Seminar in Integrative Arts

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A study of various arts with emphasis on comparison, contrast, and other aspects of interrelation. Topics will change each semester. INART 100 Seminar in Integrative Arts (3) (GA)(BA) This course meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements. INART 100 is a semester-long seminar that explores a theme or topic through selected works of the visual or performing arts. Various arts will be examined with emphasis on comparison, contrast, and other aspects of interrelation. Although topics will change each semester, they will always be bound to broad concerns in the arts that are shared or common. The approach will be strictly interdisciplinary with emphasis, on discussion and the direct experience of art. INART 100 is a General Education Arts offering (GA) and, for selected topics, will satisfy the Intercultural and International Competence Requirement (GI). This is an experiment in experiential learning, combined with a traditional examination of modern cinema from Latin America. As regards the latter point, students will become familiar with the history and scope of Latin American cinema in the past 30 years, considering the historical and social contexts in which movies were made and which the movies address. The films chosen for this course are "road movies" about journeys of discovery. We'll watch six movies, read about them, and discuss them in light of these historical and social contexts. In addition, we will discuss the films from technical angles - the use of music, narration, camera angles, dialogue, settings, etc. This technical component feeds into the first point of the first sentence above. As part of the course requirements, students will make their own "on the road" film.