|
|
College Catalog 2023-2024
All Courses
|
|
|
|
| |
Liberal Arts Core |
| |
-
LARTS 111 — Foundations of Knowledge 3 credits
Fall or Spring
Faculty
Prerequisite: LARTS 102 . This course explores the foundations of knowledge and certainty in a world fractured by disagreement about basic facts and competition for the authority to pronounce the truth. Students will be introduced to the processes grounding the construction of truth claims and to the role played by social, political, and ideological factors in shaping how and what we know. The course is organized around core questions that can be explored from different disciplinary perspectives, incorporating literary, philosophical, scientific, social scientific, and journalistic sources along with case studies.
|
| |
-
LARTS 112 — Society, Politics, and Culture 3 credits
Spring
Faculty
Prerequisite: LARTS 111 . This course focuses social, cultural, and political understandings of the world around us. This means moving beyond individualistic and either/or frameworks to think in a more nuanced way about how social patterns, social identities, and social inequities develop in place and time. Key areas of exploration include social identity and belonging; the ways in which power and authority are institutionalized; alternative accounts of justice; and the sources of social transformation.
|
| |
-
LARTS 161-162 — English and Communication 3 credits per semester
Fall and Spring
Robert Wilson, Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis
English and Communication is designed to advance the academic language skills of emergent bilingual English speakers. The primary course objectives are to increase grammatical accuracy and fluency and orient students to norms and conventions of academia in the United States. Specifically, we review grammar rules and practice grammar forms (e.g., subject-verb agreement, fragment avoidance, run-ons/comma splices, tenses). Working with a combination of classic and contemporary essays, we examine elements such as topic, thesis, coherence, tone, and style. We practice the writing process, including planning, generating ideas, organizing and drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. Regarding paragraph-level writing, we work on the formation of claims (as distinct from opinions) and support, with attention to the differences among introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions. Students learn and practice reading strategies in order to recognize (and later produce) rhetorical patterns associated with description, narration, exposition, and argument.
|
Liberal Arts Electives: Humanities (Art History) |
| |
-
LARTS 340 — Frozen Music: On Interrelating the Arts 3 credits
Fall
Greta Berman and Samuel Zyman
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . Architecture has sometimes been called frozen music. This course begins in 16th-century Venice, where the architecture and opulent setting help illuminate Venetian music, and especially the blossoming of opera in that city. We will start by looking at Palladio’s architecture, the paintings of Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, and the music of Gabrieli and Monteverdi. We will continue through the mid-19th century in France. The course focuses on important art and music of the periods. Using slides, musical demonstrations, and recordings, we will examine many moments in time and places where art and music come together.
|
| |
-
LARTS 345 — Contemporary Artists of Color 3 credits
Spring
Desirée Alvarez
This course is a deep dive into works by artists of color. With an emphasis on the contemporary, we will look at artists exploring beauty, formal visual concerns, social justice issues, class, power, gender, and conceptual issues. We will explore the work of El Anatsui, Frank Bowling, Maya Lin, Ana Mendieta, Takashi Murakami, Wangechi Mutu, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Martin Puryear, Jean Shin, Shahzia Sikander, Joan Quick-to-See Smith, Alma Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, and Jack Whitten, among many others. We will also encounter artists such as Torkwase Dyson and Milford Graves, who cross disciplinary lines to integrate music, performance, and dance. We will consider the aesthetics of art movements such as the Superflat postmodern movement, Earth Art, and the Black Arts Movement. Students will be asked to create their own multidisciplinary works in addition to engaging with traditional writing assignments and research.
|
| |
-
LARTS 349 — Art of the Renaissance 3 credits
Spring
Greta Berman
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . This class looks at painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Renaissance. By means of slides, lectures, and class discussions, we explore the meaning of the Renaissance and its manifestations in Italy and Northern Europe. Major artists include Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, and Hieronymus Bosch.
|
| |
-
LARTS 387 — Modernity and Modernism 3 credits
Fall
Greta Berman, Samuel Zyman Reinisch
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . There are many possible starting points for the term “Modernism” in Western art. This course will explore this concept, beginning with the late 19th century in Europe, and move through various artists and movements in the United States through the Second World War. Subjects will include Impressionism and Symbolism: Where does Debussy stand?; Expressionism: Kandinsky and Schoenberg; Cubism: Picasso and Stravinsky; abstract art and atonal music; Dada and Surrealism; Minimalism; and the computer and new media.
|
Liberal Arts Electives: Humanities (Literature and Creative Writing) |
| |
-
LARTS 312 — Asian American Literature and Film 3 credits
Spring
Anthony Lioi
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . Asian American literature and film emerged in the 1960s, when disparate groups from East and South Asia created a cultural alliance in the United States. This course will explore the core questions emerging from that alliance: What does it mean to represent “Asian American” experience in literature and film? What is American about this work in the context of the Asian diasporas in English-speaking countries? What place does Asian American art have in global literature and film? Work by Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Filipino, and Vietnamese American artists, as well as Asian artists who have influenced American art, will be considered.
|
| |
-
LARTS 315 — Writing Poetry and Flash Fiction 3 credits
Spring
Ron Price
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 Designed to help students recognize options rather than flaws in what they write, this course will focus on how language works at its most evocative — in poetry, prose poems, and short stories. The aim is to generate material and to find appropriate forms to contain that material by identifying the musical and rhythmic shape of words. The semester comprises writing exercises, critiques, and discussions of related issues: the image, spoken language, syntax, music, tone, story, and form. Students will develop writing, editorial, and performance skills — the emphasis being on how to use those tools to enhance the expression of experience.
|
| |
-
LARTS 320 — Dante’s Purgatorio 3 credits
Spring
Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis
Dante Alighieri’s (1265–1321) Commedia is one of the most thought-provoking works of world literature. In contrast to the Inferno, Purgatorio offers a vision of transition and change—an island-mountain where souls undergo profound inner metamorphosis through art, song, music, dance, and solidarity. By the end of this course, students will have explored the intricacies of literary theory, hermeneutics, poetics, semiotics, and translation and gained a deeper appreciation of scriptural, classical, and medieval texts. Throughout the semester, assessment will be based on active class participation, weekly written reflections, and a stimulating final project.
|
| |
-
LARTS 333 — Romanticism and Private Life 3 credits
Fall
Sarah Zimmerman
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . A modern sense of privacy emerged in the Romantic era largely in response to two historical pressures: first, increased government surveillance and the repression of political dissent in the midst of the wars with Napoleonic France; and second, a nascent celebrity culture with new forms of publicity. In response, Romantic writers asked how to define “fame,” who deserves it, and what its dangers might be. They also cultivated an appreciation for solitude, family, and friendship.
|
| |
-
LARTS 361 — Creative Nonfiction 3 credits
Fall
Ron Price
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . Creative nonfiction tells a story. The story might have a political, ecological, economic or racial focus. It might be about the art of glassblowing or animal husbandry, anything from a narrative history of the U.S. Civil War to a coming-of-age memoir—stories about what real people do, what happens to them, how they respond. The genre employs a journalist’s focus on facts; the dialogue and scenes of a novelist or playwright; the analytical thinking of an essayist; the images, musicality, and wordplay of a poet. Creative nonfiction writers use literary techniques when facts alone cannot adequately render the truth of a subject. They aim for the truth as they understand it. Strategic analysis of work by Jonathan Swift, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Carol Oats, John Hersey, Truman Capote, Annie Dillard, Tom Wolfe, Isabel Allende, Joan Didion, Gay Talese, and John McPhee will serve as models for student writings to culminate in a manuscript of original essays.
|
| |
-
LARTS 364 — Poetry by Women of Color 3 credits
Fall
Desirée Alvarez
This course explores the flourishing of contemporary poetry by women of color. We consider how they re-invent language to express new responses to themes of discontent, beauty, emotion, consciousness, politics, and the sublime. We will study the foundational poets for historical context and movements such as Afrofuturism. Some of the poets we shall read include Lucille Clifton, Natalie Diaz, Victoria Chang, Banu Kapil, Ada Limón, Solmaz Sharif, Cathy Park Hong, Harmony Holiday, Dawn Lundy Martin, Monica Youn and Claudia Rankine. We will write our own poems back to these poets in class and students will focus on individual projects.
|
| |
-
LARTS 365 — Contemporary American Poetry 3 credits
Fall
Ron Price
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . An examination of the cultural and historical elements shaping the very young and fluid tradition of American poetry, including issues such as the modern quarrel with Classicism; the dialectic between language and reality, regional and international, personal and political; the social function of poetry; and the poet’s relationship to community and the human family. In addition to poems, students will read literary and cultural essays written by contemporary poets on issues related to the American tradition.
|
| |
-
LARTS 367 — African-American Literature: Special Topics 3 credits
Spring
Renée Baron
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . In this course, students will investigate a specific thematic, structural, or historical topic related to the African-American literary canon. Possible topics may include: The Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, African-American poetry, Naturalism and the ghetto experience, black women writers, and contemporary African-American popular fiction.
|
| |
-
LARTS 389 — American Literature: the 1920’s 3 credits
Fall
Renée Baron
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . In this course, we will examine some of the most iconic works of the 1920s and investigate how the authors of these quintessentially American texts translated their concerns about American culture into a modernist literary sensibility. Texts may include Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, and Eliot’s The Wasteland.
|
Liberal Arts Electives: Humanities (Philosophy) |
| |
-
LARTS 328 — Philosophies of Black Liberation 3 credits
Spring
Aaron Jaffe
In this class we will explore historical and contemporary theories of Black liberation. Doing so will require first thinking carefully about the specific nature of Black oppression, which we will do with the help of multiple philosophical theories. Among others, will work through Afro-pessimist, Anti-capitalist, Anti-colonial, Abolitionist, Feminist, and Psychological analyses and liberatory commitments. Though primarily focused on the US context, we will aim to theorize the limits of the US horizon through an international perspective as well. This means thinking Blackness through the history and (ongoing) trauma of slavery, a central but not exclusive lens for thinking about Black liberation. Methodologically, it will be important to de-center white experiences and responses to racialization and its harms. This will be a reading intensive class, with reflection and discussion assignments due every session. Guest lecturers will be invited to introduce text and lead discussion at multiple points in the term.
|
Liberal Arts Electives: History and Social Sciences |
| |
-
LARTS 318 — The Art of Protest in the Long 1960s 3 credits
Spring
Anthony Lioi
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, American protest movements spawned protest art—or was it protest art that sparked the movements? What would become known as the counterculture wielded art in an attempt to disrupt traditional ways of thinking, feeling, and living. This course will explore the cultural front, including literature, film, and music, of a multitude of resistance movements: movements against war, racism, sexism, heterosexism, colonialism, capitalism, and ecocide. What role did art play in politics, and how did artists try to change culture? What artistic legacy did the 1960s leave behind for contemporary struggles? We will seek answers to these questions with reference to the Beats, Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Arts Movement, women’s and gay liberation, the American Indian Movement, postmodernism, and other movements that intentionally blended art and politics.
|
| |
-
LARTS 342 — EDIB, the Arts, and Society: The Artist as an Agent of Democracy 3 credits
Fall
Ariana DasGupta
In 2018, Juilliard adopted a core value of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging (EDIB). Juilliard defines these terms in a way that allows for their application in an institute of higher education focused on artistic excellence. These definitions have rich and nuanced sociohistorical roots which accompany the meandering journey of democracy itself. In this course, we will trace this complex history so that we may locate ourselves in relationship to it. We aim to answer the question: What is the artist’s role in amplifying and embodying EDIB in a democratic society?
|
| |
-
LARTS 350 — Seeing like an Anthropologist: Examining Culture, Power, and Meaning 3 credits
Fall
Priya Chandrasekaran
This introductory course will expose students to the fundamentals of Cultural Anthropology and the colonial history of the discipline. Students will develop their capacity to see social life and human experience through an anthropological lens attuned to issues of culture, power, language, race, gender, and history. Each class will build upon previous discussions and readings, providing a textured and complex understanding of what constitutes meaning and agency in people’s lives. Students will learn to write ethnographic notes and use them to look for patterns that might deepen their understanding of themselves and the world around them. They will also be encouraged to examine cultural assumptions and look at social life through multiple points of view. Overlapping with themes pertaining to Art, Society, and Politics (ASP), this class will incorporate museum visits, as museums and anthropology share a long and sordid history.
|
| |
-
LARTS 351 — Nature in New York City 3 credits
Spring
Priya Chandrasekaran
If you asked someone about where to find nature in New York City, they might answer, “Central Park.” This common response has in part to do with how nature often gets depicted as the opposite of urbanization and an entity that stands apart from politics and “civilization.” In this course, we’ll unpack and challenge that assumption. Through social analyses, films, and ethnographic experiences, we will (re)consider what “nature” means and look for “nature” in unexpected places. We’ll discuss how this complicates and changes our views of urban life, society, and being human, as well as what that means for race, social inequity, and conflicts over space in the city. Assignments will be both analytical and creative.
|
| |
-
LARTS 354 — Civil Rights 3 credits
Spring
Anita Mercier
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . Civil rights protect citizens from discrimination and secure the bases of equal participation in social and political life. Examples of civil rights include the right to vote, freedom of conscience and religion, due process and equal protection under the law, and freedom of speech and assembly. In this course, we will examine the philosophical foundations of civil rights in political theory and legal doctrine, with readings from thinkers such as Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Singer, and Rawls, as well as seminal court decisions. At the same time, we will learn how minorities and members of marginalized groups have marshaled powerful ideas to their cause in the quest of freedom from discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and physical disability. We will pay particular attention to civil rights issues in contemporary society, such as reproductive freedom, gun control, same-sex marriage, hate speech, and affirmative action.
|
| |
-
LARTS 360 — Europe and the World, 1789-1914: History as Hegemony 3 credits
Fall
Gonzalo Sánchez
Political, social, and ideological developments in Europe during the so-called “long 19th century”—the period encompassing 1789 to the eve of World War I (1914)—shaped the modern world. Political, economic, and ideological upheavals swept over the continent, spilling out to remote corners of the globe—alongside social conflicts, imperialism, racism, and colonialist commitments that would eventually lead to two World Wars and which continue to haunt the globe today. Complemented by works of fiction by Claire du Duras, Joseph Conrad, and Chinua Achebe, this course proposes a thematic survey of Europe’s period of international hegemony with an eye to informing our present predicaments.
|
| |
-
LARTS 383 — History of Technology and Social Change, 1800 to the Present 3 credits
Fall
Dan Ewert
How do we balance technology’s exciting potential with its unforeseen (and sometimes disastrous) consequences? Today, as we confront the challenges presented by artificial intelligence and big data, it can be tempting to imagine ourselves in an unprecedented time of technological and social change. But for centuries, people have worried that new technologies that promise greater productivity, faster travel and communication, and better social organization might also bring about destructive transformations. This course introduces students to the history of technological changes since 1800 that led to new experiences of time, place, and identity, often unsettling people accustomed to older ways of being. How did the railroad change people’s relationship to food? Why did the rise of consumerism cause a moral panic about gender roles? What impact did computers have on movements for social justice? Through a series of historical case studies drawing on primary sources, popular culture, and perspectives from scholars in a range of academic disciplines, this course helps students interpret the social impact of some of the most important technological changes of the last two hundred years.
|
| |
|
| |
-
LARTS 392 — Challenges to American Democracy 3 credits
Fall
Anita Mercier
Prerequisite: LARTS 112 . In recent years we have witnessed unprecedented challenges to the institutions and norms of democracy in the United States. In this course we will investigate convergent sources of systemic stress, including demagoguery, political polarization, media and digital technology, and historically high levels of economic inequality. Does democracy have a future? The answer is yes—but only if we can understand and effectively respond to the forces that threaten to undermine it.
|
Liberal Arts Electives: Languages |
| |
-
LARTS 171 — French I 3 credits
Fall
Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis
Introductory language courses provide basic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Students also study the culture and history of the language and the countries where it is spoken. Students may not enroll in courses involving the study of their native languages.
|
| |
-
LARTS 172 — French II 3 credits
Spring
Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis
Prerequisite: LARTS 171 or equivalent previous study. This course is a continuation of French I (LARTS 171).
|
| |
-
LARTS 181 — German I 3 credits
Fall
Andrea Ritter
Introductory language courses provide basic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Students also study the culture and history of the language and the countries where it is spoken. Students may not enroll in courses involving the study of their native languages.
|
| |
-
LARTS 182 — German II 3 credits
Spring
Andrea Ritter
Prerequisite: LARTS 181 or equivalent previous study. This course is a continuation of German I (LARTS 181).
|
| |
-
LARTS 191 — Italian I 3 credits
Fall
Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis
Introductory language courses provide basic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Students also study the culture and history of the language and the countries where it is spoken. Students are expected to pass the first semester with a grade of at least “C” in order to continue to the second semester. Students may not enroll in courses involving the study of their native languages.
|
| |
-
LARTS 192 — Italian II 3 credits
Spring
Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis
Prerequisite: LARTS 191 or equivalent previous study. This course is a continuation of Italian I (LARTS 191).
|
| |
-
LARTS 271 — French III 3 credits
Fall
Sandro-Angelo De Thomasis
Prerequisite: LARTS 172 or equivalent previous study. This intensive intermediate French class is designed to provide students with an interactive and rewarding foreign-language learning experience as they continue to strengthen the French language skills in reading, listening, writing, and speaking, and intercultural competencies previously acquired in LARTS 171–172. Some of the salient features of this class involve a structured but diverse sequence of multi-modal activities designed to enhance interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication skills, as well as a focus on student objectives, learning autonomy, and self-assessment. By the end of this class, students will be able to handle a variety of communicative tasks in formal and informal contexts on topics related to personal relations, city life, social media, societal concerns, and current affairs.
|
| |
-
LARTS 561-562 — Graduate English Seminar 0 credits
Fall and Spring
Robert Wilson
May be required as a result of language assessments. This course is designed for emergent bilingual graduate students to advance their academic language skills. Working with popular, academic, and scientific articles, along with literature, this course cultivates the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required for participation in postgraduate education.
|
Liberal Arts Electives: American Studies |
| |
-
LARTS 363 — The African American Experience in Film 3 credits
Spring
Renée Baron
This class explores the major moments and themes of African American experience through the lens of film. With seminal essays by authors such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, bell hooks, and Saidiya Hartman to frame the historical and cultural context, we will investigate the significance of films such as Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, and Cheryl Duyne’s Watermelon Woman. In particular, we will consider the ways in which the conversation around Black identity has shifted over time to address issues of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Finally, we will think through the issue of Black subjectivity and its relevance to the development of African American filmmaking.
|
| |
Page: 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
|
|
|
Print this Page