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ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the ArtistThis first-year seminar is a Writing course. We'll study works portraying artists in a variety of media, including literature, film, song-writing, and digital animation. We'll learn how to study artistic form, as well as different approaches to understanding a work's content and context. Artists studied will probably include the following: Plato (the "Parable of the Cave"), Mozart, Tony Kushner's Angels in America; Carl Sagan's novel Contact; 3 songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda; the making of songs for Barbie by Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson; and Billie Eilish; ND Stevenson's Nimona (Netflix 2023); and Regina King's and Kemp Powers' film One Night in Miami, about the friendship between James Brown, Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, and the singer and composer Sam Cooke. We'll also explore answers to broader cultural study questions, including:
Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2024. Schmidt. Spring 2026. Schmidt. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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