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102 CORPORATIONS, RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE HOLIDAYS
American corporations often promote large scale relief efforts for their communities around the time of the December holidays. What motivates these efforts? Who benefits? Are corporations really responsible for the communities in which they do business? How can individuals participate in these efforts? In this course, students will examine contemporary theories of social ethics, and will apply them to the corporations we create, staff, and support. Students will also
consider the role their individual roles in community relief efforts. This course meets for five on campus sessions during the December term. Students may take this course for one of the following compoetences: A3X, H2X, FX. Faculty: Donna Steele
AI 103 LEADERSHIP AND APPLIED ETHICS
This course explores a range of ethical issues that students will face in their ministries and the moral principles they can apply to those issues. It will examine the ethical responsibilities and challenges of good professional practice for those serving in ministry today. It will discuss ethical issues that arise in the leadership or management of congregations, communities and organizations. It will examine areas of social ethics that are particular relevant to their African context. In this course, students will study the distinctive assumptions, methods and applications of different ethical systems drawn from traditions such as Christianity, Islam, and African traditional religion. Each student will design and complete an independent learning project for their Focus Area in which they will address an ethical issue they are likely to face in their future ministry. Through this course, therefore, students will develop and demonstrate their competence to analyze a problem using two different ethical systems and to apply the skills of ethical analysis to ministry. (2 competencies) Competences: A4, FX.
AI 104 LEADERSHIP AND CREATIVITY
Creative leaders recognize and express dimensions of the world and society that are often overlooked by others. They are able to respond effectively to new challenges and opportunities in their personal lives and in society. Artists,
performers and creators have an essential vocation that enriches the whole community. In this course, students will expand their appreciation for the importance of creativity. They will look how the arts provide a unique way to understand and interact with culture. They will study the arts in an African context. They will engage in creative activity or performance and reflect on these experiences. They will also explore ways in which they can be more creative in their lives and ministries. Through this course, therefore, students will develop and demonstrate their competence to define and analyze a creative process and to create an original work of art, explore its relationship to artistic form, and reflect on the creative process. (2 competencies) Competences: A5, A2A
AI 105 VISUAL LITERACY AND CHICAGO'S MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Have you ever been confused by the intentions of an artist or at a loss for words when trying to describe a work of art? How many times have you walked through a museum and while looking at a work of art said to yourself, ?I could do that!? This course will introduce a series of skills ranging from simple identification to complex interpretation that will help us read both images and text and find meaning in a variety of contemporary art forms, from painting to sculpture, and photography to installation. The course will focus on the cultural, moral, and aesthetic value of art exhibited in Chicago?s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). The course will begin by exploring the MCA?s exhibition Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect. Holzer's work combines text and installation to investigate emotional and societal realities that shape everyday life. As the course continues we explore the MCA?s USA Today exhibit that features work created mostly during the 1980s and 90s, but reveals the continuing relevance and complexity of topics such as freedom of expression, militarism, the dynamics of race, human and economic consequences of globalization, and other defining elements of society today. Art making activities will occur throughout the course to help us explore visual literacy through expressing thoughts and ideas in visual form. Throughout the course students will maintain a visual journal based upon some of the following activities: museum visits, classroom discussions, outside observations, and art making experiences. A culminating group project will investigate a specific cultural, aesthetic, or moral topic that has been addressed by a contemporary artist. Competences: A1B, A2A, A5, H1X. Faculty: David McKoski
AI 106 THE RESISTERS: THE LATINA QUEST FOR JUSTICE
This course will introduce students to the issues of violence, oppression and abuse in the lives of U.S. Latinas, here after referred to as Latinas, and in Latin American women?s lives with, for comparison purpose, consideration of the same issues as regards non-Latina women in the U.S. The course will look at the different types of violence, oppression and abuse these women experience as well as the factors that contribute to the situation, such as harmful traditions, discrimination, religion, politics, sexism and war. These factors will be reviewed and analyzed in order to have a better understanding of how they directly affect their lives and contribute to the violence, abuse and oppression they endure. Students will become familiar with the many ways of resistance expressed by Latinas and Latin American women. Because defiance has been demonstrated in various forms, students will therefore be introduced to Latina and Latin American female writers, journalists, artists and activist, who have resisted violence, abuse and oppression and, in their own way, have changed the culture that perpetrates the hostile behavior. Students will learn about women such as Guatemalan Noble Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho, and Latina writers Gloria Anzadua and Cheri Moraga, just to name a few. Students will be introduced to local resisters, as well. Students will also be encouraged to draw connections between their own experiences and that of the women about whom they will be studying. Finally, students will have an opportunity to compare and contrast methods of resistance that exists between these women and women in the U.S. who do not identify as Latinas. Competences: A1X, H1X, H4, A3C. Faculty: Lourdes Rocha
AI 107 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
In this 5 week (2 credit hour) course, you will be introduced to theories and practices of mindfulness meditation from the Buddhist tradition. We will explore in particular how mindfulness meditation can enhance creativity, address the ethical challenges of contemporary life, and foster collaborative learning. Class sessions will involve extensive practice in mindfulness meditation, listening and dialogue. You will be expected to maintain and reflect on a daily mindfulness meditation practice for the duration of the course. While the approach to mindfulness meditation we will use in this class is rooted in Buddhist philosophies of the mind, but it does not require religious or spiritual interpretations. You can register for only one of the following competencies: A-4, A-5, A-3-X, L-7. Faculty: Michael Skelley
AI 108 INTERNATIONAL REALTIONS: WEAPONS, WARS AND A WORLD IN TURMOIL
Today, world politics is making an unpredictable turn and undergoing an historical transition. International relations in the 21st century are more complex and facing more pressing global challenges than the previous century. While the Western nations have enjoyed unparalleled prosperity in recent years, developing nations, mired in debt, burdened in poverty, riddled with diseases ranging from malaria to AIDS, plagued by wars and genocide, are struggling to overcome crisis. Today, global interdependence is very real; events in one region of the world affect other regions in the same or similar ways. Globalization and economic interdependence have made state boundaries less relevant and have undermined old concepts of sovereignty. Due to this fact, the Millennium Summit set out ambitious goals for the world: to reduce poverty, fight disease, promote education, and create peace and stability in many troubled regions of the globe. This course will examine the role of nation-states, international organizations like the United Nations, international law, international crimes court, treaties, and root causes and functions of war and peace in the making of foreign policies that have shaped and reshaped the relationships among nations. We will also focus on ethics in the context of a number of issues and practices in international relations ranging from global inequality, the promotion of human rights, foreign aid, immigration/forced deportation, humanitarian intervention, to terrorism, genocide, war crimes, and the use of torture. Truman Bridge Course. Can be taken for up to 3 competences. Competences: H1C, H2E, A4, H5, FX. Faculty: Anghesom Atsbaha and Dennis Skentzis
AI 109 UNDERSTANDING LIFE EXPERIENCE THROUGH CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
In this course, students will focus on developing writing, critical reading and analysis skills. Students will review and practice the essentials of good writing by building on their particular strengths and improving areas of difficulty. Students will receive individual feedback and guidance from faculty on grammar, idea development, organization, using sources to formulate arguments, and students will learn to give feedback on writing to one another.
This course will give students the opportunity to practice several types of writing including journals, essays and research papers. In this class, students will practice each of these assignments while improving control over the mechanics and process of writing. Particular emphasis will be given to the process of revision as students learn to refine and develop their writing. The class assumes a basic understanding of English grammar and composition. Wright Bridge Course. Can be taken for up to 3 competences. Competences: L7, A1A, A1C, H2X. Faculty: Peggy St. John & Suzanne Sanders-Betzold
AI 110 WHOSE BLUES?
Jeff Todd Titon states in Worlds of Music [Chapter 4: North America/Black America - Jeff Todd Titon, general editor] that the traditional musics of African Americans are perhaps the only contributions to the international music world from the United States. During this course, we will read about and listen to this musical heritage of Black Americans; this will include the origins of Blues in African music, the development of Blues in the US, and the fusion of Blues with various musics of Asia. We will hear musical examples from the text, as well as musical examples from the instructor's personal library which will enhance our understanding of the importance of Blues and its culture in our present society. Competences: A1X, H1X. Faculty: Rebecca Schwan Can only be taken for one competence. 5 week course.
AI 111 HEALTH CARE: RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE
Nations across the globe provide their citizens with subsidized health care. In the contemporary political climate, many people are clamoring for the United States to do the same. What are the issues that define this decision? Does national health care work? Do we deserve subsidized health care? Who benefits? Who doesn?t? What will it cost? In this course, students will examine the notions of providing health care from philosophical, financial and social perspectives. Learner should expect to walk away from this experience with facts, figures, and ideas that will help them make up their own minds about the American health care dilemma. Can only be taken for one competence. Competences: H2A, A4, FX. Faculty: Mark Enenbach
AI 112 EXPLORING CHINA: THE LANGUAGE, THE CULTURE, AND THE VISUAL AND MARTIAL ARTS
This is a course of active learning that requires a student to speak basic Chinese, explore the origin of Chinese characters, paint with brushes, and meditate in motion through Tai Chi. It introduces the fundamental structure of Chinese pronunciation and explores methods and techniques for English speakers to memorize the sound of Chinese words. By introducing students to the pictographic nature of Chinese characters, it engages students in a process of learning through visualizing the ?image? of Chinese characters. In addition to language and culture exploration, students will be introduced to the Chinese philosophy of Yin Yang balance and applies it through their practice of Tai Chi, an ancient form of Chinese martial art for strengthening and relaxation of both body and mind. Can only be taken for one competence. Competences: A1H, H1E. Faculty: Sharon Guan
AI 121 ART AND MEMORY: SCRAPBOOKING
In homes all over America, dining room tables are filled with tiny metal hearts, pictures of adorable toddlers, bags of stickers, and 500 varieties of lettering. Scrapbooking is one of the nation?s fastest growing leisure time activities. Millions of dollars are invested in this peculiar pastime that focuses on not only recording family events, but prettifying them as well. Most of us do not consider ourselves artists, but give us a pair of scissors and some fancy paper and we will create a masterpiece! Students in this experience will learn about the vast array of resources available to scrapbook artists and will begin the process of decoding the relationship between art and craft in this pursuit that is sweeping the nation. Topics will include the definition of scrapbooking and its history; the ways in which art and craft intersect in the scrapbook; how to get started with a scrapbook; the impact of creativity in scrapbooking; and the construction of meaningful works of art and craft. Learners should expect to surf the internet for scrapbooking sources and to visit local scrapbook emporia. This course will meet on campus and online via Blackboard. Competences: A2X, A5, A1X. Faculty: Betta LoSardo and Pamela Sandy
AI 122 A1 /EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EVALUATION: INTERPRETING THE ARTS
A1 /Experiential Learning Evaluation: Interpreting The Arts
AI 123 A2 /EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EVALUATION: CREATIVE EXPRESSION
A2 /Experiential Learning Evaluation: Creative Expression
AI 124 A3 /EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EVALUATION: REFLECTION AND MEANING
A3 /Experiential Learning Evaluation: Reflection And Meaning
AI 125 A4 /EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EVALUATION: CONTEMPORARY ETHICS
A4 Ethics in the Contemporary World. Can analyze a problem using two different ethical systems.
AI 126 A5 /EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EVALUATION: CREATIVITY
A5 Creativity. Can define and analzye a creative process.
AI 142 IMAGES OF ETHNICITY: FAMILY HISTORIES AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS
Students will examine the history of their own immediate family against the backdrop of their ethnic identity. To do this will require gathering genealogical information, visual images (family photographs, newspaper or magazine articles, possibly drawings), oral history (interviews with family members) which reflect the often contradictory forces of cultural preservation and assimilation. Personal investigations will be integrated with original research from local ethnic museums and institutions, the Chicago Historical Society and web-based archives. This research will provide context for your 'tribe's' experiences in Chicago, a city called 'the most ethnically aware in America.' For your final presentations, you will produce a documentary using Microsoft PowerPoint incorporating images, text, voice-over narration and interviews. Scanning services will be provided of existing flat work (photos, etc.) for inclusion in the PowerPoint (Please note that prior experience with PowerPoint is NOT a prerequisite for this course). A reflection paper will also be required describing your research methods and reflections on how you view yourself in the 'melting pot' or, in the new paradigm for a multicultural America, 'the tossed salad.' Competences: A1B, A5, H1X, H3X, S3X Faculty: Michael Boruch
AI 143 A POEM OF ONES OWN: READING AND WRITING POETRY
Ever wondered why it is so hard to read poetry? Ever thought about what marketing, medicine, plumbing, and poetry have in common? Come to 'A Poem of One's Own' and find out. In this class we'll ponder the nature of creativity; we'll discuss and practice techniques for reading, analyzing, and enjoying a wide array of poetry; we'll think about how the poems we read connect to our life experience; and we'll write our own poems and revise and revise them again as we learn something about the process of poetic creation. The class will be a mix of discussion, workshop, audios, film and short lectures. The workshop will include small groups. Competencies: A1C, A2A, A1A, and A5. Faculty: Ann Stanford
AI 144 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
This course will introduce students to the cultural heritage of a nation built on ethnic diversity. From its early European roots to a nation known as a leader in the contemporary art world, this course will examine significant works that have established themselves as representatives of the various periods in American art and culture. Selected works from the Colonial Period, Federal Period, Early Modernist and Postwar Modernist Periods will be introduced. Artists such as Samuel F.B. Morse, John Singleton Copley, John Singer Sargent and Jackson Pollock as well as architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Sullivan will be introduced. Competencies: A1A, A1E, A1B, A1G. Faculty: Staff
AI 145 DOCUMENTARY FILM
Since the invention of the camera, people have used it to document and preserve a moment in history, and to reveal the tragedies and delights of the world around us. Enthusiasm for documentaries has grown tremendously in recent years, achieving a relevancy and popularity that would have been hard to imagine not long ago. This course is intended as an introduction to the documentary form while exploring its relationship to society. Each class session consists of lecture, film screenings, and discussion. Works screened survey the history and range of documentary expression including the classics, as well as examples of challenging work by independent film and videomakers. Along with a consideration of their artistic style, structure and subject content, we will explore the social and political relevance of the films and attempt to assess their historical impact. This course challenges students to develop a critical eye, and to deepen their appreciation of the documentary vision. Competencies: A1X, A5, H1X,H2X. Faculty: Gary Fox
AI 146 IMAGISM AND POETIC VISION IN PLAYWRITING
In this course, students will be inspired to write from within, from the depth of their core. The course will take students on a journey into a world where they will comprehend the incomprehensible, and hear the inaudible. Students will present their intellectual and emotional complexities through words. The result of the journey is a liberation from the limitations of time and space. Through introspective exercises, students will gain an aesthetic appreciation of life. The course will focus on the intensive writing and reading of plays. Competencies: A-2-A, A-5, H-3-F, S-4. Faculty: Ezzat Goushegir
AI 147 ETHICS: HOW GOOD PEOPLE MAKE TOUGH CHOICES
Through life's many lessons, we have learned how to make a decision between what is the right thing to do and what is simply wrong. We can differentiate between good and evil, truth and lies, etc. However, most of our dilemmas do not stem from deciding the correct path, when we are faced with right and wrong decisions. What most often puts us into a quandary is deciding between what is right and what is right. In other words when good people are faced with tough choices, on what basis do they make their decisions? In an era of perceived ethical incertitude and moral skepticism, students will examine how decisions are made based on one of many ethical systems. Students will learn about various ethical systems, and ethicists, such as utilitarianism, deontology, Kant, Aristotle, and Gillian, just to name a few. By the end of the course students should be able to apply their knowledge of moral, ethical and social issues, and have a better understanding of how the tough decisions they make could impact others. Competencies: A4, A3C, A3X, FX. Faculty: Christine Hayda
AI 148 HOW TO BE A CULTURAL ACTIVIST
Freedom of expression vs. censorship. The artist as agent of change or entertainer of the privileged. Intellectual property vs. freeware. The Slow Food movement vs. Globalization. Teaching evolution or creationism. Public education vs. home schooling. These are just a few of the controversies that swirl around the arena of American culture. There are many groups working to preserve the widest access to the arts, culture and means of expression. This course has a definite point of view: which is that creativity is an essential component of a vital democracy. If you believe that creativity should be a national value and national priority - then this course will show you several ways to translate your concern into meaningful action. During this course students will be given an introduction to community organizing strategies and tactics and will be exposed to a number of cultural policy controversies and the key players who are working to make a difference in those areas. We will hear firsthand from cultural activists and learn how to be effective organizers for cultural democracy. This class will combine readings, class exploration and an out-of-class research project where students will pick a cultural cause that is meaningful to them and organize a small event or action around that issue. Competencies: A3X, A5, H1I, H2X. Faculty: Thomas Tresser
AI 149 CHINA/TIBET: VANISHING CULTURES
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. --St. Augustine. China is the world?s fastest growing economy. While economic benefits of its rapid development are clear, what risks are involved in such rapid cultural change? What happens when ancient traditional cultures are devastated by hasty development? What is the human cost of such losses? This course asks students to consider these questions as they encounter regions in China that recent economic development has not yet completely altered from their traditional state. Students will gain valuable understandings of religion, art, history and culture by engaging with present day China while unraveling its rich and complex past. Through visits to cultural centers and interactions with local people, we will experience ethnic minorities in the Kunming area of Yunnan Province, attend a major cultural festival in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, and end the journey with a train ride on the Trans Siberian Railway across the Great Wall into Beijing. Travel: June 2009. Expenses will be approximately $3,500 plus tuition and international course fee of $150. You can register for up to three competencies. Competencies: A1E, A1H, H1B, H1E,H5, E1, E2, L10,11 (LEX). Faculty: Dr. Michael DeAngelis & Susan McGury
AI 150 IRANIAN WOMEN WRITERS AND FILMMAKERS
In this course, students will read the fiction of Iranian women authors and watch films by women directors, who have confronted the censorship, by creating new ways of resistance. Students will respond to these works and research, discuss and reflect upon the social, political and gender context. They will be required to give an oral report on an author or a film of choice, or a written essay. Competences: A1E, A5, H1X, H3B. Faculty: Ezzat Goushegir
AI 151 EXPERIMENTAL PLAYWRITING
The art of seeing has to be learned. In this course, students will explore the possibilities of looking at things differently. By the new way of seeing, they will have a chance to root and challenge BODY, DREAMS, and DEATH in order to find freedom, joy and life. The new language will be born by listening to the mysterious language and music of our body and dreams. The course will focus our body and our desires, and journeying into the origin of words, in order to challenge the old for the new. Students will write many exercises, read works by playwrights such as Helene Cixous and Marguerite Duras, and compose short dramatic pieces of their own. Competences: A2A, A5, H3F, S4. Faculty: Ezzat Goushegir
AI 152 EXPLORING THE ART MUSEUM
This course is designed to introduce students to the art museum as a source of lifelong learning. The museum will be presented as a resource for studying art, first by discussing the purpose, organization and function of art museums and, second, by offering insight into their collections, based on a focus on famous paintings from their collections that have established themselves in western culture. Students will use both paper-based and internet resources to determine the process of selection of art works for their historical, iconographic and symbolic meanings and be able to place them in their historical and chronological context. Competences: A1A, A1B, A1C, A5. Faculty: Phyllis Kozlowski
AI 153 FOLK ART: REFLECTIONS OF DIVERSE CULTURES AND TRADITIONS
This course is designed to acquaint students with works of folk art and to provide an approach to understanding and appreciation through knowledge of kinds of folk art, of its purposes, techniques, form, and content. The course is designed to sensitize the student to the variety of folk art and their importance in the time and culture in which they were created and their importance in contemporary civilization. The theory, history, and mechanics of folk art plus a survey of the major developments in the visual folk arts, and their respective aesthetic criteria are explored through reading and discussion. Visuals in museums, local collections, community-practicing artists, book visuals and visuals on line are used as resources. This course is NOT offered for A2A (requires the production of artwork). Competences: A1B, A1H. A1E, A1D, A1X. Faculty: Linda Hightower
AI 154 BANKS AS PATRONS OF THE ARTS
In Banks as Patrons of the Arts, students will consider the larger role of banks and other corporation with respect to community, especially as provider, preserver, and procurator of the visual arts. Throughout history, banks have led the way in the commissioning, procurement, and dissemination of works of art. Money, power, spirituality and aesthetics have been important elements in the preservation of art in various cultures. The focus of this course is this dilemma. Who creates visual images? Who preserves them? How does the public come to know of them and appreciate them? Where does the corporation fit in this puzzle? How has this question been handled in history? Must commerce and aesthetics be opposed? Do powerful organizations such as banks have a responsibility to develop and protect our visual heritage? Is there a middle ground where beauty and profit can coexist? Competences: A1A, A1X, A2B. Faculty: Susan McGury
AI 155 ANALYZING LEADERSHIP
This course provides a framework from which to identify and analyze 'leadership.' Leadership occurs in all aspects of life, including: business, politics, sports, society, religion, family, education, and culture. But what is leadership? The Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary defines leadership as "the act or an instance of leading," which provides us with little insight. On further investigation, however, the dictionary defines "lead" as [guide] on a way especially by going in advance. Where there is a leader, then, someone or something must follow. This course first explores the interrelationship between a leader and his or her followers and looks at the effect they have on each other. "Good" leadership traits (i.e., effective) and "bad" leadership traits (i.e., ineffective) are then studied from the perspectives of the leaders, the followers, and outsiders. Finally, this course takes a look at leadership from an international perspective. Competences: H-1-C, H-5, A-3-X,
F-X. Faculty: Elizabeth Bleakley
AI 156 FILM COMEDY, AMERICAN STYLE
Since the beginning of cinema, movies have made audiences laugh, and comedy is still the most prevalent film genre around the world. What were the earliest movie comedies like, and has film comedy gotten more "sophisticated"? Is comedy universal (does everyone laugh at the same things)? What lies beneath laughter? What does it mean for something to be funny? What forms of comedy lend themselves particularly well to movies? Do great movIe clowns (e.g. Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, and Jim Carrey) or great comedy directors have anything in common? This course investigates film comedy from these various perspectives, based on American films ranging historically over the 20th century, and on readings from film critics, psychologists, and philosophers. Students who complete this course will have a good working knowledge of American film comedy-its history, its status as a genre, its social and psychological functions, and some of its landmark films and creators. Through readings, writing assignments, and lecture-discussions, students will also become conversant in a few key theories of comedy, and begin to consider them in the context of films. Competencies: A-1-C, A-1-D, H-1-X, H-2-G. Faculty: Gary Fox
AI 157 CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND: A PILGRIMAGE (TRAVEL COURSE)
Cathedrals of England: A Pilgrimage (Travel Course)The inspiration and faith that combined to produce the magnificent cathedrals in Great Britain are worthy subjects for students of art, history, architecture and religion. Our journey of discovery will begin in London and move southward to St. Albans and Canterbury, then on to Gloucester, Lincoln, Durham, with an overnight stay at Holy Island (Lindesfarne) the site of an 8th century Abbey accessible via footpath by day and only by boat after the tide comes in. We will focus on exploring a sense of space as a place for spiritual awakening and renewal, and make connections to our readings and discussions. Competencies: LEX (L10,11), E1,E2, A1A, A1C, A5, H1E, H2B. Faculty: Susan McGury.
AI 158 DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AS HISTORICAL RECORD
Can any photograph from the past be described as a document? The word "document," like the photograph itself, implies "truth." But information, written or visual, requires context and interpretation. What we take from photographs depends upon the things we bring to them. . . foremost being our personal and group perceptions of the world. Did photographer Mathew Brady shape his Civil War coverage for his Northern audience? How were these images seen differently through the eyes of the defeated? And what stories are they telling us and future audiences? Photographs can inform words. Words contextualize photographs. In this class we will examine this relationship and how interpretations of camera images have shaped our lives. Competences: A1E, A2D, H1A, S3A. Faculty: Michael Boruch
AI 159 UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD'S GREAT MOVIES
Cinema is a communication mode that warrants our attention. Through examination
of great international artists and their films, much can be learned about cultures with which we are not familiar. Since our experience of film is mediated by our own experience and by our own curiosity about its creator, during this course our attention will focus not only on film as an artistic expression, but on the experiences of the director, and the circumstances that caused her/his films to be created. Most class time will be spent on viewing and discussing a film; preparation for each class will necessitate background knowledge and film analysis by the learner. Throughout this course the learner will become familiar with internationally known film directors, their works, and the historical background that inspired them to produce their art. Competences: A1E, A3C, H1F, H5, A5. Faculty: Rebecca Schwan.
AI 160 ITS ONLY ROCK AND ROLL: MAKING MUSIC THE OLD FASHIONED WAY
For many, music is an integral part of everyday life. It is also deeply ingrained in most cultures. Music is used by individuals, businesses and societies to entertain, soothe, excite, and arouse. Music is basically a series or combination of pleasing sounds but how is music made? How do we know what is pleasing and what is not? The answers to these questions and others demonstrate that music is also a field where science and art meet. In this class, we will explore how sound is physically created and how specific sounds have been turned into music over the centuries. Through experimentation, we will examine the physical and mathematical properties of sound and musical instruments. We will also create simple musical instruments and share the experience of creating musical pieces. No musical experience is needed to take this class. This class is a hybrid course that will meet every two weeks for a total of 5 times. Students will be expected to attend every class meeting as well as regularly participate in the class using the Blackboard website. Competences: A-5, A-2-X, S-2-X, S-1-X, F-X Faculty: John Hemmerling
AI 161 MALE SEXUALITIES IN AMERICAN CINEMA
This course examines how male sexuality has been defined, constructed, and explained historically in American film culture, with specific attention to the promotion and audience reception of individual male stars. We will read film history, reviews, and studies of gender and sexuality, examining the sometimes quite ambiguous cultural borders that distinguish identities and behaviors labeled as gay, straight, masculine, and feminine. Each class includes the screening of a feature-length film, and we will focus upon such actors as Paul Robeson, John Wayne, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Mel Gibson, John Travolta, and Keanu Reeves. Students will have opportunities to work on projects tailored to their own interest in the subject matter. Class will meet from 6:00 - 9:30 p.m. because of in-class film screenings. BA-1999 Competencies: A1E, H1B, H1F, H2G, H3B, H4. Pre-1999 Competencies: ALH, HC2, HCC, HCD, HCG. Faculty: Michael DeAngelis.
AI 162 LEADING WITH STORIES
One of the most challenging roles for many leaders is communicating in ways that engage the heads and hearts of employees, associates or others whose support and commitment are crucial to accomplishing tasks and achieving strategic goals. This course present storytelling as an age-old way to convey important information in a memorable and meaningful way.
The course serves as a laboratory where students use their own organization and their own communication challenges as a backdrop for learning. In addition to material presented by the instructor, students will learn from each others's experience and insights, through readings, class discussions and assignments involving their workplace. The goal of the course is to equip leaders with the knowledge and skills to hear and understand the meanings of stories in their organizations and to sue storytelling as a leadership practice.
AI 163 THE INDEPENDENT FILM MARKETPLACE
This course will study in depth how the independent film marketplace operates in the shadows of Hollywood's global blockbuster business. It's a distinct movie business with it's own sensibility and economic model revolving around ever-shifting notions of artistic freedom, guerrilla-style filmmaking and risky ideas. The course will examine what exactly constitutes an independent film today, how films are financed, the current distribution network, the selling and buying of films at festivals and what it takes to compete as a filmmaker in this very competitive industry. We will also discuss marketing strategies used by distributors, the economics of operating an art theatre, how revenues work in video and television markets and case studies of two documentaries which received theatrical releases. BA-1999 Competencies: H1C, H2F, H4, FX. Pre-1999 Competencies: HC3, HCG, HCQ, WW.
AI 164 CREATIVITY
What is creativity? Where does it come from? Do we all have it? Can we cultivate it? These questions and more will be explored as we define the concept of creativity; identify, analyze, and describe the components of a creative process in varied fields; and, explain how engaging in a creative process affects our perception of the world. BA-1999 Competencies: A5.
AI 165 PRAIRIE CHRISTMAS
This class will feature a participative look back at Christmas in America in the 19th century (primarily) in the Chicago area. Five three-block class hours will lead students through a discussion of 19th century Christmas tradition. The class will be channeled through some lecture and discussion, though the focus will be on making Christmas decorations and gifts of the period. The class will decorate a communal tree, create a Christmas annual and make small gifts. The annual will be comprised of short Christmas writings from class participants. The course will examine how traditions are changed over time. May be taken for only one competence. Competencies: A2X, A3X, A5, H1X.
AI 166 PRODUCING THE LIVE PERFORMING ARTS EVENT
This class will transform itself into a mini-production unit and actually produce a live event for the general public. The class will learn the basics of producing a live event, including planning, casting, production logistics, publicity, sponsorship, and audience development. The class will choose what it wants to produce, and then it?s nine weeks to opening night! Competenciesl L7, A1B, H2C, FX. Faculty: Tom Tresser.
AI 167 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Students learn in this course to take artistic digital photos. They will analyze photos they have taken prior to the course and discuss if they fulfill criteria to be seen as art. Several theories of artistic expression will be discussed. Rules of composition, light, exposure, colors, etc. will be reflected on. In a second step the students will develop the competence to alter their digital photos with a program like "Photoshop Elements". They will be able to change the expression of their photos, combine different shots, creating their personal piece of art. As a final product students, will create a portfolio with about 5 photos including detailed descriptions of their work. Competencies: A5, A1X, A2D, A2X. Faculty: Hartwig Stein
AI 168 THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION: HOLLYWOOD IN THE 1960'S
The late 1960s is often described as a time of a "Sexual Revolution" in America, with loosening standards and attitudes about sex and sexual practices. But was this period as "liberated" it has appeared to be? Who was liberated by these new attitudes, and from what? How do attitudes about sexuality in the 1960s compare to our attitudes now? This course uses the study of American cultural history to examine perspectives of sexuality in the 1960s, and it focuses upon the films that Hollywood produced at this time to represent this "new" sexuality. The course includes weekly in-class screenings of feature films from the period, such as THE GRADUATE, BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, MYRA BRECKENRIDGE, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, SHAFT, and MIDNIGHT COWBOY. (the class lasts 3-1/2 hours because of the in-class screenings). Competencies: A1A, A1E, A5, H1F, H2G, H4.
AI 169 ETHICS, LAW AND JUSTICE
We will first assess and discuss two Platonic dialogues in a collective effort to familiarize ourselves with the interplay between reason and ethical questions. We will pay particular attention to Plato?s method of reaching conclusions to questions raised in the dialogues, whether and how those conclusions are ethical in nature, and the relative success Plato has in supporting his conclusions. Concepts discussed include the attainment of virtue, whether virtue or knowledge is teachable, the use of persuasion, and statesmanship. We will then apply our familiarity with logical inquiry to a group of Unites States legal cases, and focus our attention on understanding the reasoning that underpins decisions encompassing Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection issues. We will look particularly at how our Supreme Court Justices employ reasoning to reach conclusions of law that many view as de facto moral issues. In addition, during the course of the class, we will assess a variety of historical, political, and literary readings with the hope that they may enhance our understanding of the concepts of liberty and equality. Competences: A3C, A3G, A4, H1X. Faculty: David Morris
AI 170 DOCUMENTARY FILM
Since the invention of the camera, people have used it to document and preserve a moment in history, and to reveal the tragedies and delights of the world around us. Enthusiasm for documentaries has grown tremendously in recent years, achieving a relevancy and popularity that would have been hard to imagine not long ago. This course is intended as an introduction to the documentary form while exploring its relationship to society. Each class session consists of lecture, film screenings, and discussion. Works screened survey the history and range of documentary expression including the classics, as well as examples of challenging work by independent film and videomakers. Along with a consideration of their artistic style, structure and subject content, we will explore the social and political relevance of the films and attempt to assess their historical impact. This course challenges students to develop a critical eye, and to deepen their appreciation of the documentary vision. Competencies: A1X, A5, H1X,H2X. Faculty: Gary Fox
AI 171 EXPLORATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL CINEMA:ISSUES OF CULTURE AND DIVERSITY
This class offers students a chance to examine and critique outstanding films from a wide variety of cultures. The learning experience and critique will focus on acting, design and direction in addition to the cultural and social issues explored in the films. Students will be asked to enhance each other's knowledge about the artistic and technical aspects of the films as well as the themes in global culture they examine. BA-1999 Competencies: A1A, A1C, H1X, H5. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL1, AL3, HCF.
AI 172 MAKING POEMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VERSE
Making poems will be a creative writing offering that teaches metrics and verse forms, poetry the old-fashioned way. Topics will include metric feet, rhyme, lines, and verse forms. For example, students will learn about the iambic foot, write some iambic lines of various lengths, and finally use the iambic line to write a sonnet. Rap poetry with its structured rhythms and elaborate rhyming is another possibility. This "formalist" approach promotes a kind of creativity that is strongly infused with craft and discipline in contrast to the "spoken word" or confessional approaches to making poems. This class involves making audio recordings of your poems; students will be required to purchase a headset/microphone and download and install free software. Competences: A1C, A2A, A5. Faculty: Tom Sullivan
AI 173 WESTERN FILMS
Interested in learning to write about film? The Western is a particularly creative and powerful medium for exploring dynamic social and cultural issues. It is particularly open to examining the nature of creative expression, social and historical contexts, and power relations among different groups. The Western provides wonderful and exciting topics for learning about the arts of analyzing and writing about film. We are going to saddle up and ride out, approaching the Western from viewpoints of how one can write about film, exploring various rich issues of creativity, society, history and power. Possible examples of films are High Noon (1952), Shane (1953), Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), Valdez is Coming (1971), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1985), Unforgiven (1992). BA-1999 Competencies: A5, H4. Faculty: J. Warren Scheideman
AI 174 WORLD LITERATURE
In this team-taught course, we will examine masterpieces of world literature, including principal works from selected literary periods and traditions. The first half of the course meets at Truman College and the second half at the Loop Campus and lasts a total of approximately 15 weeks. You may register for up to three competencies for this course. BA-1999 Competencies: A1B, A1C, A1D, A1E, A2X, A3G. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL3, ALC, ALF, ALH, ALI, ALR.
AI 175 SOCRATES AND THE GREEK MIND
This seminar is devoted to the analysis of the great dialogues written by Socrates' famous student, Plato. In these works lie many of the keys to understanding the western world. They also illuminate much about ancient Greek culture. An appreciation for these great dialogues and their cultural significance is an essential part of higher education. The next time someone mentions Plato's Cave, you'll be in-the-know! Competencies: H1E, H3I, A1E, A3G, A4, L7. Faculty: Corinne Benedetto
AI 176 CREATIVE WRITING
Designed to help you explore the art of writing stories, either stories that are "made-up" or stories based on lived experience. You will be required to complete six fiction-writing exercises, and either one short story, one autobiographical story, or one story based on an oral history collected by the you. In addition, you write a final essay in which you reflect on your learning and experience in the course. Competencies: A1C, A2A, A5, H1X, H3B. Faculty: Staff
AI 177 DREAMS DEFERRED: LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN AMERICAN THEATER
Drama is an ideal vehicle for portraying conflict. And the courtroom is often the place where such conflicts come to a head. In this course, we will read various courtroom and law-related contemporary American plays and use them as a lens for exploring issues of law, justice, fairness and the distribution of power in American society (H4).We will also explore how the playwright?s creative process makes these works exciting theatrical pieces and analyze how the various design elements (lights, set, costumes, music) bring each work to life (A5). Students who register for A2B will perform scenes and monologues from these plays. The class will attend various live theatrical performances in the Chicago area. Plays under consideration include: Twelve Angry Men, A Raisin in the Sun, The Laramie Project, The Execution of Justice, Permanent Collection, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Twilight, Los Angeles: 1992. Competences: H4, A5, A2B, FX. Faculty: Fred Wellisch
AI 178 THE ART OF LIVING: ACHIEVING FULFILLMENT DURING LIFE'S TRANSITIONS
Achieving fulfillment during life's transitions can be a daunting task. This course is intended to help students understand, address and take advantage of planned and unplanned career and lifestyle changes and opportunities. Special attention is given to methods for achieving personal fulfillment goals. Students examine the views of philosophers, spiritual leaders, and artists, both historical and contemporary, including Blaise Lao-tzu, Cicero, Thoreau, Emerson, Shaw, Lewis, Peck, Angelou, Fulghum, Dychtwald, Sher, and Dyer. Students create their own mission statement for work and life. A primary objective of the course is to expose students to resources that can be used in their own self-discovery process. Multi-media activities include small and large group discussions and presentations, research, and report writing, video and audiotapes. Students are encouraged to use the Internet in their research. Competencies: A-1-D, A-3-D, F-X, L-7.
AI 179 LEADERSHIP LESSONS IN LITERATURE AND CREATIVE MEDIA
In this course, students will examine issues of leadership and self-leadership as we analyze several short works of fiction and non-fiction, and other creative media including film, plays and music. Students will study authors of various genres along with contemporary political and 20th century historical figures who exhibit leadership qualities that are worth exemplifying. In so doing, students will learn the structure and concepts of the academic research paper. For the research paper, students will select a topic that is personally or professionally relevant. The course assumes a basic understanding of grammar and the structure of academic papers. Because students will practice writing and revising academic papers, the course can serve as a gateway to other college courses.
During this course various teaching and learning strategies will be used such as: workshops, discussions, short lectures, small group work, movie/play analyses, creative projects, conferences, at home and in class assignments, critical reading, learning from others through peer editing, and lots of writing. Students should expect to write and rewrite extensively. Competences: A1X, A3G, H1X, H3X. Faculty: Peggy St. John & Suzanne Sanders-Betzold. Can be taken for up to 3 competences.
AI 180 BACK TO THE FUTURES: A BRIEF HISTORY OF FUTURES TRADING IN CHICAGO
This class will examine the futures industry in Chicago from mid-19th century to the present. We will examine how the fledgling city provided fertile soil for the growth of futures trading and continues to support trading today. Commodity futures trading has a long history throughout the civilized world, with products from rice to wheat to tulips having been "forward priced" for centuries; however, it wasn't until the middle of the 19th century that futures or derivatives trading as we know it begin in Chicago. We will look at contemporary news accounts and literary portrayals of the marketplaces. In particular, we will read works by Frank Norris, an early critic of the industry and of late 19th century capitalism in general. The class will be organized around a schedule of lecture, discussion, and small group work. A series of readings will be assigned each week, and these will be discussed in detail. We will also see a few short films and have visits by guest speakers. Competences: A1E, A4, H1C, FX.
AI 181 CREATING ORIGINAL ART USING DIGITAL MEDIA
Student will look at what constitutes "art", then look at how original art could be created using technological tools, such as Microsoft Paint, Pixel-based art, such as Microsoft Graphics in PowerPoint; Digital Photography and PhotoShop; digital short-movies, and Digital Animation using Freeware GIF Animation software. The course will focus on electronic visual art, but will also include some general information on how to incorporate audio art forms. Competences: A2B, A2D, A2X, FX. Faculty: Ruth Gannon-Cook
AI 182 TALKING BACK TO MEDICINE: WRITERS AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH
It is no secret that health care in the United States is in crisis. President Obama has pledged to work with the nation to rehabilitate our health care system. In this course, we will examine how fiction and non-fiction writers challenge such systems to rethink the notion of health as well as the politics of sickness. The writers we will study take on issues like access to health care, models of illness and healing, medicine and social justice, and others. In this online course, readings, podcasts, wikis, and discussion board posts will help us explore the responsibilities of medicine as well as those of the community in which medicine is practiced, for a socially just and comprehensive understanding of illness, health and healing in the United States. Competencies: H4, H3A, A1D, A1X, A1C. Faculty: Ann Stanford
AI 183 THE 60'S
The decade of the 1960s was a watershed period in the social, cultural, and political history of the United States. This course will examine the era from a variety of viewpoints in order to promote student understanding and analysis of key movement, episodes and personalities. The course will include investigation of John F. Kennedy's "New Frontier", The Cold War, The Space Race, the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements, Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society", the Vietnam War, popular culture, literature, student unrest, and the realignment of traditional political voting blocks. In addition, the course will demonstrate how the decade's music mirrored the changing times. Competences: A1E, A3G, H1C, H2A, H4. Faculty: Chuck DiCola
AI 184 WORDPLAY: DEMYSTIFYING POETRY
This course sets out to demystify most forms of poetry with particular concentration on poetry composed to be read aloud or performed on a stage, and to allow the student to actually enjoy poetry! The student will be exposed to a great deal of popular poetry and will, perhaps, be a little surprised to find poetry to be accessible. The Oral Tradition, Folk Poetry, Open Mike, performance poetry, poetry read or performed with music or poetry just read aloud, Slam Poetry, rap, song lyrics - all of these often overlapping categories of poetry could be grouped under the title of Spoken Word, and probably, all would be considered popular poetry. The students will be exposed to much of this poetry; Slam Poetry in the home of the National Poetry Slam, The Green Mill, and performance poetry at the Guild Complex and at the Higher Ground Poets. Students will engage in a poetry workshop that is at once sage, gentle, and generous. The workshop will take place in the classroom. Known and not-so-well-known poets will visit the class to read or perform their poetry and students will become poets and read their works in class. Competencies: A-1-X, A-2-X, A-5, F-X.
AI 185 THE BEATLES AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS
The Beatles are significant in many ways: they were an unprecedented show business phenomenon; they were leaders of Sixties cultural rebellion; and they stand, for many, as a signal instance of popular entertainment attaining the status of high art. This course will examine the musical craftsmanship of the Beatles, focusing on their work as songwriters and record makers. Recent audio and print releases documenting the group's performing and recording history provide a unique and detailed glimpse of the Beatles' creative process. We will utilize these materials to closely trace the development of the group's work while using other resources to place it in a larger historical and cultural context. The goal is to shed critical light on this recent chapter in cultural history. That discussion will, in turn, highlight questions about creativity in a modern context where commerce vies with art, technology redefines performance and an emerging global village culture transforms concepts of originality and tradition. Competencies: A5, H2G, A1X, A3X, S3F. Faculty: John Kimsey.
AI 186 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Most professions have a set of ethical guidelines governing the way its members ought to behave on the job. Such guidelines delineate the goals and values that apply to professionals and offer general frameworks for individuals who need to resolve value conflicts that come up in the day-to-day life of the working person. Through an exploration of theory and case studies, this course will explore the way professional groups create their ethics statements and the obligations that apply to professionals. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-G, AL-P, HC-U. BA 1999 Competencies: A-3-C, A-4, H-3-G.
AI 187 CAREERS IN THE HELPING PROFESSIONS
This course will help you, the learner, identify which career path best fits your strengths, skills, and interests, as you pursue your desire ?to help people.? It will also better prepare you for graduate and/or professional training by familiarizing you with the admissions process for various schools in the helping professions
(e.g. social work, psychology, counseling, etc.) Competence: FX. Faculty: Derise Tolliver
AI 188 MAKING DIFFICULT DECISIONS: MORAL LIFE IN A MODERN CULTURE
"It's not illegal." Is this statement a sufficient basis for moral decision-making? Do people have one set of values for their "private life" and another set of values for getting by at work? Is there a "public" morality? If yes, what is its basis? "Making Difficult Decisions" provides a window into the ways that people make some of the most difficult choices in their lives (for example, having an abortion, volunteering for military service or declaring conscientious objection, requesting "Do Not Resuscitate" orders for an ill and aged parent, etc.). The course readings, written exercises, and classroom activities will provide students with a framework that will help them to better understand their own moral decision-making. This framework will also help students to better understand the decisions that other people make. A major focus of the course will be the different moral languages that influence the decision-making of most modern Americans, but which many of us are not able to sort out. The course will also emphasize the role that social institutions play in our decision-making processes. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-G, AL-Q, HC-U. BA 1999 Competencies: A-3-F, A-4, H-3-G.
AI 189 SOCIAL CONFLICTS OF THE KENNEDY YEARS
Popular images of the Sixties, think, say, of hippies, Black Panthers, soldiers fighting in Vietnam, protesters working en masse to stop the war--actually correspond to a span of years that stretches roughly from 1964 (when, for instance, the Beatles arrived in the US) to 1974 (when President Nixon resigned from office). This course will look closely at the lead-up to this period, concentrating on American political and cultural history from the late fifties moment through the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963. We will examine selected events, movements and figures from this period who are key to understanding what came later. Topics to be studied include the Cold War, anti-communism and the atomic bomb; the Cuban revolution; the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King; the rise of protest singers and soul music; the administration and assassination of President Kennedy; and the beginnings of the USs full-fledged military incursion into Vietnam. We will read essays and excerpts by authors such as Howard Zinn, Frank Meyer, Dr. King, Bettie Friedan, and Barbara Ehrenreich. We will use a variety of learning tools, including lectures, discussions, journal reflections, and film screenings. Competences: H1X, H4 A1X, A3X. Faculty: John Kimsey
AI 190 AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE ARTS
The arts provide a lens through which we can more completely see, hear and understand the magic, mystery and challenge of the human experience. The story of African Americans in this country is one of perserverence and tranformation. In this course, students will explore how the social, political, historical and cultural journey of African Americans is reflected in the production of art. African Americans have a specific perspective on the American national experience. Where would America be without the artistic contributions of the African American cultural community? Furthermore, how does art make our lives better? Does it? In this course, learners will research, analyze, and define African American art and arts and assess their impact on culture. Arts such as theatre, literature, music, and visual and media arts will be discussed. Students should expect to attend several cultural/artistic events throughout the term. These might include poetry readings, musical concerts, theatre, gallery visits, and other local events. Competences: A1X, H1X, H2X. Faculty: Emily Hooper-Lasana
AI 191 PRAGUE: AN HISTORIC CITY OF ARCHITECTURE,MUSIC AND ART
This travel course will provide us with an opportunity to explore and learn in Prague, an amazingly beautiful city in Bohemia, the Czech Republic, that has become a popular destination for young people. Story-book architecture, cobblestone streets, and a dazzling town square compete for attention with beautiful baroque churches, hearty Czech food, and some of the most famous beer in the world. Since the collapse of the Communist government, the Czech people have basked in freedom and now welcome visitors from around the world to a city of rich history and rare beauty. The course will introduce students to centuries of Prague history and architecture, magnificent art, and thrilling music from composers such as Smetana and Dvorak, whose music is regularly played in one-hour concerts that are a daily highlight. We will walk the history of the city, visit its great churches and art museums, talk to the people, immerse ourselves in Czech culture, and hear their remarkable music. In doing so, we will find out why Mozart loved Prague, and why more than 20,000 Americans have chosen to live there
AI 192 IMPROVISATION
Students will learn the games that form a context with which, or from which, to improvise. Then they will improvise; they will play in their own and in each others' improvised sketches. They will learn to solve problems, find metaphors and examine improvisation as an excellent tool with which to monitor the process of learning. From the engagement in games and their analysis will come the most important outcome: the growth of confidence.
Pre 1999 Competence: AL-2, AL-A. BA 1999 Competencies: A-2-B, A-5
AI 193 LANGUAGE AND POLITICS
The language that individuals and groups use to tell their stories creates their identities. This multi-disciplinary course examines how post-modern language, especially language in media, frames national and global politics and its underlying power relationships. Issues addressed include the politicization of language in the U.S. immigration debate and the role that English as global lingua franca plays in spreading American culture as well as the subsequent effects on self-expression in English among native speakers via political correctness, forbidden speech and code words. Other topics include gender roles, intellectual property rights, and even the overall need for virtually ceaseless verbal stimulation in a media/image driven world. Students will utilize intercultural communication theories to reflect upon their self-identity and its role in defining their relationship to their communities and institutions and will expand outward to understand national and ethnic identities from a global perspective. Students examine current events in the media and the ethical implications language-related biases impose upon discourse while using the Internet to create their own presentation about the topic. Competences: A3C,H2G,H5,FX
AI 194 DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Documentary photography emerged in the middle of the 19th century as a means of defining, directing and/or transforming social opinion. From that time forward, photographs have been commissioned with the intention of building consensus for profound social change. Public and private agencies alike have used photographs to make the larger society aware of new thinking about problems such as immigration, poverty, war, political, ethnic or gender injustice. This course will examine the photographic images spawned by various social issues and movements that have affected American social thinking and guided social activism from the Civil War forward. Please note that no prior knowledge of the history of photography or of 19th or 20th century American history is expected nor is a working knowledge of any art-making discipline assumed. Competencies: E1, E2. Faculty. Alan Cohen
AI 195 GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Sexuality, Gender, Power and Organizations: these concepts and their interrelationships are the general focus of this course. Gender and gender relations and their relationship to power have long been deemed to be absent or relatively unimportant with in the study of organizations. The gendered nature of organizations and their management has not been part of dominate mainstream traditions of theorizing on organizational and business activity. Focusing on issues that are well known in our everyday life and work this course deconstructs issues such as affirmative action, gender discrimination, sexual harassment and violence in the workplace and ancillary organizations. Competences: A3D, A4, H2X, FX. Faculty: Kevin Quinn
AI 196 INTO THE FLAMES: CENSORSHIP AND THE ARTS
Bleeping out "offensive" words, restricting the viewing and distribution of film, casting "objectionable" books into the fire---what is an educated person's response to these actions? During this course, learners pursue and evaluate their own ethical perspectives and use them to analyze an issue involving censorship of culture. Our study culminates in the construction of an argument upholding a position on censorship of artistic work. Competencies: A-1-A, A-3-C, H5, F-X
AI 197 WHAT WAS GOD THINKING WHEN HE INVENTED THE UNIVERSE
We are all made of star dust. Find out how and why in this course. The moon is made up fragments of earth. Learn how we depend on each other. All life has been wiped out at least 6 times on this planet. Find out if God really likes us. We humans have only been around for 100,000 years, but we are rearranging our planet big time. Figure out if we know what we are doing. Competences: A4, A3G, H5. Faculty: Staff
AI 198 GREAT AMERICAN SHORT FICTION
The short story is often thought of as the novel?s poor stepchild. Descriptions of the former typically allude to its brevity as proof of its lesser literary value. This course will try to prove that great fiction is not judged by the number of words it comprises, but by its effect on the reader. Evidence will come in the form of short stories selected ? according to author Richard Ford ? for their creators? ability to ?spell out so well for us where daring starts and where it leads, and exactly why it is the pure and indispensable and thrilling call that brings us all to stories.? Competences: A1A, A1C, A1D, A5, FX. Faculty: Charles DiCola
AI 199 ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE
Shakespeare changed the English language. So did Winston Churchill, Mickey Mouse, and Ice T. Radio and television have certainly contributed. Some of these changes took years; some materialized over night. The most recent changes in how we communicate, and perhaps the greatest have come from the internet. Email, emoticons, and texting have all influenced our ability to say what we mean, and to comprehend what others are trying to tell us. In this course, students will examine the ways in which these new technologies are provoking alterations in our day to day speech. Spelling is certainly changing. Remember when we wrote through instead of thru? And who writes letters anymore? Through critical analysis of internet speak, learners will acquire skills for assessing the impact of electronic communication on literature. Looking at creativity and creative uses of technology, students will learn how to use electronic means of producing their own written work. Furthermore, students will examine how electronic communication has influenced our ability to be heard in the workplace. This course is a hybrid. Students should expect to use internet sources to complete coursework and to communicate with the Instructor and with one another. Competences: A1X, A2X, A5, FX. Faculty: William Muller
AI 200 GUIDED INDEPENDENT STUDY: ARTS AND IDEAS
Guided Independent Study: Arts and Ideas
AI 201 IMMIGRATION, MEDITATION, CULTIVATION
This four-day class (December 10-14) takes place at a Franciscan hermitage and meditation center in Columbus, New Mexico, where students will build a meditation garden for a historic chapel. Each day includes directed work in the garden, together with instruction in various techniques of meditation (yoga, taize prayer, sitting and walking meditation, etc). Evenings are devoted to lectures on immigration issues, culture, and the spirituality of the ancient desert hermits. In addition, students will participate in an interfaith service in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. One-competence class: H-2-H; A-3-G; A-1-B. Fee of $550 covers all expenses except airfare into El Paso, Texas and tuition. Contact instructor for details: pmonagha@depaul.edu.
AI 202 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
In this course, students will examine works of literature generated by the African American community. Students will analyze and write about literature using critical techniques requiring them to discern themes and ideas from various works of African American literature. Furthermore, learners will examine characters against the backdrop of community expectation and societal reality, particularly as it relates to the African-American experience. The four required works, notable for their focus on urban life, are as follows: Black Boy by Richard Wright; A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks; Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley; and Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall (optional). Each work examines different social and historical issues, including the struggle and aspirations of African-Americans in a Southside Chicago community in the 1950's, major historical movements in African-American life, Civil Rights, migration, marginalization and the roles of American norms in African American culture. Competences: A1X, A2X, A5, H1X. Faculty: Tacuma Roeback
AI 203 DRAWING: LINE, SHAPE AND COLOR
This class will concentrate on the continued development of the skills necessary to create a drawn composition. Color will be introduced to complement the study of line, space and form. Media will include ink, charcoal, pastel and various types of pencil, including color. Drawing will focus on the forms of nature, especially in plant and landscape scenes, and will allow students to develop rendering skills as well as their own unique means of expression. The learning experiences will include a day trip to the Botanic Gardens, and an intensive drawing seminar of one weekend on location. This time will allow students to use the ready access and solid tranquility of nature as their studio. The weekend will include one night and two days. Some past drawing experience is required: contact the instructor prior to registration via email at mlanterm@condor.depaul.edu or by phone at 773/ 929-7404. When this is a December Term class, you can register for up to 2 competencies. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, AL-3, AL-9 and AL-10. BA-1999 Competencies: A-2-A, A-1-C, E-1, E-2. Faculty: Margaret Lanterman
AI 204 EXPRESSING INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY: POLITICS AND THE CREATIVE SELF
An examination of personal identity and how it is imbedded in narrative. The course examines novels and non-fiction from a variety of sources to illustrate the formation of political identity. Students write about personal identity by using stories from one?s own experience, stories derived from oral history, or stories transmitted from people with whom one has communicated. Students will use one or more of the various forms - short stories, journal, diaries, - to reconstruct stories of personal identity that constitute part of a larger narrative about how citizens understand and communicate the complexities of emotion and ideas connected to politics and political experiences in one?s life. Competences: A2A, A3G, H1E, H3I, FX. Faculty: James Brask
AI 205 THE TEXT AND CONTEXT OF COURAGE: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS IN LITERATURE
In this course students will read novels and other literary selections as well as critique films to analyze and interpret issues found in literature and culture such as: intolerance, injustice, racism, psychological and intellectual growth and, life's journey (coming of age). In so doing, students will learn the structure and concepts of the academic research paper. For the research paper, students will select a topic that is personally or professionally relevant. This course assumes a basic understanding of grammar and the structure of academic papers. Because students will practice writing and revising academic papers, this course can serve as a gateway to other SNL courses. Competences: H3A, H3B, H3X, A1C, A1X. Faculty: Peggy St. John
AI 206 EXECUTIVE & MANAGERIAL ETHICS IN CORPORATE AMERICA
This class will prepare students who are entering or enhance the skills of those already in the complicated and confusing world of corporate America. The course will look at some of the most historical ethical issues in the world of business (e.g. WorldCom, Enron) and provide students with the tools they will need to become an ethical and successful manager or executive. Competences: A3C, A4, H2A, H4, FX. Faculty: Michael Chachula
AI 207 BEHIND THE RAZOR WIRE: THE LITERATURE OF INCARCERATION
The United States is the largest incarcerator in the world. Is this because we have more crime? More criminals? In this course we will explore questions about the prison industrial complex and the justice system through the words of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated writers. We will be looking at poetry, short stories, essays, and memoirs. Employing a mix of discussion, guest speakers, film, class team reports, and close readings of the literary texts, this course will take us on an imaginative journey into a world most of us have few reasons to understand. We will explore questions about the prison industrial complex and the justice system through the words of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated writers. Competences: A1A, A1D, H5. Faculty: Ann Stanford
AI 208 STORYTELLING: EXPLORING THE ORAL TRADITION IN OUR LIVES
Everyday we use stories to communicate. This course provides students with an overview of the art and practice of storytelling. Throughout the learning experience, students are encouraged to nurture their voices as writers and storytellers. Students will create and adapt tales focusing on both personal experience and traditional folklore. Storytelling is an oral art form. Students will learn by actively participating in storytelling and critique of story performance. The creative experience in this course will enable students to further their skills in: Oral presentation, story construction, performance, artistic critique and analysis. Students will develop and perform stories from at least three distinct areas, including personal experience, folklore, and history. This class will enhance the work of business professionals, teachers, artists and anyone who is interested in how stories communicate ideas. Competencies: BA-1999, A1X, A2X, A5, H3E. Faculty: Emily Hooper Lansana
AI 209 ETHICS AFTER THE FALL
The collapse of Enron, the billion-dollar corporate giant, was more than a scandal; it was a modern morality play that brought into sharp relief the competing ethical systems driving free market capitalism in America. This course is an introduction to moral philosohpy which will cover the major schools of thought in the field of social ethics from Plato and Aristotle to the present. We will focus particularly on the challenge of Nietzche's master vs.slave morality to the Protestant work ethic as it has played out in American business. Using the award-winning film by Peter Coyote, Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room, each student will be asked to reflect on the ethical assumptions being brought to the drama and these will then be traced back to their historical roots and examined. In this manner, we will be able to discern our inherited belief systems, and their contradictions, which have fueled the moral crisis and corporate eruptions of the last decade. Competences: H2X, A3X, A4, FX. Faculty: Dr. Rebecca Armstrong
AI 210 THE MINDSET OF INNOVATION: BUILDING YOUR CREATIVITY COMPETENCES
More than ever we hear that creativity and innovation are essential?to save the U.S. economy, to adapt to a greater speed of change, to advance our own careers. In the 21st century we indeed need to raise a different IQ: Our Innovation Quotient. In this course we?ll do just that by drawing water from three wells:1.Psychological research on individual and collaborative creativity, 2.Organizational innovation case studies and practices, 3.Experiential challenges and personal creative development. Students will explore three key creativity competencies?fluency, flexibility and originality?and gain insight into the mindset and practice of innovation required to take on the challenges and uncertainties facing us right now, both personally and professionally. Competences: H3X, L7, A5, FX
AI 211 MEN OF FORTUNE, WOMEN OF CENTS: ANALYZING PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND THE FILMS IT HAS INSPIRED
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Jane Austen must have known something about universal truths. Her novel, Pride and Prejudice, which begins with the sentence quoted above, was first published in 1813. Still in print today, it has also been made into at least eleven movies, four of which were released since 2000, including a Mormon and a Bollywood version. In this class, we will read the novel in the context of the gender and class norms at the time Austen wrote her book and then consider how Austen's exploration of universal truths is reinterpreted in more contemporary film versions of this novel. In exploring Austen's creation and the many reinterpretations of her work, we will use both analytic and creative writing assignments as well as class discussion to examine how context informs creativity and how creativity informs analysis. You most definitely do not need to be a creative writer to take this class. Competencies: A1D, A1E, A1X, A5. Faculty: Staff
AI 212 GLOBALIZATION OF MODERN BRAZIL IN ART, LITERATURE AND MUSIC
This course will study globalization in Modern Brazil through the representation of race, culture and religion in the arts of Brazil. Particular attention will be paid to indigenous cultures and the influence of Africa on Brazil. Can be taken for up to 3 competences. Competences: A1A, A1H, A5, H5. Faculty: Polly Hoover & Michael Reynolds.
AI 213 CULTURAL BRIDGES: ART BEYOND THE WEST
?Cultural Bridges: Art Beyond the West? is intended to provide students with an overview of the visual arts and architecture of the people of China, Japan, Africa, India,
the Americas and Oceania. Emphasis will not be placed on learning names, dates and titles, but instead, on understanding how each culture reflects the religious beliefs, myths and creative expressions of the people with the sole purpose of building bridges to cultural understanding. The course will include illustrated lectures, research, discussions and visits to museums and galleries in the Chicago area which house non European works of art. Competences: A1B, A1X, A5, H1E. Faculty: Phyllis Kozlowski
AI 214 ETHICS IN THE WORKPLACE
This course is about doing the ?right thing?. To some degree, laws dictate what is right or wrong. But you can perform an act that is perfectly legal, but is morally wrong. Does one out weigh the other? In this course the student will find the answer to the question, ?Why should one be ethical?? We will focus on ethics from an organizational and personal perspective and discuss some of the common problems associated with both. We will discuss philosophical and psychological approaches to solving some of these problems. Competences: A3X, H3X, FX, A4. Faculty: Linzy Waters
AI 215 FILM NOIR
Film noir is film shot darkly, with low light, around doorways, through windows, in fogs and storms, in ways that evoke the complexities of thoughts and emotions, mystery. A number of mystery stories are classics of film noir, The Maltese Falcon (1941), with Humphrey Bogart, is one of the most famous examples of film noir, which makes a fascinating way to explore the appreciation, understanding, and interpretation of film. This is an adventure in viewing that enriches seeing film; it expands our capacity as audience for the most popular of modern art forms, the movies. Competencies: A5, A1D, A1I (may be taken for only one competence). Faculty: Warren Scheideman.
AI 216 PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART IN THE MODERNIST ERA
Why is it that certain 20th century photographs from amateur, commercial, documentary or news sources are now studied and have become collectable as art? In most cases their makers did not see themselves artists. The ones who did often struggled to define what their machine-made picture medium uniquely had to contribute to a changing and increasingly mechanized secular world. Their answers and those of later arbiters reads like a chronicle of Modernist thought. Indeed this class might be termed a history of Modernism as expressed through five distinct periods (or themes) within 20th century art photography. Abstraction, a 20th century invention in the visual arts, does have a component in art photography. These we will study. But most photography we would call creative including those from the time period 1918-1977 is solidly connect to realistic presentations from life and provide their viewers a lens for societal interpretation. They will be our main area of study. Although primarily a study of 20th century Modernist photography, the class will also examine the logic of an earlier artistic model from the Pictorialist Era. Likewise in the final weeks, we will examine some recent works and re-readings of older photographs using criteria of Postmodernism. Two field trips will be scheduled: The Art Institute of Chicago and The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Columbia College). Competences: A1E, A2A, A3E, A5, S3E. Faculty: Michael Boruch
AI 217 MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Mindfulness mediation provides many different ways to broaden our awareness of the world around us, heighten our powers of concentration, deepen our under-standing of our experience, and cultivate creative and transformative ways of be-ing in the world. Many approaches to mindfulness meditation draw on ancient re-ligious and spiritual traditions from around the world. So mindfulness meditation is compatible with and can enhance whatever religious or spiritual commitments you may have. But mindfulness meditation does not require religious or spiritual interpretations. It can be practiced as a very powerful path to becoming a crea-tive, healthy and effective adult. In this course, you will learn what mindfulness meditation is and various ways in which it can be practiced. We will explore in particular how mindfulness medita-tion can enhance creativity, address the ethical challenges of contemporary life, and foster collaborative learning. Class sessions will involve extensive practice in mindfulness meditation, listening and dialogue. You will be expected to maintain and reflect on a daily mindfulness meditation practice for the duration of the course. Competences: A3X, A4, A5, L7. Faculty: Michael Skelley
AI 218 GREAT CLASSICAL MUSIC OF THE WORLD
Music: a cultural universal, but NOT a universal language. What are the functions of the world's musics? What are the genres of various musics? Why do humans make music, and why do we listen to it? This course serves as an introduction to two musics -- European classical music and Indian classic music. Emphasis will be on listening to what a music tells us about the society from which it comes. The vocabulary, listening experiences, and projects can serve as a foundation for other music and/or humanities courses. The only pre-requisite is an open mind. You can register for only 1 competence. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-3, AL-E. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-C, A-1-E. Faculty: Rebecca Schwan
AI 219 SACRED SPACES: ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEXT IN THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLD
The course will examine the architecture and context of the sacred spaces of the ancient and medieval world. Different perspectives will be used to study the spaces, including art historical, historical, anthropological and religious. This class will look at how sacred spaces are affected by a variety of factors in each society. These include the religious and social beliefs of the society, the availability of materials, the technical skills of the artists and builders and the world view of the people. Students will also consider how these issues are manifested in our own culture and how they are seen and experienced in their individual lives. The class will use multimedia resources to experience the monuments more fully. Competences: A1E, A1G, H1F, H2E. Faculty: Catherine Zurybida
AI 220 THE CREATIVE SPIRIT
The creative spirit transcends time, age and gender. Individualized through different epochs, cultures, and experiences, it emanates from a universal human core. All human beings possess an innate need - a life force - that compels them not only to survive but to create. To create is to be fully human. This course offers an in-depth exploration into the nature of the creative spirit and validates the role of creativity in fostering personal growth and resilience. As a result of the insights gained into the creative potential, the course culminates in each person's creation of an original work that expresses one's uniquely individual style through a choice of artistic and creative forms. No previous experience in the arts is necessary. This is a five-week course. You can register for only one competence. Competencies: A-2-A, A-5, H-3-X, F-X. Faculty: Susan Field
AI 221 COLOMBIA: CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF LEISURE
This pioneering course will provide SNL students with the first opportunity to travel and study in South America. Cartagena, Colombia is the destination. Cartagena is one of the most visited cities in Colombia and a must see city in South America. Considered by many as one of the world's most beautiful, fascinating and romantic cities, Cartagena offers a rich sense of history, beautiful beaches, excellent food, cultural events, competitive sports, superior natural areas, and a vibrant nightlife. Its heterogeneous ethnic and racial make-up is unmatched in the world making it a perfect environment to study and experience leisure. You will be immerse in the culture, history, and leisure practices of Colombia enabling you to develop a greater understanding of the role of leisure in improving and protecting our global community. This is an excellent opportunity to earn academic credit while traveling to a warm climate during the Winter Intersession: November 30th thru December 13th. The competencies offered are A-3-D, H-5, S-1-X, L10, L11. For more information contact Dr. Dan Hibbler at dhibbler@depaul.edu or 312-362-5275
AI 222 DISCOVERING THE LEADER WITHIN: EXPLORING TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
We are living in a world of constant change, a world in which change is often viewed as the only constant. When we think about change we typically are talking about incremental change. This course will explore a much more difficult change process: the process of deep change. The primary focus of this course will be to examine the values, goals, and operating methods of the internally-driven leaders engaged in the process of deep change: the transformational leaders. The course is designed to give students a practical understanding of the ways in which transformational leaders are having a lasting impact on a wide array of organizations ranging from major corporations, to nonprofits, to international institutions. In the process, students will learn leadership lessons that can contribute to their personal and professional growth and development. The principles of deep change can apply to people at every level of an organization regardless of its size. The class is interactive and will include case studies as well as movies portraying transformation leaders who have pursued the vision of deep change. Multimedia activities will include small and large group discussions and presentations, research, report writing, and video and audio tape presentations. Competences: A3C, A4, H2C, FX. Faculty: Greg Gilmore
AI 223 LITERATURE OF RESISTANCE
The pen is mightier than the sword. Why do authors take the time to write down their objections to society's conflicting ideas about life? What impact can words, rather than arms, actually have? In this course, students will examine the work of various authors who have felt the need to express their opposition in writing. As well as the work of those who have emerged as leaders because of their historical opposition to the status quo. What has inspired resistance movements? Much has been written about independence movements of the early to middle Twentieth Century, their significance in providing both spark and fodder for resistance movements all over the globe, including the Black Power Movement and the Feminist/Womanist Movement here in the United States. Now that the 21st Century is here, what does resistance mean and how do people empower themselves for the current and pending moments when identity politics, poverty and racism are as prevalent as ever. This course will offer students the basic knowledge and tools to understand the historical contexts for many political, economic, and social justice issues affecting people, especially women in the Twenty-First Century. Students will be able to identify and distinguish various forms of political resistance and societal oppression, and will acquire the vocabulary to discuss these moments and their impact on contemporary politics. Competences: H5, A1X, H1X, A3X. Faculty: Emily Hooper-Lasana
AI 224 WHAT IS JUST?
Is it fair that our tax dollars support the uninsured? Should we punish those with limited capabilities who hurt us? Is it just that my colleague is rewarded for my work? Is the Iraq war a just war? In this class, we look at these questions (and more) of justice in ancient and modern literature and philosophy. Our readings will include: the Code of Hammurabi, The Bible, Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Philoctetes, selections from Plato's Republic, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Euripides' Medea, Toni Morrison's Beloved, selections from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale and various handouts (Rawls, Kant and others) from the instructors. Competences: A1D, A1A, A3G, A4. Faculty: Polly Hoover. May be taken for a maximum of three (3) competencies.
AI 225 GREAT MUSIC IN CHICAGO
Welcome to "Great Music in Chicago"! You don't have to have any kind of background in music to take and enjoy this course. The course introduces people to three of the most exciting and rewarding institutions in Chicago music: the world-famous Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center downtown; the fabulous training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, known as the Civic Orchestra, also downtown; and live top-name jazz at the Jazz Showcase. We learn the background of these institutions, the nature of the arts they perform, and the terms used to describe and appreciate those forms. Most importantly, we experience, in person, the great music that they play! Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-C, A-3-D. Faculty: Joseph Cunniff
AI 226 THE DRAMA OF THE STAGE AND THE DRAMA OF THE FAMILY
Although throughout the history of dramatic literature, playwrights have explored the human condition, more contemporary dramatic literature of the realistic or expressionistic schools have clearly examined human relationships. This course will look at specific examples of dramatic literature of this century and examine the way family relationships are portrayed.
AI 227 VALUES BASED LEADERSHIP
Who are values based leaders? How can we differentiate who a values based leader is and who is not? How can we explore what our personal values are and how these values influence the leaders we are or can be? Values based leadership includes both process and outcomes. Although in this course we will study various historic and modern day leaders, such as Moses, Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Evita, Richard Daley and others, the most important work we will do in this course is learn that it is people showing leadership in everyday tasks of everyday life that in the long run will make the world a better place to live. We will learn that moral values and leadership come from within, therefore if we want to make an impact on the environment that we live in we must have a better understanding of who we are and what we believe in. In this course we will use various texts, videos, engage in small and large group discussions and spend some time in self reflection in order to explore values based leadership and the leadership potential within all of us. Competences: A3A, FX, A4, H3X. Faculty: Christine Hayda
AI 228 FOOD AND IDENTITY
Food is a component of individual identity. In this course, students reflect on and research their personal food histories from multiple perspectives. Students explore the connection to family and the impact of ethnicity, nationality, race and socioeconomic status on food selection, preparation and consumption; the connection of foods to socialization, holidays and gender roles; and the connection between food trends ? such as shifting definitions of "healthy eating" and the influence of corporate agriculture ? with the choices individuals make to cultivate tradition or redefine their food legacy. As a result of participating in this course, students gain insight into their own food experiences and appreciation for those of people from different backgrounds; document a personal food history; and understand the influences on their own food choices. Competences: A3A, H1E, H3B. Faculty: Rebecca Russell
AI 229 CINEMA OF PEACE: FILM AS A CREATIVE POLITICAL MEDIUM
Hollywood has made a highly profitable business by nurturing the notion of film as a form of mass entertainment, one that serves the needs of the American public in specific ways. As we move beyond Hollywood to explore cinemas around the globe (as well as independent cinemas within the United States), however, we become aware of many other ways that cinema can help us to make sense of our world and our experience of it. This course explores one of these "alternative" strategies of cinema, by focusing upon narrative films in countries whose governments previously suppressed or severely regulated the freedom of expression of their filmmakers, but which have recently seen this freedom restored. By examining these films in a global context, we will seek to appreciate how filmmakers create films to confront both their national and personal history. Ultimately, the course will explore how we can enrich our understanding of our own histories through the medium of cinema. The course features weekly in-class screenings of feature films from challenging and internationally celebrated filmmakers of Taiwan, Iran, the United States, and other nations. We will use these films and related readings as the basis for our discussion. Students will write critical essays as well as reflective pieces. Please note that the course meets from 6:00 to 9:30 p.m. each week. Competencies: A1C, A5, H4, H5. Faculty: Michael DeAngelis
AI 230 AMERICAN POPULAR SONG: THE MELODY LINGERS ON
Words and music - put them together and you have a song. In theory it seems pretty simple. Most anyone can wed lyrics and melody to make a song; the task requires no specialized training. Amateurs and professionals alike have written tens of thousands of songs. But the number of long-lasting musical marriages - songs called "standards" - is a much smaller figure. Those magical songs, the ones that have become part of our national heritage, are what this course is designed around. We are going to spend eleven weeks with the great American popular songs, their creators and the people who interpreted them. The era of the great American songbook begins early in the 20th century and extends past World War II. Those are the glory years for composers like Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart. Their creations: classics such as "Cheek to "Cheek", "Old Man River", "Night and Day", "Things Are Looking Up", "One For My Baby", and "The Lady is a Tramp". These songs - and many more - will be listened to, studied and most of all, enjoyed. We will also examine the American society that spawned this brilliant body of work, and try to explain the songs' staying power. For great songs do not carry an expiration date. By the end of the quarter, anyone who once said that this is "old peoples' music" will be singing a different tune. Competencies: H2G, A5, A1A, A1D, A1E. Faculty: Charles DiCola
AI 231 FILM AND TELEVISION FAN CULTURE
Who are "fans" of film stars and TV shows? How do fans use their passion for popular media to express themselves creatively? How do they meet others who share their interests and desires? This course examines the psychological, social and aesthetic functions of fan culture in film and TV. We will look closely at the fan followings of popular film stars, fans' reactions when their favorite shows are cancelled, and the creative activities of fans who form "interpretative communities" by writing and exchanging plots and scripts of TV shows. We will also examine how online newsgroups and the World Wide Web have provided new ways for fans to interact. Readings will include essays and popular texts such as star biographies, fan magazines and tabloids. We will also weekly screen feature films, documentaries and TV shows. Students will write critical papers and give presentations on topics of their own interest in the subject. Pre-'99 Competencies: PW-B, HC-D, AL-1, AL-E. BA'99 Competencies: S-3-X, H-2-G, A-1-A, A-1-C. Faculty: Michael DeAngelis
AI 232 THEATER IMPROVISATION
In this course we will play on the classroom stage as we might have played on the playground as kids. The difference between these forms of play is one of degree rather than one of kind. A theater game provides a structure in which we can play spontaneously. In other words, we improvise. Improvisation aids in the developing of public speaking skills and comfort and confidence as well as other social and theatrical skills. May be taken for only one competence. Competencies: A2A, A2X, A5. Faculty: John Starrs
AI 233 GAIA: THE EARTH MYTH
Among the world's great myths are many which embody cultural wisdom about the relationship of humanity to the planet it inhabits. This class examines a number of exemplary myths in order to compare and contrast visions of human/natural interaction. Myths from Japan, Ireland, Native America, Africa and classical Greece will be among those studied. Students will be asked to compare one to the foundational myth of their own culture.Competencies: A3E, A5, A2A, H1E. Faculty: Patricia Monaghan
AI 234 CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN
This course will study ?la convivencia? or how Muslims, Jews and Christians created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain. It will explore the contributions of each culture to the sciences, arts and literature that have had an impact in contemporary society. Finally, it will examine the reasons why this world tragically vanished and the lessons to be learned from this. Truman Bridge course. Can be taken for up to 3 competences. Competences: A3E, A1X, H1A, A5. Faculty: Polly Hoover & Elia Lopez
AI 235 SONGSHOP
This hands-on course for performers, accompanists and auditors, gives students the opportunity to strengthen analytic and interpretative abilities in song. We ask each performing student to select and prepare songs, explore the sense of place, character, poetry, and examine the specific moments and changes within each song, and in the process make the song their own. We work with singers at various levels of performance experience, and most importantly, this course we are not limited to performers with "great" voices. We're aiming to strengthen conviction and communication along with basic musicality for anyone wanting to sing for our purposes, these are far more important aims than the quality or range of voice. Although we apply "cabaret" techniques of "intimate singing", the songs to be worked on can be in any genre as long as there is a story to tell (opera, folk, rock, jazz, musical theatre, etc.). While not a vocal technique class, the course's acting approach to singing often clears up diction and physical problems that stem from lack of specific intention in the interpretation. This is a class of discovery and process not only about songs but also about us. Students will be assessed based on their performances, their participation as auditors, and their structured learning journal assignments. Competences: A1A, A1C, A1D, A2B (Only students who plan to perform songs or accompany singers should register for the A2B competence.) Faculty: Claudia Hommel
AI 236 ONE WORLD: GLOBALIZATION IN HISTORICAL, LITERARY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
In this course we will review the history of the idea of a united, confederated, or culturally interconnected world-community - tracing it from its earliest beginnings in myth, prophecy, and imaginative literature to its current practical incarnation in the form of the world as we know it today (a world of free-trade treaties, international corporations, instant communication, increasing cultural homogeneity, rapid transportation, and an edgy, suspicious opposition between traditional cultures, each anxious about preserving its identity in the new global order.). The course will conclude with a modest attempt to glimpse and assess the likely future path and consequences of globalization while maintaining a primary focus on the moral, economic, and political issues at stake. Competences: H1X, H5, A1X, A3X, A4, S3X, FX. Faculty: David Simpson
AI 237 READING AND INTERPRETING SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare is one of the great names in literatures, a major dramatic experience in life. This course makes Shakespearean drama accessible, open to direct audience reading and appreciation. Class participation in imaginative critical interpretation is stressed so that the reader and potential playgoer without previous experience can both be comfortable with the Bard. Emphasis is on literary immediacy, class reading, and interpretation rather than on research. Representative plays will be chosen for study. Video taping will be used as we read Shakespeare aloud. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, AL-3, AL-C. BA-1999 Competencies: A-2-A, A-1-C, A-1-D. Faculty: J. Warren Scheideman
AI 238 MASCULINITY IN FILM
What does it mean to be "masculine?" Is masculinity determined by specific cultural values? Does the definition of masculinity always remain the same, or does it change from one historical moment to the next? This course approaches these questions by examining a group of films and film actors working in Hollywood and other film industries since the beginning of the century. We will see how factors such as race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation influence our understanding of "manliness." We will read film history, reviews and popular magazines, as well as cultural and psychological studies of masculinity. Each class includes a screening of a feature-length film, and we will study such actors as Paul Robeson, Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Marlon Brando, and John Wayne. Students will keep journals and work on class projects tailored to their interest in the subject. Pre-1999 Competencies: HC-C, HC-D, AL-3, AL-E. BA-1999 Competencies: H-1-B, H-2-G, A-1-C, A-1-H. Faculty: Michael DeAngelis
AI 239 TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY: A WHOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALING
Transpersonal psychology differentiates from other schools of psychology by defining health as the full expression and integration of the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of human beings. This course provides an introduction to the basic theory of this more expansive model of psychology, explores the meaning and implications of spirituality and health, and offers students an opportunity to assess their own level of wellness according to the transpersonal model. Learning methods will include lectures, group discussions, and assignments in selected course readings. Self-assessment exercises will include guided imagery, meditation, dream work, self-selective journaling, and other transpersonal methods. An integrative paper is required. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-D, HC-T, PW-E. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-B, H-3-F, S-3-B. Faculty: Carol Friedman
AI 240 ITALIAN AMERICANS IN FILM AND LITERATURE
This course will address the roles Italian Americans have played in the cultural development of the United States from the mass immigration of the end of last century to the present, and the subsequent friction between Italian American lifestyles and the values of the dominant American culture. Students will read and analyze fiction by Italian American writers from a range of materials including the well known works of Mario Puzo and Gay Talese, and the less commonly appreciated short stories of Helen Barolini. Films which deal with Italian American issues and modes of living will also be discussed. Film discussion topics include immigration, assimilation, religion and society, and the concept of home among Italians and Italian Americans. Students will examine how history shapes culture, and how ancient ideas influence our ability to analyze problems in the new world. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-H, HC-1, AL-3, HC-C. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-D, A-1-E, H-1-E, H-3-B. Faculty: Betta LoSardo
AI 241 WRITING FOR THE SCREEN
Today's films come from a carefully crafted, frequently revised script that makes strategic use of the elements of good film writing. Understanding these elements can enrich one's film-watching experience for a lifetime and even enable a compelling script be distilled from one's own imagination and experience. In this class, students will write and discuss exercises designed to highlight the principal elements of film writing, including plot, theme, story conflicts, characters and their motivations and pacing, among others. Pre-1999 Competencies AL2, AL3, ALA. Faculty: David Gilbert.
AI 242 THE FILMS OF WOODY ALLEN
This course uses the films of Woody Allen to explore the distinctive aspects of the filmmaker's world view, his attitudes about women, and his influence by and upon American popular culture since the 1970s. The class features weekly film screenings, discussion, and projects. Competences: A-1-D, A-5, H-2-G, H-3-B. Faculty: Michele Savage
AI 243 FILM AND THE WORLD OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
"Come Watson, the game is afoot." - Sherlock Holmes. The world of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, created in the fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the illustrations of Sidney Paget and Frederick Dorr Steele, the films and radio shows of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and the television series featuring Jeremy Brett, and an array of Sherlockian pastiches and other art and commentary, reflect the cultural and social issues of our age from the late 19th through the 20th century. In this course, we are going to critically and creatively explore key cinematic interpretations of Holmes and the original short stories and novels, and the social, scientific and technological, and artistic issues they raise. In addition to viewing the famous interpretations of Rathbone, Bruce, and Brett, we are going to very selectively look at other films, from British and American cinema, which inform the Holmes epic. Pre-1999 Competencies: HC-2, AL-3, PW-B. BA-1999 Competencies: H-1-F, A-1-C, S-3-A. Faculty: J. Warren Scheideman
AI 244 CATHOLIC SOCIAL ETHICS
Students in this course will learn about ethics by examining the shifts in Catholic ethics during the twentieth century and by comparing and contrasting Catholic social thought with conventional wisdom. Students will study what church leaders and theologians are saying today about human dignity and human rights, about the common good and our individual and collective moral responsibility and this will be contrasted with Catholic teaching a century ago as well as with the conventional order (the dominant ethical perspective on social issues today). We will consider the dynamics of power and justice in America from the critical perspective of the tradition of Catholic social justice, examining the tradition of Catholic social teaching emergent late in the 19th century and spanning the 20th century: labor rights (trade unions, just wages, safe working conditions), religious freedom, racism, a consistent ethic of life, liberation theology, war and peace, economic justice, sexism, ecology. We will discuss Catholic social teaching in the context of the religious pluralism and American public life. You may register for only one competence. Competencies: A-4, A-3-C, A-3-F, H-2-X. Faculty: Kevin Buckley
AI 245 NEW HEAVEN, NEW EARTH, THE MYTH OF THE NEW MILLENIUM
In the imagination of Western culture, the year 2000 represents a turning point in history, the end of a millennium. The myth of the millennial cycle - a thousand-year period culminating in renovation and/or destruction on a global scale - has long been a powerful theme in Euro-American religion, politics and literature. This course will survey the history of the millennial idea, emphasizing works of literature and art from different historical moments and cultural contexts, to better understand this theme and its diverse meanings and impacts. Topics will include: the New Testament Book of Revelation; apocalyptic prophecies of the late middle ages; the Humanism of the Florentine Renaissance; the painting of Hieronymus Bosch; the poetry of Blake and Whitman; the utopian socialism of G.B. Shaw and H.G. Wells; the counterculture of the 1960s; the information society of Marshalle McLuhan; and the science fiction apocalypse 2001: A Space Odyssey. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-5, AL-C, HC-2, HC-A. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-D, A-3-E, H-1-F, H-2-A. Faculty: John Kimsey
AI 246 CLOTHING, FLESH AND BONE: THE HUMAN BODY ABOVE AND BELOW THE SKIN
This course examines the human body in all its aspects. Topics include: the religious body, the body in medicine and science, the cyber body and other technologies, the presentation of self/class/gender/culture/race through the body, the body as art and the images of the body in art. We devote 25% of the class to hands-on project work in the art studio and another 25% spent at the Art Institute, the Field Museum, and the Museum of Science and Industry. Competences: A1X, A2A, A5, S3A Bridge course.
AI 247 STAGE IMPROVISATION AND GAME PLAYING
Improvisational comedy is social commentary or personal expression made immediate by spontaneous dramatization. Students will learn the games that form a context with which, or from which, to improvise. Then, they will improvise; they will play in their own and in each others' improvised sketches. They will learn to solve problems, find metaphors and examine improvisation as an excellent tool with which to monitor the process of learning. Additionally, students will acquaint themselves with the history of this freest of forms. From the engagement in the games and their analysis will come the most important outcome: the growth of confidence. Competencies: A1X, A2A, A3D, A5 FX, H3E. Faculty: John Starrs
AI 248 EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES
This Externship course offers students the opportunity to integrate community service with academic learning. The service learning component will involve students in organized community service projects that address the needs of women dealing with issues such as low self-esteem, lack of motivation, depression, and/or discontent. Students will keep journals that allow them to reflect on the social, moral, and ethical issues of their service learning experiences. Students will also be required to donate 20 hours of service working with women in various community organizations. Completion of a final paper will also be required. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Major Seminar or Research Seminar is required to register. Competencies: L-10, L-11(LEX). Faculty: Cynthia Sims
AI 249 AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY
From the days of slavery to the present, the cultural contributions of the African-American in the areas of literature and folklore, music, art, and theatre have helped shape and define the American identity. The impact of their creativity on /american Life has been, has been and continues to be, far-reaching. This course will illuminate the cultural history of the Afro-American. It will follow a lecture/discussion format, using slides, recordings, and selected readings. In addition, students will supplement their learning through individual research and documentation of approved topics.
AI 250 CHINA: THE OTHER SIDE
China's national admiration for its antiquity is similar to America's zeal for its future. The Chinese go back to its past masters of ideas for insight on the modern world. In this course, we will explore Chinese ideas of humanity, society, and religion by examining three major schools of thought: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. We will try, as the Chinese saying goes, "to see the entire leopard through looking at one of its spots." Translated Chinese texts, brief lectures, student presentations, debates, Chinese music, films, food, Chinese paintings and calligraphy, and discussions will be used to formulate and compare American and Chinese civilization. Pre-'99 Competencies: HC-1, HC-2, AL-5. BA'99 Competencies: H-1-F, H-1-E, A-3-E. Faculty: Joseph Liang
AI 251 THE HUMANE PROFESSIONAL
While specialization is vital to progress in many professional areas, it can also lead to the erosion of humane values. These values can only be achieved through the cultivation of broader perspectives upon the world of knowledge. This course examines the dimensions of humane professionalism and the ways in which it can be achieved. Emphasis will be on the examination of professional behavior upon the confronting the limits of professional knowledge. No one profession will be the target of discussion since the humane professional can belong to any field. While humaneness is often used to refer first to the development of compassion and understanding for others, it can also refer to a familiarity with humanities. In this course, works from mythology, literature, history, and other fields will be used to explore humane values. Using readings assigned in class, students will be asked to prepare research papers involving individual exploration of the nature of humane professionalismas expressed in works taken from as least two areas of humane study.
AI 252 SPORT AND ART IN AMERICAN CULTURE: AESTHETICS AND EXCELLENCE
What is art in today's America? What purpose does it serve? The art world can be unfathomable. Sport, conversely, is all around us. We can observe, participate and criticize at a variety of different levels and types of sport. Sport has almost universal appeal, one of the few activities to achieve recognition across ethnic, economic, religious and lifestyle barriers. In this course, we will examine the purposes, delivery systems, and impact of both sports and art on our lives. Discussions will center around the aesthetic aspects of sports, the history of art and its relationship to our societal needs, and the connections, if any, between these two institutions. Special emphasis will be given to winter sports in this one-competence course. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-C, HC-A. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-A-4, A-1-D, H-2-A. Faculty: Betta LoSardo
AI 253 SCULPTURE IN CHICAGO
Chicago is a city resplendent with exciting and diverse sculptures. This class will visit and explore many of our world famous sculptures,and discuss them in terms of their ideas, history, and form. Through a walking tour of Chicago sculpture, students will learn the vocabulary of three-dimensional form. Lecture and class discussion will provide an overview of sculpture history and three-dimensional design concepts. Students will find that the sculptural processes are accessible and will have the opportunity to create their own sculpture. Competences: A-1-C, A-2-A, A-5.
AI 254 WRITING ABOUT NATURE/ECOLOGY
Many Americans have sought to return to nature to attain inner harmony, to seek inspiration, or to discover the place of humankind in a larger context. These nature-lovers have produced a wealth of writing. Students will examine a wide range of American nature writing. They will also spend time in natural settings accessible to Chicago. Through a number of writing exercises, students will experiment with different forms and purposes of nature writing. These writings will be read and discussed in class, and class members will formulate their views on the return to nature and nature writing as meaningful leisure activities. Students will demonstrate proficiency in chosen competencies through oral and written reports. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, AL-4, AL-C. BA-1999 Competencies: A-2-A, A-3-D, A-1-D. Faculty: Nancy Freehafer
AI 255 JESUS ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
Many of us were young children when we first heard stories based on the Gospel According to Matthew. The recent research of scholars about the culture of the Holy Land offers us new insights into the Jewishness of Jesus. Other scholars emphasize the impact of the peasant origins of Jesus on his message. We will also view and discuss the interpretation of Jesus found in Piero Pasolini's film, "The Gospel According to Matthew". We will then compare the message of Jesus in Matthew's gospel with selections from other New Testament writings. Finally, we will reflect upon this gospel in the light of our individual and collective experience as adults living at the beginning of the 21st century. This course can be taken for only one competence. BA-1999 Competencies; A3A, A3X, H1E, L7. Pre-1999 Competencies: ALF, ALN, HC1, HCH. Faculty: Kevin Buckley
AI 256 THEATRE AND SOCIETY
"The plays the thing," said Shakespeare's Hamlet, and this is certainly true, for the drama--from Oedipus to A Raisin in the Sun, and works before, in between and beyond, has served as a lens through which we can see the myriad dimensions of the human experience and the values that we humans have embraced at different moments in time. This course will thematically explore changing views of society as it has been illuminated in the drama over centuries. Students should leave the course with a greater awareness of the complexities of the human experience, as well as an enhanced appreciation for the contributions of key figures in dramatic history. Through the examination of themes and ideas presented in assigned texts, students will examine form, content, and stylistic aspects of drama. Students will read and discuss plays, view films, and walk around selected scenes in class. In addition, students will present oral and written reports and/or research papers depending on their registered competence(s), attend at least one assigned live theatrical performance, as well as participate in large and small group discussions. Students should leave the course with a greater awareness of the complexities of the human experience, as well as an enhanced appreciation for the contributions of key figures in dramatic history. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-3, AL-C, HC-2. No negotiated competencies please. Faculty: Deborah W. Holton
AI 257 IRELAND: ARTS, LAND, PEOPLE
This travel-study course brings students to one of Ireland's most renowned arts festivals, to explore the ways in which cultural identity is expressed and supported by the arts, as well as how land and landscape impact culture and are expressed in the arts. This ten-day study tour introduces students to questions of globalization of culture vs. traditional/indigenous cultures; cultural tourism; roots of art in society; the role of the artist in society; community-based vs. elitist arts; landscape and its impact on arts; impact of arts in education; environmental issues in economy and the arts. Competences: L10,11 (Externship), E1, E2. Faculty: Patricia Monaghan
AI 258 LANDSCAPE DRAWING
Every rock, whether majestic peak or shiny pebble beach, holds the knowledge of centuries. Quiet forests and powerful rivers have witnessed the mysteries and strengths of past cultures. Through this class, you can experience the richness of nature's land forms in a new way. During one weekend on location, in an intensive drawing seminar, students will use the tranquility of nature to tap their own inner resources of communication. Students will learn about line, form and value through private and group consultation and direction, slide discussion, and drawing time. Students will use pencil, charcoal, and ink. Each student will develop from his or her personal level. Previous drawing experience is not necessary. One night will be spent on-site, allowing an early start for the second day's activities. Students will be required to purchase art supplies for this class. The room for the weekend will be approximately $70., with location within a 150 mile radius of Chicago. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, AL-C. BA-1999 Competencies: A-2-A, A-1-D. Faculty: Margaret Lanterman
AI 259 LITERARY THEMES OF CONTEMPORARY BLACK WOMEN WRITERS
This course is designed to introduce students to the selected texts of diverse contemporary Black women from throughout the African Diaspora. Students will select from six writers and analyze the ways these writers have the human experience, based on the social constructions of race, class, and gender. Students will also choose and interpret relevant exhibitions, documentaries, lectures, performances or other distinct literary genres that locate the work of these writers within a historical moment, describing the social context and focusing on the issues manifested in the work. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-F, AL-H. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-C, A-1-X. Faculty: Chigozie Acebe.
AI 260 THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
The Souls of Black Folk is the title of W.E.B. DuBois's landmark work written almost a century ago. It also aptly describes this course which will illuminate the history and culture of the African American. Students will examine and analyze history through the multiple lenses of oppression and the African American response to it. And, will heighten their awareness and appreciation for African American cultural creativity--in folklore, language and music--as a means to both cope with and fight oppression. It will follow a lecture/discussion format, using films and videos, recordings, and select readings. In addition, students will supplement their learning through individual research and documentation of approved topics. This class meets first at Malcolm X College at 1900 W. Van Buren St., and then at the Loop campus. Pre-'99 Competencies: HC-1, HC-2, AL-2, AL-E. BA'99 Competencies: H-1-E, H-1-F, A-2-A, A-1-D. Faculty: Wellington Wilson, Deborah Woods Holton.
AI 261 PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH IN ADULTHOOD
In this course we will look at several models of adult development that have been put forward in recent years and relate them to our own lives. We will ask questions such as: where am I in my life's journey? How can I develop my cognitive, moral, and psychological capacities? How can an understanding of stage development help me in my relations with others? Do gender and culture affect development or is there a common path that all human beings follow? In-class work will include lecture, small group work, role play, various written exercises, and discussion. In addition, students will keep journals in which they reflect on their learning and their personal experience and then prepare a personal growth history which relates their own experience to one or more of the models studied. Students will also work collaboratively on a project in which they attempt to design a model of how cognitive, moral, and/or psychological growth occurs and how it might be encouraged. Students will also observe their own collaborative process and relate it to theory. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-D, AL-N, HC-H. BA'99 Competencies: L-7, A-3-A, H-3-C. Faculty: Lynn Holaday
AI 262 GLOBALIZATION AND THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY
This course focuses on current affairs regarding globalization as a world system of operation in society. The course aims to clarify our notion and understanding of globalization by looking at the impact that technology has had in the way we conduct our lives. Throughout this course students are asked to read and reflect upon different technologies that we have seen affecting the way in which people communicate. The central idea to broaden our perspective about globalization is that one the most important and significant activities that we do as humans is to communicate. Therefore, our focus of study will be centered around communication technologies widely used in the world, potentially continuing to change our lives even more. Broadly speaking, technologies under study include the telephone, television, and computer networks (the Internet). Competences: H5, S3F, FX.
AI 263 THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: THE LIFE AND WORK OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON
This is an Online Course and a Travel Course--a dynamic duo! Students will be required to attend three "live" class sessions in the Loop to supplement online course work. Students will also attend the 12th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival in historic Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated Black town in the US, for a four-day immersion in Black culture. Estimated expenses include tuition, airfare, hotel, food, local transportation, and conference registration fees (approximately $1,200, plus tuition. "Zora Neale Hurston, outstanding novelist, journalist, folklorist, and critic, was, between 1920 and 1950, the most prolific black women writer in America. The intellectual and spiritual foremother of a generation of black women writers, Hurston believed in the beauty of black expressions and traditions and in the psychological wholeness of black life." (I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader [Alice Walker, ed., Feminist Press, 1979], i). Zora Neale Hurston, adult learner, writer, folklorist, playwright, and storyteller, was an amazingly gifted woman. Her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a recognized classic used in many college classrooms across the country. A legend in her own right who Alice Walker ranks with Bessie Smith and Billy Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston has been a beacon for students interested in learning about Black life and culture. Students in this class will immerse themselves in the literature by and about Zora Neale Hurston and will create research projects that connect their learning with their own scholarly interests. ). Competencies: A1X, A5, H1X. Faculty: Deborah Holton
AI 264 PASSING ON TRADITIONS
In this course, we will investigate our perceptions, understandings and feelings about the world. will reveal connections to the past by emphasizing non-traditional ways of knowing and learning. Students will examine how traditions or collections of beliefs are passed on by researching an individual or groups of people from the past or present. Working individually or in groups, students will create an oral presentation and research paper. Source material can include diaries, journals, or historical books. This experience will help students to reflect on the traditions in their lives in order to come to terms with past and present realities.
AI 265 PHILOSOPHY AND ECONOMICS
This course will provide an introduction to economics as it has developed in the 20th century. It will investigate how markets work and explain what macroeconomics means. These concepts will be discussed and the necessary vocabulary defined. The emphasis on the evolution of economics will generate thought provoking discussions including: the effect of the increasing number of industrialized countries on the United States economy; changes in streams of income and its effect on the middle class; the interrelationship of technological changes and economy. Pre-1999 Competencies: HC-3, AL-C, WW. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-A, F-X, H-1-C. Faculty: Alan D. Cohen
AI 266 ETHICAL DECISION MAKING
Ethical decisions are often difficult to make, not because there are no right choices, but because there may be several right choices. This course will go beyond WHAT is right or wrong to examine WHY we say something is right or wrong. In the first part of the course, students will gain the intellectual tools and insights to lay bare their own reasoning processes and those of others. In the second part of the course, students will apply these tools to a consideration of the ethical issues raised by the high technology of current health care. Pre-1999 Competencies: PW-B, AL-5. Faculty: John Minogue
AI 267 THE EXAMINED LIFE: A QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY
"The unexamined Life is not worth living," exclaimed the Greek philosopher Socrates, setting the tone for philosophical quests that have shaped out thought and civilizations. "Neither is the examined one," retorted German philosopher Schopenhaurer 2,300 years later after surveying the prospects of the modern world. This course will outline the philosophical tradition of rational thought that stretches in between these thinkers. Students will focus on how the great thinkers and traditions East and West considered ethical, metaphysical, epistemological , political, and aesthetic problems. And they will engage in a philosophical examination of their own life and beliefs. Competencies: A-4, A-3-A, A-3-E. Faculty: R. Craig Sautter
AI 268 CHICAGO AUTHORS
Chicago has earned a varied international reputation for its gangsters, architecture, railroads, political machines, stockyards and industries. But for many around the world, Chicago is best known for its writers and literature. By the turn of the 20th century, Chicago was heralded as the "literary capital of the United States" and it is still home for great writers. Students will read two novels or books of poetry to explore Chicago's history, characters, problems, and images. The class will trace literary movements and explore elements of structure, character, plot and style in fiction and poetry. Competencies: A-1-C, A-1-E, A-3-G, H-1-H, A-5. Faculty: R. Craig Sautter
AI 269 MAKING THE SCENE
This course is designed to engage students in the art of playwrighting in order to discover the essential nature of drama on stage and in life. By reading and viewing plays, students will be encouraged to reflect on the apparent contradiction between "universal truth" and individual experience. In addition to appreciating the structure and ethod of drama, students will learn to identify the "why" behind any play and to use drama as a means of creating and telling stories. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-C. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-D, A-2-A, Faculty: Ewing Eugene Baldwin
AI 270 DESIGN FOR LIVING
The purpose of this course is to develop an awareness, understanding and analysis of the Chicago-area built environment. Architectural, public art, urban design and urban planning elements, techniques and issues will be presented with downtown Chicago as the primary study area. Specific architectural and development plans will be analyzed from various perspectives, such as: historical, social, technical, functional, aesthetic and symbolic. The development of Chicago's commercial architecture, and its contribution to modern architectural theory and practice, will receive special emphasis. Competences: A1X, A2X, A5, H1I, FX. Faculty: Timothy Hill
AI 271 SHADOWS OUT OF TIME: MODERN HORROR FICTION
"Very few authors can boast that they have inspired and encouraged a generation of writers. Fewe still can say they have inspired two or three such generations. H.P. Lovecraft is one of those select few who, even 63 years after his death, inspires, encourages and educates writers of weird fiction and horror the world over. This course will cover Lovecraft the man, his life and the times in which he lived. It will encompass Lovecraft's work, including his stories, poetry and the myth circle that he created and which authors enlarge upon even today. Finally, the course will examine the "Lovecraft Circle", the writers he personally encouraged and assisted as well as those who joined the club by contributing mythos tales of their own. Students will read selected works of Lovecraft, Robert Bloch,
Ramsay Campbell, Stephen King and others. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1 AL-3 AL-E AL-F. BA-1999
Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-C, A-1-H, A-1-X.
AI 272 REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE, ARTS AND MUSIC
The content of this course will revolve around the topics of love, death, and magic in Hispanic literature. Students with the ability to read and speak Spanish will be given the option to read and discuss the selections in that language, while those who speak English will read and discuss the selections in English. Readings from such authors as Sor Juana, Neruda, Marquez, and others will be put in a historical and cultural context. References to other art forms will enrich the discussions. Included in this course will be field trips to the Mexican Fine Arts Museum and the Newberry Library as well as to appropriate concerts. This class meets the first part of the quarter at Truman College and then at the Loop campus. You may register for up to three competencies. Competencies: A1A, A1C, A5, H1A, A3E Faculty: Staff
AI 273 JUSTICE AND POLITICS: THE TRADITIONS OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Are politics ever just? Should they be? What is justice? Throughout the ages, philosophers and statesmen have provided different answers to these fundamental questions. This course will explore the role of justice in politics, using as a guide the best known works of two great thinkers in the tradition of political philosophy. Plato's Republic and Machiavelli's The Prince appear to offer two very different answers to the questions of justice, and politics. By exploring their works, students will grapple with these questions, probe Plato's and Machiavelli's differing approaches to the role of justice in politics, explore their own conceptions of these critical issues and wrestle with the role of justice in current political events. Students will also gain an introduction to the tradition of western political philosophy as reflected by two of its most influential thinkers. Competencies: A-3-F, A-4, H-3-A, F-X. Faculty: Robert E. Shapiro
AI 274 WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL: GOD, SEX, AND THE GUILTY CONSCIENCE IN LITERATURE
Humans have always had an impulse to worship a God (or Gods). Humans have always been irresistibly drawn to sexual self-expression. Pervasive throughout history is this fascinating paradox: the God whom we worship condemns the sex we crave. Guilt is our link between the sacred and the profane. The triangulation of religion, sexual desire, and guilt has long been the concern of artists and writers. This course examines this phenomenon in such literary masterpieces as Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Tony Kushner's Angels in America (Parts 1 and 2), and William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. We will also study poetry, literary criticism, and relevant excerpts from sociological, theological, and psychological texts. In addition to participating in class discussions and presentations, students will be required to submit a final paper and a ten-entry journal. BA-1999 Competencies: A1D, A1E, A3G, A5, H3X. . Faculty: Peter Forster
AI 275 INTRODUCTION TO CREATION SPIRITUALITY
This course provides an overview of Creation Spirituality, a movement that draws on ancient spiritual traditions and contemporary science to awaken authentic mysticism, revitalize Christianity and Western culture, and promote social and ecological justice. Creation Spirituality teaches that God permeates all things and that humanity is an original blessing to the earth. In this paradigm, Christ is God's liberating and reconciling energy, transforming individuals and society's structures into conduits of compassion. As we embody God's love, we become the Creation that God intends. Topics to be explored include differences with fall-redemption attitudes, relationships to post-modern world views, and applying insights to personal life and work dynamics. BA-1999 Competencies: A3B, A3X, A5, H4, FX. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL2, ALF, HCF, WW. Faculty: Richard Rossiter
AI 276 CREATIVE INK: THE ART OF WRITING
This course will carry students through a series of creative writing experiments aimed at stimulating their imaginations and discovering their literate voices. Students will be exposed to a variety of techniques for story writing, poetry, and avant garde experiments. The course will combine in-class group writing and critical sessions, and individual consultation with the instructor for personal development. Students will also learn how to find outlets for their completed creative work. Competencies: A-1-C, A-2-A, A-2-X, A-5. Faculty: R. Craig Sautter
AI 277 WRITING FROM THE INSIDE
A series of dovetailing activities and exercises expose students to an increasingly broadened range of experience with the foundational elements of the writing process. Thus students arrive at an understanding of the creative process in the art of writing through their own writing experiences, as well as through reading and discussion of the writings of others. The context for writing understood as an art will be an interdisciplinary one that will also involve drawing. The students' explorations will take advantage of an arena of peers all sharing the process of personal discovery, and reading and discussing their own work as well as the works of literature together. Students produce a finished writing product of their own in an artistic form which meets the criteria of "art" explored by the class, present the work to the class, and explain their process. They will also produce a written evaluation of one or more writings of their choice in terms of this same criteria. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-4, AL-F BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-X, A-2-A, A-3-D. Faculty: Ann Schultz
AI 278 THE LITERATURE OF INCARCERATION
The U.S. incarcerates well over 2 million people. Proportionally, no other democratic country in the world comes close to this level. Locked away, out of sight and hearing from most of us, this population of women and men is represented by the media in lurid, predatory images. The writing that has emerged from prisoners paints an altogether different picture, however. In this class, we will study several literary texts--short stories, essays, poems--written by women and men who have been or are currently incarcerated. The class will be offered for one competence only and will meet the first five weeks of the quarter. BA-1999 Competencies offered: A5, H4, A1E. Faculty: Ann Folwell Stanford.
AI 279 EXPLORING WORLD LITERATURE: THE INTERNAL HISTORY OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
This course is about exploration, about discovery, about meaning. Together we will explore remarkable stories of world literature, and together we will discover remarkable worlds that open our lives with meaning. By means of consummate storytelling and remarkable language, respected masters and new and emerging writers, chosen for their literary excellence, will transport us to South America and to the Caribbean - - to North America; Europe; and Russia - - to the African Diaspora to the South Pacific - - to Mexico, Central America and to the Middle East - - to Mississippi and to Harlem - - to South Asia and to East Asia. The course will also include short stories from acclaimed Native American writer, Sherman Alexie, who also wrote the screenplay for the academy award-winning movie, Smoke Signals. This course's chosen classic and contemporary masterpieces of short fiction will reflect thematic, aesthetic, and cultural variety: different styles, points of view, and rich diversity of cultural, historical, and gender perspectives. The stories draw us in by powerful images garnered not only from our own backyard, but from the many yards across the globe. Competencies: L7, A1X, A5, H3X, FX. Faculty: Susan F. Field
AI 280 TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS: PROFILES IN ADULT LEARNING
This course is designed to assist learners in investigating the perceptions, understandings and feelings about their lives and the contexts in which they are lived. It will help to reveal connections to the past and conditions shaping the future with special emphasis on non-traditional ways of knowing and learning. Students will choose persons from the past or present and examine how a family and/or cultural tradition is passed on through time, including forces shaping its future form. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-D, HC-2, AL-F, WW. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-B, H-3-C, H-1-F, L-7, F-X.
AI 281 RITUAL AND EVERYDAY LIFE
This class will delve into ritual as an experiential, expressive performance of self, culture, spirituality, and ethics. We will be reading, viewing and discussing various examples of ritual forms, both religious and secular, Euro-American and non-Western, and looking at works about ritual performance by anthropologists and performance theorists like Ronald Grimes, Richard Schechner, and Victor Turner. We will also be experimenting with the role of ritual in our daily lives, creating our own rituals and ritual performances. This process will highlight what it means to endow everyday objects and events with sacred significance, and how such an expression of self establishes an essential relationship with community. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-H, A-2-A, A-5, H-1-E, H-3-I. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, ALE, HC-1, HC-W. Instructor: Jason Winslade.
AI 282 LEISURE FOR WELL-BEING
The pursuit of happiness for most people is an important aim in life. A personal feeling of well-being includes "emotional happiness" and the rational satisfaction with one's own life. In this course you will attempt to define the term "well-being" and discover its relationship with other concepts such as mental health and life satisfaction. How does physical exercise influence well-being? How do positive and negative life events influence well-being? Do good social relationships guarantee happiness? Do the expectations one has in life with regard to income influence well-being? Is it important to set goals to achieve a high level of well-being? These and other questions will be addressed in this course. You will try to define some of things a person can do to increase his or her level of well-being. Others' ideas serve as common course content, as presented in the material assigned to this course. You will be asked to participate actively and critically, to work individually and in study groups, using your own experience as a field of analysis and reflection. Active group participation will foster a harmonic, interactive environment, which might increase positive relationships among students and foster a feeling of well-being throughout this course. Competencies: H3F. Faculty: Staff
AI 283 VISIONARIES OF PEACE
Sacred scripture shares: "Without a vision, people perish." In our contemporary global reality, where talk of war and terrorism fills the air, and "peace" is a complicated notion, what does it mean to be a visionary of peace? To whom can we look for wisdom and guidance? In light of these questions, we will study the words and deeds of four persons whom many consider to be peace visionaries. We will question their motives and actions. We will ask one another if they are indeed worthy of being called visionaries of peace. We will ask ourselves and one another what they have to teach us. We will explore the foundational principles and practices which guide them, those of contemplation, nonviolent action and peacemaking. We will compare and contrast their approaches to peacemaking. We will examine what they have to say to us and to our world today. They are Peace Pilgrim, an American woman who walked over 25,000 miles for peace; Badshah Khan, known as "The Frontier Gandhi,"of the Pathan region of the Pakistani-Afghani border; Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk and social activist; and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize winner from Northern Ireland. We will get to know these contemporary visionaries of peace. We will read their own words, read what others have to say about them, and discuss their relevance in light of our post September 11 reality. In light of their vision, we will work to create our own vision for peace in our hearts, our community and our world. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-A, A-3-G, A-5, H-3-D, H-5. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-R, AL-N, HC-B, HC-X. Faculty: Anthony Nicotera.
AI 284 THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
This course will help students understand and successfully navigate through the brave new world of marketing communications and advertising: a world of segmented audiences, fragmented media channels, technology and interactivity, online communities, and on-demand media, where brand building has emerged as a business imperative. Students will learn which principles of traditional marketing communications are in, which are out, and the new ones that have emerged. We will read books and articles and examine the internet, e-commerce, experiential marketing, consumer-generated content, branded entertainment, search, music and mobile channels. Through the process of creating marketing communications programs utilizing these channels, students will also gain skills in collaborative learning and creativity. Competencies Offered: A5, H2G, S3F, FX
AI 285 EUROPEAN ART CINEMA
After World War II ended, American movie theaters began showing films from Europe that became popular among war veterans, college students, and graduates. Unlike most classical Hollywood films, the new "European Art Cinema" was less concerned with presenting stories with happy endings than with exploring social, political, and psychological themes through the use of film as an aesthetic form. This course introduces students to the art cinemas of Italy, France, Germany, and Sweden, concentrating equally upon the appreciation and analysis of individual films, the historical and cultural conditions of their production, and the relationship between Hollywood and the European film industries. In addition to reading film and cultural history , we will watch and discuss a full-length
feature film each week in class. Screenings include Vittorio DeSica's Bicycle Thieves, Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows, Alain Resnais' Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Michelanglo Antonioni's Red Desert, Jean-Marie Straub's Not Reconciled, Claude Chabrol's La Rupture, , Ingmar Bergman's Persona, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun, and Jean-Luc Godard's First Name: Carmen. All students will be required to write a paper pertaining to the specific competencies chosen. Students registering for Integrative Learning competencies, capstone competencies, or advanced electives will be required to conduct and incorporate outside research for their final paper . In November 2000, please visit the course website for more information: http:/ /www .depaul.edu/~mdeange1/artcinema/ Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-l, AL-3, HC-1, AL-9, AL-l 0, HC-9,
HC-O BA- 1999 Competencies: A-l-A, A-I-C, H-I-E, E-l, E-2, 1-3, 1-4.
AI 286 NEW ORLEANS IN SONG, STORY & STRUGGLE
The tapestry of New Orleans culture is tremendously rich and varied. This course will concentrate on two strands in that tapestry?music from New Orleans and fiction about it. Students will learn about music forms which originated in the city or its environs and which have gone on to dazzle the world, including jazz, r&b, zydeco and funk. We will situate these art forms in social and historical context and examine the complex creative processes which have shaped them. We will become familiar with innovators and icons such as Louis Armstrong, Professor Longhair, Clifton Chenier, the Neville Bothers and Dr. John. We will also read works by literary artists who have a background in and/or fascination with New Orleans, including The Awakening by Kate Chopin; A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; and Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed. Moreover, we will consider the role played in American history and imagination by New Orleans as well as the role played by images and fantasies of New Orleans in struggles for social justice at the local and national level. Competences: A1X; A5; H4; H1X . Faculty: John Kimsey
AI 287 THE PRACTICE AND SPIRIT OF CREATIVE WRITING
When I teach writing, I often interchange the word "writing" with the word "life." Writing is life. But many have forgotten. Author Georgia Heard writes in her book Writing Toward Home, "There are many times when I've felt that I had nothing valuable to say. That real writers were other people. It has taken me a while to believe that the way I feel each day, and the way others speak when we're least self-conscious, is where writing comes from. When we speak in a language that is ours and tell our own stories and truths - - this is where writing comes from." Yet still many have forgotten. Poet Marge Piercy's words resonate to all of us when she writes: She must learn again to speak / starting with I / starting with We . . . There is an ancient Chinese proverb: A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song." Writing is natural, like a bird's song. But many have forgotten. When it comes to writing, it was American writer Robert Frost who believed that if one was open, one might even realize "with initial delight that you are expressing thoughts that you didn't know that you already knew." This course will involve the student in the practice and spirit of creative writing Very importantly, it will involve through a re-awakening and a re-discovery of the creative potential that lies inside, waiting to speak again. Our course follow the lead from the great essayist E.B. White who defines writing " as communication, and creative writing as the self coming into the open." Indeed, writes author Christina Baldwin in her essay on the writing life: "There comes a journey And there comes the urge to write it down, to bear witness to our experience, to share our questions and the insights that come from questioning." In a supportive, sharing learning environment, each class session will be presented in an exploratory workshop format that integrates content and spontaneity. Students will be inspired to risk, to explore, to bring to consciousness, to nurture, to trust and to honor the originality of their own emerging personal voice. Students will also gain awareness of and understanding into the wonders of the creative process itself. The flexible course structure is intended to accommodate individual needs and writing exploration and to encourage individual creative writing development. Students are asked bring to class a few belongings as one writer suggests: A nugget of personal truth, still buried; a bit of history under the skin, ready to be transformed. And let me add that students bring some more belongings: an open mind with a dash of wonder; a pocketful of dreams; the courage (it may be shy) to create; and a heart filled with blind faith. Competencies: L-7, A-2-A, A-5, F-X. Faculty: Susan F. Field.
AI 288 POWER AND LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC SPEAKING: MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATIONS
When you are trying to sell an idea or product, your presentation must be specific and detailed, convincing and authoritative. This course will teach students to develop and deliver exciting and effective presentations. Through numerous individual short presentations and one final major presentation, students will learn how to overcome such speaking problems as nervousness, eye contact, understanding the audience and its culture, questions and answers, effective use of graphics, distractions, time control and how to handle troublemakers. Through the use of flip charts, overheads and computer-generated graphics and videos, students will learn to effectively organize their material to communicate their subject material to the audience. Students will need a basic understanding of computer software such as PowerPoint, database spreadsheets and access to the Internet for research. Students will develop an appreciation of the complexity of the communication process and the choices facing the communicator. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-F, HC-S, WW. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-X, H-3-E, F-X.Faculty: Tom Strzycki
AI 289 ACTION FILMS: HONG KONG AND HOLLYWOOD
In this course students will compare and contrast action films completed in Hong Kong and Hollywood. Competencies: A1C, A5. Faculty: Michael DeAngelis
AI 290 MEN AND MASCULINITY
This class is an introduction to the history, roles, and social expectations of masculinity in the United States. Its starting point is the social construction of gender, and the origins of ideas about "masculine" and "feminine" behaviors. We look deeply into the social, economic, political and cultural forces that shape views of gender. The class draws upon a wide array of literature, poetry and perspectives on boys, men, social roles and masculinity. Just as the feminist movement showed girls and women the vast array of possibilities in a "feminine" world, so, too, does this course consider the possibilities of the "masculine" world. We will particularly explore research that addresses the experience of contemporary boys; their struggles and the painful issues they must face on their journey to manhood in American society. BA-1999 Competencies: A3A, A4, H2A, H3A, H3H, FX. Pre-1999 Competencies: ALN, HCA, HC4, HCV, WW. Faculty: James Frank
AI 291 TRAINING DEVELOPMENT
This five week course will address the development of instructional methods and materials consistent with the purpose, audience, and context of a specific training need. Students will learn how characteristics of adult learning and adult learners can converge with principles of instructional design to create effective and dynamic training materials. Students will demonstrate competence through the design of training methods and materials. * Successful completion of Training Design is required prior to registration. Students may register for only one competence
AI 292 EONS AND ARTS II: MANIFESTATIONS OF CULTURE
This course will connect specific historical eras in Western culture with representative art forms so students can gain cultural insights. Particular attention will be paid to artifacts in the Chicago area. Students will analyze the relationship between popular art and movements in history through lecture, readings and discussion. We will also address contemporary cultural issues, including how later peoples will judge our values based on our arts. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-E, AL-I. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-B, A-1-H. Faculty: Jo Anne Gesiakowska
AI 293 THE HORROR FILM
The horror film has introduced and popularized many of the cinema's most unique stylistic innovations, especially in the areas of camerawork, lighting, color, sound, point-of-view, and editing. The genre also helps us to understand how filmmakers construct surprise and suspense to maximize the viewer's emotional involvement and response to film narratives. This course introduces students to the language of film analysis by studying a number of representative films in the horror genre. We will also examine the social and cultural dimensions of the "fear" response that horror films exploit so strategically. We will read exciting theoretical work discussing the reasons for the genre's widespread appeal. Weekly in-class film screenings include the following: Psycho (Hitchcock version), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Scream, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Suspiria. Students will give class presentations and write papers on topics tailored to their interest in the genre. Pre-'99 Competencies: HC-D, AL-1, AL-3, AL-9, AL-10. BA'99 Competencies: H-2-G, A-1-A, A-1-C, E-1, E-2. Faculty: Michael DeAngelis.
AI 294 THE PRACTICE OF PEACE
Following the September 11, 2001 suicide attacks, President Bush has declared an open-ended war on terrorism. In the midst of this war, what does it mean to practice peace? How might you and I work to practice peace? We will explore some of the principles, practitioners and practices of nonviolent peacemaking, allowing for debate and discussion. We will explore personal, interpersonal and political peacemaking. We will examine power relationships and dynamics inherently at tension in the practice of peace. We will read the works of contemporary peacemakers, such as Maread Corrigan Maguire, Jodi Williams, and Thich Nhat Hanh, as well as seminal figures in the peace movement, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Dorothy Day. We will have guest lectures from local and international peace practitioners and discuss various ways of practicing peace on personal, local and global levels. BA-1999 Competencies: A3C, A4, H3D, H4, H5. Pre-1999 Competencies: ALG, ALP, ALS. Faculty: Anthony Nicotera, LSW, works in University Ministry at DePaul. He received his BA from Georgetown University, where he also studied Law. He received his MSW from Loyola University of Chicago where he also studied philosophy and theology. As a licensed social worker, he has worked extensively with disadvantaged youth. He has lived and worked in India, Latin America, and in a Catholic Worker community in New Jersey. In his work for peace and justice, he has been arrested a number of times for non-violent civil disobedience.
AI 295 SHADES OF GRAY: MORALITY AND ETHICS IN FILM
In the early days of movies, people flocked to the theater to see the good guys (white hats) triumph over the bad guys (black hats). As the art of cinema evolved, the characters and the ethical issues they faced became more challenging and complex. Through in-class screenings and related readings, this course will examine films whose themes strongly concern the depiction of ethical and moral choice. We will discuss the ways in which the film makers create meaningful ethical dilemmas; how the characters' choices are portrayed; and how these portrayals may influence our own formulation of value systems and ethical choices. Competencies: A1A, A1D, A3C, A4. Faculty: Gary Fox
AI 296 STAGE PLAY(ING)
The plays the thing... A play is action, play, conflict, resolution, motion, emotion, live now. A play is crafted for the stage, not for the page. What we find on the page is a script, a guide to the play, not the play itself. The course will explore the play (and playing) in as many of its dimensions as we can discover. Students will read about reading scripts, and then read them to see the play as it could come to be. We will put together scenes, sketches, stories, and/or short plays; as well as improvise, role play, and act in our own work as well as in the work of established playwrights. Students will take the study to the theater to see what works and what doesn't work on the stage. The class will work and play together and apart and let the creative imagination take us where it will. Competencies: A1X, A2X, A-5, H3E, FX. Faculty: John Starrs.
AI 297 WOMEN'S WISDOM AND THE POWER OF PERSUASION
In this course of fulfilling our private and public lives, we draw on combonations of our knowledge and experience (wisdom) and capacities to be persuasive. The alliance of wisdom and persuasion goes back to early Greek philosophers who formulated them as subjects for men, but not for women. More contemporary perspectives suggest that men and women may bring differing palettes to the artistry which weaves persuasion and practical wisdom. This course will examine emerging theories on the stages of "knowing," and their philosophical roots, and the application of this developing knowledge to many facets of professional and personal life. Students will utilize case studies, discussions, readings, self-explorations and other activities to analyze systems of thought regardiong the development of values, knowledge, and persuasive skills with a particular emphasis on women's perspective and experiences. The role of media shaping attitudes, motivation, and decision-making processes will be explored through the images and metaphors conveyed to and about women. The course will offer and opportunity for understanding the roots of many of our values and perspectives on women's approaches to knowledge and persuasion.
AI 298 THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the Italian peninsula was the center of a new age of human discovery and expression. With the unfolding of ancient philosophies, the Catholic Church's temporal and spiritual control over Western Europe faltered. This age changed the meaning of political power, art, literature, science, and religious life. New perspectives lifted the horizons of thought and artistic expression. What meaning and value do these issues have for the contemporary person? By exploring the richness of Renaissance culture, this course attempts to answer the following questions: What happened on the Italian peninsula during the Renaissance? Who were the principal players? How did this period influence western civilization, particularly with respect to learning? What does the Renaissance mean today? Why, indeed, does it play such a major role in contemporary consciousness of the arts, literature, politics, and science? While the general focus of the material is the Renaissance in the Italian city states, the course concentrates on the rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence. Cosimo, Lorenzo, Piero and Giovanni de' Medici (Pope Leo X) were instrumental in the development of this spectacular age in Western Civilization. Learners will also confront our own time with respect to issues raised in the Italian Renaissance. Faculty: Betta LoSardo.
AI 299 ELEMENTS OF FILM AND TELEVISION: AN AESTHETIC APPROACH
There's more going on in a film or TV show than the story! Understanding aesthetics principles allows both consumers and creators to experience film and television on deeper levels-both intellectual and emotional. While aesthetics classes in the philosophy department are concerned with the connection between "beauty" and "truth", this course will be primarily concerned with basic visual language. Students will learn how to interpret the medium's aesthetic elements by decoding its visual language, thereby building strategies for their own creative visual thinking. By exploring a variety of genres--- narrative films, television dramas, documentaries, even commercials--- we will develop criteria to help us see beyond the obvious text. Working within the limitations of the medium, we will learn how to manipulate and exploit the aesthetic elements at our command to obtain desired effects. The course will culminate with each student producing an integrated project. Competencies: A-2-C, A-5, A-1-X. Faculty: Gary Fox
AI 300 MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE
MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE
AI 311 AL9/INDEPENDENT STUDY: ARTS OF LIVING
AL9/INDEPENDENT STUDY: ARTS OF LIVING
AI 312 AL0/INDEPENDENT STUDY: ARTS OF LIVING
AL0/INDEPENDENT STUDY: ARTS OF LIVING
AI 313 RACE AND IDENTITY IN AMERICAN THEATER
This course will explore issues of race and racial identity in American society through the medium of theater. Texts will include several of the following: "Blues for an Alabama Sky," a Civil War retelling of the Oedipus story; "Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992," Anna Deveare's performance piece based on the Rodney King riots; "The Story," Tracy Scott's play about the pressures on a young black journalist to climb the media ladder; "Spinning Into Butter," Rebecca Gilman's provocative play about racial harassment on a college campus; Lorraine Hansberry's classic "A Raisin in the Sun;" Thomas Gibbons' "Personal Collection," which deals with the issue of appropriation of cultural heritage; and one of the ten plays from August Wilson's epic cycle. The class will also view a play on these themes at a Chicago theater. Competences: A-1-A, A-1-D, A-5, H-4, F-X (for Law & Literature focus area students only) Faculty: Fred Wellisch
AI 314 ART: INSIGHTS FROM THE INSIDE
Understanding art and artists is the result of gaining insight into the artist and his/her relationship to the society in which he/she lives, as well as the process of artistic creation itself. The production of contemporary Western art is the result of over three thousand years of evolution within a framework which can be traced to the ancient Greeks. This course will trace that evolution and engage the student in opportunities to experiement with various media to provide insights into artist's work. With the help of a series of videotapes, students will be taken on a "journey" from the earliest Greek monuments to the art of the present day to explore artistic styles, forms, and subjecs as they have changed through the ages. Students will do hands-on creating with pen and ink, water colors, and clay as a means of experiencing the role of media and the decisions which artists have to face in the course of their work.
AI 315 CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION
Is there a specific mental procedure that gives rise to the making of new inventions, new scientific and mathematical discoveries, new philosophical systems, and new works of art? If so, it remains as mysterious today as a thousand years ago. In this course we will compare and critically evaluate a range of theories about human invention and creativity, both classic and modern - from ancient conceptions of divine inspiration and "creative madness" to recent hypotheses in the fields of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. We will test these theories by (a) applying them to our own past experience with creative endeavors and (b) by determining to what extent the theories can adequately explain the emergence of particular inventions, scientific or mathematical breakthroughs, or works of art. The course will introduce the thought of a range of important theorists on the creative process - from Plato to Freud - and also weigh the contributions and examples of prominent artists, scientists, and inventors, including Archimedes, Newton, Mozart, Milton, Poe, Van Gogh, Poincari, Edison, Einstein, and others. Competencies: A5, A3X, S3X, H3X. Faculty: David Simpson
AI 316 SPIRITUALITY AND HOMELESSNESS
This course will examine the broad issue of homelessness by providing students the opportunity to reflect upon a service learning experience at a community-based organization that serves the homeless population in Chicago. Students will explore what can be learned about themselves as reflective practitioners, service learners, and spiritual human beings when reflecting upon this experiential learning process. Through the class discussions, assigned readings, invited speakers, and journal assignments, students will reflect on their own beliefs and perceptions of homelessness and analyze the history, causes, and policy associated with this societal problem. Competencies: L-10, L-11, Faculty: Karl Nass
AI 317 EONS AND ARTS I: MANIFESTATIONS OF CULTURE
This course will connect specific historical eras in Western culture with representative art forms so students can gain cultural insights. Particular attention will be paid to artifacts in the Chicago area. Students will analyze the relationship between popular art and movements in history through lecture, readings and discussion. We will also address contemporary cultural issues, including how later peoples will judge our values based on our arts. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-E, AL-I. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-B, A-1-H. Faculty: Jo Ann Gesiakowska
AI 318 GRASSROOTS THEOLOGY
This course offers students the tools needed for a critical reflection of their own assumptive world view of various churches and to probe methods of change which can be applied to these churches enabling them to better serve their people. We will not compare religions; the focus is on the theology behind religions. Once students examine their assumptive worldview, through theological reflection, they will compare values with other class members as well as those of various churches. Each student will choose a given church and engage in critical reflection to examine potential changes needed within that institution. Students will learn about theological reflection, explore skills needed to make changes within a community or church and engage in small group work. Students will also assess and critique themselves and each other. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-5, AL-D, HC-5. Faculty: Barbara Donnelley
AI 319 UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS FROM AN AFRICAN-CENTERED PERSPECTIVE
This course will utilize an African-centered framework to examine the nature of social interactions within the African-American community, with a focus on female-male relationships, parenting, and the place of elders in the family. Students will examine the role of culture and racism in the historical development of these social relationships while identifying possible solutions to alleviate tensions experienced within the examined relationships. Guest lecturers, readings, discussions and written assignments, a learning journal, and individual paper or project will comprise the learning experience. Loop. Sat. Prerequisite: Psychology from an African-Centered Perspective, a course in African or African-American culture, or permission of instructor. Please call 312-362-8199. BA-1999 Competencies: H1B, H3I, A3A, A3E, A3F. Pre-1999 Competencies: ALN, ALQ, AL5, HCC, HCW. Faculty: Derise Tolliver
AI 320 NONFICTION WRITING:THE MEMOIR
Your own memories and experiences can be the basis of the nonfiction memoir, but to be effective such writing must do more than just recite facts or label feelings. How do you create a vivid, exciting piece of writing from the events of your life? This class explores the nonfiction memoir, with special emphasis on the spiritual autobiography. Students will read selections from contemporary memoirs as well as a full-length book of their choicing; the final project is a short personal memoir. Pre-1999 Competence: AL-2. BA-1999 Competence: A-2-A.
AI 321 AMERICAN WRITERS AND TECHNOLOGY
This course will examine American attitudes toward nature, industrialization, technology, our character as a people, and our national destiny, especially as reflected in recent films, science fiction, and classic literature like Walden and Leaves of Grass. In addition to the views of popular fiction writers (e.g. Twain and Vonnegut), students will also sample the responses of American poets and painters to a remarkable series of cultural innovations and technical breakthroughs - from the first railroad and telecommunications networks to the development of computers and nuclear arms. Pre-1999 Competencies:. AL-H, AL-3, AL-4, PW-B. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-E, A-1-C, S-3-A, A-3-D. Faculty: David Simpson
AI 322 PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ETHICS
An introduction to moral philosophy with emphasis on the conflict between "moral relativism" (or "subjective" ethics) on the one hand and "moral realism" (or "objective" ethics) on the other. During the course you will be introduced to classic theories and leading figures in the history of ethics, from Plato and Aristotle to Kant and Nietzsche. Course content will focus on issues (e.g., poverty, drug use, capital punishment, sexual behavior, euthanasia, biomedical research, animal rights, political violence) at the center of contemporary ethical debate in the United States and throughout the world. Competencies: A4, A-3-C, A-3-E, F-X. Faculty: Staff
AI 323 ART AND PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
Adults often go through periods of profound transition. Many of us search for answers, models, or mentors to help us make sense of the changes. This course deals with ways in which art can be a means of personal transformation, a vehicle for helping us understand the deeper dimensions of our life journeys. Through exposure to artistic representations of significant turning points in human experience, and by studying perspectives on change drawn from various disciplines, we will explore ways in which art both mirrors and facilitates the process of transformation. Students will approach selected works of art (literature, music and visual art) to explore ways artists have represented themes of transformation. In addition to developing competence in art analysis, we will investigate whether our own personal values are reflected in the works studied, and what role art plays in our lives. Students will keep learning journals recording their impressions and reflections about class readings, discussion and multi-media presentations. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-3, AL-C, AL-D. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-C, A-1-D, A-3-B. Faculty: Susan McGury
AI 324 CREATORS AND CREATIVITY
Creative energy, application and results are prized and sought in our culture, yet are rarely understood clearly or analyzed systematically. In this course, students will explore various creativity concepts and models, including early instructional and educational, bio-psychological and socio / community-based theories. We will analyze creativity conditions in the expressive domains of art, architecture, music, literature, science, and invention. We will profile identifiable creators such as Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mozart, Virginia Woolf and Einstein, along with contemporary geniuses such as novelist Toni Morrison, activist Barry Commoner, sculptor Nina Holton, playwright Arthur Miller, and astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and review their creativity over successive life stages. As a result, students will gain creative insight and develop strategies to incorporate creativity in their academic, occupational, and personal lives. Competence: A-3-A, A-5 . Faculty: Timothy W. Hill
AI 325 ?MAKE `EM LAUGH!?: HOLLYWOOD FILM COMEDY
This class delves deeply into the history of Hollywood comedy as well as theories of comedy, and is divided into two parts. Part one explores theories of comedy, both formal/aesthetic (the elements of artistic form) and socio-cultural (philosophical and psycho-social theories of comedy). The second part of the course explores historical developments in Hollywood comedy in terms of the development of artistic form (performance, verbal and visual gags, narrative structure, visual style), the film industry, and questions of socio-historical impact. Students can also opt to learn how to write a comedic screenplay. Films and artists to be discussed include the Marx Brothers, Mae West, Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Seven Year Itch, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, The Philadelphia Story, Hairspray, and There?s Something About Mary. Competences: A1I, A3G, H2G, A2A. Faculty: Ken Feil
AI 326 LIVING FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Ben LeShahn says, "Everyone of us, even if we have nothing else . . . has this one thing: a wholly separate and individual self with individual dreams and passions, its unique landscape, unmapped and unexplored . . . peopled with shapes and forms unknown to others. And that private unknown self, where it has been realized well, has been of increasing value and wonder to others." This class helps students design practices to create space in their busy lives through leisure, spirituality, and creativity. It helps the adult growth and development that occurs as people change throughout adulthood. This class makes time to think in order to experience how our outer and inner worlds interact to help us make meaning for our lives. Students will use a combination of reading, practices, small group work, guided imagery, journaling, and reflection papers to articulate and demonstrate understanding of the competences. Competences: A3B, A3D, A5, H3C. Faculty: Mary Jane Dix & Veronica Buckley
AI 327 MYTHS, SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
Students will be encouraged to understand their own relationship to myths, signs and symbols and to see how these have shaped their lives in the past and how they can be sources of empowerment for the future. Topics will include: archetypes and private symbols; language as symbolic action; myths of creation and fall; the hero's quest; myths of death and resurrection; myths and the process of individuation, that is, the integration of the self. Students will have assigned readings, keep a journal, and create a final project. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-5. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-D, A-2-A. Faculty: Elizabeth-Anne Stewart
AI 328 THE PERSONAL JOURNAL
This course will provide participants the opportunity to experience and explore journal writing as a creative activity that contributes to the quality of one's life. While the primary model of expression for most journals is writing, participants will be encouraged to experiment with sketches and other media. Participants will choose topics and readings consistent with their registered competencies. Key approaches to understanding adult growth and development will provide a framework for much of the writing done in the course. Participant journals will be laboratories for examining the creative process, the contribution of leisure to quality of life, and various theories of adult development. Through keeping a personal journal intensively through the course, participants will gain insights into their own creative processes and their understanding of leisure as they compose their individual lives. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, AL-4, AL-D. BA-1999 Competencies: H-3-C, A-2-A, A-3-D. Faculty: Phyllis A. Walden
AI 329 THE SYMPHONY
THE SYMPHONY
AI 330 IDENTITY AND THE FABRICS OF LIFE: CONTEXT AND CONSCIENCE
AI 331 LEARNING TO LOOK THROUGH DRAWING AND DISCUSSION
The purpose of the class is to connect the making of art with the study of art history, so that an understanding of the elements, concepts and vocabulary of art connect directly to the student's experience as he or she learns to draw. Students will learn basic skills of drawing and become familiar with a range of drawing media. They will gain an experiential understanding of the elements of line, form, value, color, and composition. Students will also examine drawings and paintings of artists working in France between 1800 and 1930, covering the art movements of Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism, and Fauvism. Each student will choose two artists to research, and will write a paper comparing biographical and historical issues of those artists' work. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-3, AL-C. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-A, A-2-A, A-1-C, A-1-D. Faculty: Patricia Pelletier
AI 332 EMPLOYMENT, WORK AND WOMEN
The well known phrase "women have always worked" represents a statement women make about their experience, but also represents a reaction to varying social perceptions about its quantity, value and content. In this course we will explore women's diverse experiences of working. We will consider the role of economic, legal and social forces that shape women's work experiences, including the varying perceptions held by women, men and social institutions. Readings in social science and women's studies literature, sharing personal experiences of work, and service learning hours with a community based organization will provide a framework for our investigation. The learning through each of these will be integrated and further analyzed to expand our understanding of the impact of work on women's lives. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-N, HC-G, HC-Q, HC-R, WW. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-A, H-2-F, H-2-H, H-4, F-X. Faculty: Marjorie Altergott
AI 333 ARTISTIC ISSUES IN INSTANT IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY
The aesthetic, cultural, intellectual, historical, and technical issues that animate contemporary photography will be explored through the use of Polaroid pictures created by class members using their own Polaroid cameras. Photographic ideas will be presented, discussed, and addressed in classroom critiques of the images created. Personal artistic visions will be explored, encouraged and revealed. Students will learn a language for discussing these pictures and develop the necessary personal and intellectual distance from their own artistic creations in order to critically analyze them. Competencies: A-1-C, A-1-H, A-2-A, A-5. Faculty: Alan B. Cohen.
AI 334 WORLD ART AND CULTURE: A MUSEUM BASED EXPLORATION
Most people who visit the art museum gravitate to those galleries where the art is familiar and in some ways comfortable, like the Impressionists or the Renaissance. Yet, the art museum can be a repository for so much more, if only we knew where to look and what to look for. This course is designed to introduce students to the art and cultures of societies outside of western civilization using the resources of such institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum and others. Students will be introduced to objects from China, Japan, Africa, India and the Middle East, as well as Native America. In a world which continues to grow increasingly smaller because of technology, one of the best ways to understand it people is to study their art and their culture. Student will demonstrate competence through reading and writing assignments and are required to attend field trips. BA-1999 Competencies: A1B, A1C, A1G, A5. Pre-1999 Competencies: ALI, AL3, ALK, ALF. Faculty: Phyllis Kozlowski
AI 335 TRUE LOVE: MEN, WOMEN, SEX, AND POWER IN ANCIENT AND MODERN CULTURE
The course of true love never did run smooth, laments a frustrated lover in A Midsummer Night's Dream. His remark may rank as literary history's all-time understatement. During a survey of famous literature about love, romance, sexual politics, and the struggle for power between men and women, students will be invited to reflect on some of our traditional assumptions concerning masculinity, femininity, and sexual roles. Pre-'99 Competencies: HC-C, AL-C, AL-H. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-E, H-3-B, A-1-D. Faculty: David Simpson
AI 336 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND ART IN AMERICA
The artist stands between the world in which she/he lives and the product of his/her work - while using a particular medium to grasp and communicate an image and vision of that world. This course will survey and compare seminal ideas and trends that have taken place in music and the visual arts during the past forty years. Emphasis will be on how these two art forms responded to the same set of social circumstances and how artists in different media realized bith parallel and divergent concerns. Some of the artists that will be compared and John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg, Earle Brown and Alexander Calder, and Philip Glass and Donald Judd. Wherever possible illustrations will be drawn from film, literature, dance, and te other arts. Students will develop the tools and confidence to compare works in different media in order to gain insights into how artists, through similar formal concerns, arrive at results which are appropriate to their media. The course will try to develop the student's awareness of artist's social concerns primarily through their own perceptions and inferences and, secondarily, through reading artists' statements and writings.
AI 337 FROM REVERENCE TO RAPE: THE DEPICTION OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN FILM
This film course will examine the portrayal of women in Hollywood films from early silent films to the present and will attempt to understand those roles against the norms of society at the time. It will begin with the virgins, vamps, and flappers of the silent era as played by Lilian Gish, Mary Pichford, Theda Bara, Gloria Swanson, GReta Garbo; transition to the strong roles of the 1930s and 1940s as played by Mae West, Bette Davis, Ketherine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and Barbara STanwyck; continue with the 1950s and 60s contrast between sex kittens and external virgins; show the breakdown of the Production Code in the 1960s and 70s; and watch the resurgence of strong women in the 80s as exemplified by Sally Field, Jessica Lange, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep. Close attention will be played to the conflict between box office and censhorship and the struggle for women - actresses, writers, directors, and producers to gain control of the screen.
AI 338 RACE, RACE RELATIONS, RACISM: BREAKING BARRIERS AND BUILDING BRIDGES
How do we as an ethnically and racially diverse country go about the business of understanding and healing the wounds of racism and building bridges that will allow the gift of diversity to flourish in the United States? Further, what are the connections among U.S. racism and other forms of racism such as ethnic cleansing and "pacification programs" aimed at indigenous people around the world? In this course, we will explore the historical, economic and political roots of racism globally and nationally. In addition, we will look at the changes brought about by the civil rights movement, and ongoing work in the nation and in Chicago aimed at bridging the gaps caused by racism. Through discussion, readings, films, debate, guest panels, and field excursions, students will study a variety of topics. Because the course will focus not only on analysis, but on building bridges, the instructors hope to enroll an ethnically and racially diverse class membership. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-9 & AL-10, HC-9 & HC-10, WW9 & WW10. BA'99 Competencies: E-1, E-2 Faculty: Anghesom Atsbaha; Ann Folwell Stanford
AI 339 A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
This course uses photography since its invention in 1839 to give form to the social and historical ideas that have shaped our time. By discussing large picture-making areas like portraiture, images of war, the natural or constructed landscapes, scientific documentation and personal expression, the class will examine those ideas and technologies that have shaped photography and, conversely, events shaped by their depiction as photographs. Students will study and actually enjoy the history of the medium via slide and textbook. The class, as a group, will visit gallery and/or museum exhibitions to enhance classroom work. The photographs will be linked to the social, political and intellectual currents of the time and place that surround the art to give that work added meaning and enhanced viewer understanding. Through the art seen in this course and the historical facts gained from the lecture and text, the student will refine and advance their understandings and interpretations of past and recent global history. No prior formal or academic knowledge of 19th or 20th century history, the history of photography or painting is necessary nor is a working knowledge of any art-making discipline assumed. Competencies: A-1-C, H-1-F, S-3-A. Faculty: Alan B. Cohen
AI 340 FROM SOUNDS TO SCIENCE: CLASSICAL MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES
The history of music is a history of changing values and patterns. What values societies foster are directly correlated to preceivable uses of melody, rhythm, and timbre. This course will survey and compare major periods of Euro-American music, beginning with Gregorian Chant ad ending with John Cage. Historical documents and readings in aesthetics will supplement musical examples presented in class. This course will incorporate frequent listening to the radio program. "Adventures in Good Music," with Karl Haas, broadcast on WFMT. Students will be presented with a listener's guide to major works of the most prominent composers, as well as a bibliography for further reading. Students will also be informed of relevant concerts in the Chicago area. Through listening, background reading, and discussion, students will learn to "read" music. Pattern perception is a skill in its own right. Statement, variation, and contrast are means of structuring the physical, verbal, and temporal world around us. Students will develop pattern perception in music in order to translate this skill into life's other media.
AI 341 ETHICS AND ARGUMENTS
This course introduces the main traditions in ethical thinking and provides students with moral reasoning skills to take and defend ethical positions on concrete issues. Students will examine various traditional bases for morality, among them virtue, duty, rights, contract, utility, and religion. They will learn to distinguish ethical from other values, and be able to justify the distinction. But in a world of action, merely knowing what is ethical is not enough. Students will select current ethical issues of personal interest, developing theory-based strategies for addressing those issues in a morally responsible way. If this course is offered as a five week section, it will be for only AL-5. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-5, HC-4, WW. Faculty: Patrick J. Keleher, Jr.
AI 342 LEARNING ART HISTORY THROUGH THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the nation's premiere art museums, with a collection that offers wide opportunities for the study of art. This course will examine great paintings in the museum from the Middle Ages up to contemporary works. Students will deepen their knowledge of art history and how to study a painting, develop an overall knowledge of major periods and trends, as well as gain insights into the lives of the artists. Students will also gain a knowledge of the museum itself as a starting off point for further studies. Class will meet at the Art Institute, Michigan and Adams, at the front information desk. Competencies: A-1-C, A-1-D, A-1-X, A-3-D. Faculty: Joseph Cunniff
AI 343 DISCOVERING THE CITY THROUGH DRAWING
This course is designed for those wishing to learn basic drawing techniques while using the city as a resource. Students with little or no drawing ability are encouraged to take the course, which will build on observation and simple exercises to develop the skills necessary to capture all aspects of the urban landscape from nature to the built environment. A variety of drawing materials will be used including pencil, pen and ink, wash and conte crayon. Weather permitting, the class will meet on location in places such as Grant Park, the Monroe Street Harbor, the Chicago River, and the Magnificent Mile. Comfortable clothing is encouraged. A list of supplies will be provided on the first night of class. Competencies: A1B,A1X, A2A, A5
AI 344 VISUAL COMMUNICATION: DESIGN FOR SUCCESS
This course engages students in the process of creative thinking, visual logic, and graphic communication. Whether students are interested in powerful and persuasive presentation, making a personally pleasing aesthetic decision, or setting a mood, the ability to direct and control visual cues is very important. Classes will be organized around a series of problems dealing with essential design concepts. Students will learn about and execute projects involving composition; line; space; color and mood; and deciphering the advertising world. Students will be required to purchase art supplies for this class. BA-1999 Competencies: A2A, A2C. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL2, ALB. Faculty: Margaret Lanterman
AI 345 EONS AND ARTS III
This course will connect specific historical eras in Western culture with representative art forms so students can gain cultural insights. Particular attention will be paid to artifacts in the Chicago area. Students will analyze the relationship between popular art and movements in history through lecture, readings and discussion. We will also address contemporary cultural issues, including how later peoples will judge our values based on our arts. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-E, AL-I. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-B, A-1-H. Faculty: Jo Ann Gesiakowska
AI 346 REAL LIFE ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND SOLUTIONS
This course will introduce students to basic principles guiding current ethical debate in the areas of business, medicine, and human reproduction. The class consists of concrete situational case studies, succinct introductory lectures on basic concepts and theoretical frameworks. Students will participate in discussions on current events involving ethical dimensions, group presentations, and write short reflection papers to fulfill the competences being offered. Competences: A3C, A3X, A4, FX . Faculty: Joseph Liang
AI 347 FROM THE SANDBOX TO ETHICS
In this course, we will be asking the questions: who am I and what do I need, in order to better understand our own spirituality. We will be examining how we see the world, what we profess as values, and where we learned these values. In analyzing our values, we will consider how the values we apply to God, salvation, church, Christ, death and forgiveness help or hinder our own spirituality. In addition to readings, videos, and brief lectures, we will explore course material in small learning teams, reflecting on the process and studying the strategies of collaborative learning. Competencies: A3B, A3X, H3X,A4. Faculty: Barbara Donnelley.
AI 348 TRAGEDY AND DRAMA
Tragic drama may hold the unique distinction of serving as the narrative vehicle for the most miserable, oppressed, and wronged, and yet providing great pleasure to audiences for time immemorial. This class will expose students to significant tragic dramas from ancient Greece, Elizabethan England, and modern America, and will equip them with the tools to understand the plot, themes, and context for each play, and weigh the meaning of each play both as a historical document and as a living example of our culture. Lectures and readings will provide biographical and cultural context, definitions, and basic themes and problems, which will be expanded on via directed discussion, student presentations, and written reflections. Plays by Sophocles, William Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, and Arthur Miller may be included. Competences: - A-1-A, A-1-C, A-1-E, H-1-X. Faculty: David Morris
AI 349 THE HAUNTED RIVER:CHICAGO FOLKLORE
There are those who say if you stand at the Clark Street Bridge over the Chicago River, you can hear the cries of drowning men and women, victims of the Eastland disaster. There are those who claim to have seen a ghost mansion appear in a local cemetery. This is the folklore of "Haunted Chicago" and by exploring it, students will also be exploring Chicago-area history and issues relating to folklore studies in general. Students will learn local history and ghostly folklore dating back to the first settlement in our area and the founding of the city of Chicago. They will learn ways of studying folk tales as cultural artifacts and as the basis for more scientific investigations. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-E, AL-F, HC-F. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-H, A-1-X, H-1-F, H-1-X.
AI 350 A90/CAPSTONE SEMINAR: ARTS OF LIVING
Capstone Seminar is designed to permit students to explore a topic as a group integrating various methods of inquiry. Pre-1999 students will address one set of capstone competencies of their choice (HC-9, HC-10; PW-9, PW-10; or AL-9, AL-10). BA-1999 students may address the Advanced Electives (E-1, E-2). Specific assessment and evaluation criteria as well as learning activities will be articulated by the instructor for a particular section of the course. * Successful completion of Major Seminar or Research Seminar is required to register.
AI 352 THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR AND PEACE
This course is a philosophical engagement of the topic of war and peace. We will investigate the origin and causes of human conflict usings the skills and resources of philosophy. In engaging the course materials, students will develop and demonstrate critical reading and analytical skills that are deeply rooted in the Western philosophical tradition. We will also learn skills that call this tradition in question - that challenge the hegemony and complicity of Western values and thinking with the question of "war." Philosophy will be, for us, not only a way of interpreting texts, but also a way of changing the world and of developing conflict intervention skills.
AI 353 ECOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS
This course will explore the ecological crisis from a religious/ethical perspective, examining the dangers and new possibilities posed for humanity and the planet. We will consider the new cosmology developing from science, and its dialogue with philosophy, myth, and religion. Participants will look critically at traditional Western spirituality and discover elements of a new correlation with nature religions and with new environmentalism. Students will learn how religion(s) has been part of the problem and how it can become a resource for the solution as well. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-5, AL-C, AL-G, PW-M. BA-1999 Competencies: A-4, A-1-D, A-3-E, S-3-C. Faculty: Robert Ludwig
AI 354 QUANTUM CREATIVITY: IMPROVISATION IN LIFE AND THE ARTS
This course is for people who are interested in enlivening their creativity in all aspects of their life. We will explore the value of improvisation in facilitating the creative process (in various settings), as well as the relationship between creativity and spirituality. Most peopl associate the word "improvisation" with short comic Second City-style scenes and monologues. This course will reach beyond the one-liners to explore the many applications of improvisatin, including, but not limiting to, theatrical presentations. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic improvisation forms and experiment with those forms in a variety of artistic disciplines and life experiences. In the process of this exploration, students will learn to trust their own creative process and to identify and avoid some of the most insidious blocks to creativity. This new understanding may be applied to various areas of creative expression, such as writing, visual arts, and music, as students begin to develop their own original works through improvisation. Students will also have many opportunities to apply their learings in the work place and in other areas of their life. Students will study the development of contemporary improvisation and selected readings on creativity. At the final class, students will have the opportunity to present an informal performance of their work to an invited audience. Competences: A2A, A3D, A5, FX. Faculty: Pamela Meyer
AI 355 MODERN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
(COMPETENCIES) AL-2, AL-4, WW
AI 356 STUDIES IN GHANA: HISTORY, CULTURE AND SPIRITUALITY
Ghana's history is part of our own. It is the history of mighty empires and timeless knowledge. This course is a return to the motherland to fetch knowledge of African history, culture, spirituality, and healing. We will embark on an educational adventure of discovery. During our three-week stay, we will travel to Kumasi in the land of the Ashanti, visit the Kente weaving villages, hear lectures at the home of W.E.B. DuBois and various Ghanian universities. The slave castles of the African holocaust are also on the itinerary. Preparation for travel begins Fall quarter with a series of pre-departure classes. This course is cross-listed with the History and Religion departments. Coursework includes an introduction to Ghanian history, culture and cosmology, and its religious and healing traditions; a comparative exploration of African and US spirituality; service learning projects, fieldwork, and an emphasis on cultural exchange; training in field research methods leading to a major paper. Estimated expenses includes airfare, ground transport, accommodations, and most meals. This course is offered through DePaul's Foreign Study Office. Faculty: Derise Tolliver, Howard Lindsey
AI 357 THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER
All of us have, at some point in our lives, experienced the unique art form called the American Musical Theater. Our favorites may be certain composers and lyricists such as the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe, or perhaps Weber and Rice. This course will trace the development of the American Musical from the turn of the century when Victor Herbert and George M. Cohan were molding the genre, to today's musicals, many of which are based on noted works by popular musicians, such as Billy Joel and Abba. Students will be able to discuss elements of musical theater such as performers, songwriters, directors, and choreographers, and how these elements must all come together to create a successful musical. Additionally, students will trace the influence of American ethnicity and economics on the art form, showing especially how Jewish immigrants and African-Americans contributed their experiences and culture to America's greatest contribution to the theater. Competencies: A1C, A1D, A1E, A5, H1F. Faculty: Joan Murphey
AI 358 FAMILY ETHICS AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Over the past 40 years, America has witnessed revolutionary changes in family formation and even the very definition of what constitutes a family. Feminism, birth control, legalized divorce, and changes in work patterns have all contributed to alterations in family dynamics, including the decline of the nuclear family, the increase in divorce rates, the rise of single motherhood, and gay and lesbian parenting. Underlying this contemporary family diversity and disruption are changes in Americans' moral understandings of marriage, the role of parenting, and obligations to children. This course will examine a variety of ethical perspectives on the family, including traditional theological concepts, secular approaches, and contemporary religious responses to the challenges facing modern families. The course will result in a theoretical and practical exploration of how people make moral sense of their family life. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-C, A-4, H-3-G. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-G, AL-P, HC-L.
AI 359 VOICES IN TRANSITION
The entire history of women's struggle for self-determination has been muffled in silence over and over. - Adrienne Rich To read women's poetry is to begin an exploration into ways women struggled to overcome the silences imposed upon them. The poetry of women who were just beginning to publish in the 40s and 50s is interesting for many reasons, but in particular, because it was emerging during a time that falls between the cracks of literary history. This poetry both looks back toward what literary critics call "modernism" and looks forward to the women's movement and civil rights movement of the 60s. In this class, we will wxplore literary history in the 20th century briefly, looking at the challenges women writers faced and the subversive strategies they used to overcome them. In particular, however, we will focus on the poetry of writers such as Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Muriel Rukeyser, and Adrienne Rich, among others. Class discussions will draw on feminist literacy and social theory, history, and the techniques, including reading, oral reports, journals, and written papers.
AI 360 SINGLE WOMEN, SINGLE MOTHERS / SINGLE MEN, SINGLE FATHERS
Is being single a modern phenomenon? This course will examine historical and sociological perspectives on this matter, analyzing the daily experience of being single. Students will transform their raw experiences through forms of artistic creativity such as video diaries, journals, stories, plays, fiction, painting, and music. Competences: A-1-E, A-2-A, A-5, H-3-B Faculty: Ezzat Goushegir
AI 361 ECOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY, AND ETHICS
This course will explore the ecological crisis from a religious/ethical perspective, examining the dangers and new possibilities posed for humanity and the planet. We will consider the new cosmology developing from science, and its dialogue with philosophy, myth, and religion. Participants will look critically at traditional Western spirituality and discover elements of a new correlation with nature religions and with new environmentalism. Students will learn how religion(s) has been part of the problem and how it can become a resource for the solution as well. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-5, AL-C, AL-G, PW-M. BA-1999 Competencies: A, A-1-D, A-3-E, S-3-C.Faculty: Robert Ludwig
AI 362 LITERATURE AND FILM: PERSONAL AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
Literature and film provide rich and varied examples of individual and societal change. Creative and reflective writing are keys to deeper understanding. This course focuses on the processes of thoughtful reading, viewing, discussing, and writing about selected examples of literature and film. We will use selected media and writing exercises as subjects for critical analysis and as springboards into exploration of class members' own lives and cultures. Drawing from diverse sources, we will look at ways in which the arts reflect issues of identity during times of personal and cultural transformation. Through small and large group discussion, reflective learning journals, papers, and presentations, students will respond both analytically and personally to the visual and written media presented as well as to their own writing samples. Competences: H-1-E, A-2-A, A-1-D, H-3-C. Faculty: Susan McGury
AI 363 DRAWING THE SOUTHWEST
Join us for a special SNL experience as we head once again to the bright skies and warm temperatures of the desert. This drawing class will explore the space, texture, and flora of the desert and the Catalina foothills, northeast of Tucson, Arizona. Through drawing, students will come to know the forms and life of various habitats that are not part of the Midwest environment, including riparian, canyon and cactus - studded peaks. For one intense week and four preceding classes, students will work with the concept of composition, spatial relationships, and value. Our work will center around two of the oldest ranches in Arizona, an 80 acre artist colony and an 1890'2 cattle ranch that Buffalo Bill used to frequently visit. Each morning, the class will be taken to a location where they can draw foothills and the desert unfolding before them. In the afternoon, students will have the opportunity to rest, draw, or sight-see. After dinner, everyone will gather for critiques, discussion, and a wrap-up of the day. Our orientation will begin with a tour of the renowned Tuscon Desert Museum. Other adventures may include a llama trek through the desert and a hike in the Catalina State Park. Optional trips might include a drive to Nogales, Mexico, or a visit to the BIosphere. Drawing media will include a pencil, ink, and charcoal. Students who choose may also try their hand at pastell and water colors. The learning experience will include lecture, discussion, and private consultation. Each student will submit a portfolio of work for grading at the conclusion of class. Capstone students will also choose a research subject. Previous art experience is required (previous coursework may satisfy this requirement). You must discuss your background in art with the instructor before registration. A travel fee of approximately $980 will include airfare, ground transportation, guide, museum and park fees, lodging, breakfast and two lunches (this fee is subject to change.) Nonrefundable deposit of $475 due September 10th. Additional expenses will include the remaining meals (several restaurants as well as cooking are available) art supplies, (approximately $30-70) and tuition. Accomodations will be divided between the grounds of the Villa Cardinala ranch house and the Triangle L Ranch. These will be double occupancy and will vary from adobe cottages to the Foreman's house to individual suites. Rooms will be assigned on a first come basis.
AI 364 CONSCIENCE, CULTURE, AND THE LAW
CONSCIENCE, CULTURE, AND THE LAW
AI 365 THE STILETTO PEN
In this course students will sharpen their understanding of satire in its diverse forms of expression. They will analyze and respond to written and pictoral "texts" ranging from the biting satires of Jonathon Swift to the witty parodies of Mark Russell, from eighteenth century English engravings to twentieth century American political cartoons. Students will compare the "matter" and "manner" of selected works and become aware of the historical and social context in analyzing a work of satire. Although the focus of the course will be on art and literature, some illustrative examples of satire will be drawn from music and film, as well. This course will utilize a lecture/discussion format and include presentations by two guest speakers. Students will participate in a variety of large and small group projects. Readings will include short selections from some twentieth-century works of criticism which present useful perspectives on satire. Class lectures will be "illustrated" with slides and audio/video recordings.
AI 366 EXPRESSING YOURSELF THROUGH PAINT
This course will focus on painting as a form of visual expressions and provide opportunities to explore the media of painting and the aesthetics behind why people paint. Students will study the history of painting through selected works, learn how to analyze and critique a painting and use watercolors and acrylic paints to explore the media. A field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago is required. Competencies: A1D, A2A, A5, A1X. Faculty: Phylis Kozlowski
AI 367 PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ART MOVEMENTS
This course will examine the central ideas and issues that have guided the most innovative and influential visual artists in this century. Photography is an excellent visual, intellectual and historical tool because it is a cultural language rooted in events, objects and experiences. No prior knowledge of the history of photography or painting is required. We will view and discuss art of this century that was created in response to ideas and issues of a specific time and place. Through museum visits, lectures and slides, students will gain a full comprehension of the major art movements of the 20th century. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-3, AL-C, HC-1, HC-2. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-C, A-1-D, H-1-E, H-1-F.Faculty: Alan B. Cohen
AI 369 A SEPARATE COUNTRY: THE AMERICAN SOUTH
How different are Southerners from "the rest of us?" Are the images of the South we've experienced through television and film caricatures or characteristics of the region? Are there discernable differences in the customs, language, and arts of the region that constitute a distinct culture of the South? This course will address these questions, drawing on scholarly material concerning culture studies as well as literature, film, and other art of the American South. Each course session will be organized around a focus questions that will move us toward an understanding of southern culture and a comprehensive profile of its features. We will draw on material provided by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Center for Southern Folklore to answer our questions. Class time will be spent viewing film, listening to music, discussing readings, debating issues central to the course purpose, and working on group projects. Student learning will be assessed both through group and individual work. This is a five week course. Pre-'99 Competence: HC-1. Faculty: Donna Younger
AI 370 FADE TO BLACK: THE DEPICTION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN FILM HISTORY
In the past ten years, there has been a relative explosion on the big and little screens for black roles and shows - the films of Spike Lee, BET, "Yo, MYV Raps," Oscars for Denzel Washington and Whoopi Goldberg, "In Living Color," Mario Ven Peebles, John Singleton, and "Frank's Place." But how do they fit into the historical context of American films of the past century, and into American culture: What were the struggles like of black actors, writers, and directors? This class will examine those struggles through readings, discussions, and above all viewing the old firms from silent and early sound days. We will see Stepin Fetchit, clips from "Birth of a Nation, " and "The Jazz Singer," as well as films by Oscar Micheaux, the acting and singing of Paul Robeson, and the 'first' all black musical "Hallelujah;" the feeble liberal attempts at integration in Hollywood as represented by "Pinky," and "Imitation of Life," independent wonders like "Nothing But A Man;" anf the wold and wacky '70s of 'blaxploitation.'
AI 371 REFLECTIONS OF THE OTHER SIDE: PERSPECTIVES ON DEATH AND DYING
Robert Sewall said, "Sometimes nothing but death will remind us that we are alive." Title Olsen reminded us that, "death deepens the wonder," yet many of us are afraid and embarassed to talk about death and its relationship to life. Everyone faces death alone, yet people from various cultures and religions have very different ways of thinking about death, preparing for it and grieving. Just the mention of the word death stirs up emotion. In this course we will study the process of dying in order to demystify it, and then study intricate emotional, spiritual, and psychological avenues of thought that this emotionally charged topic brings forth. Using such authors as Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, C.S. Lewis, Sherwin B. Nuland, and others, we will wxamine dying as a necessary process to be studied by the living to enjoy a fuller and more complete life. Through a combonation of discussions, individual and group presentations, and informal lectures, students will study aspects of death by starting with Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland's book, How We Die, and broaden our understanding of various cultures and religions have developed models for coping with death and grieving. We will explore the relationship between death and love in different cultures and religious settings to gain a better understanding of how befriending death enhances life.
AI 372 READING FILM
Students will analyze the specific strengths and weaknesses of films such as "Citizen Kane," "Mane's Crossing," and "Short Cuts." By examining the broader philosophical contexts of film criticism, students will gain a deeper understanding of the universe of discourse about art and an appreciation for the distinctive art of the cinema. All students will read a selection of philosophical texts, view films, and join in class discussions. Students registered for AL-9 and AL-10 competences will fill additional requirements.
AI 373 MIND TO MIND: THINKING ACROSS CULTURES
In a certain sense, everyone is a philosopher. Yet too few people study philosophy itself to bring out their hidden philosopher. In this course, we will examine original writings to see how great minds from other cultures look at the human condition. This course emphasizes critical reading and conversation. Our range of study will be extensive, for example, Ewe and Swahili proverbs from Africa, al-Farabi and Bahya from West Asia, the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita from South Asia, and Confucius and Lao Tzu from East Asia. To facilitate their active participation in class discussions, students will prepare microthemes, brief reflections on the study assignments. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-5, AL-C, HC-C. Faculty: Patrick J. Keleher, Jr.
AI 374 APPRECIATING MUSIC
APPRECIATING MUSIC
AI 375 STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE
Students will learn the breadth of the art of storytelling, from its roots as oral performance in a variety of traditional cultures to its recent revival in America. This is essentially a performance course, with side journeys into history, theory, and applications. Students will begin with personal and family stories, sharing first in class in groups. then they will create elaborated performance pieces from this material. Videos, audiotapes, books, and live performance from professional tellers will be used as guides. The instructor will show how personal stories can connect to themes in world folklore and mythology. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-2, AL-A, AL-E. BA'99 Competencies: A-2-A, A-2-B, A-1-H. Faculty: Joseph Sobol
AI 376 FOLKLORE: FROM THE COUNTRY TO THE CITY
In this course, we will examine the folklore process as it is acted in rural societies, and the changes and continuities that characterize folklore in a modern urban setting like Chicago. The class will be introduced to the history of the discipline, the system of folklore classification by genres as well as more recent approaches to fieldwork dynamics, cultural process and contemporary. Class projects will involve field collection and analysis of lore of an ethnic, family or other contemporary folklore-generating community. Pre-'99 Competencies: HC-1, HC-C, AL-4, AL-E. BA'99 Competencies: H-1-E, H-1-B, A-3-D, A-1-H. Faculty: Joseph D. Sobol
AI 377 DISCOVERING SHAKESPEARE
A three-part introductory investigation of the writer's life and work, focused primarily on giving the students the opportunity to develop a personal relationship - or, at the very least, to have an intimate experience - with the writer's work. This course is founded on the premise that his plays are universal and timeless, and contain the profound questions of human existence: Who am I? What is God? Can love conquer all? Is happiness possible in a fallen world? Though the focus of the course will be on the personal response and interpretation and not on research, the course will loosely trace the writer's life and work, touching upon many aspects of Elizabethan cosiety, life, mores, politics. Three plays - one early, one middle, and one late - will be examined.
AI 378 INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY IN GROUPS: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WORK AND FAMILIES
Our identity and behavior are formed and honed in social groups. This course will draw on literature, film and theories of social psychology to study influence and communication patterns in work and family. The roles we are given and assume shape our identity and development. Students will read literature, view film, and reflect on their experience using the perspective and heuristic tools provided by social psychology. We will examine how social characteristics and communication pattern shape us. Literary and artistic works will be sources for illuminating the human condition. Changes in attitudes, values, and goals that occur as we develop as adults will be viewed through the lens of our membership and interaction with groups.. Pre-'99 Competencies: HC-C, AL-C, AL-D. Faculty: Pat Ryan
AI 379 THE ARTS OF PERSUASION: MEDIA, COMMUNICATION, PRACTICAL RHETORIC
This is a course in media studies, persuasive communication, business writing, and classical and modern rhetoric. Our study and discussion will cover: 1) the evolution of modern media (from print to book publishing to TV and the internet) and their impact on society and culture; 2) theory and practice of persuasive communication - as exemplified in a variety of different forms from campaign debates and business memos to TV commercials and political cartoons; 3) essential principles of effective professional and technical communication - examined mainly from the standpoint of classical rhetoric but also in light of recent developments in communication theory, cognitive science, and psycholinguistics. The main emphasis of the course will be to show how classical models of rhetoric (originally designed to guide the composition and evaluate the effectiveness of ancient oratorical and literary works) still provide an excellent framework for understanding modern media and improving practical communication skills. This course is also offered in an online version open to students at all campuses. Pre-'99 Competencies: WW, HC-D, AL-F. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-X, F-X, H-2-G. Faculty: David Simpson
AI 380 LITERATURE AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
The innocent suffer--how can that be possible and God be just? Robert Kennedy scrawled these words on a legal pad the day his brother was murdered, and they echo the cry of countless human beings down through the ages. They also echo some of the greatest voices in our literature, among them Job, Milton, Voltaire, Melville and Dostoevsky. Philosophers and theologians refer to this topic as theodicy, or the problem of evil. This course will survey the problem of evil as it have been treated by imaginative writers from a variety of cultural standpoints. We will examine plays, poetry and fiction from both the ancient and modern periods. Moreover, we will consider the perspectives which inform these works, be they Judeo-Christian, Buddhist, psychoanalytic, feminist, or post-colonial. Texts to be emphasized may include Wisel, Night; Euripides, The Bacchae; Shelley, Frankenstein; Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Hesse, Siddhartha; and the films Brimstone and Treacle and Mother Night. Learning strategies include a journal of the readings, a dialogue and a final exam. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-5, AL-C, AL-R. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-D, A-3-E, A-3-G. Faculty: John Kimsey
AI 381 JESUS AND BUDDHA: PROFILES IN HISTORY AND SPIRITUALITY
This course will explore two very significant figures in the history of religion and spirituality: Jesus of Nazareth and Siddhartha Gautama of the Sakyas. We will examine them first in their historical and cultural contexts, attempting to see what their lives and teachings were in their original situation. We will then discuss how their devotees have developed their teachings and applied them through the centuries, asking particularly about the relevance of these men and their teachings for today. Students will pursue their study of Jesus and the Buddha through readings, class presentations and discussions, and a final paper. Pre-1999 Competencies: HC-2, AL-5, AL-C. BA-1999 Competencies: H-1-F, A-3-E, A-3-G. Faculty: Robert A. Ludwig
AI 382 "INFINITE VARIETY": WOMEN IN THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
"The basic distinction in human social order since the beginning of recorded history has been gender. Beyond any other characteristic gender has determined role and function. Above all, gender difference has influenced the way we think, the way we perceive reality." (Marilyn French) Shakespeare's 37 plays provide a tapestry of human experience unequalled in richness by any other Western writer. Nowhere are this writer's insights more profound than in his examination of the power and powerlessness of the women in his plays. This course examines the question of gender relations (and issues of legitimacy, sex, love and power) by examining the roles of the female characters in three of Shakespeare's plays: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and King Lear. In addition to participating in in-class discussions and presentations, students will write an eight-entry journal and a research paper. Competences: A-1-X, A-3-X, H-3-X, A-5 Faculty: Peter Forster
AI 383 EXPLORING THE WORLD FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES
This is a new approach to exploring classical geometric ideas. Through it, we seek to strengthen your geometric intuition and make real world connections. Students will participate in hands-on activities that establish fascinating connections between class materials and the historical and practical setting. Competences: A2C, A3G, S2X, FX. Faculty: Angeline Ross
AI 384 CLASSICS FROM THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
The push for cultural literacy and familiarity with the "Great Books" and classical arts often neglects the important contributions that people of African descent have made to the development of the world. The works of activists, scholars, authors, and artists such as Ida B. Wells Barnett, David Walker, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, and Nina Simone address issues of importance to people regardless of their cultural background: justice, oppression, human rights, education, identity and the human condition. This course will examine 1-2 bodies of work by authors and/or artists of African descent. to explore what each tells us about the human condition and power relationships during a particular historical context. We will also examine the present day implication of these issues. Competences: H4, H1F, A1D, A1E. Faculty: Derise Tolliver
AI 385 MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN LITERATURE: TOLSTOY'S WAR AND PEACE
The idea behind this course is that the slow, careful, loving, and critical reading of a major work of literature is an experience of great value for both teacher and students. For SNL, such a work also offers a chance to satisfy a range of competence statements. The work we will study is Tolstoy's War & Peace, which is not only a novel of huge scale (almost 500 identifiable characters) and a master work by any standard, but also a history of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and a theory of history and what we now call sociology.
AI 386 UNVEILING JAPANESE LITERATURE THROUGH FILMS
This introductory course in Japanese Literature will be presented through award-winning dramas from the Japanese Cinema Masters; Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Sugii and Toyoda. It is simply impossible to cover the entire history of Japanese literature in one quarter, however, three key points of reference in Japanese cultural history will help us to understand what shaped much of Japanese civilization: Heian (794-1185), Muromachi or Ashikaga (1392-1568) and Tokugaswa (1600-1868). The Tale of Genji is accounted as the greatest classic of Japanese literature of the Heian period; the serene Ginkakuji (Temple of the Silver Pavilion) was built by Shogun Ashikaga which exemplifies the pervasive cultural influence of Zen Buddhism; and the Tokugawa period is represented by two important new dramatic forms, Bunraku (puppet theater) and Kabuki, the famous popular theater of the new townsmen. We will have ample opportunities to view and discuss the works and the merits of studying literature through a distinguished art of Japanese Cinema. Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-C, A-1-E, H-1-E. Faculty: Kumiko Watanuki
AI 387 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND ART
In this course, students will explore their life stories through journal writing and drawing. They will also look at contemporary artists who work autobiographically in a range of media -- from drawing and painting to video and performance. Students will be introduced to a variety of approaches and structures for journal writing and will learn basic skills of drawing in a range of media. They will explore a variety of ways in which words and images can interact, influence and inspire one another. They will reflect on some of the difficult issues that contemporary artists have struggled with in their work and their lives. No previous drawing or writing experience necessary. Pre-?99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-4, AL-D. BA?99 Competencies: A-1-A, A-2-A, A-3-D, A-3-B. Faculty: Patricia Pelletier
AI 388 THE DIVINE DIALOGUE
This course examines the similarities and differences between three primary monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The main emphasis will be to establish basic competence in the comparison of these three world religions and their systems of ethics in an effort to assist interfaith dialogue in our pluralistic world. Students will further consider how spirituality can be described through the arts and will produce their own artistic expressions of spirituality. The goal of this course is to assist students in building bridges of understanding in today's highly charged socio-political world characterized and fueled by competing theological tenets, and to consider their roles in the development of a tolerant society. Competencies: A4, FX, A2X, A3X. Faculty: Bill Wassner
AI 389 HISTORY, CULTURE AND SPIRITUALITY: STUDIES IN GHANA, TOGO AND BENIN
West Africa is important to the history of the USA. By most accounts, the majority of people of African descent living in the USA are descendants of West Africans; many among them may have been from the region of present-day Ghana, Togo and Benin. And although enslaved West Africans were taken from their indigenous lands, they did not entirely lose their culture, their spirituality, nor their understanding of what it meant to be a person. The remains of their ethos filtered into the language, culture, and psychology of the USA, having an impact on all Americans, regardless of racial and cultural background. The Ghana, Togo and Benin travel course becomes a way for some students to explore their own specific ethnic heritage, while at the same time, providing all participants, regardless of cultural background, the opportunity to become more knowledgeable and more respectful of the cultural diversity in our society. Learning is linked to the experience of travel, through the cognitive/reflective aspects of the course (e.g. individual writing assignments, group discussions). Self-assessment and self-reflection about the international experience, as well as assessment of and reflection on group functioning, will be a critical part of the students? learning activities in this course. The course is offered for Externship, A3E, H1F, H4, S3B, FX. Other competencies can be negotiated.
AI 391 ILLNESS STORIES
"Illness can teach us all how to live a saner, healthier life." Arthur Frank, At the Will of the Body. This course explores the ways in which this statement might be true. Can illness be an opportunity for growth and development rather than an unfortunate development in our life plans? This course uses stories of illness to explore how these a) reveal a process of inner growth and development; b) create a bond between teller and listener/viewer that increases our understanding of our common humanity; and c) illustrate the need for a biopsychosocial vs. a narrowly medical model in diagnosis and treatment. Students will access story material in different media and be encouraged to draw on illness stories they know. Through lecture and discussion, we will attempt to increase understanding of a particular area of human experience; validate students' own experience, and develop skills in critical analysis of ideas, themes, and textual/artistic strategies. Pre-1999 Competencies:. AL-C, HC-4. Faculty: Lorie Rosenblum
AI 392 MEMOIR: THE STORIES WE KNOW
This course will afford students an opportunity to explore and reflect on their personal histories, through writing and remembering, and to shape their experiences into compelling narratives. We will also discuss aspects of craft and technique using published memoirs from a diverse menu of contemporary writers. Through experiential writing exercises, reading discussions, and peer feedback, students will produce and refine their own memoirs. Small group work, individual presentations, and keeping a reading and writing notebook will also be part of the class. The course will culminate with a group reading, in which students share aloud something they have written during the quarter. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-2, AL-3, AL-C. BA'99 Competencies: A-2-A, A-1-C, A-1-D. Faculty: Mary Cross
AI 393 FROM MYSTICISM TO EROS IN SPANISH MYSTICAL WRITINGS
This course examines the connections between Eros and mysticism in Spanish literature beginning with the medieval mystics of Spain. We include readings from such mystics as Archpriest of Hita, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint John of God; and we will compare their writings with modern representations of these mystics. Students with the ability to read and speak Spanish will be given the option to read and discuss the selections in Spanish (or Latin), while those who speak English will read and discuss the selections in English. References to other art forms will enrich the discussions. Included in this course will be field trips to the Art Institute and the National Museum of Mexico. Can be taken for up to 3 competences: Competences: A1D, A1E, A3A, A3B, H1G, A5. Faculty: Polly Hoover (SNL) & Elia Lopez (Truman) Truman Bridge course
AI 395 CREATION OF THE MODERN WORLD:RATIONALISM AND SATIRE IN THE 17TH CENTURY
Mysticism has become an obscure term in our modern society. It is often misunderstood as astrological knowledge or some supernatural ability. In reality, mysticism is the quality that differentiates spiritual teachers like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama from the rest of us. This course will introduce both the Eastern and Western traditions of mystic teachings and the cultivation of the mystical experience. We will explore the idea of the mystical experience as a basis for dialogue among world religions. We will try to understand how the mystical experience provides meaning to personal actions and examine the role of religion in developing an everyday mysticism for the working man and woman.
AI 396 INTRODUCTION TO ART THERAPY
This experiential class in will introduce students to concepts of art therapy and other expressive arts. It will address the therapeutic use of art making by people who experience illness, trauma, or challenges in living, as well as by people who seek personal development and general well being. By participating in expressive arts activities and reflecting on the products and processes, students will learn how art therapy can help people increase awareness of self and others, cope with symptoms, stress, and traumatic experiences; enhance cognitive abilities; and enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of making art. Competencies: A-2-A, A-5, H-3-X, S-3-B. Faculty: Joan Cantwell
AI 397 EXPLORING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
This course will look at the American landscape, a popular subject matter among painters in all media and study works by such noted artists as Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Joseph Stella, Andrew Wyeth, Grant Wood, Georgia O'Keefe and William Beckman. The art history component of the course will be coupled with an opportunity for students to create three landscape paintings using the media of acrylic paints. An introduction to the basic techniques of acrylic painting and color mixing will be included as part of the class. Students will explore the interpretation of both the rural and urban landscape and produce a portfolio of no less than three paintings during the class. A field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago is required. No previous painting experience is required. Competences: A-1-A, A-2-A, A-1-D, A-5. Faculty: Phyllis Kozlowski
AI 398 WRITING THE WORLD
WRITING THE WORLD
AI 399 DOCUDRAMA What is Docudrama? In addition to reading and analyzing plays, in this course students will have the opportunity to write a dramatic play based on upon their own experience, a historical event, a biography, or a contemporary social issue. Students will create new versions of their realities, using the dramatic process to transform and re-invent their lived experiences in a new form. Students will learn how to use a variety of documents and media in the creative process, including photographs, interviews, transcripts, tape recordings, and objects. Competences: A2X, A5, H1X, H3B. Faculty: Ezzat Goushegir
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