate a personal opinion of these plays and dramatists.
Course Designation/Attribute: VE
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered biannually
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TA 111 - Voice and Diction
An intensified phonetic approach to articulation and voice production with some emphasis on speech for the stage and for public occasions. Several laboratory sessions will be provided for individual coaching by the instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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TA 112 - The Creative Actor
Through a series of workshops, the student becomes familiar with the basic tools necessary to the art of acting. The approach is based on the techniques of Stanislavski, Viola Spolin, Joseph Chaikin, Robert Cohen and original exercises, including an introduction to basic voice and movement for the actor.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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TA 125 - Theatrical/Costume Design Projects
Intermediate-level projects in design and presentation techniques for theater productions. Work in areas of scenery, costume or lighting design.
Spring 2020 Topic: Sewing
History of apparel as applied to theatrical costume design. Work in all aspects of costuming. Course will include an introduction to sewing including how to hand and machine sew, follow patterns, and create garments.
May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: TA 120 .
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 126 - The Physical Theater/Environmental Studio
Study of designed environment and structure as it relates to performance and the physical theater as well as contemporary installation projects. Study of public spaces, theater architecture and site-specific work.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 129 - Scenic Design
Fundamentals of set design theory; basic mechanical and conceptual solutions for theatre; development of presentational and research skills. Development of digital drafting, hand drafting and modeling skills. Course will focus on practical projects and creation.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: fall
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TA 132 - Modern Repertory
In this class students will make a piece of choreography from beginning to end, directed by the instructor. This piece will be performed informally at the end of the semester. The class will start with a group warm-up that will lead into a rehearsal, in which students will both learn material given to them by the instructor, and also create their own material to be used in the choreography. Permission of instructor required. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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TA 133 - African Inspirations: A Dance Collaboration
“African Inspirations” uses the music-movement relationship to explore connections between traditional African dance and Western dance principles. Students will learn Pearl Primus’ interpretations of two African dances-“Fanga,” a dance of welcome, and “Bushasche,” a war dance for peace-and develop small group pieces based on this material, re-interpreted through their own bodies and new rhythmic “conversations.” Musicians-particularly percussionists and singers-are welcome to join the project, as the course is accessible to novice and experienced dancers alike. No prerequisites. Offered Bi-annually.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2014
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TA 144 - Drama of the Western Tradition
Surveys the traditional dramatic canon of the western tradition. Course readings will include plays by Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ibsen, Yeats, Synge, and Friel (among others).
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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TA 153 - Modern Drama
This is a course designed to introduce the student to the major dramatic writers from the 19th century to the present. In studying the plays, a number of different points of view and reference will be considered including that of the playwright, the actor, the director, the historian, the dramaturge. The student is encouraged to formulate a personal opinion of these plays and dramatists. The major focus of the course is the text and the student’s understanding and interpretation of the work. However, a strong emphasis will also be placed on the performance aspect of these plays. This can take many forms, including coordination of our efforts with theatre classes on campus, field trips to theatres nearby, use of video, and even staged readings of the scripts in class. Fulfills the Verbal Expression requirement. You must have been placed at the Verbal Expression level to choose this seminar.
Course Designation/Attribute: VE
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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TA 164 - American Musical Theatre
A thorough investigation of the history, structure ad performance of American musical theatre. Lectures and demonstrations will be augmented with films and recordings. Students will prepare and present scenes and songs from selected musical plays, illustrating integration of libretto, score, and dance in American musical theatre.
This FYI is part of the transition to college phase of your Clark experience, in which our goal is to orient you to Clark, to help you become part of a learning community where you will acquire new knowledge. You will explore personal and artistic growth and exploration through the vast art form of Musical Theatre. The course ends with a synthesis and demonstration of skills as you present original artistic work based on classical shows.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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TA 201 - Seminar of Oscar Wilde
This seminar outlines the life, trials, and work of Oscar Wilde, perhaps the most talented writer in the history of the English language. We will review not only the impressive canon of his plays but also his essays, children’s stories, and novels. Finally, the seminar will review the trial of Oscar Wilde, his role as a reluctant gay activist, and his influence on celebrity worship and the modern artist.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 203 - The Play and its Stages
A critical approach to the dramatic text based on historical and material conditions of performance. Considers the changing ways that meanings are made through styles and conventions of performance (including set, costume, mask and vocal delivery), which are specific to historical and cultural moments. Playwrights considered may include Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Molière, Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, Genet and Beckett. Scene work.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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