TAPS 151T: Great Books: Dramatic Traditions (COMPLIT 151B, COMPLIT 351B, TAPS 351)
The most influential and enduring texts in the dramatic canon from Sophocles to Shakepeare, Chekhov to Soyinka. Their historical and geopolitical contexts. Questions about the power dynamics involved in the formation of canons.
TAPS 151T | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Class # 20591 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 4
03/30/2015 - 06/03/2015 Tue 11:00 AM - 1:50 PM at Memaud125 with Menon, J. (PI)
TAPS 152D: Introduction to Dance in the African Diaspora (AFRICAAM 24, CSRE 24D, DANCE 24)
This course introduces students to dance as an important cultural force in the African Diaspora. From capoeira in Brazil to dance hall in Jamaica to hip hop in the United States and Ghana, we will analyze dance as a form of resistance to slavery, colonialism, and oppression; as an integral component of community formation; and as a practice that shapes racial, gendered, and national identity. We will explore these topics through readings, film viewings, and movement workshops (no previous dance experience required). Students will have the option to do a creative performance as part of their final project.
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Das, J. (PI)
TAPS 152D | 4 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 32449 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 1
01/05/2015 - 03/13/2015 Mon, Wed 3:15 PM - 5:05 PM at Memaud125 with Das, J. (PI)
TAPS 157: World Drama and Performance (TAPS 357)
This course takes up a geographically expansive conversation by looking at modern and contemporary drama from nations including Ghana, Egypt, India, Argentina, among others. Considering influential texts from the Global South will also enable us to explore a range of themes and methodologies that are radically re-shaping the field of Performance Studies. We will examine the relationship between colonialism and globalization, empire and capital, cosmopolitanism and neoliberalism. Re-situating our perspective from the Global South and the non-western world, we will ¿provincialize Europe¿ and probe the limits of its universalizing discourses.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Menon, J. (PI) ; Truax, R. (TA)
TAPS 157 | 4 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 27518 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 1
09/22/2014 - 12/05/2014 Wed 9:00 AM - 11:50 AM at Memaud125 with Menon, J. (PI); Truax, R. (TA)
Instructors: Menon, J. (PI); Truax, R. (TA)
TAPS 159: Introduction to Game Studies
Games are not new; they are older than civilization. But in the past 50 years or so, we have seen an explosion of creativity in the development of new games, many of which, especially video games, complicate older understandings of what games are. This explosion of creativity has been matched by the increasing visibility and ubiquity of new games and ways of seeing games: as video games, televised professional sports, and even distributed urban events.n nGames are not a simple object of study. There are many ways to understand them: as social practices, as formal systems, as representative artwork, as modes of learning, and many more. We will start by considering games as a mode of performance, considering games in relation to theater and other forms of aesthetic performance. However, we will take a deeply interdisciplinary approach to the study of games, and will draw on perspectives from design, philosophy, education, and the emerging discipline of video game studies. We will also, of course, draw on a variety of games, both online and offline. As we bring in these perspectives, we will begin to consider games in at least two other fundamental ways: as designed experiences and as composed systems or artworks.nnThis course is less an attempt to provide a survey of the entire field of games. It is more an attempt to provide a basic toolbox for critically examining and analyzing games. These tools are potentially useful for anyone who interacts with games: whether as a consumer of entertainment, a critical analyst of play, a user of serious games, or a game designer.
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
TAPS 159G: The Theater of War: Art, Violence, and the Technologies of Death
We will read plays and study films dealing with war and the technologies of destruction, including Aeschylus' Persians, Sophocles' Philoctetes, Euripides' Trojan Women, Shakespeare's Macbeth, O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and The Silver Tassie, Brecht's Galileo and Mother Courage, Kubrick's Paths of Glory and Dr. Strangelove, Bergman's Shame, Nichol's Catch-22, Wertmuller's Seven Beauties, Brenton's The Genius, Frayn's Copenhagen, Nottage's Ruined, among others.
Instructors: Rehm, R. (PI) ; McCloskey, A. (TA)
TAPS 159G | 4 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 30700 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 2
03/30/2015 - 06/03/2015 Wed 1:15 PM - 4:05 PM at Memaud126 with Rehm, R. (PI); McCloskey, A. (TA)
Instructors: Rehm, R. (PI); McCloskey, A. (TA)
TAPS 159M: Movement and Meaning: Dance Studies in Global Comparative Context (CSRE 159M, DANCE 23, TAPS 259M)
This course introduces students to various approaches to studying dance in a humanities context. We will explore how people create meaning through dance and how dance, in turn, shapes social norms, political institutions, and cultural practices across time and space. The course's structure challenges the Western/non-Western binary that still pervades many academic disciplines by comparing dance forms across the globe on the basis of functional similarities. At the same time, we will keep in mind the unequal power hierarchies shaping our modern world, and therefore we will examine how and why certain forms have become delineated as 'Western' and others as 'world' or 'ethnic,' despite similarities in movement, meaning, or purpose.
TAPS 159M | 4 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 29087 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC
09/22/2014 - 12/05/2014 Tue, Thu 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM at Memaud125 with Das, J. (PI)
TAPS 160: Rethinking the Ballerina (DANCE 160, FEMGEN 160, TAPS 260)
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Ross, J. (PI)
TAPS 160 | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 17723 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | In Person
01/05/2015 - 03/13/2015 Mon, Wed 1:15 PM - 3:05 PM at Memaud125 with Ross, J. (PI)
TAPS 163D: Shakespeare: The Ethical Challenge (ENGLISH 163D)
Was the eighteenth century right in proclaiming Shakespeare to be the greatest moral philosopher? What are the ethical challenges Shakespeare's major plays still pose for us? Can we divorce ethical decisions from the contingencies of experience? We will ask a series of normative ethical questions (to do with pleasure, power, old age, self-sacrifice, and truth telling) and attempt to answer them in relation to the dramatic situation of Shakespeare's characters on the one hand and our own cultural situation on the other. The ethical challenge of Shakespearean drama will be set against selected readings in ethical theory.
Instructors: Lupic, I. (PI)
TAPS 163D | 5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER | Class # 29913 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | LEC | In Person | Students enrolled: 2
01/05/2015 - 03/13/2015 Mon, Wed 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM at 240-110 with Lupic, I. (PI)
TAPS 165C: Ancient Dance and its Modern Legacy (CLASSICS 137, CLASSICS 237, TAPS 265C)
Descriptions of dance in the Greek and Greco-Roman world; theories about dance in antiquity; dance and the senses; modern and modernist dancers and choreographers discussing ancient dance
Instructors: Peponi, A. (PI)
TAPS 165C | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 30555 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | SEM
01/05/2015 - 03/13/2015 Tue, Thu 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM with Peponi, A. (PI)
TAPS 167: Introduction to Greek Tragedy: Gods, Heroes, Fate, and Justice (CLASSICS 112)
(Formerly CLASSGEN 110.) Gods and heroes, fate and free choice, gender conflict, the justice or injustice of the universe: these are just some of the fundamental human issues that we will explore in about ten of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Instructors: McCall, M. (PI)
TAPS 167 | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Class # 19229 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | In Person
01/05/2015 - 03/13/2015 Mon, Wed 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM at 110-112 with McCall, M. (PI)
« prev | Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 | next »