printer friendly pageITALIC 91: Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Creating
Creating, is the first part of ITALIC, a year-long course that explores the ways people make and encounter a wide range of artworks, including music and performance, the visual arts, literature, film and other media. In
ITALIC 91 we ask: How do artists innovate? What roles can earlier artworks play in new creations? How do audiences create? In addressing these questions, we will read texts by Viktor Shklovsky, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Susan Sontag, among others. We will attend Tosca at the San Francisco Opera, the Susan Meiselas exhibition at SFMoMA, as well as street art and the home of the conceptual artist David Ireland in the Mission District of San Francisco. We will also have a class visit by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and attend a performance by the musician Nitin Sawhney with the dancer/choreographers WangRamirez on campus. In order to make talking about art a part of daily life, students taking ITALIC live together in Burbank and eat lunch with their professors after class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The course enhances its academic endeavors with art-making opportunities in section and a two-week practicum with Dan Klein devoted to the art of improv.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: College, THINK, WAY-A-II
ITALIC 92: Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Interpreting
ITALIC 92, Interpreting. Why do artworks affect us and how do we make sense of them? What makes it difficult to describe works of art and how can we do this well? How do our individual experiences influence our responses and interpretations? ITALIC will address these questions in lecture and see art on and off campus, including performances of Gloria the new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the ballet Rite of Spring choreographed by Yang Liping.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: College, THINK, WAY-A-II
ITALIC 93: Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Challenging
ITALIC 93, Challenging. Challenging is the third part of ITALIC, a year-long course that explores the ways people make and encounter a wide range of artworks, including music and performance, the visual arts, literature, film and other media. How does an artwork influence or challenge the society in which (and outside of which) it is situated? How does the structure of a society determine and challenge the qualities of its art? How do artworks challenge their medium and material? Where does an artwork end? Where is the border between life and art? The quarter, and the year, culminates in a three-day field trip to Los Angeles where we will attend a performance of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and visit art and artists around the city.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-CE, College, WAY-EDP
ITALIC 95W: Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Writing Section
ITALIC is a new residence-based program built around a series of big questions about the historical, critical and practical purposes of art and its unique capacities for intellectual creativity, communication, and expression. This year-long program fosters close exchanges among faculty, students and guest artists and scholars in class, over meals and during excursions to arts events. We trace the challenges that works of art have presented to categories of knowledge--history, politics, culture, science, medicine, law--by turning reality upside-down or inside-out, or just by altering one's perspective on the world. The arts become a model for engaging with problem-solving: uncertainty and ambiguity confront art makers and viewers all the time; artworks are experiments that work by different sets of rules. Students will begin to understand and use the arts to create new frameworks for exploring our (and others') experience.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Greenhough, A. (PI)
ITALIC 99: Immersion in the Arts
Student-led courses in the arts. Topics change quarterly. Open to ALL students but current ITALIC students and alumni will be given priority.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
ITALIC 100: ITALIC Seminar: Notes to a Young Artist
Working with the Haas Center, students in this seminar will create a mini-magazine/online course about art to share with students at a Bay Area high school. You will assemble a list of suggested readings and brief essays on key artistic texts and concepts, as well as images and links to the artistic examples you find most inspiring. You will create a variety of media about these ideas and artists, from illustrated slideshows to video essays or podcasts to short explanatory texts and longer personal essays. The guiding question of the course is: What does a young artist need to know?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Beil, K. (PI)
;
Oeler, K. (PI)
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