Creativity Course Guide
SPRING QUARTER 2012
Get creative! We've compiled a list of some of the amazing, creative courses being offered next quarter (they go great with sunshine and springtime). Check it out below!
Course information is subject to change. Please refer to http://explorecourses.stanford.edu for the most up-to-date information.
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INTROSEMS:
Applications due March 5th, 2012. Visit http://introsems.stanford.edu to for more information and to apply.
PREFERENCE TO FRESHMEN:
Marvelous Creatures: Animals and Humans in Chinese Literature
These memorable creatures as potential symbols of cultural values and dynamic sites of ethical reasoning.
3-4 units. TuTh 3:15-4:30pm. GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom. CHINGEN 70N.
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Sappho: Erotic Poetes of Lesbos
Use surviving fragments of Sappho's work in English to discuss how her poetry and legend inspired women authors and male poets such as Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Pound.
4-5 units. TuTh 3:15-4:45pm. GER:DBHum, GER:ECGender. CLASSGEN 24N.
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Shakespeare and Performance in a Global Context
The history and problem of performance, including the performance of gender through the plays of Shakespeare.
3 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. GER:DBHum, GER:ECGender. COMPLIT 10N.
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Du Fu: The Case for Chinese Poetry
The classical Chinese poetry of Du Fu, the author who has the rightful claim of the greatest poet in Chinese history, Du Fu (712-770).
4 units. TuTh 3:15-4:45pm. GER:IHUM3. COMPLIT 110N.
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Arts and Ideas: 20th Century Art in Conflict
This seminar will focus on drama and film that experiments with new possibilities of form, shaping the direction of later artistic practice.
4 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. GER:IHUM3. DRAMA 10N.
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Medicine, Modernism, and Mysticism in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain
Examine the novel as document of early 20th century Europe and as a commentary on possibilities of education urgent in liberal arts education today.
4 units. MW 4:15-5:30pm. GER:IHUM3. GERGEN 128N.
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Gay Autobiography
Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies.
4 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. GER:DBHum, GER:ECGender. HISTORY 36N.
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The Power of Image
Focus on the power of image to shape who we are and how we think, and the capacity of viewers to interpret images in ways inflected by their social positioning.
3-5 units. MW 11:00am-12:30pm. ILAC 101N.
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Madness and Modernity in Cervantes' Don Quixote
Close reading/discussion of this modern classic. Examine its many meanings as well as ways it works to elude meaning altogether.
3-5 units. MW 11:00am-12:30pm. GER:IHUM3. ILAC 105N.
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Slavery and Freedom, Madness and Reason in Brazil; the Fiction of Machado de Assis
This course presents Machado de Assis masterpieces, using key critical concepts and an overview of his reception in Brazil and in the US to support discussion.
3-5 units. TuTh 4:15-5:30pm. GER:IHUM3. ILAC 118N.
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Life is a Play: Identity, Persona, and Improvisation in Luigi Pirandello
Pirandello's existential "theater within the theater," his novels, and their film adaptations, will be studied in their cultural context.
3-5 units. TuTh 12:35-2:05pm. GER:IHUM3. ITALGEN 52N.
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Performing America: The Broadway Musical from “Little Johnny Jones” to “American Idiot”
How themes, characters, stories, and songs of the Broadway musical have reflected, and constructed, ideas of American identity over the last hundred years.
3-4 units. Time TBA. GER:DBHum. MUSIC 34N.
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The Technical Aspects of Photography
How cameras record photographic images on film and electronically.
Prerequisite: High school physics
3 units. M 1:15-2:05, W 7:00-9:00pm, and F 1:15-2:05. PHYSICS 80N.
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Poetry to Prose: The Birth of the Great Russian Novel in Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin
Close reading and detailed discussion of Alexander Pushkin’s masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, in the context of 19th century Russian and continental literary history.
4 units. TuTh 11:00am-12:30pm. GER:IHUM3. SLAVGEN 78N.
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PREFERENCE TO SOPHOMORES:
Art, Chemistry, and Madness: The Science of Art Materials
Chemistry of natural and synthetic pigments in five historical palettes: earth (paleolithic), classical (Egyptian, Greco-Roman), medieval European (Middle Ages), Renaissance (old masters), and synthetic (contemporary).
3 units. TuTh 2:15-3:05 and F 2:15-5:05. GER:DBEngrAppSci. CHEMENG 80Q.
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Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe
Focus on excavation, features and finds, interpretation, archaeological history. Interdisciplinary study: geophysics, art history, source criticism, analytic modeling.
3-5 units. MWF 10:00-10:50am. Writing2, GER:DBHUM. CLASSART 21Q.
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Parisian Cultures of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Political, social, and cultural events in Paris from Napoleonic era and Romantic revolution to the 30s featuring arts and letters of bourgeois, popular, and avant garde cultures.
Prerequisite: two years of college-level French (or equivalent).
4 units. W 3:15-5:05pm. FRENLIT 190Q.
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Prussia: Culture and Literature
This course traces the history and culture of a country that disappeared not too long ago, but about which most of us tend to know very little.
Prerequisite: PWR 1.
3-5 units. MWF 2:15-3:30pm. Writing2. GERGEN 170Q.
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Classical Music and Politics: Western Music in Modern China
Social history, cultural studies, China studies, international relations, and music.
3 units. TuTh 3:15-4:45pm. GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom. MUSIC 13Q.
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COURSES:
Hip Hop, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language
Focus on issues of language, identity, and globalization, with emphasis on hip hop cultures and the verbal virtuosity within the hip hop nation.
3-4 units. M 2:15-5:05pm. AFRICAAM 121X/AMSTUD 121X/ANTHRO 121A/CRSE 121X/EDUC 121X/LINGUIST 155.
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New Possibilities for Writing and Art
Writing workshop to explore conventional and innovative writing approaches. How still art, live performance, interviews or film shape the way one can think about and compose stories.
5 units. Time TBA. AFRICAAM 146
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DuBois and American Culture
His life and career. Focus on first half of his life from his Harvard doctoral dissertation to the end of the Harlem Renaissance.
5 units. TuTh 11:00am-12:50pm. GER:DBHum, GER:ECAmerCul, WIM. AFRICAAM 152/AMSTUD 152D/ENGLISH 152D
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Africa in the African American Imaginary: Black Drama in the United States from 1950 to the Present
Critical understanding of how playwrights interwove politics and ideologies that articulated African/African American relationships.
4 units. TuTh 10:00-11:50am. AFRICAAM 156T/DRAMA 156T.
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Occupy Art – Immigration, Nation, and the Art of Occupation
Engage provocative artists, writers, and thinkers of our times to consider purpose of arts across diverse communities that engage with Occupation in local, transnational and global perspective.
2-3 units. W 7:15-9:05pm. AFRICAAM 15A/AMSTUD 15A/COMPLIT 36/CSRE 15A/ENGLISH 15A.
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Arabic Calligraphy
Interactive lecture-workshop. Islamic arts (architecture, metal work, ceramics, glass, and textiles) draw on calligraphy as their principal source of embellishment.
2 units. MW 1:15-2:05. AMELANG 30.
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American Fiction into Film: How Hollywood Scripts and Projects Black and White Relations
Movies and the fiction that inspires them; power dynamics behind production including historical events, artistic vision, politics, and racial stereotypes.
3-5 units. MWF 9-9:50am. GER:DBHum, GER:ECAmerCul. AMSTUD 101.
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On the Road: Cars and the Auto-Mobility of Race, Gender, Class, and Age in American Literature
The car in American literature, history, and culture, provides hope and makes it possible to relocate, transcend social status, and reinvent oneself.
3-5 units. MW 6-7pm. GER:DBHum. AMSTUD 103/COMPLIT 120A.
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Asian American Culture and Community
History, art and culture of Vietnamese Americans, and their contemporary experiences in the South Bay. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center) with service requirement.
5 units. TuTh 12:15-2:05pm. GER:DBHum. AMSTUD 146/ASNAMST 146S/COMPLIT 146/CSRE 146S)
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Museums and Collections
Practical, theoretical, and ethical issues which face museums and collections. Practical collections-based work, museum visits, and display research. The roles of the museum in contemporary society.
5 units. MW 10-11:50am. ARCHLGY 106A/ARCHLGY 306A
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Ceramics: Art and Science
From clay to culture. Design, technology, manufacture, and consumption of ceramics.
3-5 units. TuTh 9:00-9:50am. ARCHLGY 117/CLASSART 114.
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Art in Action: Ten Works, Ten Perspectives
Explore major issues that structure the interpretation of great works of art and visual culture from diverse periods and geographical origins.
4 units. TuTh 11:00-12:15pm. ARTHIST 6.
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St. Petersburg, A Cultural Biography: Architecture, Urban Planning, the Arts
St. Petersburg's history through works of its artists, architects, urban planners, writers, and composers.
4 units. MW 4:15-5:30pm. GER:DBHUM. ARTHIST 107A/REES 207A.
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Islamic Art & Architecture: 15th-19th Century
An introduction to the arts and visual culture of the Islamic world in the pre-modern and modern period. Attendance at first class session is required.
4 units. TuTh 9:30-10:45am. ARTHIST 108B.
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Post-Naturalist Painting
How conceptual models from language, literature, new technologies, and scientific theory affected picture-making following collapse of the radical naturalism of the 1860s and 1870s.
4 units. MW 11:00-12:15pm. GER:DBHUM. ARTHIST 126.
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American Architecture
A historically based understanding of what defines American architecture.
4 units. TuTh 12:50-2:05pm. GER:DBHUM. ARTHIST 143A.
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The Automotive Imagination: The Visuality of Car Culture and the Automobile in Visual Culture
Explores the central role the automobile has played in art, design, and everyday life across Europe and the U.S.
4 units. MW 9:30-10:45am. ARTHIST 163A.
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The Cinematic Century
Examine film history through institutions, practices, and formal developments. Focus on explaining the international forces that shaped Hollywood's rise.
4 units. Tu 2:15-5:05pm. ARTHIST 170/FILMSTUD 170.
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Art and the Domestic Interior in Early Modern Italy
How particular objects reflect, shape, and mediate values of Renaissance private lives and relationships within the domestic interior.
5 units. Tu 9:30-12:30pm. ARTHIST 211.
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Art, Business, and the Law
The intersection of art, business, and the law. Focus on issues that impact understanding of works and their circulation in the modern and contemporary periods.
5 units. Tu 1:15-4:05pm. ARTHIST 245.
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Art and Theory in Islam: Visual Concepts and Aesthetic Paradigms
A critical assessment of visual concepts and aesthetic paradigms, such as geometry, figurative representation, writing/calligraphy, through study of representative works.
5 units. M 2:15-5:05pm. ARTHIST 410A.
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The Visual World of Moby Dick
This course pairs weekly readings of Moby Dick with parallel discussions of the culture - especially the visual culture - that the readings allude to.
5 units. Th 1:15-4:05pm. ARTHIST 459.
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Media Cultures of the Cold War
The intersection of politics, aesthetics, and new media technologies in the U.S. between the end of WWII and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
3-5 units. W 2:15-5:05pm. ARTHIST 475/COMM 386.
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Beginner Ceramics
Student Initiated Course teaches the basics of hand-building and wheel techniques using stoneware clay, including how to throw cups, mugs, bowls, plates, and a lidded vessel. $50 lab fee.
1-2 units. M 6:15-9:15pm. ARTSTUDI 4SI.
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Experimental Drawing
Discover/develop a unique tie between drawing and perception, observation, intuition and experience by exploring ways of looking and mark-making. Lab fee required.
2 units. TuTh 7:00-9:00pm. ARTSTUDI 14.
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Interactive Art: Making it with Arduino
Use electronics and software to create kinetic and interactive elements in artwork. No prior knowledge of electronics or software required. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class. Lab fee required.
4 units. MW 10:00-11:50pm. ARTSTUDI 130.
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Painting I
Introduction to techniques, materials, and vocabulary in oil painting. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class. Lab fee required.
4 units. TuTh 10:00-11:50am. ARTSTUDI 145.
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Show Me Your PAPERS: Immigration, Youth, Print-Making & Story-Telling For Social Change
Led by IDA visiting artist, Favianna Rodriguez. Explore how printmaking/poster art can capture richness of immigrant stories and shift immigration debate.
4 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. ARTSTUDI 146/CSRE 147.
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Lithography
The classic technique of printing from limestones. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class. Lab fee required.
4 units. MW 1:15-4:05pm. ARTSTUDI 148A.
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Design I: Fundamental Visual Language
Formal elements of visual expression (color, composition, space, and process) through hands-on projects. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class.
3-4 units. MW 10:00-11:50am. ARTSTUDI 160.
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Introduction to Photography
Critical, theoretical, and practical aspects of creative photography through camera and lab techniques. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class. Lab fee required.
4 units. MW 10:00-11:50am, TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. ARTSTUDI 170.
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Digital Art I
Contemporary electronic art focusing on digital media. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class.
4 units. TuTh 10:00-11:50am. ARTSTUDI 179.
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Drawing II
Observation, invention, and construction. Conceptual and material strategies, attention to process and purpose. Prerequisite: 140 or consent of instructor. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class.
4 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. ARTSTUDI 240.
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The Chair
Design and fabricate a highly refined chair. Prerequisites: ARSTUDI 260 and ME 203, or consent of instructor. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class.
4 units. TuTh 3:15-5:05pm. ARTSTUDI 262.
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Introduction to Digital Photography and Visual Images
Use Adobe Lightroom to organize and edit images, manipulate and correct digital files, print photographs, create slide shows, and post to the Internet. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class.
4 units. TuTh 3:15-5:05pm. ARTSTUDI 275.
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The Photographic Book
Grouping and sequencing photographic images to produce a coherent body of work with a thematic structure. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class.
4 units. MW 1:15-3:05pm. ARTSTUDI 276.
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Art and Biology
Investigation of how biology has influenced art making practice. Attendance at first class session required. Admission determined at first class.
4 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. ARTSTUDI 284.
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Black Childhood in American Literature
Explore ways that the black child—as a trope, a site, a body and a subject—is represented in 20th century American literature.
3 units. MW 2:15-3:45pm. ARTSTUDI 55C.
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Aerial Fabrics 1
Recreate Cirque du soleil acrobatics at a Climbing Wall aerial fabrics class.
1 unit. M 8:15-10:05pm. ATHLETIC 347.
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Senior Writing Project: The Personal Essay in Biology
Compose scientifically-relevant and personal essays for mainstream audience, interweaving research, interview, memoir, and other elements of nonfiction craft.
3 units. W 4:15-6:05pm. WIM. BIO 197WA.
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Survivors: Stories of Staying Alive
From deserted islands and nuclear wastelands to dangerous frontiers and zombie attacks. Explores aesthetic and intellectual issues in survival narratives both fictional and non-fictional.
3-5 units. MW 11am-12:30pm. COMPLIT 128.
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Istanbul the Muse: The City in Literature and Film
Focus on the idea of "inbetweenness" (of Istanbul as a city on two continents between east and west) through art, literature, music, and popular culture seen chronologically. In English.
3-5 units. MW 2:15-3:30pm. GER:DBHum. COMPLIT 144A.
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Race and Ethnicity in Popular Culture
Survey current American popular culture, e.g. movies, television shows, commercials, and music, in order to highlight representations that create and maintain our notions of race and gender.
3 units. Th 3:15-6:05pm. CSRE 126.
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Beginning Ballet Plus
Introductory ballet class open to all levels of beginners. Focus on discovery and appreciation of ballet as a body-based knowledge and artistic practice.
1 unit. MW 1:15-2:45pm. DANCE 38.
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Social Dances of North America I
Introduction to the partner dances found in American popular culture: waltz, swing, tango, club two-step, cha cha, merengue, and salsa.
1 unit. MWF 1:00-2:05pm. DANCE 46.
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Hip Hop Meets Broadway
Infusing acting through dance movement and exploring the art of lip sync through hip hop dance. styles.
1 unit. TuTh 2:15-3:45pm. DANCE 108.
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Intermediate Modern Dance
Intermediate technique. Improvisation and composition in directed studies.
1 unit. MW 2:15-3:45pm. DANCE 140.
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Social Dances of North America II
Intermediate survey of dances in American popular culture: Lindy hop, Viennese waltz, cross-step waltz, foxtrot, and hustle.
1 unit. MWF 11:00-12:05pm. DANCE 146.
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Acting for Non-Majors
A class designed for all interested students to experience a range of new creative skills, from group improvisation to partner work.
1-3 units. MW 1:15-3:05pm. DRAMA 20/DRAMA 124D.
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How Practice Practices
Investigate practice in context of theater, dance, performance and interdisciplinary work. Consider totality of human experience as it applies to building a practice.
4 units. MW 10:00-11:50am. DRAMA 101P.
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Improv and Design
A wildly practical class exploring the intersection of Improvisational Theater & Design Thinking.
2 units. Th 3:15-5:05pm. DRAMA 105V.
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Acting: Period and Style
Expanding the acting range through heightened language with scenes from non-contemporary dramatic literature
3 units. Time TBA. DRAMA 121P.
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Costume Design
Process of designing costumes for the stage, covering script analysis, rendering techniques, character development and conceptual ideas. Prerequisite: 30 or consent of instructor.
4 units. MW 10:00-11:50am. DRAMA 132.
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Hand Drafting for Designers
A class focusing on the fundamentals of hand-drafting including the use of line weight, color, composition, and graphic style.
3 units. TuTh 3:15-5:05pm. DRAMA 137.
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Digital Projection
Fundamentals of creating digital projections for a theatrical production from computer and projector setups to creation of static and moving projection using software tools.
4 units. F 1:15-4:05pm. DRAMA 138.
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Great Books: Dramatic Traditions
The most influential and enduring texts in the dramatic canon from Sophocles to Shakepeare, Chekhov to Soyinka.
3-5 units. MW 10:00-11:50am. DRAMA 151T.
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Performance Making: Process
Studio course focused on creative processes and generating original material. Emphasis on weekly experimentation creating short works rather than on a final production.
5 units. W 1:15-4:05pm. DRAMA 171.
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Page to Stage: Playwriting and Solo Performance
Dramatic writing: scripted and solo, and as performed by actors or by the playwright.
3-5 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. DRAMA 178.
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Intensive Playwriting Workshop
Intermediate-level study of fundamentals of playwriting through an intensive play development process.
5 units. W 1:15-4:05pm. DRAMA 178B/DRAMA 278B.
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Flor y Canto Poetry Workshop
Philosophical meditations of pre-Columbian Aztec poetry (flor y canto), and reflections on poetry of resistance born from nationalist and feminist struggles of Latin America and Aztlán.
3-5 units. M 1:15-4:05pm. GER:DBHum. CSRE 179F/DRAMA 179F.
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21st Century Education and the Arts: Creativity, Collaboration, and Civic Engagement
Explore the role of the arts in 21st century education through readings, discussions, and meeting practitioners and researchers in the field.
1-2 units. T 11am-12:30pm. EDUC 94si.
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Fiction Writing
Elements of fiction writing: narration, description, and dialogue. Prerequisite: PWR 1. Admission based on lottery/priority basis. Check the Creative Writing Website for enrollment instructions.
5 units. MW 11:00-12:50pm, MW 1:15-3:05pm, MW 3:15-5:05pm, TuTh 1:15-3:05pm, TuTh 3:15-5:05pm. ENGLISH 90.
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Creative Nonfiction
Historical and contemporary as a broad genre including travel and nature writing, memoir, biography, journalism, and the personal essay. Admission based on lottery/priority basis. Check the Creative Writing Website for enrollment instructions.
5 units. MW 1:15-3:05pm, MW 10:00-11:50am, TuTh 1:15-3:05pm, TuTh 3:15-5:05pm. ENGLISH 91.
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Reading and Writing Poetry
How elements of form, music, structure, and content work together to create meaning and experience in a poem. Prerequisite: PWR 1. Admission based on lottery/priority basis. Check the Creative Writing Website for enrollment instructions.
5 units. MW 10:00-11:50am, TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. ENGLISH 92.
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Development of the Short Story: Continuity and Innovation
Exploration of the short story form’s ongoing evolution as diverse writers address love, death, and desire. All majors welcome.
5 units. MW 1:15-3:05pm. GER:DBHum. ENGLISH 146.
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Writing the Stanford Arts Review (Special Topics in Intermediate Creative Nonfiction)
Focus on thoughtful, compelling, critical writing/thinking about the arts on campus, in the Bay Area, and beyond. Scope includes dance, design, fashion, film, literature, music, theatre, and visual arts. Admission based on lottery/priority basis. Check the Creative Writing Website for enrollment instructions.
http://artsreview.stanford.edu
5 units. MW 3:15-5:05pm. ENGLISH 191T
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Visual Perception, Aesthetics and Design Effects in Japanese Gardens
Emphasis on analysis of visual design effects used in Japanese gardens and its impact on human visual perception.
3-4 units. MW 3:15-4:45pm. EASTASN 188J/EASTASN 288J.
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Performance and Gender
The intersectionality of race, sex, gender, and class in the formation of gendered performance.
3-5 units. Tu 9am-12pm. GER:DBHum. FEMST 140M/DRAMA 164H/DRAMA 364H/FEMST 364.
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Screenwriting
Craft, form, and approaches to writing for the screen. Priority to Film and Media Studies majors. Prerequisites: 1) ENGLISH 90, 2) ENGLISH 190F or FILMPROD 104, and 3) consent of instructor.
5 units. WF 2:15-4:05pm. FILMPROD 101/FILMFROD 301.
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Introduction to Film and Video Production
Techniques of film and video making including conceptualization, visualization, story structure, cinematography, sound recording, and editing.
5 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. FILMPROD 114.
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History of World Cinema III, 1960-Present
From the rise of the French New Wave to the present.
4 units. TuTh 11:00-12:15pm and Tu 7:00-9:00pm. FILMSTUD 100C/FILMSTUD 300C.
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Howard Hawks
Taught by Film Critic and Historian David Thomson, this course is a wide-ranging examination of a Hollywood professional who worked in most genres with striking success.
4 units. Th 2:15-5:05pm. FILMSTUD 123.
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Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Cinema
Representations of gender and sexuality in the cinemas of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Covers Hong Kong action pictures, post-socialist art films, new queer cinema, and more.
4 units. TuTh 3:15-4:30pm and W 7:00-9:00pm. FILMSTUD 136/FILMSTUD 336.
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Images of Women in French Cinema: 1930-1990
The myth of the feminine idol in French films in historical and cultural context.
3-5 units. TuTh 12:50-2:05pm and Tu 7:00-9:00pm. FRENGEN 192E.
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Le Roman au féminin: French Women Writers from the 90's and 00's
Women writers have been regularly stealing the show since the 1990's. What does it say about the French society? What do they say about contemporary France, and how? Prerequisite: FRENLIT 130 (or higher) or consent of instructor.
3-5 units. Tu 12:15-3:05pm. GER:DBHum. FRENLIT 179
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Freud's Vienna
Explores the intersections between literature, art, politics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in turn of the century Vienna.
3-5 units. WF 2:15-3:45pm. GER:DBHum. GERLIT 134.
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Enlightenment and the Arts
Novels, poetry, music, paintings, and architecture, and what they reveal about the society that produced them.
3 units. TuTh 1:15-3:05pm. HISTORY 32A/HISTORY 132A.
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History Through a Life: The Allure of American Biography
Considers the possibilities and limitations of exploring U.S. history (such as war, economic depression, social revolution) through the genre of biography.
4-5 units. W 3:15-5:05pm. GER:DBHum. HISTORY 263G/HISTORY 363G
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Novels and Theater of Illness
Illness and disease through novels and plays with a discussion of how sickness involves the patient, family, community, and state. Limited enrollment. Attendance at first class is mandatory.
3 units. Tu 2:15-4:05pm. HUMBIO 175S.
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The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Studies Pedro Almodovar's development from directorial debut to present, from "shock" value of early films to award-winning mastery of later ones. Prerequisite: ability to understand spoken Spanish.
3-5 units. Tu 2:15-4:05pm and Th 2:15-5:05pm. GER:DBHum. ILAC 193.
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Poetry Workshop in Spanish
Latin American and Spanish poetry approached through elements of craft. Prerequisite: 100-level course taught in Spanish or equivalent. Limited enrollment.
3-5 units. TuTh 12:35-2:05pm. ILAC 242.
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Contemporary Italian Cinema: Politics & Spectacle
Introduction to Italian films from the past twenty years. Emphasis on sexual, political and cultural politics of late-20th and 21st century Italy.
3-5 units. W 7:00-9:00pm and Th 2:15-5:05pm. ITALGEN 245.
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Manga as Literature
Analysis of representative manga as narratives that combine verbal and visual elements, with attention to historical and cultural background. Readings in English.
3-5 units. TuTh 12:15-2:05pm. GER:DBHum. JAPANGEN 124.
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Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in Translation
Japanese literature since 1868. Authors include Futabatei Shimei, Higuchi Ichiyo, Natsume Soseki, and Yoshimoto Banana.
3-4 units. TuTh 4:15-5:30pm. GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom. JAPANGEN 138
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Memory, History, and the Contemporary Novel
How the watershed events of the 20th century, the philosophic linguistic turn, and the debate regarding the end of history left their mark on the novel.
3-5 units. TuTh 12:35-2:05pm. JEWISHST 241/COMPLIT 221/GERLIT 246.
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Language and Gesture
Gesture and gestural systems associated with specific activities—music, sports, traffic management, stock exchanges, etc.—and how gesture is represented in painting and animation.
3 units. MW 2:15-3:45pm. LINGUIST 141.
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Visual Thinking
Develop and exercise visual thinking and language skills in the context of solving design problems. Limited enrollment. Must attend first class.
4 units. MW 3:15-5:05pm, TuTh 3:15-5:05pm. GER:DBEngrAppSci. ME 101.
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Design Sketching
Students study freehand sketching, rendering, and design development.
1 unit. W 7:30-10:00pm. ME 110.
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History and Philosophy of Design
Analyze major schools of 19th- and 20th-century design (Arts and Crafts movement, Bauhaus, Industrial Design, and postmodernism) in terms of continuing cultural relevance.
3 units. F 10:00-11:50am. ME 120.
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Design and Manufacturing Forum
Invited speakers address issues of interest to design and manufacturing engineering and business students.
1 unit. F 3:15-4:05pm. ME 196.
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Introduction to Gu-Zheng
Introduction to Chinese music through learning how to play Gu-Zheng, a 21-stringed traditional Chinese instrument.
1 unit. W 8:00-10:00pm. MUSIC 5G.
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Jazz History: Bebop to Present, 1940-Prsent
Modern jazz styles from Bebop to the current scene.
3 units. MWF 3:15-4:05. GER:DBHum, GER:ECAmerCul. MUSIC 18B.
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Stanford Laptop Orchestra: Composition, Coding, and Performance
Classroom instantiation of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk). Includes public performances.
1-5 units. W 7:00-10:00pm. MUSIC 128.
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Music and Urban Film
Introduction to traditional theories of film music and film sound. Considers how new technologies and practices have changed the roles of music in film. Pre- or co-requisite (for music majors): MUSIC 22.
3-4 units. Th 2:15-6:05pm. GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom. MUSIC 146/MUSIC 246.
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Music Ethnography of the Bay Area
Introduction to music ethnography through student research on musical life in the Bay Area. Pre- or corequisite (for music majors): MUSIC 22.
3-5 units. TuTh 10:00-11:30am. GER:DBHum. MUSIC 147A/MUSIC 247A.
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Indian Classical Music: A Way of Life
Amjad Ali Khan, a classical musician raised in the traditional system of music discipleship, teaches student musicians to perform and appreciate North Indian Classical Music. No previous experience with Indian music is necessary.
3 units. MW 9:00-9:50am. GER:DBHum. MUSIC 153.
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Films of Central Asia
Films with English subtitles from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan.
1-2 units. Tu 6:15-9:05pm. REES 35.
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Religion in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Science fiction and fantasy create alternate worlds that incorporate religious institutions and beliefs that illuminate how we think about religion. Main assignment: write a short story.
4 units. MW 4:15-5:30pm. GER:DBHum. RELIGST 21.
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Dissent and Disenchantment: Russian Literature and Culture since the Death of Stalin
Russian culture and society since 1953 through literature (in English translation).
3-5 units. MW 10-11:50am. GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom. SLAVGEN148/SLAVGEN 248.
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Urban Design Studio
Practical application of urban design theory. Projects focus on designing neighborhood/downtown regions to balance livability, revitalization, population growth, and historic preservation.
5 units. TuTh 7:00-10:00pm. URBANST 171.
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