Here are some electives to chose from when you are setting up your spring schedule. More course descriptions will be added periodically. There will be a series of guest lectures focusing on writing and producing, camera techniques, editing, and musical composition. Classroom screenings will be limited to demonstrating and detailing lecture material.
Participation is required.
A second course text is currently in draft, entitled Wedding as Text, and students in the class will make suggestions for revisions before it is sent to the publisher in summer 2001. That text begins at the level of cultures, and investigates what happens when people of different cultures interact. The focus will be on rituals, as a place where multiple codes come together, and on wedding rituals specifically, because they are public, and relatively common and therefore easy to study. For this part of the course, students will prepare a larger project, interviewing an intercultural couple about their actual wedding design. This is the capstone course in the major, the place where students learn to talk about everything they have learned in all-previous coursework in the major.