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...important to understand the composer when playing a piece,” Shiozaki said. “The composer should have some say in the way the piece is played. One way you can discover what the composer would have wanted is by learning about the context.” Oja said she hopes the course will attract students with a variety of interests beyond music. “We want people in music, but we want more than that,” Oja said. “This appeals to people in Jewish studies, in gender studies...
...somber end. I would have imagined difficulty in praising the film this much, considering the gooey and ridiculous media discourse. But upon finally seeing it, all the talk seems trivial. It’s an unexpectedly complex rumination on love and sexuality in a uniquely American context, where the tangible beauty of our mythic West collides with the hidden sores of a repressive social order. Lee’s film is incredibly literary, stunningly photographed, and features flawless performances from its typically unimpressive cast. The film’s screenplay is its greatest strength, despite its relative simplicity. Based...
...Emory, to The Chronicle of Higher Education. “But the students can say whatever they want and then turn off the computer when the going gets rough.” This approach was considered to be a more logical approach by the two schools given the technological context of modern education. “This is how students communicate these days and to not have this as an option for counseling leaves a lot of students out,” said Jan A. Sedway, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at North Carolina, to The Chronicle...
...says Engell, who is also the chair of the English department, Gurney professor of English, and professor of comparative literature. “Speaking is such an important skill in so many important fields that each student would find the right kind of help in the right context at the right level.”According to Engell, Harvard offered public speaking courses up until the 1970s. He says he is unsure why such courses have ceased to be part of the curriculum. Although he teaches a rhetoric course, English 34, “Elements of Rhetoric...
...understand the biological system,” Quackenbush said. “The kinds of techniques that we’re talking about have broad applications, from looking at malaria to seeing how plants grow. We want to understand protein function and, more importantly, dysfunction in the context of diseases...