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Shakespeare schooling online
Jun. 7th, 2005 08:15 amPresented here so that others who are interested can benefit as well:
The option I'm going to take - The Teaching Company. Lecture series on a variety of subjects. I can listen to CDs at my desk at work, so "audio CD" is going to be what I get. I'm sure I can look up all the visuals I need online. (And to tell the truth, I can't imagine why I'd want to buy a transcript. That's what notes are for...)
I've heard about them before, even gotten a catalog or two, but their prices were always beyond insane - for $300 and up, I'll go to a real class, thankyouverymuch. However, I note that they're having a summer sale, bringing the prices from ludicrous to merely expensive; I can't afford to buy up every class I'd be interested in, but I can pop for one or two, and that will fix my problem.
ETA: Several of these classes to turn out to be available on ebay for significant discounts. Wish me luck on the auction for the one on Shakespeare.
More exhaustive and more expensive is the University of Central Lancashire's online Shakespeare classes.
During the academic year we will study at least 12 of Shakespeare’s 37 plays in considerable detail and the course covers key plays from each of the main genres - Comedy, History and Tragedy. Throughout the programme we will be interrogating different theoretical and critical approaches to Shakespeare, but a particular emphasis will be placed on theorising performance. Moreover, throughout the course, the plays are read as providing a crucial formative access to the performative conditions of theory itself, especially insofar as the range of ways in which Shakespeare continues to reinvented and restaged presents a challenge to over-prescriptive forms of interpretation.
I'm not sure what's sadder - that that academic babble makes perfect sense to me, or that it sounds quite interesting. This isn't a good fit for a variety of reasons - I'd have to dangle another 5 months without knowing what my situation would be like then, it would cost close to a grand to take all three classes, and I'd need time and money to get extra books.
Still, it looks cool, so I'm squirrelling this away in memories for future consideration.
The option I'm going to take - The Teaching Company. Lecture series on a variety of subjects. I can listen to CDs at my desk at work, so "audio CD" is going to be what I get. I'm sure I can look up all the visuals I need online. (And to tell the truth, I can't imagine why I'd want to buy a transcript. That's what notes are for...)
I've heard about them before, even gotten a catalog or two, but their prices were always beyond insane - for $300 and up, I'll go to a real class, thankyouverymuch. However, I note that they're having a summer sale, bringing the prices from ludicrous to merely expensive; I can't afford to buy up every class I'd be interested in, but I can pop for one or two, and that will fix my problem.
ETA: Several of these classes to turn out to be available on ebay for significant discounts. Wish me luck on the auction for the one on Shakespeare.
More exhaustive and more expensive is the University of Central Lancashire's online Shakespeare classes.
During the academic year we will study at least 12 of Shakespeare’s 37 plays in considerable detail and the course covers key plays from each of the main genres - Comedy, History and Tragedy. Throughout the programme we will be interrogating different theoretical and critical approaches to Shakespeare, but a particular emphasis will be placed on theorising performance. Moreover, throughout the course, the plays are read as providing a crucial formative access to the performative conditions of theory itself, especially insofar as the range of ways in which Shakespeare continues to reinvented and restaged presents a challenge to over-prescriptive forms of interpretation.
I'm not sure what's sadder - that that academic babble makes perfect sense to me, or that it sounds quite interesting. This isn't a good fit for a variety of reasons - I'd have to dangle another 5 months without knowing what my situation would be like then, it would cost close to a grand to take all three classes, and I'd need time and money to get extra books.
Still, it looks cool, so I'm squirrelling this away in memories for future consideration.
