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WMST BC 1050x Women and Health

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Ambassadors/Librarians: Barnardzines (talk), Megs (talk)

Interdisciplinary introduction emphasizing interaction of biological and sociocultural influences on women's health, and exploring health disparities among women as well as between women and men. Current biomedical knowledge presented with empirical critiques of research and medical practice in specific areas such as occupational health, cardiology, sexuality, infectious diseases, reproduction, etc.

ENGL BC 3993y The Worlds of Shange

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Ambassadors/Librarians: Bibliovani (talk), Megs (talk)

This seminar provides an in-depth exploration of the work of Ntozake Shange. A poet, performance artist, playwright and novelist, Shange's stylistic innovations in drama, poetry and fiction and attention to the untold lives of black women have made her an influential figure throughout American arts. We will examine Shange's work in a range of political/artistic contexts (the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Feminisms and Second Wave Feminism) and from multidisciplinary perspectives. Texts will include Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf; If I can cook, you know God can; Liliane; Sassafrass, Cyprus and Indigo; Spell#7 and The Love Space Demands. These works will be partnered with significant related texts such as Adrienne Kennedy's Funny House of a Negro and Michelle Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.

Rigor and Romance of Dance

Ongoing collaboration with Barnard's Pre-College Program
Ambassador/Librarian: Megs (talk)

So you think you know dance? This non-studio dance course will examine several major dance traditions, among them classical ballet, modern dance, tap, ballroom dance, and dancing for the camera. The class will use Barnard’s excellent Media Services collection and the world-famous Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center as we learn to critically analyze, write about, and discuss various forms of dance through film, readings and live performances. We will attend performances at theaters in the city and, perhaps, relevant art exhibitions, as well as take a class in one kind of social dance at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night's Swing!