First-Year Courses in RC HumanitiesConsult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:59 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23)Most seats in RC courses are reserved for RC students. RCHUMS 236 / FILMVID 236. The Art of the Film.
Arts and IdeasSection 001.Instructor(s): Hubert I Cohen (hicohen@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. Laboratory fee ($50) required. Credits: (4). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($50) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
RCHUMS 250. Chamber Music.
MusicInstructor(s): Katri Maria ErvamaaPrerequisites & Distribution: (1-2). (CE). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 16 credits. Offered mandatory credit/no credit. Credits: (1-2; 1 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. All students who are interested in participating in instrumental ensembles may enroll for one or two hours credit at the discretion of the instructor. Audition is only for placement in ensembles. Every student must register for 001 for one hour; those who fulfill the requirements for two hours of credit MUST also select Section 002 (with an override from the instructor) for the additional hour of credit. For one hour of credit, students must participate in one ensemble; for two hours of credit, students must participate in two or more ensembles. Responsibilities include three to four hours of rehearsal time per week per credit hour (i.e., 6-8 hours of practice, rehearsal and coaching for two credits), six studio classes and participation in one or more concerts per term. Course may be used to fulfill the Residential College's Arts Practicum Requirement. Ensembles have included: mixed ensembles of winds, strings and brass; string quartet; woodwind quintet; chamber orchestra; duos and trios, including piano, harpsichord, guitar and voice. This is a full-term class! Sign up early, as the ensembles fill quickly.
RCHUMS 252. Topics in Musical Expression.
MusicMusic Improvisation.Instructor(s): Mark Kirschenmann (sonikman@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (CE). May be elected for a maximum of 12 credits. May be elected more than once in the same term. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will utilize improvisation (not genre-specific) as the catalyst for creating and performing music. Because improvisation is a performance-based medium, the prospective student must be reasonably comfortable performing on an instrument or voice. Everyone will be expected to improvise during each class and in a variety of settings including solo, chamber and large-group work. The instructor will lead the class in various scenarios, structures and forms designed to stimulate creative and listening skills. Throughout the term, students will also work on self-directed solo and group projects. We will listen to recorded works during every meeting, and several listening exams will be given throughout the term. The final exam will include a concert of improvised music in the East Quad Auditorium. Three concert reports will also be required. Students must provide their own instruments, which may be acoustic, electric, found and/or vocal. Those using electric instruments will need to provide their own amplification. Laptops and turntables are welcome.
RCHUMS 275. The Western Mind in Revolution: Six Interpretations of the Human Condition.
Arts and IdeasSection 001.Instructor(s): Frederick G Peters (fgpeters@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will treat six major reinterpretations of the human condition from the 16th to the 20th centuries generated by intellectual revolutions in astronomy (Copernicus: the heliocentric theory) theology (Luther: the Reformation), biology (Darwin: evolution of the species), sociology (Marx: Communism), psychology (Freud: psychoanalysis), and physics (Einstein: the theory of relativity). All six reinterpretations initiated a profound revaluation of Western concept of the self as well as a reassessment of the nature and function of his/her political and social institutions. Since each of these revolutions arose in direct opposition to some of the most central and firmly accepted doctrines of their respective ages, we will study:
If the function of humanistic education is to enable the individual to see where he/she stands in today's maelstrom of conflicting intellectual and cultural currents, it is first necessary to see where others have stood and what positions were abandoned. The emphasis of this course will not be upon truths finally revealed or upon problems forever abandoned, but rather upon certain quite definite perspectives that, arising out of specific historical contexts, at once solved a few often technical problems within a specialized discipline while unexpectedly creating many new ones for Western culture as a whole. Texts:
RCHUMS 280 / ENGLISH 245 / THTREMUS 211. Introduction to Drama and Theatre.
DramaSection 001.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in RCHUMS 281.
Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
RCHUMS 282. Drama Interpretation I: Actor and Text.DramaSection 001.Instructor(s): Katherine Mendeloff (mendelof@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (CE). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This text-based performance course will focus on one of the central themes in American Drama — the relationship of the family. In doing so we will look at not only some of the major plays of the century by writers like Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Eugene O'Neill, but we will also go on to look at more contemporary playwrights and more current issues in American playwriting — the perspectives of women writers, African American, Asian, and Hispanic writers, and writers from the Gay and Lesbian community. The emphasis will be on the exploration of these texts through extensive scene study. No prerequisite is required but previous acting experience is recommended.
RCHUMS 290. The Experience of Arts and Ideas in the Twentieth Century.Arts and IdeasSection 001.Instructor(s): Karein K Goertz (goertz@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This seminar focuses on cities as the birthplace, testing, and battleground for new art forms and ideas. Cities have always been magnets for creative minds to congregate, collaborate, and compete. Literary and artistic movements often become associated with the cities in which they flourished. Consider, for example, the Bloomsbury Group in London, Berlin during the Weimar Republic, the Left Bank milieu of Paris, New York and the Harlem Renaissance, and the Beat Generation in San Francisco. By examining how writers, painters, photographers and filmmakers have depicted cities through the verbal and visual arts, we can trace the major intellectual, literary, and artistic trends of the last century. We begin with the assumption that cities are an expression of the collective and individual experiences they embody. Representations of urban space and experience reflect the aspirations and fears, accomplishments and failures, of a particular time and place. Beginning with concurrent expressions of modernist sensibility and avant-garde technique in Paris, Berlin, London and New York at the beginning of the last century, we go on to examine how these aesthetic parameters, as expressed through the image of the city, changed throughout the century, reflecting new social, political and economic conditions. Readings include Joseph Roth What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, Christopher Isherwood Berlin Stories, Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway, James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Andrea Weiss Paris Was a Woman, Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast, Alfred Kazin A Walker in the City, Jane Jacobs Life and Death in Great American Cities, Frank O-Hara Collected Poems, Jean Baudrillard America, Italo Calvino Invisible Cities, Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49, Mike Davis Dead Cities, Peter Schneider The Wall Jumper, Adam Gopnik Paris to the Moon, Jonathan Raban Soft City.
RCHUMS 293. English Grammar and Meaning.
Arts and IdeasSection 001 — Grammar and Meaning.Instructor(s): John M Lawler (jlawler@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
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