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2016-2017 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 51-2105 Introduction to Black World Studies

    In this interdisciplinary survey course, students are introduced to the socio-political history and culture of black peoples around the world and the concept of blackness. The course is team taught and divided up into units that cover inter-related components: history, humanities, and social sciences. The course is divided into seven units, beginning with a history of the field of Black Studies. Students will then be taken through the history and historiography of the peoples and their expressive arts.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2110 Twentieth-Century Music

    Twentieth century classical music demands that we listen in new ways, that we test our assumptions regarding sound, and that we question our understanding of aesthetics. It may be described as the expansion, emancipation and re-merger of those features defining music prior to the 1900s: melody, harmony, form, timbre, texture and orchestration. We will examine this transformation, highlighting the events that catalyzed new directions in composition and performance. Wherever possible, the music examined is tied to general historical developments at the period of its conception. Ancillary figures, those generating functions or art achievements not strictly related to music, are studied whenever their activity seems to be germane to heightened understanding on the part of the student. All concert music heard is primarily of a classical. genre. Whenever any other music is referred to, such as jazz, folk or world, brief examples are used.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2112 Contemporary Africa: Life, Literature, and Music

    This course presents the major issues, as well as the regional and cultural differences that exist amongst the peoples of present-day Africa. The class will critically review the stereotypical myths which are usually associated with Africa. Through a variety of multi-disciplinary approaches, including literary and musical analysis, students will be introduced to the diverse cultures and traditions across Africa as well as the important political, social, and economic issues of post-colonial African nations.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2211 Urban Images in Media & Film

    Using an interdisciplinary approach, this survey course examines how urban life is portrayed in various media forms. Students will discuss and analyze the way film, television and other forms engage with issues of representation, history, politics, economics, culture, ethnicity, and migration related to the urban environment.

    3 Credits
    WI HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-2212 Critiquing Children’s Culture

    This course examines varied spheres of children’s culture while introducing students to the terms, analytical techniques, and interpretive strategies commonly employed in Cultural Studies. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to exploring how children’s cultural processes and artifacts are produced, shaped, distributed, consumed and responded to in diverse ways. Through discussion, research and writing, class members investigate dimensions of children’s culture, learning to understand them in their broader social, aesthetic, ethical, and political contexts. Topics studied include children’s literature, animated films, teen literature, toys, public schooling, children’s games and new media.

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  COREQUISITES: 46-1100 Introduction to Cultural Studies  or 51-1210 Introduction to Cultural Studies  or51-1211 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies  
  

  • 51-2213 The Simpsons as Satirical Authors

    This course will study the postmodern satirical presentations and commentary which The Simpsons has made (and continues to make) through its utilization of the humanities. We will examine how The Simpsons raises and comments on issues of civic, cultural, gender, global and political identities using traditional humanities studies including artistic, film, literary, philosophical and religious critiques. Special emphasis will focus on self-referentiality and how The Simpsons satirizes both itself and its characters as an operative principle and strategy.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2215 Soul, Country, & the U.S.A.

    Soul and country are musical genres that are unmistakably and proudly native to the United States. Yet they often appear to be poles apart in terms of their audiences, aesthetics, messages, and most importantly how they communicate the notion of what it is to be an American and how to achieve the ultimate American Dream. This course will examine the musical cultures that are signified by soul and country. Students will study the evolution and aesthetics of these genres and will interrogate how they deal with concepts like identity, class, race, and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; politics and patriotism.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-2215J Soul, Country, & the U.S.A.

    Soul and country are musical genres that are unmistakably and proudly native to the United States. Yet they often appear to be poles apart in terms of their audiences, aesthetics, messages, and most importantly how they communicate the notion of what it is to be an American and how to achieve the ultimate American Dream. This course will examine the musical cultures that are signified by soul and country. Students will study the evolution and aesthetics of these genres and will interrogate how they deal with concepts like identity, class, race, and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; politics and patriotism.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-2216 Afro-Futurism: Pathways to Liberation

    Afro-Futurism provides artistic methods for the exploration of Black liberation. The creative ability to manifest transformation has been essential to the survival of Blacks in the Diaspora. This course considers what Blackness and liberation could look like in the future, real or imagined. It is rooted African cosmologies, using pieces of the past, technological and analog, to build the future. Themes include: identity; hybridity; alien and alienation; belonging, immigration, and migration; and the vessel–corporeal and metaphoric–as vehicle of liberation.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
    PREREQUISITES: ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 51-2217 Hip Hop: Global Music and Culture

    Hip hop has captured the minds of youth worldwide spawning themes, trends, attitudes, and behaviors that are similar to but distinct from the manifestation of hip hop in the US. This course is designed as an intellectual excursion to explore the global creation and consumption of hip hop through the lens of cultural studies. Class will study processes of imitation, appropriation, translation, and customization and their impact on themes of gender, hegemony, commercialism, sexuality, race, and identity.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2218 Caribbean Art, Literature and Music

    This course surveys art, literature, and music in Caribbean culture. Students learn to understand historical references within countries represented in this survey. Students will develop an appreciation for the Caribbean art forms by surveying and recognizing important artistic movements, literary works, and cultural revolutions in which artists played a role in influencing 20th century and 21st century art in the Greater and Lesser Antilles.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2219HN The Italian Renaissance: Honors

    This is an interdisciplinary humanities class in the Italian Renaissance, a period of time that marked a shift in sensibilities in which human values in all fields were reborn and reaffirmed amidst political and religious crises. A new self-awareness, the return to humane letters and to classical antiquity created an outburst of creativity. During a time of rapid change, mankind discovered a capacity to improve, to change the world, to grow, learn and to create. We will examine how artists, bankers, diplomats, courtiers, princes, philosophers, merchants, patrons and religious leaders responded to these new values through which they affirmed their individualism, often through many-sided achievements, to wit, Michalangelo ( sculptor, painter, poet) DaVinci (painter, scientist, inventor) Alberti (painter, architect, humanist) the Medici (bankers, poets, patrons). This class integrates readings in literature, art history, history, philosophy and political science. Through readings, lectures, images and class discussions we will study how political, religious and historical events contributed to the artistic achievements of the Italian Renaissance and its lasting impact in today’s world. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2220 The Holocaust (1939-45)

    Course is guided by two major questions: Why did the Holocaust occur How did it happen Because the answers are complex and multifaceted, our effort to explore and understand the Nazi extermination of six million Jews draws on several kinds of material.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2222 Transnational and Global Feminisms

    This course will explore the meaning of feminism when considered from diverse cultural, political and economic perspectives and circumstances, and how feminism takes on new forms of resistance in global contexts. Students will analyze those cultural, economic, and political conditions that promote, inhibit, and incite activism on behalf of women’s rights.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 51-2224 Introduction to Digital Humanities

    This course will explore the emergence of the digital humanities as both a disciplinary field of study and a reaction to changes in our culture more broadly. Students will be introduced to the theories, methods, and practices of reading, analysis, writing, and exhibition that comprise the digital humanities. Using tools for distant reading, geotemporal visualization, and data mining, they will develop new ways to conceptualize and communicate the rich landscape of our human cultural existence.

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  
  

  • 51-2225 Nature and Environmentalism in U.S. Culture

    This course explores the relationship between humans and the non-human natural world, emphasizing popular conceptions of nature in American culture and the way in which the very notion of ?nature? itself is a profoundly human conception. We can never really know the natural world ?out there.? Rather the natural world that we seek to understand, even conserve and protect, can only ever be understood through the lens of our social and cultural imagination. What are the socio-cultural manifestations of nature, and how do these manifestations affect the uses and/or abuses of nature in American society?

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2226 Media, Politics and Intervention

    The media, traditional and new, has been a central aspect of US and global culture, politics, and life over the last several decades. To understand and interrogate the multiple roles, functions, and contexts of media, this course will draw on the critical theoretical legacies and conceptual tools of media studies and cultural studies. This will help students locate media forms, texts, practices, institutions, and industries in their larger social, political, economic, and ideological contexts and to begin to comprehend their histories, present(s), and also imagine their future(s). Combining both critical theoretical work and applied studies of the media, the course takes an interdisciplinary approach and draws freely on the social sciences and the humanities traditions. More specifically, in an attempt to comprehend the whole circuit of media/circuit of culture² (production-text-consumption), the course will engage social and political theory, cultural studies, textual analysis, ethnography, critical political economy, and cultural policy studies, among others. The course will also be addressing key questions including, but NOT limited to, the role of the state; media effects; the politics of the media; the politics of representation, subjectivity and agency; media and ideology; and political activism.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2272 Death and Dying

    Universal and timeless, dying and death are life experiences integral to human existence. What and how we experience, give order to, make sense of, and live out these journeys in our lives and in relation to others within societal, cultural, philosophical and spiritual contexts will be the focus of our course of study.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2360 Film and Society

    Relationships between people are explored through weekly screenings of feature, short, fiction, documentary, and animated films; all dealing with a semester-long social topic.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2401 Philosophy of Art and Criticism

    Course explores works by radically diverse thinkers to show how assumptions about art and artists shape evaluations of the arts. Works are from such philosophers or critics as Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Sontag, Freud, Derrida, Foucault, and Stravinsky.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2402 20th-Century Philosophy

    Course examines central issues and major movements in philosophy in the twentieth century, including existentialism, pragmatism, deconstructionism, and linguistic analysis.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2403 Political Philosophy

    Course uses a few major writings from ancient through modern thinkers to explore political philosophy, with special focus on problems of power, freedom, justice, and law.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2404 Spirituality and Empowerment

    In Spirituality and Empowerment, students are invited to explore their relationship to Spirit (as they define it) and to experience Spirit as the means to contemplate Self, create community, tap the true source of creativity, and manifest intention. They will also become acquainted with the core teachings of seven significant masters and the spiritual paths they gave to the world. Practices of meditation and hatha yoga will give students a direct experience of independent contentment and peace. In short, how can Spirit empower us and support us in creating the life we truly desire

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II   or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-2405 Philosophical Issues in Film

    Course addresses a series of philosophical themes including ethical issues, metaphysical questions, and existential quandaries. Philosophical study can open up vistas of meaning to any student, and films can effectively realize abstract ideas in palpable and compelling ways. Several films are used with readings in philosophical literature to explore specific philosophical themes.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2406 Philosophy of Love

    Various aspects of love - romantic, spiritual, familial, and self-acceptance - are studied through readings, films, and weekly contemplations. Course moves from concepts and readings to the student’s own experience and personal application. Self-love and self-esteem are the foundation concept from which all else evolves. Readings come from philosophical and spiritual texts.

    3 Credits
    WI HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-2407 Mystical Consciousness, East and West

    this course explores a variety of philosophical and religious texts on mysticism, meditation, and spirituality from both the Eastern and Western traditions. Classroom activities of meditation, ritual process, and creative flow give students direct experience of these concepts. Weekly contemplations and two extended papers further help students understand mystical awareness at both the intellectual and experiential levels.

    3 Credits
    WI GA HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  
  
  

  • 51-2409HN Philosophy of Religion: Honors

    This course examines a number of issues connected to religious belief and practice. At the heart of the course is an exploration of religous ways of knowing,

    3 Credits
    HU
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2410 The Evolution of the Mind

    The human mind is a product of biological and cultural evolution. This course will study the philosophical and psychological implications of this claim. What makes the human mind unique, compared with those aspects of mind we share with non-human animals What is the relationship between emotion and thought What are the successes and failures of evolutionary psychology and philosophy of mind Are religion and ethics products of the evolution of the mind

    3 Credits
    WI HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-2410HN The Evolution of the Mind: Honors

    The human mind is a product of biological and cultural evolution. This course will study the philosophical and psychological implications of this claim. What makes the human mind unique, compared with those aspects of mind we share with non-human animals? What is the relationship between emotion and thought? What are the successes and failures of evolutionary psychology and philosophy of mind? Are religion and ethics products of the evolution of the mind? This is an Honors course and in addition to other possible prerequisites, students need a minimum GPA of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    WI HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2411HN Emotions:Honors

    The emotions play a significant role in our inner lives. Sometimes the emotions act in concert with our cognitive decision-making, and sometimes they crash over our rational thinking like uncontrollable storms. Emotions influence and fuel our behavior, values, art, and other aspects of culture. Yet, systematic study of emotions is quite recent. In this course we will examine Western psychology and philosophy of emotions. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2502 Religion and Gender

    In this course, we will look at examples from many different cultures to consider forms of religiosity that are traditionally ‘gendered’, including spirit possession and practices relating to food, ritual, purification, and so on. We will also analyze religions’ constructions of masculinity and femininity around the issues of sex, reproduction, pain and agency?and the religious significance of people who do not fit into traditional gendered categories. Finally, we will take up political problems associated with religion and gender, particularly those associated with secularism and colonialism.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2502HN Religion and Gender: Honors

    In this course, we will look at examples from many different cultures to consider forms of religiosity that are traditionally ‘gendered’, including spirit possession and practices relating to food, ritual, purification, and so on. We will also analyze religions’ constructions of masculinity and femininity around the issues of sex, reproduction, pain and agency?and the religious significance of people who do not fit into traditional gendered categories. Finally, we will take up political problems associated with religion and gender, particularly those associated with secularism and colonialism. This is an Honors course and students need a 3.50 cumulative GPA to register.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2505 Religion and Secularism in U.S. Law and Politics

    In this class, we will look at legal cases, cultural representations, and historical documents pertinent to the issue of religion and politics to understand what secularism is, in the U.S., how it has changed over time, and how it has been imagined; we will build a website narrating these developments. We will also take up what these conceptions mean for our current political landscape as well as broader theoretical questions about the relation of religion to the state.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-2506 Religion Through Film

    This course will consider many of the central categories used to analyze religious phenomena through pairing some of the most important theoretical contributions to the study of religion with films that are concerned with similar themes. We will ask: how does the relevant theory of religion cast light on the film? Does the film suggest revisions to the theory? Can we think of real-world examples that bear out one or the other? What light does film cast on religion?

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-2506HN Religion Through Film: Honors

    This course will consider many of the central categories used to analyze religious phenomena through pairing some of the most important theoretical contributions to the study of religion with films that are concerned with similar themes. We will ask: how does the relevant theory of religion cast light on the film? Does the film suggest revisions to the theory? Can we think of real-world examples that bear out one or the other? What light does film cast on religion? This is an Honors course and students need a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher to register.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2520 Religion and Its Critics: From t he Classics to the New Atheists

    Recently, the ‘New Atheists’ have leveled a variety of criticisms against religion, regarding the (purported) falsity of its claims, the ways in which it shapes people and citizens, and the sorts of political problems it occasions. But these arguments are not new-indeed, they go back several hundred years (further, in some cases). In this class, we will look at some of the most important articulations of these criticisms of religion in the modern period, as well as some of the defenses of religion. We will contextualize these ideas with respect to social and political developments, and then in turn use them to reconsider the recent claims of the New Atheists.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2520HN Religion and Its Critics: From t he Classics to the New Atheists: Honors

    Recently, the ‘New Atheists’ have leveled a variety of criticisms against religion, regarding the (purported) falsity of its claims, the ways in which it shapes people and citizens, and the sorts of political problems it occasions. But these arguments are not new-indeed, they go back several hundred years (further, in some cases). In this class, we will look at some of the most important articulations of these criticisms of religion in the modern period, as well as some of the defenses of religion. We will contextualize these ideas with respect to social and political developments, and then in turn use them to reconsider the recent claims of the New Atheists. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    HU
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2521HN Religion in Chicago: Honors

    In this course we take up the themes of religion in U.S. cities by looking at our own city–both its past and its present. We will read historical work about the roles religion has played in urbanization and then go out in the city to analyze religion as it is practiced Chicago today with these frameworks. This is an Honors course and in order to register for the course, students need a GPA of 3.50 or higher.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2522 Religion and Violence

    Much violence perpetrated in the world today is considered religious in nature. This class will interrogate that assumption by considering several important questions: Is there something inherently violent about religion? What work does violence do, for religion? What is religious terrorism, and what do the techniques of terror earn for those who use them? Is violence ever justified? Must it be justified with religion, if it is to be justified at all? Most centrally: is the category of religious violence meaningful?

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-2601 Asian Journeys

    This course examines texts about or by East Asian travelers with journey as the central motif. Texts include those from ancient times to contemporary period, such as classical poetry of retreat and exile, biography, autobiography, and novellas depicting East Asians? encounters with the West during the transitional period from premodern to modern time, the traveling of classical texts within Asia as well as between Asia and the West, and films and critical essays about Asians in migration. Topics of discussion are formation of cultural traditions and individual selfhood, journeys abroad and their impact on self-identities, cultural appropriations, and finally, issues of migration and immigration.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2602 The Chinese City in Literature, Art, and Media

    This course uses an interdisciplinary humanities approach to Chinese cities from ancient to contemporary times depicted in various literary texts, visual arts, films and other popular media. The course serves both as an exploration of the Chinese city within historical contexts and as an examination of forms of representation. We will discuss themes such as national identity, the garden and intellectual identity, the intersection between China and the foreign, and human responses to the city in perpetual transition to modernity.

    3 Credits
    GA
  

  • 51-3102 Senior Research Project: Black World Studies

    This two-day culminating workshop offers students who have chosen to minor in Black World Studies an opportunity to reflect on the material and knowledge they have gained in other courses in the minor program. The workshop will be facilitated by faculty and/or an invited activist, who will discuss pragmatic and political aspects of their activities in scholarship, arts, and/or politics.

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 51-2105 Introduction to Black World Studies 
  

  • 51-3202 Peace Studies

    Class studies forces at play in the course of human events that profoundly affect one’s relationship to self, work, family, and others; to social justice; to the earth and its myriad life forms; to the nature and purpose of human existence; and to spirituality.

    3 Credits
    HU
    Requirements 60 Credits Completed and Junior Status or Above
  

  • 51-3203 Posthumanism in Science Fiction

    This course examines science fiction visions of posthumanism. Through film excerpts and readings (novels, philosophy, sociology and science), we will explore fundamental questions of human identity, race and gender. We will also focus on the conflict between the techno-utopian visions of scientists and the techno-dystopian visions of science fiction artists.

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-3250 Senior Research Project: Women’s and Gender Studies

    This is the final course for the Women’s and Gender Studies minor. Students, in close collaboration with the instructor through the semester, will work independently on a project of their choice that deepens their understanding of women’s and/or gender issues and that may integrate with their major field of interest. This project may be a research paper or an arts or media project, or may take the form of an internship of 7-10 hours/week with an appropriate organization. Students should contact the instructor during the semester prior to taking the Capstone course to begin discussing their project ideas and obtain preliminary project approval. They should have their approved internships set up or project idea well established before the semester begins.

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 51-1211 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies 
    Requirements 90 Enrolled Hours
  

  • 51-3298 Independent Project: Humanities

    An independent study is designed by the student, with the approval of a supervising faculty member, to study an area that is not presently available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  

  • 51-3299 Directed Study: Humanities

    Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. They involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.

    1-4 Credits
  

  • 51-3450 Topics in Philosophy

    Anger is a fundamental part of the human condition. Its causes are varied and its expressions are diverse, but we all experience some form of anger. Philosophers have perennially tried to understand anger and find some way to manage its destructive power. Some pacifists argue for the elimination of anger, while others recognize its motivational energy for social justice issues. This course looks at philosophical ideas about anger, ranging over Eastern and Western traditions as well as Ancient and Modern eras. Some of the perspectives explored include Buddhism, Stoicism, Existentialism, Sociobiology, Postmodernism, Feminism, and more.

    3 Credits
    HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-3500 Religion, Capitalism, Empire

    Ebola medical missions, cargo cults, Hinduism, Joel Osteen, Al-Qaeda–all of these religious phenomena have in common that they are in some way responses to the rise of capitalism and its spread through empire. In this course we will look at the relationship between religion and capitalism, considering the way in which religion was implicated in bringing about modernization and also the way religion provided a site of resistance to various forms of global imperialism. Cases considered to include examples from all over the world.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 51-3950 Undergraduate Research Mentorship

    The Undergraduate Research Mentorship connects talented students interested in the experience of conducting academic research in particular disciplines with faculty in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. This course, available to students from across the College, gives students the opportunity to gain real-world experience and learn research and scholarly techniques from practitioners in academic and integrative disciplines based in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. The experience will prove valuable to students as they enter professional fields or pursue higher academic degrees. Faculty members will gain assistance in completing their innovative research and scholarship while mentoring students in fields of specialization within the academic community.

    1-3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 52-1101S Writing and Rhetoric Stretch A

    Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch A introduces students to key concepts in writing and rhetoric. These concepts comprise an intellectual framework that enable students to approach a variety of writing tasks in college, in their creative professions, and in their lives as citizens. While the primary focus is on reading and writing alphabetic text, Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch A encourages students to explore the affordances of a variety of genres, media, platforms, and technologies. Along with Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B, this course provides students with ample opportunity for revision and reading assignments, exercises that guide students through longer assignment sequences, instruction about the role of various technologies in writing, and extra one-on-one support from the instructor. This course is graded pass/fail. Students must pass in order to proceed into WRI Stretch B. Students earn 3 credits.

    3 Credits
  
  

  • 52-1109 Writing Tutoring: Across the Curriculum

    Students signing up for this course will attend one-on-one tutorial sessions for 1 hour per week throughout the semester. Qualified Writing Consultants provide assistance and guidance in writing skills to students of all ability levels and from all majors. Tutorial sessions are student-centered, and content is tailored to the writing needs of each student.

    0 Credits Repeatable
  
  

  • 52-1120 U.S. Academic Language and Culture

    U.S. Academic Language and Culture for EAL is designed to address the needs of the cohort of international exchange students and degree-seeking students who do not formally live in the U.S. In this course, we will work to (1) improve and refine students? academic English skills including productive skills (i.e., writing, speaking) and receptive skills (i.e., reading, listening); (2) enhance students? intercultural competency; and (3) develop their digital literacy.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I

    Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English is reserved for students who do not speak English as their first language. Identical to 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I, with respect to course content and LAS Core credit, Writing and Rhetoric I offers students with heritage languages other than English curricular support via specialized teaching, smaller class size (12), individual teacher-student conferences, and regular time in the computer classrooms. Students are required to attend weekly sessions with an English as a Second Language (ESL) Specialist in the Writing Center.

    3 Credits
    EN
    CONCURRENT: 52-1108 EAL Tutoring in Writing 
  

  • 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II

    Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English is reserved for students who do not speak English as their first language. Identical to 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II, with respect to course content and LAS Core credit, Writing and Rhetoric II offers students with heritage languages other than English curricular support via specialized teaching, smaller class size (12), individual teacher-student conferences, and regular time in the computer classrooms (once a week). Students are required to attend weekly sessions with an English as a Second Language (ESL) Specialist in the Writing Center.

    3 Credits
    EN
    PREREQUISITES: COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  CONCURRENT: 52-1108 EAL Tutoring in Writing 
  

  • 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I

    Writing and Rhetoric I introduces students to key concepts in writing and rhetoric. These concepts comprise an intellectual framework that enable students to approach a variety of writing tasks in college, in their creative professions, and in their lives as citizens. In Writing and Rhetoric I, students use the key concepts to compose texts of their own and to analyze the work of other authors. While the primary focus is on reading and writing alphabetic text, Writing and Rhetoric I encourages students to explore the affordances of a variety of genres, media, platforms, and technologies.

    3 Credits
    EN
    PREREQUISITES: ACT (American College Test) score >= 17 or Internet TOEFL score >= 110 or IELTS score >= 6 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 68 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 410
  

  • 52-1151HN Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors

    Writing and Rhetoric I helps students understand and refine their own writing processes. Designed to assist students in making connections between their knowledge, cultures, worlds, and the multiple-literacies and discourses of academic, communicative and performing life, the course encourages students to develop their distinctive voices as they learn to make conscious rhetorical decisions. Writing and Rhetoric I connects personal reflection with critical analysis, providing plentiful and varied opportunities for writing, strengthening reading skills, and becoming a member of a writer-reader community. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    EN
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B

    Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B continues the work begun in Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch A, introducing students to key concepts in writing and rhetoric. These concepts comprise an intellectual framework that enable students to approach a variety of writing tasks in college, in their creative professions, and in their lives as citizens. While the primary focus is on reading and writing alphabetic text, Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B encourages students to explore the affordances of a variety of genres, media, platforms, and technologies. Along with Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch A, this course provides students with ample opportunity for revision and reading assignments, exercises that guide students through longer assignment sequences, instruction about the role of various technologies in writing, and extra one-on-one support from the instructor. Pre-requisite: Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch A. Students earn 3 credits.

    3 Credits
    EN
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1101S Writing and Rhetoric Stretch A  
  

  • 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II

    Writing and Rhetoric II helps students use writing to develop and sustain an in-depth personal and intellectual inquiry into a subject of their choosing. The course unfolds in a series of assignments designed to lead students through a continually deepening creative research process that ripens into a written project of considerable length and complexity. Focusing on methodology, rather than specific course theme, students learn to generate worthwhile questions, collect primary data, locate secondary resources, and form original research insights.

    3 Credits
    EN
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 52-1152HN Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors

    Writing and Rhetoric II helps students use writing to develop and sustain an in-depth personal and intellectual inquiry into a subject of their choosing. The course unfolds in a series of assignments designed to lead students through a continually deepening creative research process that ripens into a written project of considerable length and complexity. Focusing on methodology, rather than specific course theme, students learn to generate worthwhile questions, collect primary data, locate secondary resources, and form original research insights. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    EN
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151HN Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 52-1202 International College Reading

    Introduction to College Reading for Non-Native Speakers of English is reserved for students who do not speak English as their first language. An intensive review in writing, reading, and critical thinking prior to enrolling in 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English. Designed to emphasize each student’s writing process, the ICW curriculum works to recognize student knowledge and understanding of culture, while exploring the rhetorical purpose of personal narrative and cultural response. Teaching strategies include individualized, conference-based instruction, peer tutorials, grammar and usage review, and academic and digital literacy training. Students attend weekly sessions with an English as Second Language (ESL) Specialist in the Writing Center.

    3 Credits
  

  • 52-1400 International Oral Expression

    Oral Expression for Non-Native Speakers of English is reserved for students who do not speak English as their first language. This course addresses specific barriers to effective public speaking for English as a Second Language students, such as stage fright, poor pronunciation/rythm patterns, and intercultural communication difficulties. The course introduces students to basic principles of communication theory and informative, persuasive, and occasional models of public speaking. Instruction focuses on planning, organization, argumentation, delivery and posture, use of gestures and voice, and U.S. academic audience expectations. Oral Expressions for Non-Native Speakers of English meets the LAS Core requirement for Oral Communications. (Requires one hour of tutoring.)

    3 Credits
    SP
  

  • 52-1401 Oral Expression

    Students overcome difficulties they may have in public speaking, such as stage fright and poor diction. Students are made aware of important elements such as delivery and posture, use of gestures, and good grammar. Course introduces students to informative, persuasive, and occasional modes of public speaking and helps students develop well-organized and purposeful speeches.

    3 Credits
    SP
  

  • 52-1401HN Oral Expression: Honors

    Students overcome difficulties they may have in public speaking, such as stage fright and poor diction. Students are made aware of important elements such as delivery and posture, use of gestures, and good grammar. Course introduces students to informative, persuasive, and occasional modes of public speaking and helps students develop well-organized and purposeful speeches. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    SP
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 52-1600 Introduction to Literature

    This course introduces students to genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. By studying important works by writers of culturally diverse backgrounds, students gain experience in reading, analyzing, interpreting, and writing about literature. Course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications.

    3 Credits
    HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
  

  • 52-1600HN Introduction to Literature: Honors

    This course introduces students to genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. By studying important works by writers of culturally diverse backgrounds, students gain experience in reading, analyzing, interpreting, and writing about literature. Course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  
  
  

  • 52-1602HN Introduction to Poetry: Honors

    Students study poetry ranging from traditional forms and figures to contemporary experimental forms. Course may include selected significant poems from all major periods. This is primarily a literature course, not a writing workshop. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 52-1603 Introduction to Readings in Creative Nonfiction

    A survey class in Creative Nonfiction which will focus on several genres of nonfiction writing: autobiography/memoir, the essay, travel writing, aphorism, prose poetry, biography, etc. This class will introduce students to some of the larger issues in nonfiction and some of the more specific questions that arise within its sub-genres. Students will also have an opportunity to try their hands at writing creative nonfiction through exercises and/or prompts provided by the instructor.

    3 Credits
    HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
  

  • 52-1604 Introduction to Drama

    This course examines aspects of drama such as plot, character, structure, and dialogue. Instruction provides an overview of the nature of comedy, tragedy, farce, and melodrama. Students read and discuss plays representing important periods from time of ancient Greeks to the present.

    3 Credits
    HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  
  
  

  • 52-1642 African-American Cultural Experience in Literature

    A cultural studies approach to literature, course shows students the significant contributions African Americans have made to American culture and demonstrates the pervasive influence of African culture on other cultures throughout the world. Course explores African elements in dance, music, writing (fiction and nonfiction), theater, photography, photojournalism, visual arts, film, and athletics and how these elements have influenced African-American literature.

    3 Credits
    PL HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
  

  • 52-1643 Examining the African-American Cultural Experience

    A cultural studies approach to literature, course establishes connections between African-American culture as explored in African-American literature and Chicago’s African-American artistic community. Students study the literature of African-American writers and conduct an ethnographic research project in the Chicago African-American artistic community.

    4 Credits Repeatable
    PL HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 52-1670 Mythology and Literature

    This course introduces students to ancient mythology and considers how myth addresses issues such as human origins, value systems, and the desire to tell stories. Instruction focuses on the interpretation of symbols of mythological language and the forms and patterns stories take when they use language to express the human spirit.

    3 Credits
    HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 52-1900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop:

    A beginning class in writing creative nonfiction, a term including many forms, constantly re-imagined, with the personal and lyrical essay at its core. You will boldly combine different elements of shape, texture, and voice to attempt to produce works of literary art, primarily in the essay, and present your work to the rest of the class in a workshop format. You will also begin reading in nonfiction.

    3 Credits
    WI
  

  • 52-2610 English Authors: Beowulf to Blake

    This course surveys English literature from its beginnings to approximately 1800, with attention to its historical, cultural, and artistic contexts. Instruction focuses on such influential figures as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Behn, Astell, Pope, Swift, and Johnson.

    3 Credits
    WI HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 52-2611 English Authors: Romantics to Contemporary

    This course’s selected readings range from Blake and the Romantic poets to contemporary figures such as Harold Pinter. Significant writers studied may include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, the Brownings, the Brontes, Hardy, Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Lawrence.

    3 Credits
    WI HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 52-2611HN English Authors: Romantics to Contemporary: Honors

    Course’s selected readings range from Blake and the Romantic poets to contemporary figures such as Harold Pinter. Significant writers studied may include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, the Brownings, the Brontes, Hardy, Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Lawrence. This course is part of the Honors program and requires, at a minimum, a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher to register.

    3 Credits
    WI HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-112
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 52-2620 American Authors: Through Dickinson

    This course examines early history of American literature, including writings by indigenous peoples, explorers, and settlers. Readings may include works by Bradstreet, Wheatley, Franklin, Douglass, Emerson, Occum, Hawthorne, Melville, Harper, Dickinson, and Whitman.

    3 Credits
    WI HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 52-2621 American Authors: Twentieth Century

    Poetry, fiction, and drama in America from approximately 1877 to the present are studied. Significant writers studied may include James, Wharton, Hemingway, Cather, Chesnutt, Hurston, Stevens, Eliot, Faulkner, Welty, Wright, Bellow, and Barth.

    3 Credits
    WI HL
    PREREQUISITES:52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 52-2630 World Literature: to 1660

    This course covers major landmarks of world literature from its beginnings to approximately 1660. Literature from the Bible, poetry, and drama by such writers as Homer, Sophocles, Sappho, Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare are represented.

    3 Credits
    WI HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  
  
  

  • 52-2636 The Vietnam War in History, Literature and the Arts

    The Vietnam War is one of the most studied, documented, and argued about wars in American history. The debate has taken the form of historical inquiries, poetry, novels, film, music, and other arts. The war shaped the experiences of a generation and continues to affect American life and arts. This interdisciplinary course examines the conflict in Southeast Asia through the eyes of journalists, fiction writers, poets, historians, filmmakers, musicians, and other artists.

    3 Credits
    GA HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 52-2636HN The Vietnam War in History, Literature and the Arts:Honors

    The Vietnam War is one of the most studied, documented, and argued about wars in American history. The debate has taken the form of historical inquiries, poetry, novels, film, music, and other arts. The war shaped the experiences of a generation and continues to affect American life and arts. This interdisciplinary course examines the conflict in Southeast Asia through the eyes of journalists, fiction writers, poets, historians, filmmakers, musicians, and other artists. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits
    PL HL
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 52-2639 Baseball in History and Literature: A Contested Narrative

    This course will examine the dynamic cultural meaning of baseball in the United States, from the rise of the professionalism in the mid-19th century to the introduction of free agency and the rise of corporate competitions of the present. Through lectures, readings, and discussions on the history of baseball and analysis of the literary texts the sport inspires, students will explore issues of American identity and examine how sport can be a reflection of society as well as an instrument of change.

    3 Credits
    HL
  

  • 52-2646 Native American Literature

    Students read and discuss selected stories, novels, and poems by major Native-American writers and examine ways of looking at the world different from views based on assumptions of white culture. Characteristics of style, imagery, and narrative structure are discussed in connection with Native-American myth, history, and traditions.

    3 Credits
    PL HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or  52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97  or  52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 52-2647 Asian American Literature

    A rotating topics course tracing the emergence and development of Asian American Literature. Course examines the artistic contributions of Asian American authors, and how they have explored issues of concern to Asian Americans. Topics may include Survey of Asian American Literature, Asian American Fiction, Asian American Theatre and Film, or others. Authors studied may include Maxine Hong Kingston, John Okada, Lan Samantha Chang, Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, and Diana Son.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PL HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 52-2647HN Asian American Literature: Honors

    A rotating topics course tracing the emergence and development of Asian American Literature. Course examines the artistic contributions of Asian American authors, and how they have explored issues of concern to Asian Americans. Topics may include Survey of Asian American Literature, Asian American Fiction, Asian American Theatre and Film, or others. Authors studied may include Maxine Hong Kingston, John Okada, Lan Samantha Chang, Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, and Diana Son. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PL HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  
  

  • 52-2655 Queer Literature

    This course examines LGBTQ literary and cultural traditions in light of key concepts and insights drawn from queer theory. Consideration of writers such as Tony Kushner, Achy Obejas, Stephen McCauley, Judy Grahn, Paul Monette, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Rita Mae Brown, and John Rechy. Course may include earlier works such as Cather’s My Antonia to explore queer themes not always addressed by other approaches to literature.

    3 Credits
    PL HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 552-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 52-2660 Introduction to Shakespeare

    This course introduces Shakespeare’s work to students with little previous exposure. This course requires reading of selected major plays. Students learn about Shakespeare’s theater and become familiar with many ideas of the English Renaissance. Readings may include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and The Tempest.

    3 Credits
    HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 52-2665 Dramatic Literature

    Series of courses focuses on figures, periods, or movements in dramatic literature. Content includes modern American drama, which surveys twentieth-century American playwrights such as O’Neill, Odets, Heilman, Williams, Miller, Inge, and Hansberry, and experimental drama, which explores the development of experimental theater through figures such as Jarry, Beckett, Stein, Ionesco, Shepard, and Shange. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    WI HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  
  

  • 52-2665HN Dramatic Literature: Honors

    This writing intensive course focuses on dramatic texts by contemporary minority playwrights. We will examine the emergence and development of ethnic American drama, looking at works by African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latino/a playwrights. We will investigate issues relating to the politics of self-representation, the ways hegemonic dominant beliefs discursively construct the Other, and the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality. We will attempt to answer some of the following questions: What is at stake in the representation of people of color and queer people on the American stage How do issues of racial conflict and sexual politics inform the seemingly neutral domestic space of families and personal relations What are the linkages between race and class in contemporary society, as depicted by these playwrights By the end of this course, students will be able to think critically about issues of race, gender and sexuality in American drama, be conversant with theoretical issues of craft and practice in theater studies, and be able to speak and write in a sophisticated, articulate manner about literature in general, and contemporary ethnic American drama in particular. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    WI HL
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 52-2670 Ancient Mythology

    Course surveys myths and epics produced by ancient cultures such as the Sumarians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, and Hebrews. The focus is on the stories, mythic structures, and literary and poetic forms of the myths as they symbolically express deep cultural values. Works studied may include the Sumarian Hymn to Inanna, The Egyptian Mysteries, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Kaballah.

    3 Credits
    HL
    PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
 

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