Reading Art |
1001 (001) |
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Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.
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Class Number
1664
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 1501
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FYS I:Consider This |
1001 (001) |
Joanna Anos
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Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Consider the ordinary and extraordinary, the word and world, this color, this art, this way of seeing and being. Writing topics are various in this writing course, but learning objectives are the same: for students to discover the complexity of their thinking through exploration and inquiry and to broaden their expressive and analytical skills. Readings will include writings by essayists, naturalists, and artists. Students maintain a writer�s notebook, prepare short compositions, and write and revise several essays.
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Class Number
1638
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 112
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Reading Art |
1001 (002) |
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Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.
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Class Number
1551
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 501
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FYS I: Curiosities |
1001 (002) |
Joanna Anos
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Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
To have curiosity is to be inquisitive, to wonder and to want to know. To be a curiosity, on the other hand, is to be a novelty or rarity, something odd or unusual or strange. In this writing intensive course, students explore curiosities, practice wonder, and pursue questioning. Readings include verbal and visual texts: essays and articles, photographs and artifacts. Students write and revise several essays of modest length, including analyses of visual texts and their own �curated collection� of curiosities.
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Class Number
1527
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
Lakeview - 205
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Reading Art |
1001 (003) |
Sophie Goalson
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Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.
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Class Number
1665
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
Lakeview - 206
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FYS I: Mystic, Poet, Sorceress, Nun |
1001 (003) |
Sherry Antonini
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Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course will focus on texts by ancient and medieval women dating from the earliest years of recorded writings and spanning time up to the Renaissance. Who were the women writing during those mysterious periods? To whom were they speaking and what did they dare to say? For some of them, relatively few of their works have survived for us to read, so our investigation will include consideration of a combination of factors that are relevant to each such as historical perspectives, specific life circumstances, and, of course, the content of their writing. Writers we will study will include Sappho, Sei Shonagon, Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pizan, and Akka Mahadevi, among others. As a First Year Seminar I course, the essay writing focus of this class will be to develop and build skills in writing response and analytical essays related to assigned readings, research, and class discussion. The final project will be a research-based presentation, with a creative component.
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Class Number
1704
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 501
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Reading Art |
1001 (004) |
Aiko Kojima Hibino
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Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.
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Class Number
1552
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
Lakeview - 1428
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FYS I: Witches in the Words |
1001 (004) |
Sherry Antonini
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Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In this course, we?ll read about witches across diverse forms of literature including folk and fairy tales, poetry, plays, and short stories. We?ll read writing by The Brothers Grimm, Octavia Butler, Arthur Miller, Joy Harjo, Rebecca Tamas, Jane Yolan, and Yumiko Kurahashi to trace the footsteps and flight patterns of witches as they appear in various roles such as mother, monster, healer, and teacher. In support of our investigations, we?ll also read selected critique essays from Donald Haase?s Fairy Tales and Feminism and from Emma Donoghue?s Kissing the Witch, a collection of deconstructed and reassembled fairy tales. As a FYSI course, the core emphasis of this class will be developing writing skills in preparation for FYSII courses and other writing assignments across SAIC?s curriculum. Students will engage in comprehensive discussion of these readings, conduct related research, and write response and analytical essays, with a final project that incorporates a creative component
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Class Number
1528
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 501
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FYS I:Music and Society |
1001 (005) |
Emily C. Hoyler, Deborah S. Hochgesang
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Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Music reflects and informs many aspects of society and culture. This course examines the writings of scholars and critics who have argued for various philosophies, functions, and styles of music. Each week, we will feature a topic related to music�s role in society and explore issues of aesthetics, expression, and performance. Writing exercises will focus on a specific writing technique or strategy. Students will develop critical thinking skills by evaluating the effectiveness of an author�s argument through rhetoric, logic, and evidence. Students will practice making claims and presenting arguments that are successfully supported by writing style, sources, structure, and reason. Students will read a selection of music scholars, critics, and writing specialists, including but not limited to Joseph Auner, Jane Bernstein, Susan Douglas, Hua Hsu, Mark Katz, Alex Ross, and Kate Turabian. Topics vary but may include opera, film music, modernism, music technology, protest music, text setting, and musical genre. In addition to in-class writing assignments, students will write an original research paper, broken down into several assignments/drafts. Students should expect to write 15-20 double-spaced pages over the course of the term, including revisions based on instructor and peer feedback.
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Class Number
1705
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 620
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FYS I:Music and Society |
1001 (005) |
Emily C. Hoyler, Deborah S. Hochgesang
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Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Music reflects and informs many aspects of society and culture. This course examines the writings of scholars and critics who have argued for various philosophies, functions, and styles of music. Each week, we will feature a topic related to music�s role in society and explore issues of aesthetics, expression, and performance. Writing exercises will focus on a specific writing technique or strategy. Students will develop critical thinking skills by evaluating the effectiveness of an author�s argument through rhetoric, logic, and evidence. Students will practice making claims and presenting arguments that are successfully supported by writing style, sources, structure, and reason. Students will read a selection of music scholars, critics, and writing specialists, including but not limited to Joseph Auner, Jane Bernstein, Susan Douglas, Hua Hsu, Mark Katz, Alex Ross, and Kate Turabian. Topics vary but may include opera, film music, modernism, music technology, protest music, text setting, and musical genre. In addition to in-class writing assignments, students will write an original research paper, broken down into several assignments/drafts. Students should expect to write 15-20 double-spaced pages over the course of the term, including revisions based on instructor and peer feedback.
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Class Number
1705
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 620
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FYS I: How to Read a Poem |
1001 (006) |
Zachary Tavlin
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Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
FYS I prepares students for advanced study in the Liberal Arts by attending to the foundational skills of college-level writing and interpretation, such as close reading, critical analysis, academic argumentation, essay structure, and style. This first-year seminar focuses our attention on poetry. While it's common for students to find poems baffling or even alienating, we will practice the kinds of reading skills and receptive states of mind that open poetry up to understanding and enjoyment. By reading, discussing, and writing about a small number of short poems every week (drawn from a variety of poets, periods, and places) we will see how reading poetry well does not require elite or occult knowledge but patience, interest, attention, and curiosity. Students will practice reading slowly and closely and writing about poetry in a way that reproduces that slowness and closeness in their own prose. Students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing.
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Class Number
1529
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 501
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FYS I:Writing About Art |
1001 (007) |
Fred Camper
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Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This is a writing course, with the goals of helping you write excellent basic English and developing your skills in presenting arguments, using careful observations of art works and careful readings of writings on art. Reading is one way of improving your writing, and we will study essays almost entirely by artists, likely including photographers (Paul Strand and Edward Weston), painters (Gerhard Richter and Agnes Martin), sculptors (Constantin Brancusi), filmmakers (Dziga Vertov and Maya Deren), architects (Louis Sullivan), and conceptual artists (Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer). We will view art by the artists whose work we consider, and discuss both how their written statements connect with their work and the larger problem of using writing to describe and interpret visual art. There will be short assignments on the writing and work of the artists we consider, and one assignment in which you write an artist's statement, either for the work you are now making or for the work you hope to make. There will also be a research paper on an artist of your choice with the instructor's approval, in which you argue a thesis about that artist's work. Each of these assignments will also be revised based on the instructor's comments, and the minimum length of all together will be at least 7,500 words.
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Class Number
1530
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 112
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FYS I: Rewired by Colonization |
1001 (008) |
Suman Chhabra
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Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
We associate colonization with large-scale consequences of violence and diaspora. But what about the less obvious impacts of colonization, those that have become everyday and have rewired the minds of a culture? In our class we will examine subtler forms of colonization on South Asians, particularly those who live in America and the UK. By turning the word anglophile in our hands, we will study how colonization continues through the English language, colorism, and the model minority myth. In addition to readings, we will watch films (such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist) and listen to albums (Riz Ahmed�s The Long Goodbye). In our FYS I class, we will develop our critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. This is a studio writing class in which we will focus on writing as a process. We will freewrite, formulate conceptual questions for the readings/films/albums, write responses, and compose and revise 15-20 pages in multidraft essays. Students will direct the topic of the final essay based on their individual inquiry. FYS I develops college-level writing skills, prepares one for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts courses, and allows one to improve expressing their ideas in writing.
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Class Number
1706
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 818
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FYS I: Good Grief |
1001 (009) |
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Thurs
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
In Person
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Description
What does it mean to grieve? To perform sadness & loss? Who is the audience? Where is the stage? This first year seminar focuses on writing as self care, writing to breakthrough, and writing to/for our own collective trauma. We will read & consider a range of art & writing from Alison Bechdel, to Rachel Cusk, Sally Mann & Virginia Woolf. We will also welcome, (but not require) stories of our own losses and unimaginable pain, in turn examining, through deep concentration and discussion; something permanent and good. Students will complete 15-20 pages of writing (2 essays followed by a substantial revision) in addition to in-class writing, presentations, and peer workshopping.
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Class Number
1532
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
Lakeview - 205
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FYS I: Minds and Machines |
1001 (011) |
Guy Elgat
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Mon
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
In Person
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Description
What are minds? What is it to have a mind, to have consciousness? How, if at all, are minds different from machines? In this course, by reading pieces by Shaffer, Carruthers, and Searle, we will become acquainted with these concepts and issues and learn how to think about them in a more informed and critical fashion. The course is writing intensive: students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing (i.e. two essays and two in-depth revisions) in addition to homework exercises and in-class writing and discussion.
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Class Number
1641
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
Lakeview - 202
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FYS I: Dreams: Intro to Psychoanalysis |
1001 (012) |
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Wed
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This writing-intensive seminar will explore what psychoanalysis and aesthetics offer us in an attempt to feel our way around a gap, a hole, that both traditions posit at the center of human experience. Psychoanalysis, regarded from its inception as ?the talking cure,? has taken its impetus from precisely that which cannot be spoken. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the first psychoanalyst, organized this new practice of managing the unconscious stifling of desire under modern life around processes beyond speech such as the dream, hysterical symptom, repetition compulsion, trauma, and the return of the repressed?-all of which testify to a certain pressure that drives our being in language even as it escapes capture in words. Aesthetic experience, like psychoanalysis, finds its power in a play of representation that brings us to the edge of what we can represent, and, in so doing, pushes us into contact with the force exerted within and between us by the unrepresentable. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the foundational theorist of modern aesthetics, conceived of aesthetic experience?-of the experience of the beautiful and the sublime?-as a momentary seizure by the feeling of ourselves as beings who cohere around something that we can feel but cannot express, that we can neither rationally explain nor communicate to one another. We will begin with a series of texts in psychoanalysis and aesthetics, and then we will conclude by turning our attention to a series of artistic forms as we use the concepts we have studied to think about painting, film, literature, music, and voice. Using in-class writing exercises and three short paper assignments with drafts and revisions, we will try to collectively develop a style of reading, of writing, and of thinking together that is attentive to feeling and affect rather than exclusively concerned with meaning, understanding, or information. Our writing together will be both an opportunity to learn and refine technical dimensions of writing and also to take seriously writing as a creative space for going beyond technique and into aesthetic invention.
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Class Number
1533
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
Lakeview - 1428
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FYS I: Edward Yang |
1001 (013) |
Annette Elliot-Hogg
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Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Taiwanese director Edward Yang is a poet of film. His intimate epics exhibit a mastery of form characterized by meditative narrative rhythms, long takes, medium shots over close-ups, and a detached, static camera. In this class, we will formally analyze three films�Taipei Story (1985), A Brighter Summer Day (1991) and Yi Yi (2000) to understand how cinematic techniques work together to create meaning in a film. We will also examine the films within the broader context of the Taiwanese New Wave. First Year Seminar I is an intensive writing course. In class, we will engage deeply with course materials in productive discussions that will foster critical thinking and inform student writing. In addition to weekly homework assignments and in-class writing, students can expect to compose and revise 15-20 pages of formal writing through a process approach to hone their argumentative skills and build their confidence in expressing their ideas clearly and effectively.
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Class Number
1708
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
Lakeview - 1428
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FYS I:Irish Literature |
1001 (014) |
Eileen Favorite
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Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course first explores the myths and folktales of pre-Christian Ireland. We read about dolmen and druids, Maeve, Queen of Connacht, Finn MacCool, Deirdre, and Cuichulain. How do battle-hungry, sexually-charged Celts compare to characters in James Joyce's Dubliners' Historical texts (including How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill) examine how the status of women changed after the arrival of Roman (vs. Celtic) Catholicism, the Book of Kells, and the long-term effects of the Great Famine on the Irish character. Contemporary fiction writers studied include, W.B. Yeats, Eavan Boland, Rosemary Mahoney, and postmodern favorite Flann O'Brien, among others, with a focus on the influence of Celtic myths on contemporary Irish life and writing.
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Class Number
1534
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 111
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FYS I:The Rocky Childhood |
1001 (015) |
Eileen Favorite
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Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
In this writing-intensive course, we'll read coming-of-age novels and memoirs from influential contemporary writers. Students will engage in close readings of texts that interrogate concepts of resilience, racism, and economic and class oppression as childhood struggles. Writers will include Jeannette Walls, Allison Bechdel, and Kiese Laymon. CONTENT WARNING: The content and discussion in this course will necessarily sometimes engage with issues of human suffering, including physical and sexual abuse. Students will write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing. In-class activities include peer review, workshopping, and free writing to generate paper topics, including a formal, argument-driven paper.
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Class Number
1709
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
MacLean 301
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FYS I: Writing About Music |
1001 (016) |
Emily C. Hoyler, Deborah S. Hochgesang
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Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Music is sometimes called the universal language, yet writers often seek to describe it in words. Music scholars, music critics, music fans, and musicians use words to describe music and to make claims about its merits. This course will explore various styles, techniques, and vocabularies for writing about musical sound and performance. The focus will be on reviews of live concerts, album releases, and film music. Students will develop critical thinking skills by evaluating the effectiveness of an author�s argument. Students will practice making claims and presenting arguments that are successfully supported by writing style, sources, evidence, structure, and logic. Students will read various articles, essays, and chapters about music by historical and contemporary music scholars, critics, and journalists. Topics vary but may include film music, art music and modernism, music technology, and the recording industry, with a focus on music in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States. In addition to in-class writing assignments, students will write an original research paper, broken down into several assignments/ drafts. Students should expect to write 15-20 double-spaced pages over the course of the term, including revisions based on instructor and peer feedback.
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Class Number
1535
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Credits
3
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Department
Liberal Arts
Location
Lakeview - 206
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