Upper-Division

COWL 119F The American Musical

Examines representative American stage musicals with emphasis on text, music, and lyrics thereof. Topics include the history of the genre and the relationship of the musicals to the political and social context of their respective times.

Credits

2

Instructor

Thomas Lehrer

Quarter offered

Winter

COWL 133 Fiction into Film

Traces the transformation from fiction into film of four modern texts. Discussions concentrate on effectiveness of the transformation in terms of filmic technique and medium differences. Final essay required.

Credits

2

COWL 134 American Silent Comedy

A look into American silent comedy, its history and aesthetics, from sources in European clowning to its difinitive moment in the 1920's films of Chaplin and Keaton to such later developments as the television style of Ernie Kovacs.

Credits

2

COWL 135 Loaded Language

A reading and discussion group focused on the interaction of language structure and socially relevant issues of language use involving questions of correctness, truth, manipulation, discrimination, and obfuscation.

Credits

2

COWL 136A La Francophonie

Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.

Credits

2

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Three years high school or one year college-level French, or French 3, 4, 5, 6, 30, 111, 125, or 136A-B-C. Open to all students, but priority given to Cowell students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

COWL 136B La Francophonie

Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.

Credits

2

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Three years high school or one year college-level French, or French 3, 4, 5, 6, 30, 111, 125, or 136A-B-C. Open to all students, but priority given to Cowell students.

COWL 136C La Francophonie

Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.

Credits

2

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Three years high school or one year college-level French, or French 3, 4, 5, 6, 30, 111, 125, or 136A-B-C. Open to all students, but priority given to Cowell students.

COWL 137 Modern Classical Acting

An investigation into the idea of modern classical acting through seminar discussion and studio performance. Students practice detailed textual analysis of classical texts (with particular emphasis on Shakespeare) and their memorization and performance. Designed for members of Cowell College.

Credits

3

COWL 150 Placing Nature

Development of an interpretive natural history trail on the lower and middle UCSC campus. Directed reading in pertinent literature and intensive practice in writing or graphically illustrating short popular pieces on natural history, as well as preparation of the guide-leaflet itself.

Credits

2

COWL 181 American Campus Planning

Study of campus planning in American colleges and universities from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, with comparison to the planning and ideals of UCSC.

Credits

3