printer friendly pageCOMPLIT 51Q: Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity (AMSTUD 51Q, CSRE 51Q)
Explorations of how literature can represent in complex and compelling ways issues of difference--how they appear, are debated, or silenced. Specific attention on learning how to read critically in ways that lead one to appreciate the power of literary texts, and learning to formulate your ideas into arguments. Course is a Sophomore Seminar and satisfies Write2. By application only
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum, Writing 2, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
COMPLIT 149: The Laboring of Diaspora & Border Literary Cultures (CSRE 149, ILAC 149)
Focus is given to emergent theories of culture and on comparative literary and cultural studies. How do we treat culture as a social force? How do we go about reading the presence of social contexts within cultural texts? How do ethno-racial writers re-imagine the nation as a site with many "cognitive maps" in which the nation-state is not congruent with cultural identity? How do diaspora and border narratives/texts strive for comparative theoretical scope while remaining rooted in specific local histories. Note: This course must be taken for a letter grade to be eligible for WAYS credit.
Last offered: Winter 2023
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
DANCE 30: Contemporary Choreography: Chocolate Heads 'Garden After Dark' Performance Project (AFRICAAM 37)
The Chocolate Heads Movement Band will engage in an interdisciplinary project-based course to develop collaborative choreography and installation art with visual and musical components. How can we attune our senses to perceive the subtleties of our surroundings? How can we learn to perceive the magic hiding in plain sight? The Autumn '23-'24 project will make use of remixing strategies, deep listening practices, and outdoor exploration to animate these questions in a multisensorial performance piece. We will cultivate an imaginary garden full of wild, surprising, and mysterious entities. Taking inspiration from landscape architecture, textiles, lighting, and projection design, we will bring the outside world in to create a dance and performance ecology. The course will feature collaborations with guest scientists, artists, and somatic practitioners. Our garden is open to all forms of creative expression and all levels of experience; we invite dancers, movers, and emerging creators of all styles and backgrounds. WEEK 1: TU 9/26--Introduction to the Project & CHs Band; THU 9/28--1st Audition Workshop. Contact Aleta Hayes (ahayes1@stanford.edu) for more information.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Hayes, A. (PI)
DANCE 45: Dance Improvisation from Freestyle to Hip Hop (AFRICAAM 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.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 58: Hip Hop I: Introduction to Hip Hop
Steps and styling in one of America's 21st-century vernacular dance forms. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Sum
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Reddick, R. (PI)
DANCE 108: Hip Hop Choreography: Hip Hop Meets Broadway
What happens when Hip Hop meets "Fosse", "Aida", "Dream Girls" and "In the Heights"?The most amazing collaboration of Hip Hop styles adapted to some of the most memorable Broadway Productions.This class will explore the realm between Hip Hop Dance and the Broadway Stage. Infusing Acting thru dance movement and exploring the Art of Lip Sync thru Hip Hop Dance styles.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: way_ce, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
9 times
(up to 9 units total)
Instructors:
Reddick, R. (PI)
ENGLISH 68N: Mark Twain and American Culture (AMSTUD 68N)
Preference to freshmen. Mark Twain defined the rhythms of our prose and the contours of our moral map. He recognized our extravagant promise and stunning failures, our comic foibles and¿ tragic flaws. He is viewed as the most American of American authors--and as one of the most universal. How does his work illuminate his society's (and our society's) responses to such issues as race, gender, technology, heredity vs. environment, religion, education, art, imperialism, animal welfare, and what it means to be "American"?
Last offered: Autumn 2022
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 50C: The United States in the Twentieth Century (AFRICAAM 50C)
(Same as
HISTORY 150C. 50C is 3 units; 150C is 5 units.) 100 years ago, women and most African-Americans couldn't vote; automobiles were rare and computers didn't exist; and the U.S. was a minor power in a world dominated by European empires. This course surveys politics, culture, and social movements to answer the question: How did we get from there to here? Suitable for non-majors and majors alike.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 106A: Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa
Global patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation, covering E. Asia, S. Asia, S.E. Asia, Central Asia, N. Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes.
Last offered: Winter 2022
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 150C: The United States in the Twentieth Century (AFRICAAM 150C, AMSTUD 150C)
(Same as
HISTORY 50C. 50C is 3 units; 150C is 5 units.) 100 years ago, women and most African-Americans couldn't vote; automobiles were rare and computers didn't exist; and the U.S. was a minor power in a world dominated by European empires. This course surveys politics, culture, and social movements to answer the question: How did we get from there to here? Suitable for non-majors and majors alike.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP
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