This course will examine ancient Egyptian history and culture, beginning in prehistoric and predynastic Egypt and concluding with the decline of ancient Egypt under the dominance of foreign rulers. The primary focus will be on the periods of Egypt’s greatest stability and independence, from the pyramid builders of the Old Kingdom through the rise and fall of the imperialistic New Kingdom. Themes under examination include: ancient Egyptian art, architecture, literature, and religion; ideologies of kingship; gender roles; changing notions of Egyptian (and non-Egyptian) identity; Egypt’s position between Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean; trade and diplomacy in the Mediterranean, ancient Near East, and Africa; and the growth and decline of political and cultural systems.
Directed Research in Economics
Under the direct supervision of a faculty member, a student participates in economic research. A learning contract that specifies the student’s role in the research process, including specific responsibilities and learning outcomes, must be filed with the Office of the Registrar. To qualify for upper-level credit student responsibilities must include consequential analysis. A maximum of four credit hours of directed research in economics (397 or 497 only) may be applied to major requirements in economics. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Learning contract filed in the Office of the Registrar, ECON 253.
Classroom Assistantship in Art History
Supervised experience in the understanding and explanation of art history disciplinary concepts and reasoning. Meeting regularly with the instructor, classroom assistants help an instructor in duties that may include convening meetings with students outside of regular class time, reading drafts of students’ papers, correcting (but not grading) short homework assignments and drafting examination questions. This course will follow the general college guidelines. Students eligible for classroom assistantships must have a minimum GPA of 2.5, be of junior or senior standing or must have completed two courses of 300-level or above work in art history. May be repeated for a total of eight credits but a maximum of four credit hours of such work may be applied toward fulfillment of the student’s major requirements.
Music and Myth
Since before the dawn of recorded history, when humanity recounted its most time-honored tales in song, music and myth have gone hand in hand. This course will explore a relatively recent instance of this – the Germanic and Scandinavian myths revolving around the concept of a ring of power, as interpreted by the nineteenth-century composer Richard Wagner in his monumental four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, one of the most ambitious artistic projects of all time. Also to be studied are two striking examples of its influence: J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and George Lucas’ Star Wars. No prerequisites: the ability to read music is not necessary. This course satisfies the Core Exploration Humanities requirement.
Music and Art
This course will examine the relationship between music and the visual arts from three fundamental perspectives. Firstly, it will study the ways in which music has been influenced by art or has invoked a visual quality. Secondly, it will investigate the manner in which art has responded to music or has deliberately aimed for a “musical” quality. Finally, it will consider some of the means by which music and art have worked together. No prerequisites: the ability to read music is not necessary. This course satisfies the Core Exploration Humanities requirement.
Film Music
Music in films is not just an accompaniment, but an essential part of the experience. The music can heighten our emotions, create atmosphere, explain actions, and do an endless amount of other work on behalf of the narrative. Designed for the general student, this course will examine film music to understand some of the many ways that it is used, beginning with basic information about films and their music. The works we will study cover a century of film making, beginning in the early 20th-century and ending with current cinema. No prerequisites: the ability to read music is not necessary. This course satisfies the Core Exploration Humanities requirement.
Literature and Opera
This course, designed for the general student, examines how the same story can be told in many different ways: just as when a movie is made from a book, when a composer creates an opera from a literary work he must make decisions about what to keep, to discard, and to change. We will first consider several different literary works, and then discover what happens when they are retold as operas, considering what is gained, lost, and changed in these musical retellings. No prerequisites: the ability to read music is not necessary. This course satisfies the Core Exploration Humanities requirement.
Gender and Music
Designed for the general student, this course considers how gender influences music. From how we speak and write about music, to how we perform it and support it, issues of gender invade and inform our knowledge and enjoyment of music. We will explore such things as how gender influences discussions of music, affects both performer and audience, renders or removes power, and confuses expectations of voice. We will consider both classical and popular music, past and present. No prerequisites: the ability to read music is not necessary. This course satisfies the Core Exploration Cultural Literacy requirement.
Music of the Silk Road
Designed for the general student, this course explores the music cultures of the lands of the legendary Silk Road: those routes taken by traders between Venice and Japan from the time of the Middle Ages and later. Songs, instruments, dances, and ideas about music travel, both now and in the past, and act as agents of change in the way a culture makes its music. This course will be an exploration of those melodies, modes, instruments, dances, philosophies and aesthetics that make up the music cultures of several places on the Silk Road: Japan, Korea, China, India, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Venice and the West. No prerequisites: the ability to read music is not necessary. This course satisfies the Core Exploration Cultural Literacy requirement.
Music of Latin America
This course, designed for the general student, explores some of the enormous body of music that comes under the designation of Latin American Music. Many of us have some ideas about it (salsa rhythms, tango, mariachi), but there is a wealth of genres and styles, aesthetic ideas and spiritual connections, that make up this vast repertoire. We will use readings, listening assignments and films to gain an understanding of these musics. No prerequisites: the ability to read music is not necessary. This course satisfies the Core Exploration Cultural Literacy requirement.
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