History: Race, Ethnicity, and Social Inequalities One Semester (Offered First Semester) Prerequisites: None Examination of the historical and present position of various racial and ethnic groups within our society, as well as women and other marginalized groups. Emphasis is on the diversity of American racial and ethnic groups and the description and explanation of historical, social, economic, and structural inequalities that exist within and among them. General attention is also given to the analysis of the social and cultural causes of prejudice and discrimination. This course seeks to explore the compelling question, “Why are race and inequality ongoing, pervasive issues in America?”
Dramaturgy course and the Liggett Players. Stagecraft students will be responsible for completing the production design and constructing some elements of the sets, props, and costumes. Special guests to the class will include professional designers and technical staff. Seniors who opt to complete all three parts of the Liggett Shakespeare Project (Dramaturgy, Stagecraft, and Production) in a single year may be approved to waive enrollment in ARP 12.
History: The Sixties One Semester (Offered Second Semester) Prerequisites: None
The 1960s are often seen as a decade of stark change. This course will take a “big picture” look at the decade in order to evaluate the change that took place in American life during the turbulent age from Kennedy to Nixon. We will focus on the complex interconnectedness between the Civil Rights Movement, student radicalism, identity politics, popular culture, and the Vietnam War. We will study both the political and economic developments, along with the importance of media in shaping the culture through the music, film, and literature of the period. At the end of the course, students will be asked to make an assessment on the following question: “Were the 1960’s a decade of unprecedented progress in the United States?” You will not be expected to memorize names and dates. Instead, you will be asked to recognize trends and cause-and-effect between certain events, movements, and media while comparing them to current events to understand what long-standing impact the Sixties has had on American life. Text: Lytle, Mark Hamilton. America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
History: Russian/Soviet-U.S. Relations in Popular Culture One Semester (Offered First Semester) Prerequisites: None
“I guess what I’m trying to say, is that if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!” In the film, Rocky IV , Rocky Balboa’s address to the Soviet crowd after he defeated Russian boxer Ivan Drago sparks an important question: was it the United States that changed Russia, or the other way around? This course explores the history of Russian/Soviet-U.S. relations in the past 100 years by tracing the ways in which each country has portrayed the other in films and works of popular culture. In doing so, students will critically examine the ways in which our understanding of contemporary Russian-U.S. relations has been shaped by stereotypes we see on screen. Text: Shaw, Tony, and Denise J. Youngblood. Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7006-2020-3 History: Shakespeare Stagecraft One Semester (Offered Second Semester) Prerequisites: None Theatrical design is collaborative, practical, and interdisciplinary. In this course, we will design the set, lights, costumes, props, and sound for a production of a Shakespeare play, beginning with script analysis and ending with the production. Students will learn the basics of stagecraft, research the rich history of technical theater, and form artistic interpretations of the chosen text based on their reading and research. All students will work together to create a design gallery to accompany the performance, with social studies students taking the lead on research and writing and art students taking the lead on designing the gallery’s visual elements. As this course is part of the Liggett Shakespeare Project, students will collaborate with classmates in the Shakespeare:
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