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Transfer Student Courses in RC HumanitiesThis page was created at 12:51 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in RC Humanities Wolverine Access Subject listing for RCHUMS Fall Term '01Time Schedule for RC Humanities. RCHUMS 236 / FILMVID 236. The Art of the Film.
Arts and IdeasSection 001 – Students Are Required To Attend Film Viewing On Tuesday 7-11 P M, With An Alternate Screening On Thursday 7-11 p.m.Instructor(s): Hubert I Cohen (hicohen@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Laboratory fee ($50) required. Credits: (4). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($50) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Film and Video Studies 236.001.
RCHUMS 250. Chamber Music.
MusicSection 001 – Chamber Music. (1 credit).Instructor(s): Virginia Weckstrom-Kantor (vwk@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (1-2). (CE). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. May be repeated for a total of 16 credits. Credits: (1-2; 1 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Audition only for placement in ensembles. ALL students who are interested in participating in instrumental ensembles may enroll for one or two hours credit at the discretion of the instructor. 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 two ensembles; for two hours of credit, students must participate in a large ensemble and two smaller ones. 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) 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 not a mini-course!
RCHUMS 250. Chamber Music.
MusicSection 002 – Chamber Music. (2 credits).Instructor(s): Virginia Weckstrom-Kantor (vwk@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (1-2). (CE). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. May be repeated for a total of 16 credits. Credits: (1-2; 1 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
RCHUMS 313 / SLAVIC 313. Russian Cinema.
Arts and IdeasSection 001.Instructor(s): Herbert J Eagle (hjeagle@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Laboratory fee ($50) required.
Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($50) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Slavic Linguistics, Literary Theory, Film, and Surveys 313.001.
RCHUMS 333. Art and Culture.
Arts and IdeasSection 001 – Weimar CultureInstructor(s): Matthew Nicholas BiroPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of 16 credits. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The Weimar Republic, Germany's first experiment in democracy, lasted between 1918/19 and 1933. It began with the fall of the German monarchy at the end of World War I and ended a little more than fourteen years later when the National Socialist Party assumed power through a mixture of legal and illegal means. Although brief, the Weimar Republic witnessed a rich and diverse array of "high" and "popular" culture; including visual art, performance, sculpture, film, theater, literature, posters, illustrated books and magazines. Empowered by the breakdown of the established order, and with the firm belief that not only society but also the individual had to be remade from the ground up, the creators of Weimar culture engaged all the means at their disposal to visualize a new world and a new consciousness to go with it. This course will examine various competing visions of the new individual and new society as they are presented in Weimar Culture, and how fascist, socialist and democratic forces battled to define the modern individual and society.
RCHUMS 333. Art and Culture.
Arts and IdeasSection 002 – Michelangelo's Figurative LanguageInstructor(s): Thomas C Willette (willette@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of 16 credits. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The life and art of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) offers a context for intensive study of verbal and visual artistic production in early modern Europe. For his contemporaries, and for many later generations, Michelangelo exemplified the ideal modern artist postulated in the art literature of humanistic philosophy and cultural theory. We will examine Renaissance theories of style and invention as a means of grasping the substratum of rhetorical "figures" or "tropes" that inform Michelangelo's art – whether his rough-hewn sonnets or his highly polished marbles. Hence we will attend closely to certain drawings that show the artist "thinking out loud," as it were, in sketches and fragments of verse. Related topics include Michelangelo's self-fashioning as genius, his theories of inspiration and his sometimes agonized religious introspection. In the course of the academic term we will study a considerable portion of his work in sculpture, painting, and architecture while observing his prodigious reputation and influence, particularly in the court settings of Florence and Rome. Several short papers will be assigned and there will be one or two examinations with slides.
RCHUMS 347(451) / RUSSIAN 347. Survey of Russian Literature.
Comparative LiteratureSection 001.Instructor(s): Andreas Xavier Schönle (aschonle@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: A knowledge of Russian is not required. No knowledge of Russian literature or history is presupposed. (3). (HU).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
RCHUMS 484. Seminar in Drama Topics.
DramaSection 001 – Pontiac, Tecumseh and Detroit: History and Dramatic Representations.Instructor(s): Martin Walsh (narenlob@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Upperclass standing, Hums. 280, and three 300- or 400-level drama courses. (4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Two of the most important early figures of Native American resistance to White expansion focussed their activities on Detroit. In 1763, in the aftermath of the French and Indian War, the Ottawa chieftain gave his name to a “conspiracy” or “uprising” which nearly drove the British from the Upper Great Lakes. Some half a century later the Shawnee leader Tecumseh also fought his major engagements it the Detroit River area. Tecumseh was instrumental to the British capture of Detroit in 1812, but lost his life in October of the following year in the battle of the Thames during the British withdrawal. This course will examine both the history of these two major resistance movements (Peckham’s Pontiac and the Indian Uprising, Sugden’s Tecumseh: a Life, key articles in the recently developed field of Ethnohistory, etc.) as well as the artistic representation of these famous war chiefs from the 18th century to the present. The focus will be primarily on dramatic works from Col. Robert Rogers’ Ponteach (1766) to Alan Eckart’s Outdoor drama Tecumseh! (1974) still performed every summer in Chillicothe, Ohio. Reflections in the visual arts and poetry, as well as the burgeoning Tecumseh “industry” in the recent historical novel will be examined. Particular attention will be paid to the changing images of the careers and personalities of these major Native figures in the evolving ideology of White America. A field trip to the outdoor drama Tecumseh! is planned for the first week in September. Students will be able to participate of a “docu-drama” from the records of the court-martial of Gen. William Hull who surrendered Detroit to Brock and Tecumseh in 1812.
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