406. Conducting II: Band ( 1/2) - STAVREVA 347. Modern American Literature: Encountering the Wilderness, American Literature and Photography

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Cornell College

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From Thoreau to Hemingway, from the f/64 group of wilderness photographers to the contemporary wolf/wilderness photographer Jim Brandenberg, encounters with the wild have shaped American art and culture. What better way to study those encounters than within the wilderness that inspired the writers and photographers? Therefore, the class will journey to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, to the Coe College Wilderness Field Station, where we will immerse ourselves in the glorious September outdoors, study journals, literature and photography and consider the interplay between our own encounters with the wilderness and the artworks about the wilderness that we study. The course will reect upon art and meditation as ways of relating to the wilderness. To capture our own responses to the wilderness, we will keep journals/portfolios of projects involving writing, literary analysis, meditation, and photography (including a one-photo-a-day project inspired by Brandenberg's works). The class will study photographers Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and others who created art from their encounters with the wilderness. We will study Thoreau's foundational essays from Walden and the vibrant journals and paintings of Emily Carr, the Canadian wilderness writer and painter of the _rst half of the 20th century. We'll read _ction and essays by a variety of American writers and discuss them over camp_res and dinners, and by the lake. While at the Wilderness Field Station, depending on the class size and sta_ availability, we may do a canoe trip and camp for a few days at compelling sites of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, or we will stay at the Field Station on lovely Low Lake and do day trips. You may be a seasoned camper, a neophyte, or something in between, but the class will all work together to make the course and our trip, memorable. We may learn to portage, canoe, recognize trees and wolf scat and ora and fauna of the area as we interact with other courses at the Field Station for the Cornell Wilderness Term. The Field Station is primitive, rustic, and rather raw. Cornell College | 2008-09 Academic Catalogue Topics Courses 125 Be ready to embrace the absence of electricity, laptops, cellphones, and iPods. But it is a worthwhile trade, because you gain breathtaking beauty, stunning silence, physical challenges of hoisting and canoeing, and moments of sublime revelation{plus camaraderie. (\Wake up! Are those wolves howling?! There must be _fty of them!") Registration entails additional costs. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) HANKINS

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www.cornellcollege.edu

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(319) 895-4000

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North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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