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21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2007
(2007-12)This course is an introduction to narrative film, emphasizing the unique properties of the movie house and the motion picture camera, the historical evolution of the film medium, and the intrinsic artistic qualities of ... -
21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2012
(2012-12)This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, including works from the early silent period, documentary and avant-garde films, European art cinema, and contemporary Hollywood fare. ... -
21L.016 / 21M.616 Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Moliere. It ... -
21L.421 Comedy, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, MoliSre, Austen, and Chaplin. From ... -
21L.421 Comedy, Spring 2001
(2001-06)Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Molière, Austen, and Chaplin. From ... -
21L.423 / 21M.223J Introduction to Anglo-American Folkmusic, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This subject will introduce students to scholarship about folk music of the British Isles and North America. We will define the qualities of "folk music" and "folk poetry," including the narrative qualities of ballads, and ... -
21L.448 / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2002
(2002-12)In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent agency. ... -
21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009
(2009-12)In the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent ... -
21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This subject focuses on the ways in which we read, providing an overview of some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century. The course is ... -
21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory, Spring 2010
(2010-06)This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century, paying special attention to ... -
21L.471 Major English Novels, Spring 2007
(2007-06)Subject studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the ... -
21L.472 Major European Novels, Fall 2001
(2001-12)A study of changing narrative forms in the nineteenth-century European novel. The changing fortunes of the heroic and romantic ideals. The motif of the outsider as a means for depicting social reality. Readings in Cervantes, ... -
21L.485 20th-Century Fiction, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes: the role of the artist in the modern period, the representation of psychological and sexual experience, the virtues (and ... -
21L.486 20th Century Drama, Fall 2001
(2001-12)In this course we will sample the range of mainstream and experimental drama that has been composed during the past century. Half of these plays are now acknowledged to be influential "classics" of modern drama; the other ... -
21L.501 The American Novel, Fall 2002
(2002-12)The theme for this class is "American Revolution." We will read authors who record, on the one hand, the failures of the American revolution, with its dream of democracy and freedom for all, and on the other hand the ... -
21L.703 Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Churchill, Spring 2004
(2004-06)What is the interplay between an event and its "frames"? What is special and distinctive about stage events? How and why do contemporary dramatists turn back in time for their settings, models, and materials? How do they ... -
21L.705 Major Authors: Old English and Beowulf, Spring 2014
(2014-06)hƿæt ƿe gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon…. Those are the first words of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the ... -
21M.013J / 21A.113J The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture, Spring 2009
(2009-06)This class explores the relationship between music and the supernatural, focusing on the social history and context of supernatural beliefs as reflected in key literary and musical works from 1600 to the present. Provides ... -
21M.065 Introduction to Music Composition, Fall 2009
(2009-12)Through a progressive series of composition projects, students investigate the sonic organization of musical works and performances, focusing on fundamental questions of unity and variety. Aesthetic issues are considered ... -
21M.065 Introduction to Musical Composition, Fall 2005
(2005-12)Through a progressive series of composition projects, this course investigates the sonic organization of musical works and performances, focusing on fundamental questions of unity and variety. Aesthetic issues are considered ...