| source UCLA (X) |
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department World Arts and Cultures (X) |
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of concepts and theories involved in intercultural, interdisciplinary study of art, aesthetics, and performance. Examination of interactions among various modes of creative expression, role of style in daily life, performative representation of cultural identity and difference, and interaction of diverse artistic traditions. Letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 2.) Seminar, two hours; studio, two hours; outside study, 11 hours. Variable topics seminar with focus on practice-based research in arts. Skills may include development of dance/theatrical performance, video/filmic creation, interdisciplinary art-making, text-based creation of work, and more. In-depth investigative experience to understand practice-based research process from conception to presentation. Research inquiry methods may include readings and assigned written analysis, supervised fieldwork, individual and collaborative assignments in selected media, activist orientations, and practice-oriented processes. Substantial practice-based culminating project required. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Letter grading.
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Seminar, four hours; outside study, 11 hours. Variable topics seminar with focus on scholarly research in arts. Study of culture and performance, including individual and cultural identity through arts, arts criticism, theoretical and analytical approaches to arts practice, and arts activism. Substantial culminating research paper required. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices crossing national and cultural boundaries. Variable topics, such as body music, cross-cultural textile creation, or mural painting, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices originating from sub-Saharan Africa and extending to cultures of African diaspora, including Brazil and Afro-Caribbean. Variable topics, such as dance of Guinea, Mali, and Senegal or Afro-Caribbean masking traditions, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices originating from Middle East and North Africa. Variable topics, such as belly dancing or Israeli folk dance, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices originating from Latin America, including cultures of South and Central America. Variable topics, such as Argentine tango and Mexican folkloric dances, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices originating from North America, including U.S., Canada, and Native America. Variable topics, such as Native American dance, jazz, and jazz-tap, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices originating from East Asia, including China, Korea, and Japan. Variable topics, such as movement and music techniques of Beijing Opera, Korean shamanic movement practices, and Kabuki theater, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices originating from South Asia and extending to cultures of South Asian diasporas, including communities in England and West Africa. Variable topics, such as Bharata Natyam (classical dance of India), bhangra (diasporic social dance), and hatha yoga, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices originating from Southeast Asia. Variable topics, such as Cambodian court dance, Indonesian kechak, or Balinese legong, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Beginning-level study of world arts practices originating from Europe and extending to cultures of European diaspora, including U.S. Variable topics, such as flamenco, Balkan folk dances, and classical ballet, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Laboratory, four hours. Study of dance technique. Critical viewing, reading, and discussion of modern/postmodern dance artists' works. May be repeated twice for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Introduction to creative exploration in movement through improvisational and compositional exercises that access and develop imagination, find relationship between imagination and dance making, and enrich movement vocabulary. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Introduction to key concepts and major theoretical and methodological debates that characterize field of cultural studies, including discussion of notions of culture, popular culture, subculture, youth culture, hegemony, gender, race, class, and national identity. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Introduction to methods, techniques, and issues in conducting field-based research, including nature, uses, and limitations of major data-gathering procedures, ethical concerns, sampling, checks and controls, teamwork, interventions, and results as not only tangible and impersonal outcomes of inquiry but also personal and tangible. Through readings, discussion, and hands-on exercises, students learn how to plan fieldwork projects and write proposals, prepare consent forms and deal with ethical issues, observe behavior, construct questionnaires, interview, use audiovisual documentation, and manage and present data. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 10 hours. Cultural/historical survey of role of folklore in development of American civilization and of influence of American experience in shaping folklore in American society; attention also to representative areas of inquiry and analytical procedures. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as American Indian Studies M10.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; activity, one hour. Survey of selected Native North American cultures from pre-Western contact to contemporary period, with particular emphasis on early cultural diversity and diverse patterns of political, linguistic, social, legal, and cultural change in postcontact period. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Use of Fowler Museum's long-term exhibition entitled "Intersections: World Arts/Local Lives" as object of study to examine many insights that arts can offer into social, political, and religious experience. Drawing heavily on cultures of Africa, Asia, Pacific, and indigenous Americas, both ancient and contemporary, consideration of degree to which notions of aesthetics and efficacy are intertwined and interdependent in art forms made to intervene in people's lives in active, instrumental ways. Use of specific case studies to illustrate and interrogate theoretical paradigms. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to study of indigenous worldviews as they are expressed through art, mythology, ritual, health practice, languages, and ecology. With examples spanning globe, consideration of issues of colonialism, tradition, religious change, and legal and social implications of epistemological differences between people. Examination of critical perspectives on social development, historical progress, and intellectual assimilation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Introduction to discipline of dance studies, with focus on study of corporeality as key contemporary perspective on body. Multidisciplinary approach to dancing bodies conceptualized as social constructs, including attention to gender, race, class, and national identity. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours. Introduction to dances and their movement characteristics in global context. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Comparative framework for looking at dance practices through time as they have developed around world, questioning relation of dance to culture and politics and providing students with tools for investigating histories of any given dance form. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, three hours; outside study, three hours. Intermediate-level study of world arts practices crossing national and cultural boundaries. Variable topics, such as body music, cross-cultural textile creation, or mural painting, in cultural and historical context. May be repeated for credit without limitation. P/NP or letter grading.
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