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Workshop: Walking and Writing — LIT2398.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Akiko Busch
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The workshop will examine the literary traditions of walking and writing, focusing on how the first can assist the second.  Themes would include walking as a passage; walking as escape; walking as a meditation; walking towards something; walking away from something; and those times when walking manages to be both of these things.  Of his outings in Concord, Henry
Literature

World Building — DRA2381.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Credits: 2
Every fictional universe has its own history and culture, geography and ecology that act as a backdrop to the narratives that inhabit it.  This course will investigate the relationship between such a fantastical place and its characters – with a particular emphasis on the philosophy and symbology of their clothes. This class will be both an exploration of existing media
Drama

World Building: Designing Characters and World They Live In — DES2109.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time: MO 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Every fictional universe has its own history, culture, geography, and ecology that act as a backdrop to the narratives that inhabit it.  This course will investigate the relationship between such a fantastical place and its characters – with a particular emphasis on the philosophy and symbology of the characters and their clothes.<

Drama Design

World Dance Histories: Practices, Problems, Possibilities — DAN2228.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
The category of world dance, frequently used in the West to identify dance from various other cultural locations and traditions, begs the question: What kind of dance is not part of this world? This course introduces students to a selection of global dance practices via text and video that, while not exhaustive, will serve to expand students’ understanding of the roles dance
Dance

World Percussion Ensemble — MPF4470.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 4
During this class we will examine composition and improvisation in percussion music that include rhythmic, harmonic and melodic structures. The class will also learn about the cultural and folkloric content of the music. Individually each student/player will lead the ensemble in a new work/s that incorporates musical techniques from the music studied in
Music

World Percussion Ensemble — MPF2253.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** In this class we will examine composition and improvisation through melodic, harmonic, rhythmic structures as well as important cultural and folkloric content in examples of music from traditional practices in various parts of the world. The ensemble will learn and perform music from Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia. Individually each
Music

World Vocal Ensemble — MPF4126.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 2
This class is for confident, adventurous singers wishing to study and perform music from areas where group singing has strong roots in tradition.  We will explore different ways of producing vocal sound, such as the Balkan “hard voice”, the rounder sounds of South Africa, and the unusual tunings of Caucasus Georgia while learning about the secular and
Music

World Vocal Ensemble — MPF4126.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** This class is for confident, adventurous singers wishing to study and perform full-throated music from regions where singing is part of the rhythm of everyday life. Meeting concurrently with the World Percussion Ensemble, we will collaborate on music from Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast and Central Asia. We will learn about the distinctive sounds and
Music

Worlding: Building in Digital Space — MA4108.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
Unlike any other medium, animation provides unmatched suspicion of disbelief. Moreover, in digital space, one can exercise their imagination beyond material and physical limitations. The combination of the two provides the permissive space to live out our wildest reveries: utopias, dystopias, social experiments, psi-fic scenarios, or dollhouses for amphibians. This class can
Visual Arts

Wounded Literature: Trauma and Representation — LIT2262.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
This course will be a study of the paradox of trauma literature. Stories that compel their telling, yet are unassimilated and unspeakable, these works grow out of disasters on an individual and/or collective scale. To better understand Anne Whitehead's assertion that writers "have frequently found that the impact of trauma can only adequately be represented by mimicking its
Literature

Wounded Literature: Trauma, Memory, and Representation — LIT2262.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
This course will be a study of the paradoxes of trauma literature. Stories that compel their telling, yet are unassimilated and unspeakable, this writing grows out of disaster and crisis on an individual and/or collective scale. To better understand Anne Whitehead’s assertion that “Novelists have frequently found that the impact of trauma can only adequately be represented by
Literature

Writers, Directors Workshop — DRA4388.02, section 2

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This project-based class will bring playwrights, directors, and actors together into a collaborative company to workshop new material or re-imagined previously published work. Four projects will share resources to bring the work to its next logical level, dependent on each project’s goal and process. Each project will share a bill with another for two performances. As with
Drama

Writers, Directors Workshop — DRA4388.01, section 1) (new course code as of 10/20/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
This project-based class will bring playwrights, directors, and actors together into a collaborative company to workshop new material or re-imagined previously published work. Four projects will share resources to bring the work to its next logical level, dependent on each project’s goal and process. Each project will share a bill with another for two performances. As with
Drama

Writing a Life — LIT4510.01) (time change as of 11/11/2022

Spring 2023
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
In this course, we will move chronologically through a life, from childhood to old age, with the help of sixteen different writers. We will read broadly (novels, plays, short stories) and focus on one key question at every life stage. As kids, we will investigate imperfect narrative voices and strategic silences. As teenagers, we will explore writing about politics with humor,
Literature

Writing Essays About Literature — LIT2102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Credits: 4
Writing Essays is an introduction to writing clearly-constructed and logically-argued essays in response to reading, analyzing, and appreciating literary genre, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and novels. The course offers an analysis of the technical elements in literature: imagery, symbolism, metaphor, point of view, tone, structure, and prosody. The class
Literature

Writing Essays About Literature — LIT2102.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Credits: 4
Writing Essays is an introduction to writing clearly-constructed and logically-argued essays in response to reading, analyzing, and appreciating literary genre, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and novels. The course offers an analysis of the technical elements in literature: imagery, symbolism, metaphor, point of view, tone, structure, and prosody. The class
Literature

Writing Essays about Literature — LIT2102.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Credits: 4
Writing Essays is an introduction to writing clearly-constructed and logically-argued essays in response to reading, analyzing, and appreciating literary genre, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and novels. The course offers an analysis of the technical elements in literature: imagery, symbolism, metaphor, point of view, tone, structure, and prosody. The class
Literature

Writing Essays About Literature — LIT2102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Credits: 4
Writing Essays is an introduction to writing clearly-constructed and logically-argued essays in response to reading, analyzing, and appreciating literary genre, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and novels. The course offers an analysis of the technical elements in literature: imagery, symbolism, metaphor, point of view, tone, structure, and prosody. The class
Literature

Writing Landscape — LIT2201.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: akiko busch
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"Nature is our widest home," Edward Hoagland once wrote, and the workshop would examine why this is so. The course would consider how the cycles, rhythms, and disturbances of the natural world have always had a place in American letters. Some students would have the opportunity to use their observations from and experience in fieldwork as raw material from which to develop
Science Mathematics and Computing Literature

Writing on Music — MOD2124.04

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
"Writing about music is like dancing about painting," goes a chestnut attributed to Elvis Costello. Yet the art of putting music into words is one of the oldest artistic collaborations. In this class, we'll look at examples of contemporary musical prose, and talk about this essential act of multidisciplinary translation. Students will write short concert and album reviews,
Modules: Transferable Approaches Music

Writing on Music — MOD2124.03

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
"Writing about music is like dancing about painting," goes a chestnut attributed to Elvis Costello. Yet the art of putting music into words is one of the oldest artistic collaborations. In this class, we'll look at examples of contemporary musical prose, and talk about this essential act of multidisciplinary translation. Students will write short concert and album reviews
Modules: Transferable Approaches

Writing on Music — MUS2156.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
A brief, intensive workshop on writing about music, an essential act of multidisciplinary translation. We will read a range of short-form journalistic essays from across the musical spectrum. Students will write short concert and album reviews, developing a musical ear for language, while providing feedback and editing for each other. Special attention will be focused on
Music

Writing on Music — MUS2156.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
A brief, intensive workshop on writing about music, an essential act of multidisciplinary translation. We will read a range of short-form journalistic essays from across the musical spectrum. Students will write short concert and album reviews, developing a musical ear for language, while providing feedback and editing for each other. Special attention will be focused on
Music

Written California, 1850s to the Present — LIT2374.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kathleen Alcott
Credits: 4
“Though every prospect pleases, and only man is vile.” Traveling through the brand new state of California to conduct a survey of its geology, William. H. Brewer couldn’t help but think of this line from Heber. Even in its earliest iteration, California was a place where the fantasy of expansion—whether mental, geographical, technological—came at a dramatic cost. As the
Literature