Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2024-2025
MUSI 223 - MONSTERS AND BARDS
Long Title: MONSTERS AND BARDS
Department: Music
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: Discussion course examines artistic representations of monsters and bards: cultural icons that have figured prominently in historic documents, film and television, opera, ballet, art, literature, and games. Tracing the development of these concepts from the Middle Ages to the modern day, the course explores ways in which music affects perceptions of monsters and bards, complicating their place in the worlds they inhabit, real and imagined. Topics include approaches to violence, crusading, barbarians, otherness, macabre and gothic aesthetics, orientalism, colonialism, romantic love, chivalry, and religious spirituality.