The context will be historical, the approach basically chronological. The primary focus of the course will be the era just prior to World War I and continuing through the 1930s. We will examine the experiment that begins during the boom of the twenties but which falls away during the ordeal of the economic depression of the 1930s. We will attempt to isolate those characteristics of modernism which overlap the various arts and which have subsequently marked a direction, rather than a period, in our culture.
Announced assignments are due at the beginning of the class on the date due.
Illness is not an excuse. Get to know at least one person in the class upon whom you can depend. I do not go over missed material during office hours. I will not accept assignments on weekends. Anything due on Friday and turned in Monday automatically loses thirty percent.