Courses:

Students may take one or two of the courses listed below

SABR 2930/ 4930  Music and Italian Film
Dr. Clay Shotwell and Dr. Karen Aubrey
cshotwel@aug.edu and kaubrey@aug.edu

This is a cross-disciplinary class exploring the rich interplay of music, film and visual spectacle in Modern and Postmodern Italian culture. Music is a fundamental, but often neglected component of cinematic structure and meaning; there are profound formal analogies between the temporal flow of music and the temporal flow of filmic visual form (montage); music’s relation to visual spectacle in Italian culture has pre-filmic roots in Opera.  In addition to stylistic elements, we will explore the Italian mindset towards such ideas as politics, identity, love, and morality through their depictions in Italian cinema.  This course is designed to develop the student’s listening skills, descriptive vocabulary, cultural values, and awareness of diverse musical and cinematic styles in the modern Italian culture.

SABR 2930/4930 The Art and Architecture of Rome
Dr. Michael Schwartz
mschwart@aug.edu

3 credit hours Prerequisite(s):  None for 2930; ART 2612 or permission of the instructor for 4930. An intensive survey of Western art and architectural history from Antiquity to Postmodernism using the great monuments in the Eternal City that is Rome. "Art and Architecture of Rome: from the Ancient Republic to Postmodernism" will benefit from being taught in Italy because rather using slides we will be encountering the actual works, which is especially important for the study of architecture and urban design.

SABR 2930 Humanities 2001
Drs. Aubrey, Schwartz, and Shotwell
kaubrey@aug.edu, mschart@aug.edu, cshotwel@aug.edu

Prerequisites:  ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better, or permission of instructor. The objective of this course is to acquaint you with the humanities in an interdisciplinary fashion via the study of literature, art, and music.  As such, you will be exposed to several instructors, each presenting you with his/her area of specialization.  As diverse as this may at first appear, the overriding concept upon which all activities in this course are based is to introduce and develop your awareness of and appreciation for various cultural activities and thoughts.