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 The mission of the College of Arts & Letters is to study and teach the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. What makes us unique is that we approach the traditional humanities taking science and technology studies as our starting points. The underlying philosophy is that one can broach the study of history from the viewpoints of the history of science or the history of technology, philosophy from the philosophy of science, literature from the fields of literature and science or science fiction, sociology from the sociology of science, art and music through technology, and so on. Stevens has an STS program (variously Science, Technology and Society, or Science and Technology Studies), but the College of Arts & Letters is not a college devoted solely to STS. Rather, the defining idea behind this College is just the opposite. We believe that considerations of science and technology can and ought to be infused into the traditional disciplines of the humanities. No other school does anything like this, and, in fact, no existing academic label or rubric captures this distinctive institutional mission of integrating science and technology perspectives into the traditional humanities and social sciences.
The College of Arts & Letters, even though devoted to viewing the humanities through the lens of science and technology, does not reject traditional liberal arts educational curriculums or goals. Indeed, it is our conviction that one can get to the eternal truths of the Greek genius or celebrate the great achievements of medieval or Renaissance art and literature, for example, no less from the intellectual vantage points of science and technology studies, than through the more traditional list of classic Great Books. These more traditional approaches are not timeless, but themselves historical products. The novel approach defining the College of Arts & Letters at Stevens would seem to be most fitting, not only for Stevens, but for the world we inhabit today. Hence our motto, "Tradition Informed by Today."
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Music and Technology Program Director Andy Brick is happy to announce that on July 11, 2009 he will be conducting the North Carolina Symphony and Concert Singers of Cary at the 7000 seat Koka Booth Amphitheatre.
Founded in 1932 and based in spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, the state's capital city, and an outdoor summer venue at Regency Park in nearby Cary, NC, The North Carolina Symphony is a vital and honored component of North Carolina's cultural life. Its 175 performances annually are greeted with enthusiasm throughout the state.
Professor Brick will lead the orchestra through a program... [Click here for more...] |
| Prof. David Musial recently co-produced a Ballad in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King titled "I Have A Real Dream". Musial wrote the lyrics and his associate Steve Clark from Germany wrote the melody and hired the Prague Symphonic Orchestra to record the music. Music arranged for seven of the artists from his Smart Trax Media company to perform the vocals. David produced and engineered a total of 192 vocal tracks with off of the singers delivering lead as well as harmony vocals. Musial travelled to Prince Edward Island one weekend in October to record the newest artist signed to his One World Artists Management company and the mission was honored with a feature article... [Click here for more...] |
| Prof. Andy Brick Orchestrates Halo for the Seattle Symphony
Prof. Andy Brick is pleased to announce the completion of work on his concert orchestration of music from the blockbuster video game series Halo 1,2 and 3. Prof. Brick worked with famed Halo composer Marty O'Donnell to create this dynamic score. The score, which included professor Brick's premier orchestration of music from Halo 3 received its debut performances with the Fort Worth and Seattle Symphonies.
From Wikipedia...
"[Halo] has been praised as being among the best and most influential first-person shooters on a game console, with Halo being the Microsoft Xbox's "killer app".... [Click here for more...] |
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