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| Course ID: | WMST(MUSI) 4310/6310. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Gender and Music Video | Course
Description: | Examination of music videos from the 1980s until the present.
Music videos will be treated as texts from which we can glean
cultural understanding as well as explore new ways of analyzing
aesthetic communication and musical meaning. | | Oasis Title: | Gender and Music Video | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in WMST 4310W, MUSI 4310W | | Prerequisite: | Third-year or fourth-year student standing or permission of department. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | Upon successful completion of this course, students will possess
a theoretical toolkit which will allow them to analyze musical
and visual media in terms of gender theory, popular music
studies, postmodern theory, and musical analysis. | | Topical Outline: | Week One: About Music Video
Week Two: Some Theoretical Models (Postmodernism, Gender Theory)
Week Three: Analytical Models
Week Four: Male-Address Video
Week Five: Masculinity, Androgyny, and Gender Bending
Week Six: The Gendered Gaze and Female-Address Video
Week Seven: Two Case Studies: Madonna and k.d. lang
Week Eight: Stardom and Identity
Week Nine: Music Video and Social Criticism
Week Ten: The Body: Empowerment or Objectification?
Week Eleven: Pornography and Prostitution
Week Twelve: Militant Masculinity and Orientalism
Week Thirteen-Fifteen: Final Projects | | Honor Code Reference: | Students in this course agree not to plagiarize material (texts
and concepts) that are not their own. Students may not receive
outside assistance on any assignment without the prior approval
of the instructor. Students will be held to the UGA Student
Honor Code. | |
| Course ID: | WMST(MUSI) 4310W. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Gender and Music Video |
Course
Description: | Examination of music videos from the 1980s until the present.
Music videos will be treated as texts from which we can glean
cultural understanding as well as explore new ways of analyzing
aesthetic communication and musical meaning. |
| Oasis Title: | GENDER MUSIC VIDEO |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in WMST(MUSI) 4310/6310 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This version of the course will be taught as writing intensive,
which means that the course will include substantial and
ongoing writing assignments that a) relate clearly to course
learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline-
for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility,
and format; and c) prepare students for further writing in
their academic work, in
graduate school, and in professional life. The written
assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of
written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages) and the
instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the
course) will be closely involved in student writing, providing
opportunities for feedback and substantive revision. |
| Prerequisite: | Third-year or fourth-year student standing or permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Upon successful completion of this course, students will
possess a theoretical toolkit which will allow them to analyze
musical and visual media in terms of gender theory, popular
music studies, postmodern theory, and musical analysis.
Students will also learn the cultural and material history of
music video and how it ties into the history of North American
popular music over the last 25 years. |
| Topical Outline: | Students will gain independent competency in these course
objectives through weekly writing of response papers, analyses,
group activities, a formal paper, and in-class presentations.
The final paper should be 8-12 pages in length.
Week One: About Music Video
Week Two: Some Theoretical Models (Postmodernism, Gender Theory)
Week Three: Analytical Models
Week Four: Male-Address Video
Week Five: Masculinity, Androgyny, and Gender Bending
Week Six: The Gendered Gaze and Female-Address Video
Week Seven: Two Case Studies: Madonna and k.d.lang
Week Eight: Stardom and Identity
Week Nine: Music Video and Social Criticism
Week Ten: The Body: Empowerment or Objectification?
Week Eleven: Pornography and Prostitution
Week Twelve: Militant Masculinity and Orientalism
Week Thirteen-Fifteen: Final Projects |
| Honor Code Reference: | Students in this course agree not to plagiarize material (texts
and concepts) that are not their own. Students may not receive
outside assistance on any assignment without the prior approval
of the instructor. Students will be held to the UGA Student
Honor Code. |
Syllabus: No Syllabus Available
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