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Framing the World - Animating the World — MA4212.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or projection design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and consistent endeavor. The first half of the semester will be concerned with conceptualizing and framing the world of the animations or projections, by research, drawings, investigation, imagining. The second half will be creating the animation or projections.

Layers upon Lines — MA4313.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: FR 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The class will be both looking at abstraction as well as more figurative based work. The class will include a mixture of creating assemblages in a variety of means and materials, and using both digital and analogue means from paint, to sand to animated forms. Objects will be cut out with scissors or the laser cutter, animated with pins or digital pins in software (After Effects), layers will be used to create depth in three dimensions, a multiplane or using the Z axis.

Chocolat — FRE4608.01

Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Why is a Mayan food, chocolate, such a high-stake product in French-speaking countries ?

Framed? Literature Heroines on Screen — FRE4809.01

Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another 鈥 as early as 1897, Lumi猫re represented the main characters of Hugo鈥檚 Les Mis茅rables. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: La Princesse de Cl猫ves (La Fayette/Sauder), La Religieuse (Diderot/Rivette), La Noire de鈥 (Semb猫ne/Semb猫ne), La Prisonni猫re/La Captive (Proust/Akerman). Students will focus on various adaptation strategies and approaches.