Catalog: Boston College 2005-2006 University Catalog | |
| CO 350 Communication Research Methods (Fall/Spring: 3) Required course for all Communication majors starting with class of 2006 Research methods are often considered tools for creating knowledge. This course will equip students with a veritable toolbox of methods for researching mass media and their audiences. We will look at how researchers have answered such questions as: How are people affected by mass media? What/who appears most frequently in the mass media? How do people make sense of the media messages they consume? Both quantitative (content analysis, surveys, experiments) and qualitative ... | |
| Theseus). This course focuses on how specific visual attributes serve to identify mythological characters and how the development of narrative in Greek art helped to relate their stories. Inquiring into the use of mythological imagery to decorate temples, cult statues, and vases used primarily for the symposium (male drinking parties), we will consider the functions of mythological imagery within Greek society. Gail Hoffman FA 207 Ruins of Ancient America: Temples and Tombs (Fall: 3) Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement The Aztec, Maya and Inca peoples,and their precursors in Mexico, ... | |
| Luminist seascapes, and Documentary photographs to express who they were as individuals and as members of a new national community. This course traces the evolution of American painting, sculpture, and photography throughout the nineteenth century as American artists responded and contributed to the larger social, political, and cultural forces shaping the nation. Judith Bookbinder FA 264 Twentieth Century American Art (Spring: 3) American artists began the twentieth century by looking to avantgarde European art as a source of inspiration. By mid-century, America had become the center of the ... | |
| FA 340 German and American Expressionist Painting in the Twentieth Century (Fall: 3) The twentieth century witnessed periods of the greatest growth and worst carnage in human history. The exuberance and terror, hope and despair inspired by these circumstances was particularly profound in Germany and America where artists turned their personal experiences into outward manifestations of their emotions. The images they created, both figurative and abstract, constituted a general orientation called Expressionism. This course will explore the varied manifestations of Expressionism beginning with the ... | |
| Film Studies Undergraduate Course Offerings Note: Future course offerings and courses offered on a periodic basis are listed at http://www.bc.edu/courses /. FM 171 Filmmaking I (Fall/Spring: 3) How observations and visions are turned into images. How images are connected to form ideas. Projects in silent filmmaking, shooting, lighting and editing are included. The course is also about film as a form or expression and communication. A class for beginners. Equipment is provided. Michael Civille FM 202 Introduction to Film Art (Fall: 3) The basic course introduces essential concepts of film techniques, ... | |
| Undergraduate and Graduate Course Offerings PS 390 Psychology and Law (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisite: Either PS 241 or PS 264 Understanding the relationship between law and psychology in the U.S. in integral to both disciplines. Both the law and psychology affect, and are affected by each other as well as other disciplines. The relationship has been and continues to be an evolutionary one. This course shall explore the law-psychology relationship through readings and cases. Complex issues with no easy solutions will challenge students. Just some of the topics to be covered will be jury selection ... | |
| the study of what languages are and how they operate. Exercises in the analysis of fragments from various languages supplement the theoretical lectures and readings. M.J. Connolly SL 322 The Structure of Modern Russian (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: Previous experience with an inflected language. Offered Biennially A systematic review coverage of the phonology and grammar of Contemporary Standard Russian with attention to specific topics in the linguistic analysis of the language, especially phonological structure, accentuation, and morphological patterning. Open to upper-division students requiring ... | |
