21L.021: Comedy is a HASS class, specifically a CI-H (writing intensive class), although it is one of the most laid back classes I've taken. According to the older students in the class it was one of the more interesting and less rigorous CI-H's.
I LOVED this class haha! Very enjoyable!
The class (like most CI-H's) has two essays, one revision, and a final essay. We read a couple plays and saw a few movies (see the list below). Overall, the professor, Dr. Peter Donaldson, was the one who made the class the amazingness that it is. He was very funny (as a comedy professor should be), considerate/nice, laid-back, and is extremely knowledgeable about Shakespeare on film. If you like plays or funny movies I would highly consider taking the class.
The Plays We Read:
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Comedy of Errors
The Menaechmi
Twelfth Night
Waiting for Godot
The Importance of Being Earnest
Films We Saw:
Some Like it Hot (dir. Billy Wilder, 1959)
Bringing Up Baby (dir. Howard Hawks, 1938)
The Awful Truth (dir. Leo McCarey, 1937)
Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen, 1977)
Modern Times (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1936)
To Be or Not To Be (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
Dr. Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
The Big Lebowski
Young Frankenstein
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