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21M.220 Early Music, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This class covers the history of Western music from antiquity until approximately 1680, about 2000 years worth of music. Rather than cover each topic at the same level of depth, we will focus on four topics in particular ... -
21M.380 Music and Technology: Recording Techniques and Audio Production, Spring 2012
(2012-06)This course covers foundations, practices, and creative techniques in audio recording and music production, including microphone selection and placement, mixing, mastering, signal processing, automation, and digital audio ... -
21M.606 Introduction to Stagecraft, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Introduces students to the variety and scope of stagecraft while they learn basic shop skills. Students develop shop vocabulary and learn basic skills, including the safe use of all shop machines, basic handwork skills, ... -
21M.621 Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S., Spring 2004
(2004-06)A study of contemporary North American theater movements and selected individual works that are organized around issues of ethnic and socio-cultural identity. Class lectures and discussions analyze samples of African-American, ... -
21M.670 / SP.472 / WGS.472 Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This course explores the forms, contents, and contexts of world traditions in dance that played a crucial role in shaping American concert dance. For example, we will identify dances from an African American vernacular ... -
21M.732 Costume Design for the Theater, Fall 2004
(2004-12)Intermediate workshop designed for students who have a basic understanding of the principles of theatrical design and who want a more intensive study of costume design and the psychology of clothing. Students develop designs ... -
21M.734 Design For the Theater - Scenery, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This course examines scenic design as practiced currently and historically, including the use of performance space in western and other cultures, and the audience-performer relationship. Four plays and/or one act operas ... -
21M.775 Hip Hop, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Subject explores the political and aesthetic foundations of hip hop. Students trace the musical, corporeal, visual, spoken word, and literary manifestations of hip hop over its thirty year presence in the American cultural ... -
21M.785 / 21M.789 / 21W.769J Playwrights' Workshop, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This course provides continued work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained pieces in weekly workshop meetings, individual consultation with the instructor, and in collaboration with ... -
21W.035 Science Writing and New Media: Elements of Science Writing for the Public, Spring 2013
(2013-06)This class is an introduction to writing about science–including nature, medicine, and technology–for general readers. In our reading and writing we explore the craft of making scientific concepts, and the work ... -
21W.730 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Social and Ethical Issues, Spring 2010
(2010-06)This course provides the opportunity for students-as readers, viewers, writers and speakers-to engage with social and ethical issues they care deeply about. Over the course of the semester, through discussing the writing ... -
21W.730-1 Expository Writing: Exploring Social and Ethical Issues through Film and Print, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This section of Expository Writing provides the opportunity for students- as readers, viewers, writers and speakers - to engage with social and ethical issues that they care deeply about. Through discussing selected ... -
21W.730-1 Expository Writing: Social and Ethical Issues in Print, Photography and Film, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This section of Expository Writing provides the opportunity for students- as readers, viewers, writers and speakers - to engage with social and ethical issues that they care deeply about. Through discussing selected ... -
21W.730-1 Imagining the Future, Spring 2004
(2004-06)Turn-of-the-century eras have historically been times when people are more than usually inclined to scrutinize the present and speculate about the future. Now, the turn not just of a century but of a millennium having ... -
21W.730-2 Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture, Fall 2005
(2005-12)"Civilization is mostly the story of how seeds, meats, and ways to cook them travel from place to place." - Adam Gopnik, "What's Cooking" "A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of ... -
21W.730-2 The Creative Spark, Fall 2004
(2004-12)"Creative activity (isn't) the icing on the cake. Human creativity is the cake." (Jerry Hirschberg) Creativity - "the mastery of information and skills in the service of dreams" (Hirschberg) - is ... -
21W.730-3 Consumer Culture, Fall 2002
(2002-12)What is the good life, and can you shop there? Would you want that life if you couldn't? Has shopping replaced working as the activity that gives the most meaning to our lives? The theme for this Expository Writing class ... -
21W.730-3 Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice, Spring 2001
(2001-06)Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories? Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents ... -
21W.730-3 Writing and the Environment, Spring 2005
(2005-06)Environmentalists have traditionally relied upon the power of their prose to transform the thoughts and behavior of their contemporaries. In this class, we will do our best to follow in their footsteps. We will consider ... -
21W.730-4 Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media, Spring 2001
(2001-06)This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to express your voice more effectively as an academic writer. As a focus for our writing this semester, this course explores what it means to ...