BC Splash Splash Spring 2011 Arts Course Catalog — Arts A132: From Bach to Rock: Intro to Classical Music and appreciate art without knowing anything about the artist Appreciation or the history. Using Wolfflin’s five tensions of art as a guide, James Voge you’ll learn how to appreciate art and also a few terms to From “Family Guy” to Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons, impress your friends. classical music can be heard everyday throughout many dif- Open to students grades 10 through 12 ferent media. Commercials, movies, musicals and television Sun 11:00am–11:50am shows name only some of these media. This class will overview some of the greatest composers and most popular composi- tions of classical music (and where you’ve heard them), focus A142: How to Put on a Concert on the music’s relevancy today and discuss social values about Michael Kitlas why it’s not part of “mainstream” culture. Composers dis- Learn the in’s and out’s of concerts from the beginning plan- cussed include Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Debussy, ning stage to day of set up. Students will learn about how to Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Chopin, among others. choose a venue, how to work with agents and artists as well Open to students grades 9 through 12 as the general planning and execution process of a concert, Sun 10:00am–10:50am whether it is big or small. Sun 11:00am–11:50am Open to students grades 11 through 12 Sun 2:00pm–3:50pm Sun 12:00pm–1:50pm A123: The art of Djing Scott Masek Want to learn how to dj? Want to learn more about electronic A137: Practical Sewing for Everyday Life music? Come learn how to become the life of the party in Rachel Schmit one short hour! You’ll get the basic knowledge to figure out Have you ever had a seam come undone, a rip or tear in how to make a party a great one your clothing, a button pop off, or just had something fit not Open to students grades 9 through 12 exactly the way you wanted? Instead of giving it to your Sun 10:00am–10:50am Grandmother to fix it, paying a tailor, or just throwing it Sun 11:00am–11:50am out, you can easily learn to fix small to not-so-small problems by yourself and in very little time. Sewing is not just for housewives from the 1800’s! It’s a great skill for everyone A155: Boston College Photography Hike to know. We will start from the basics of starting a knot, Jacqueline Chiofalo sewing on a button, doing a running stitch, closing up holes, This is a basic photography class that will teach the basic and more. functions available on digital cameras. While walking around Open to students grades 9 through 12 the Boston College campus, we will apply techniques and Sun 12:00pm–1:50pm skills to taking better pictures! Students should bring a digi- tal camera from home. (any digital camera will do!) Open to students grades 9 through 12 A183: Who Is Arcade Fire? - How College Radio, Sun 11:00am–12:50pm Blogs and Social Media Have Changed the Music In- Sun 1:00pm–2:50pm dustry Neil Patch, Kevin Nihill After the Canadian band Arcade Fire won a Grammy for A130: Duct Tape Crafts Best Album, many viewers responded to the award with con- Ruth Byers fusion: How could they beat out Katy Perry and Eminem? Want make a duct tape wallet, bag, bracelet, skirt, or self- Who is Arcade Fire? This course will not only directly answer portrait? Come to this class to try! Learn some basic tips that question, but explain how the evolution of college radio, and tricks, and then let you imagination run! blogs, and social media have changed the music industry over Open to students grades 9 through 12 the last decade. Sun 11:00am–11:50am Open to students grades 9 through 12 Class is FULL! Sun 12:00pm–12:50pm A145: Talking About Art 101 A118: Basic Dance Technique: Hip-Hop 101 Barron Flood Michela Gacioch Have you ever gone to a museum and been completely baffled This course will introduce students to the world of hip-hop by the art? Do you like paintings but want to be able to dance. Participants will learn basic choreography and tech- appreciate them more? Do you just want to look at nice pic- nique, all while gaining confidence, getting a great workout, tures? In this class we’ll look at paintings (most of them in and having fun! museums in Boston) and talk about how to go to a museum Open to students grades 9 through 12 1 BC Splash Splash Spring 2011 Arts Sun 1:00pm–2:50pm Guayasamn, a world famous Ecuadorian painter, used his can- vases to criticize, to sympathize, and to inspire. We’re going to take a look at how his work intersects with historic events A168: Improv Comedy Workshop in Latin America. He was a champion of indigenous rights Riley Madincea in a prejudiced society and bravely revealed government- An introduction to various short-form improv games and sanctioned injustices. warm-ups in the style of Who’s Line Is It Anyway. Open to students grades 10 through 12 Open to students grades 9 through 12 Sun 3:00pm–3:50pm Sun 1:00pm–1:50pm Sun 2:00pm–2:50pm A208: African Dance TIanna Ransom, marsha Jean-louis A128: Music at the Movies Come learn the dances of the Motherland!! Hilary Chasse Open to students grades 9 through 12 From scores to soundtracks, the use of music has shaped the Sun 3:00pm–3:50pm tone of movies from the silent film era to the modern 3-D blockbusters. See how the creative use of music to express drama has developed throughout the last century by viewing A210: Jewelery Making!! clips from films and listening to iconic original songs that Amelja Kukli, Nicole Foisy, Sara Missert, Amber Bus have become synonymous with the stories they accompany. Do you love to wear jewelery? Do you want to make your Musicals to melodrama, action to Art House, every form of own? Then this is the class for you!! In this class you will film will be covered. explore the various types of homemade jewelery. In partic- Open to students grades 9 through 12 ular we will be making a variety of friendship bracelets and Sun 1:00pm–2:50pm earrings. Sun 3:00pm–4:50pm Open to students grades 9 through 12 Sun 3:00pm–4:50pm Class is FULL! A237: Design Intelligence for the Non-Designer Keegan Dougherty Design intelligence is a practice that results in the objects A159: Beginner Origami that populate our lives: books, iPods, desks, chairs, websites, Xing (Ellie) Hou buildings, and so on. Simply put, every man-made object Need a last minute gift idea? Bored out of your mind? Want in your life spent months or even years as an idea, a sketch, to impress someone with your super awesome creative skills? and a prototype long before it made it into your hands. The Come and learn to make decorations, animals, or just about process by which these objects are made is at once abstract anything with only paper. No messy glue or cutting involved. and pragmatic, yielding highly productive results, yet so far Open to students grades 9 through 12 has been limited to schools of design. This course proposes Sun 4:00pm–4:50pm to engage a larger audience and look at design intelligence as an intellectual practice for thinkers in any field, enriching and enhancing their work and opening their eyes to the thought A140: Building your Fashion Portfolio process that goes into the objects that surround them. Marie Rose Muir, Alexandra Nafash Open to students grades 9 through 12 Never know what to wear in the morning? Come to our class Sun 2:00pm–2:50pm and create your own look book so you’ll never be out of fash- ionably fashionable ideas. We will look through your favorite magazines and find the styles that fits you. Fashion is the A122: Activism and Art: The Struggle for Social chance to be creative and express yourself. Don’t miss out! Justice in Latin America Open to students grades 9 through 12 Kristen Zale Sun 4:00pm–4:50pm If a picture says a thousand words, what will an artist say? 2 BC Splash Splash Spring 2011 Humanities Course Catalog — Humanities H179: James Joyce: the Heart of Dublin Then this is the class for you! There will be short film clips Elizabeth Gavin followed by discussion. This will be a great opportunity to This course will explore the world of James Joyce, as an discuss your opinions with other teenagers and to expand author strongly rooted in the city of Dublin. We will focus your world view. on the opening passages of the text of Ulysses, exploring the Open to students grades 9 through 12 layers of meaning to be found in a single sentence and the de- Sun 10:00am–10:50am vices that Joyce utilizes in the creation of such a monumental Sun 11:00am–11:50am work. Open to students grades 10 through 12 Sun 10:00am–10:50am H133: The Hero’s Journey: The Only Story Ever Told Dan Baumann H116: Behind the Music: Pythagoras’ and Plato’s Have you ever noticed the little similarities that nearly all Philosophy of Music stories share? There are basic building blocks present in the Corey Yarochowicz narrative of every movie, novel, television show, or video Let’s face it- the Greeks were the most awesome civiliza- game.