Focuses on a specific topic, director, or genre chosen by the professor. Research skills and critical thinking are emphasized. With faculty guidance, students determine individual projects and present them to the class. Class participation is mandatory. Each student submits a thorough and original research paper for a final grade. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereqs., FILM 3051, 3061. Same as FILM 4024. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on the two areas 1) lecture/discussion, both based on political, historical and the aesthetic evolution regarding examples of public art and 2) current practice, in reference to how to use such information to generate new more innovative and original ideas regarding public art and its application. This course will include lectures, readings and discussions, writing assignments, studio projects, and visual presentations. Same as ARTS 4024. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines how musical choices can profoundly affect audiences, dancers, and the creative process. Surveys historic and contemporary music styles and influential artists through guided listening and experimentation. Deepens understanding of music, including vocabulary, technology, collaboration skills, ethics, and copyright issues. Meets with DNCE 3024. Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Includes techniques for the patterning and construction of contemporary and period costumes. Hands-on format covers techniques, materials, and equipment particular to theatrical production. Formerly THTR 4025. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of THTR 1105 and THTR 1115 (all minimum grade C-).
Learn to expertly navigate art scholarship and be prepared to do thesis-level research. This course is an introduction to the vast array of art historical resources and their uses. Explore advanced techniques for searching both online and offline sources of art information. Master the various modes of art historical research, including finding iconographic, historical, or technical information. Same as LIBR/ARTH 4029. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces graduate level study of medieval and early modern writing through the long eighteenth century. Emphasizes a wide range of genres, forms, historical background, and secondary criticism. Cultivates research skills necessary for advanced graduate study. Topics will vary. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only.
Examines creative issues in contemporary cinema art. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students explore filmmaking ideas with guest artists within a seminar setting. Filmmakers, videographers and programmers of national and international reputation, with an emphasis on "Experimental" practice, interact with graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and discuss their work at seminar meetings, public lectures or events. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereqs., FILM 1502 and 4453 or instructor consent. Same as FILM 4030.
Introduces the field of pre-modern Chinese literary theory and its relevance in Chinese intellectual history. Based on the close reading of primary sources, i.e. typically on selected core texts of Chinese literary thought, as well as on the reading of secondary literature. Texts and topics vary from year to year. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
An introductory study of nineteenth-century German philosophy (especially Kant, Hegel, and Marx). Required course for the graduate certificate in Critical Theory. GRMN 5030 and COML 5030 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
An introductory study of nineteenth-century German philosophy (especially Kant, Hegel, and Marx). Required course for the graduate certificate in Critical Theory. GRMN 5030 and COML 5030 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces students to major technical tools, explores their educational potential through scholarly readings and practical implementation and assessment of their usefulness in the classroom. This course is offered online fall semesters through the School of Continuing Education.
Introduces practical and theoretical aspects of phonetics. Provides training in recognition and production of speech sounds, and instruction on fundamentals of articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Surveys classical mathematical physics, starting with complex variable theory and finite dimensional vector spaces. Discusses topics in ordinary and partial differential equations, the special functions, boundary value problems, potential theory, and Fourier analysis. Department enforced prereqs., MATH 4001 and 4320. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Same as PHYS 5030. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Recommended prereq., ability to use literary texts in their original language. Same as MEMS 4030. Requisites: Restricted to Comparative Literature (CMLT) or Theatre (THTR) or Classics (CLAS) majors only.
Surveys and discusses the educational role of museums and informal learning centers. Issues include current trends, learning theories and styles, learning from objects, education programs, diverse audiences, museum/school partnerships, and the role of education in exhibit development.
Selected readings in classical philosophy, with a focus on achieving fluency in reading philosophical Greek. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. May enroll in multiple sections in the same term.
This course and its continuation, PHYS 5040, form a survey of classical mathematical physics. Studies complex variable theory and finite vector spaces, and includes topics in ordinary and partial differential equations, boundary value problems, potential theory, and Fourier analysis. Same as MATH 5030. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Covers elements of exhibition development and design, up to production and evaluation of exhibit prototypes. The team approach is emphasized. Department enforced requisite: restricted to graduate students.
Principles and practice of social research, including the nature of scientific explanation, the relationship between theory and research, research design, measurement problems, sampling questionnaire construction, interviewing, ethnographic methods, and statistical analysis.
