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Course Additions

New Courses for Spring 2010

 

Art Studio

173. Interactive Portable Media and Cellphone Art. Use of inexpensive media devices such as cell phones, music players, and other portable electronics to create campus-wide participatory events, including art projects, web interactive movements, unexpected musical environments, and grass roots media campaigns. Collaborative and solo projects. SPRING. [3] Winger-Bearskin. (HCA)

Classics

296W. Augustan Rome. Social, administrative, religious, and military reforms. Common themes in art, architecture, and literature; changes in national identity in the transition from Republic to Empire. Intended for senior majors. SPRING. [3] Solomon. (HCA)

Earth and Environmental Sciences

299. Senior Seminar. Integrating concepts and information from diverse fields. Limited to seniors in the final semester of the major. SPRING. [1] Gualda. (No AXLE Credit)

Film Studies

232. Sound Design. The art of sound in cinema. Recording, editing, and mixing; studying the work of radio and sound technicians; independent projects. SPRING. [3] Rattner. (HCA)

History of Art

122. History of Asian Architecture. Cultural traditions of Asia from the first milennium BCE to the nineteenth century through the study of architecture. Cities, temples, and domestic structures of China, Japan, Korea, South Asia (India and Pakistan), and Southeast Asia. SPRING. [3] Miller. (INT)

Sociology

238. Ways of Seeing: Media, Representation, and the Sociology of Knowledge. Study of the inherent biases in modes of representation, including photography, ethnography, statistics, journalism, and maps. Comparisons of representations of twentieth-century events, such as the Great Depression, Vietnam War, and the era of HIV/AIDS. SPRING. [3] McDonnell. (SBS)

Spanish

248. Spanish-American Literature of the Post-Boom Era. The post-Boom novel from the 1970s to the present; analysis of related films. Manuel Muig's Boquitas pintadas, Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú, Laura Esquivel's Coma agua para chocolate, Reinaldo Arena's Viaje a La Habana, and Daisey Rubiera Castillo's Reyita, sencillamente. Prerequisite: 203. SPRING. [3] Luis. (P)