Humanities courses are designed to provide context, insight, and fresh perspectives for students pursuing the arts. Topics include writing, literature and film criticism.
In this course we will read poems by Sappho, Verlaine, and McKay. Sappho lived around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos in Greece. Her songs were popular then and continue to generate afterlives now, waning and gaining in popularity alongside changes in sensibilities with regard to sexuality. Paul Verlaine wrote … Read more
Start Date
01/02
Meeting Day
No scheduled meetings days
End Date
01/12
Faculty
Divya Menon
Time
Online–
Credits
3
This class is fully enrolled.
This Summative Elective course seeks to build a bridge between the artistic aesthetics in Cinema and the scientific rigor of naturally plausible phenomena. In doing so, and through analyses of scientific foundations of scenarios portrayed in different genres of cinema, including but not limited to sci-fi and superhero, students will … Read more
Start Date
01/02
Meeting Day
End Date
01/12
Faculty
Dr. Hossein Alizadeh
Time
–
Credits
3
This course treats the evolution of film music from silent movies until the present. It introduces students to musical syntax, the aesthetics of film music, and the means by which composers synchronize music and script to convey mood and render action vivid. Working chronologically, the course explores the increasing importance … Read more
Start Date
01/03
Meeting Day
Tuesday through Friday
End Date
01/12
Faculty
Paul Bempéchat
Time
2pm–4pm
Credits
3
