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...wrote in an e-mailed statement. “We’ve seen a glut of revised syllabi in the last few weeks.” Students who were worried that Literature and Arts B-51: “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres?? may not be taught again can now rest assured—it will count both toward the Core and Gen Ed’s Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement in Fall 2009. The majority of newly approved classes come from the humanities. Five will count toward the “Culture and Belief?...
...response rates mean that evaluations simply reflect the views of strongly opinionated students, making it difficult to gauge the overall feeling of the class.Kelly, chair of the Committee on Pedagogical Improvement, requires students in his Literature and Arts B-51 course, “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres?? to hand in a printout confirming their completion of the Q response in order to get into the final lecture.Because students had to write their final essay on this lecture, Kelly boasts one of the best response rates of any professors. All but two of the 205 students...
...Communistas Urbanaia” and “Wading”—the other two premieres??were also impressive. “Communistas,” choreographed by Office for the Arts Dance Assistant Joshua Legg, opened with a stunning silhouette of the entire corps. Michael Torke’s “Change of Address” accompanied most of the dancing throughout the four sections of the piece, but each section’s movement began and ended with silence, providing intense focus on the dancers...
...students will include Historical Study B-54, “World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II”—taught by Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier—Literature and Arts B-51, “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres??; Quantitative Reasoning 50, “Medical Detectives”; and Social Analysis 76, “Global Health Challenges.” Spring courses include Historical Study A-12, “International Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World”; Literature and Arts...
...axiom that proves particularly true in the performing arts is that no matter how hard we try, nothing can ever be as great as it was the first time around. There is just something about premieres??the anxiety, the atmosphere, the surprise—which is almost impossible to replicate...