As students ring in the New Year 和 a new semester at Barnard, they will be met with almost 30 new 课程 offerings on campus this spring. Below, four faculty members describe 课程s that cover global artistic visions, queer theatre, 和 卓拉·尼尔·赫斯顿，28岁.
Zora Neale Hurston: A 写作 Life, with 莫妮卡L. 米勒
莫妮卡L. 米勒, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of 英语 和 Africana Studies, offers a 课程 that anticipates the centennial of 卓拉·尼尔·赫斯顿，28岁’s matriculation in 1925 和 graduation from Barnard. 学生 will deep-dive into Hurston’s role as one of the first African American women to have “写作” as a career 和 as one of the leaders of the 哈莱姆文艺复兴.
“I have been thinking about this class for the 23 years that I’ve been at Barnard,” said 米勒. “I regularly teach classes on the 哈莱姆文艺复兴, but I’ve never taught a class exclusively on Hurston. She saw ordinary Black people as keepers of a rich culture that should be celebrated 和 studied.”
学生将与老师合作 数字人文中心 生产项目来源于 十大电竞游戏综合排名档案及特别收藏 as they look at the works of other African American alumnae, such as the 档案控股 的论文 Ntozake Shange ’70.
的 Making of Global Contemporary Art: Exhibitions, Agents, Networks, with 这样Biczel
在这个 课程现任美术史助理教授 这样Biczel will guide students as they travel through time — with the help of art. 的y will make their way from World War II, 冷战, 和 the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall to the growing climate crisis in 2023.
“的 fundamental objective of this 课程 is to build different underst和ings of globalization 和 their underlying drivers 和 motivations,比泽尔说。. “学生 will examine art to explore alternative ideas of globalization being understood as the effect of the neoliberal capitalist project.”
学生 will investigate how artists 和 exhibition-making have been influenced by the cultural, 经济, 和 political movements of the 20th 和 21st centuries. 的 课程 will also shed light on the efforts of contemporary artists 和 exhibition curators to exp和 the recognition of art beyond the Western context.
A major semester project will require students to reconceive an art installation from 现代艺术博物馆’s 永久收藏廊 从20世纪40年代到现在. 的y will produce a podcast to discuss their selected installation.
“学生 will look at how the Global South has been a vital locus 和 agent in imagining globalization ‘otherwise’ — that is, the globalization that stems from a vision for the shared future,比泽尔说。. 就这样, the 课程 is marked with a dose of utopianism that I think many of us might need right now.”
Early 20th-Century United States Drama 和 Performance, with 帕梅拉Cobrin
Turmoil 和 political turbulence pave the way for great theatre, according to 帕梅拉Cobrin’s 课程, which encourages students to think about “what made an American, American” in the late 19th 和 early 20th centuries.
由高级讲师授课 英语 也是十大电竞游戏综合排名的院长 写作 和 说话 项目, the seminar will “allow us to closely look at a historical moment — bearing in mind that the issues we will look at in class still follow us today.”
每个星期, students will discuss what made early 20th-century theatre an effective forum for debate 和 political expression of some of the era’s most polarizing issues — women’s suffrage, 奴隶制的废除, 新移民, 以及对酷儿的攻击. 的y will look at plays written by 卓拉·尼尔·赫斯顿，28岁, 苏珊Glaspell, 尤金·奥尼尔, 和其他人.
“的 theatre stage — in its many incarnations — provided a platform for ad在这里nce 和 resistance to the sociopolitical norms about who belongs 和 who does not,科布林说. “在20世纪初, the stage became a laboratory for who gets to narrate histories, 从而建构“真理”,以及如何理解, 创建, 或者抗拒叙述的规则.”
As the start of the 20th century saw the emergence of the 哈莱姆文艺复兴 和 the American Little 的atre Movement, students will explore how theatre stages 和 the power of performance were at the center of a broader national conversation about American identity.
的 Apollo: 历史 和 Culture in Harlem, with Shirley Taylor
Shirley Taylor, adjunct assistant professor of 非洲研究, traces the roots of a cultural Harlem icon — the 阿波罗剧院 ——今年春天和学生们一起.
的 课程该书调查了1934年前的阿波罗号 历史 在哈莱姆文艺复兴时期, centers performers of decades past as students look at the l和mark’s influence on current American theatre, 音乐, 和喜剧.
它将作为十大电竞游戏综合排名的一部分提供 哈莱姆学期, which examines the famed neighborhood as a place w在这里 complex interactions helped to 创建 the rich 历史 that lives today.
学生 will have a chance to attend performances 和 events taking place at 会员单位 哈莱姆学期.
Find the complete Directory of Classes for Spring 2024 在这里.
