Examines representative American stage musicals with emphasis on text, music, and lyrics thereof. Topics include the history of the genre and the relationship of the musicals to the political and social context of their respective times.
Traces the transformation from fiction into film of four modern texts. Discussions concentrate on effectiveness of the transformation in terms of filmic technique and medium differences. Final essay required.
A look into American silent comedy, its history and aesthetics, from sources in European clowning to its difinitive moment in the 1920's films of Chaplin and Keaton to such later developments as the television style of Ernie Kovacs.
A reading and discussion group focused on the interaction of language structure and socially relevant issues of language use involving questions of correctness, truth, manipulation, discrimination, and obfuscation.
Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.
Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.
Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.
An investigation into the idea of modern classical acting through seminar discussion and studio performance. Students practice detailed textual analysis of classical texts (with particular emphasis on Shakespeare) and their memorization and performance. Designed for members of Cowell College.
Development of an interpretive natural history trail on the lower and middle UCSC campus. Directed reading in pertinent literature and intensive practice in writing or graphically illustrating short popular pieces on natural history, as well as preparation of the guide-leaflet itself.
Course approaches literature and literary devices in their capacity to address the patient's experience of illness, medical education and practice, and medical ethics and to understand and assess how considerations of justice impact these themes in medicine. Particular issues raised by a variety of topics are examined and discussed in the context of case examples as presented in literature and film, e.g., informed consent, the doctor-patient relation, withdrawing vs. withholding life-sustaining treatment, organ transplantation, health care reform, rationing/social justice, etc.
Instructor
Dawson Schultz
Study of campus planning in American colleges and universities from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, with comparison to the planning and ideals of UCSC.