printer friendly pageAFRICAAM 20A: Jazz Theory (MUSIC 20A)
Introduces the language and sounds of jazz through listening, analysis, and compositional exercises. Students apply the fundamentals of music theory to the study of jazz. Prerequisite:
Music 19, consent of instructor, or satisfactory demonstration of basic musical skills proficiency on qualifying examination on first day of class. This class is closed by design. Please register on the waitlist and show up on the first day of class to receive a permission number for enrollment.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors:
Nadel, J. (PI)
AFRICAAM 37: Contemporary Choreography: Chocolate Heads Performance Project (DANCE 30)
An interdisciplinary project-based class to develop dance technique, collaborative choreography, and associated visual and musical arts. We invite dancers, movers, and emerging creators of all styles and backgrounds. The Autumn 21-22 project theme will be Chocolate Heads at the Cantor: Dance, Upcycled Fashion, and the Cinematic Eye. The Chocolate Heads will continue the practice of creating intermedia events using dance, film projection on bodies and surfaces, live DJ, vocals, and runway presentation. This site-specific dance performance will feature upcycled costumes co-constructed by the students under the designer's supervision. Students chosen to participate will engage in interrelated choreographic and art-making collaborations which address street performance, fashion ecologies, and social platforms. To be presented Feb. 2022 at the Cantor Art Center, we will reimagine the runway space as an arena for collective moving performance, while modeling ways of being that are body positive, transcultural, and gender expansive. All levels of experience are welcome. Week 1: TU 9/21--Introduction to project, creative team & CHs Band; THU 9/23--1st Audition Workshop. Contact Instructor (Aleta Hayes ahayes1@stanford.edu) for more information.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Hayes, A. (PI)
AFRICAAM 45: Dance Improvisation from Freestyle to Hip Hop (DANCE 45)
In this dance improvisation class, we will develop techniques and practices to cultivate an improvisational practice in dance and domains beyond. This class is an arena for physical and artistic exploration to fire the imagination of dance improvisers and to promote collaborative and interactive intelligence. We will draw upon dance styles and gestural vocabularies, including contemporary dance, hip-hop, vogue and more. Students will learn how to apply these improvisational dance ideas to generate and innovate across disciplines. Accompanied by a live DJ, students will practice listening with eyes, ears, and our whole bodies. Open to students from all dance, movement, and athletic backgrounds. Beginners welcome.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Hayes, A. (PI)
AFRICAAM 141S: Contemporary Modern: Advanced Comparative Techniques (DANCE 141S)
Students will take technique classes each week from various, diverse and notable Contemporary Modern Dance Instructors from across the Bay Area and beyond, in order to learn from and be exposed to the scope and breadth of the contemporary dance field.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Hayes, A. (PI)
AFRICAAM 156: Performing History: Race, Politics, and Staging the Plays of August Wilson (CSRE 156T, TAPS 156, TAPS 356)
This course purposefully and explicitly mixes theory and practice. Students will read and discuss the plays of August Wilson, the most celebrated and most produced contemporary American playwright, that comprise his 20th Century History Cycle. Class stages scenes from each of these plays, culminating in a final showcase of longer scenes from his work as a final project.
Last offered: Winter 2018
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 180D: Designing Black Experiences (ME 180)
This discussion-rich course is for students to learn design thinking to more confidently navigate life and careers as members and allies of the Black community. This course will allow students to navigate identity while building community to uplift Black voices through design thinking tools to help leverage their experiences and gain a competitive edge. Students will gain a deeper understanding of intersectionality, how to create and cultivate alignment, and learn to effectively navigate life design schemas, ideas, and options.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Mbodj, A. (PI)
;
Webb, S. (PI)
AFRICAAM 186: Black Experimental Narrative (ARTSTUDI 186)
How do Black video artists and filmmakers use materials, space, and language to construct the subjective space of storytelling? Black Experimental Narrative surveys the aesthetics, history, and theories that characterize experimental Black cinema and video art through a comprehensive range of filmmakers and artists that have contributed work to the canon. As a class project, we will work collectively to design and publish an original publication featuring a selection of work created during the course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Weefur, L. (PI)
AFRICAST 134: Museum Cultures: Exhibiting the African Imaginary (AFRICAST 234, ARCHLGY 134, ARCHLGY 234, ARTHIST 284B)
Museums are dynamic spaces with the potential to reinvent, rehabilitate, and recenter marginalized people and collections. This year, our seminar examines and enacts museum stewardship of material cultures of diverse African communities across space, time, and context. Legacies of colonialism inspire debates on restitution, reparation, and reconciliation, alongside actions to 'decolonize' museum practice. In engaging the politics of representation and human-object relationships, our class will challenge problematic imaginaries of Africa and recenter the complexities of cultures in the Horn of Africa spanning Ethiopia, Nubian Egypt, and Sudan. Students will acquire skills in researching, curating, and installing an exhibition based on Stanford's African archeological and ethnographic materials held at the Stanford University Archeology Collections (SUAC). This course will culminate in a student-curated exhibition that opens on Friday May 27, 2022 at the Stanford Archeology Center (Bldg 500) and is planned to feature renowned Somali-Swedish archeologist, Dr. Sada Mire, as the keynote speaker.nnBecause of limited spacing you will need to fill out this form
https://forms.gle/h8F46iv5iSwiX3PY7 and receive consent to enroll in the course from the instructor. nn3 credits (no final project) or 5 credits (final project). May be repeat for credit
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors:
Hodge, C. (PI)
;
Lim, D. (PI)
AMSTUD 48N: The American Songbook and Love Poetry
A study of performances (Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra etc) of songs by classic American composers (Porter, Rogers and Hart, Cohen).
Last offered: Winter 2019
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
AMSTUD 91A: Asian American Autobiography/W (ASNAMST 91A, CSRE 91D, ENGLISH 91A)
This is a dual purpose class: a writing workshop in which you will generate autobiographical vignettes/essays as well as a reading seminar featuring prose from a wide range of contemporary Asian-American writers. Some of the many questions we will consider are: What exactly is Asian-American memoir? Are there salient subjects and tropes that define the literature? And in what ways do our writerly interactions both resistant and assimilative with a predominantly non-Asian context in turn recreate that context? We'll be working/experimenting with various modes of telling, including personal essay, the epistolary form, verse, and even fictional scenarios. First priority to undergrads. Students must attend the first class meeting to retain their roster spot.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Lee, C. (PI)
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