KASTEEL Well Courses

Analysis of readings in intercultural communication. The course focuses on verbal and nonverbal customs of various cultures as information from both a cultural and language perspective. Each semester focuses on specific topics or cultures, which will be compared to the different cultures of Europe as well. Background in other cultures helpful, but not essential. Course may be repeated once under a different topic. Fulfills the General Education Global Diversity requirement.

Analysis of readings in intercultural communication. The course focuses on verbal and nonverbal customs of various cultures as information from both a cultural and language perspective. Each semester focuses on specific topics or cultures, which will be compared to the different cultures of Europe as well. Background in other cultures helpful, but not essential. Course may be repeated once under a different topic. Fulfills the General Education Global Diversity requirement.

This course explores the fundamentals of ballet technique for beginning students. Through the traditional class sequence, students become familiar with ballet terms and technique. The class begins at the barre and progresses to center combinations, which emphasize the development of musicality, flexibility, strength and control. May be repeated for credit.

The emphasis is on Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the origins and events of World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Fulfills the History option of the General Education requirements.

The Sophomore Honors Seminar engages students in critical thinking and research about philosophical, cultural, and scientific methods of generating knowledge and their ethical implications. Different areas of inquiry are examined each year. Recent topics have included environmental ethics, evolution, astronomy, and epistemology. Fulfills General Education requirements.

In this class, we will be studying syntax and grammar, pronunciation and diction. The various methods used in class include translations, exercises and drills. In addition, written and oral quizzes will be given on a weekly basis to ensure that the new material and vocabulary are memorized and mastered. The goal of the course is to give students a solid knowledge of essential vocabulary and primary grammatical structures both in written and spoken French.

A survey of some foundational works of Western literature in poetry, nonfiction, fiction and drama, designed to familiarize students with literary history as well as the history of our notions of the afterlife, love, duty, virtue and vice. Authors studied may include Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Boccaccio, the Beowulf poet, and Chaucer. Prerequisite: WP 121 or HS 101. Fullfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements.

All courses taught under this heading include the study of literature in at least three genres (selected from poetry, fiction and nonfiction). These courses focus on specific themes or topics, which might include, for example, literature of the city, artists in literature, or coming of age. These courses fulfill the General Education Arts and Humanities requirement for students who are not majoring in WLP.

A study of the adaptation of novels into films, with the aim of understanding the narrative conventions that govern each medium. Texts include the works of such writers as Kesey, Burgess, Kundera, Walker, Nabokov, and Puig; films include the work of directors such as Kubrick, Forman, Spielberg, and Babenco. Prerequisite for Upper-level LI Courses: For 300-level LI courses: at least one LI course numbered below 300, or permission of instructor. For WLP majors this must include at least one of the following: LI201, 202, 203.

A survey of European music from Greek beginnings through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Classical, Baroque, and Romantic periods up to and including contemporary musical forms. Fulfills the Aesthetic Perspective of the General Education requirements. Attendance at a minimum of three concerts is required.

Advanced work in vocal technique and development of a repertoire, consisting of ten weekly 50-minute lessons with a private instructor. Required for BFA Musical Theatre majors. Prerequisite: Audition for placement by the Coordinator of Applied Music.

Topics will be announced prior to each term. May include such topics as: Art and Politics, Media Ethics, Feminist Ethics, Political Philosophy, or Judaism. Fulfills the Ethics and Values Perspective of the General Education requirements.

Topics will be announced prior to each term. May include such topics as: Art and Politics, Media Ethics, Feminist Ethics, Political Philosophy, or Judaism. Fulfills the Ethics and Values Perspective of the General Education requirements.

A survey of theatre and drama from the Greeks through the Renaissance, with a focus on the major periods of Western theatre and dramatic literature: the Greeks, Roman theatre and drama, Medieval theatre, Elizabethan drama, and Italian, French, and English Neo-Classicism. In addition, a survey of Eastern classical theatre and drama with a particular emphasis on the Sanskrit theatre, the Chinese drama and the Peking Opera, and the classical theatre of Japan, including Kabuki, No, and the puppet theatre. Selected readings of plays in their historical context with particular attention paid to theatrical styles of plays and production.

This intensive scene study class builds on TH123 and TH124 (movement, improvisation and voice) to ensure a personal commitment in the way students approach and experience the mapping of a scene from the canon of 20th century naturalistic/realistic plays. We will emphasize the text, context and the given circumstances of each play studied. Actors' scene breakdown, intentions, actions, obstacles, objectives and moment-to-moment work will be some of the tools used to bring scenes from these plays to life. Prerequisites: TH124 and permission.

This intensive scene study class builds on TH123 and TH124 (movement, improvisation and voice) to ensure a personal commitment in the way students approach and experience the mapping of a scene from the canon of 20th century naturalistic/realistic plays. We will emphasize the text, context and the given circumstances of each play studied. Actors' scene breakdown, intentions, actions, obstacles, objectives and moment-to-moment work will be some of the tools used to bring scenes from these plays to life. Prerequisites: TH124 and permission.

This course explores theoretical and critical approaches to the study of photography, film, video, audio, and digital culture. Theories and methods in this course will examine issues relating to production and authorship in the media arts, audience reception and effects, political ideology, ethics, aesthetics, cultural diversity, and schools of thought within the liberal arts. Extensive critical writing and reading in media criticism and theory. Prerequisite: VM 101 and VM 120.

This course is survey of the aesthetic and technical development of photography from its invention to the present day. The emphasis will be on the twentieth century, and the course will include critical analysis of the medium, which is central to understanding the influence and appropriation of photography today. The course will include visiting permanent collections in the Boston area as well as recent exhibitions. Fulfills the Aesthetics perspective of the General Education requirements.

This course is an investigation of Renaissance and Baroque art, beginning with Proto-Renaissance works in the 14th century, and concluding with the Late Baroque in the latter 17th/early 18th century. Students study major works and artists that characterize these movements, and the critical treatment they received over the centuries. In addition to the Early and High Renaissance in Italy, we shall also consider the Renaissance as manifested in Northern Europe. In contrast to these geographical and regional divisions, the Baroque emerges as the first international style of art in the western world. Fulfills the Aesthetics perspective of the General Education requirements.

This course is a chronological study of western contemporary art, commencing with work from after World War II, which considers the major styles, works and artists from the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day, beginning with Abstract Expressionism. Students will investigate numerous forms of European and American contemporary art, and their attendant criticism, in a broad contextual framework. Among the movements studied are: Pop Art, Minimalism, New Realism, Postmodernism, Conceptualism, Neo-Expressionism, Graffiti, Photorealism, Earth Works, and Performance Art. Fulfills the Aesthetics perspective of the General Education requirements.

Combining lecture, workshop, and screenings, this course examines the fundamentals of writing for narrative feature-length film. The course will examine structure, character, scene writing and dialogue and will take students from ideation through to the development of a detailed outline. Prerequisites: VM 101 and VM 120.

These courses focus on the basic vocabulary, techniques, and traditions in the chosen genre. All courses will include the discussion of published work. Students will practice their writing craft through exercises and other assignments, many of which will be shared with the class in an introductory workshop setting. These courses may be repeated once for credit.

This course approaches travel writing as a literary genre. The goal is to teach and cultivate good writerly habits of observation, specificity in description, emotional continuity and truthfulness that will be helpful to the development of any writer. The student's experience in traveling to new places is mined as the subject of the writer's observation. As the semester develops, assignments move from a focus on seeing and sketching to a focus on more finished pieces potentially usable as or within the context of stories, poems or fiction. May be counted as Publishing credit, depending on topic. Writing majors only until April 15th.