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Using texts by published authors and members of the class, we will explore the pleasures and challenges of creating and interpreting narratives based on "real life." The class will consider critical theories about the relationship between the self and the stories we tell. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Pre-requisite or co-requisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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Shakespeare, the most well known writer in English and perhaps the world, deals with universal themes and the ultimate nature of what it is to be a human being. His plays are staged, filmed, and read around the globe, even after 400 years. This seminar will explore why Shakespeare's plays and characters have such lasting power and meaning to humanity. The seminar will combine class discussion, lecture, and video. Grades will be based on participation, response essays, and a final essay. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or corequisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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This course introduces students to texts and cultural productions of the 20th Century literature. We will examine a diverse collection of materials, including novels and short stories, poems, plays, films, painting, and sculpture. Science, technology, violence, history, identity, language all come under the careful scrutiny of the authors we will discuss in this course, which may include Conrad, Fanon, Achebe, Eliot, Kafka, Barnes, Camus, Borges, and Marquez, among others. We will also screen films that com- 102 Colorado School of Mines Undergraduate Bulletin 2008-2009 Colorado School of Mines Undergraduate Bulletin 2008-2009 103 ment upon the fragility of individual identity in the face of modern technology. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or co-requisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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This course examines African writers' depictions of varied material and symbolic transformations wrought by twentieth-century colonialism and decolonization, and their differential impacts upon individual lives and collective histories around the continent. Fiction and poetry representing Anglophone, Francophone, Arabic, and indigenous language traditions will constitute the bulk of the reading. Alongside their intrinsic artistic values, these texts illuminate religious, ritual, and popular cultural practices massively important to social groups in countries ranging from Nigeria, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast to Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Primary soci-historical themes will include generational consciousness, ethnicity, gender relations, the dramatic grown of cities, and forms of collective violence stirred by actions and inactions of colonial and postcolonial governments. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or co-requisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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This course explores classic myths, stories and narratives in Western American literature and film, and how the values reflected in these myths, stories and narratives shape our national character. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or corequisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
This course features heroes and antiheroes (average folks, like most of us), but because it is difficult to be heroic unless there are one or more villains lurking in the shadows, there will have to be an Iago or Caesar or a politician or a member of the bureaucracy to overcome. Webster's defines heroic as 'exhibiting or marked by courage and daring.'Courage and daring are not confined to the battlefield, of course. One can find them in surprising places-in the community (Ibsen's Enemy of the People), in the psychiatric ward (Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) , in the military(Heller's Catch-22), on the river (Twain' s The Adventuresof Huckleberry Finn or in a "bachelor pad" (Simon? ? Last othe Red Hot Lovers). Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or corequisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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This introduction to mass media studies is designed to help students become more active interpreters of mass media messages, primarily those that emanate from television, radio, the Internet, sound recordings (music), and motions pictures (film, documentary, etc.). Taking a broad rhetorical and sociological perspective, the course examines a range of mass media topics and issues. Students should complete this course with enhanced rhetorical and sociological understandings of how media shapes individuals, societies, and cultures as well as how those groups shape the media. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or corequisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the basics of film history, form, and criticism. Students will be exposed to a variety of film forms, including documentary, narrative, and formalist films, and will be encouraged to discuss and write about these forms using critical film language. Students will have an opportunity to work on their own film projects and to conduct research into the relationship between films and their historical, cultural, and ideological origins. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or co-requisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar, 3 semester hours.
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The novel, nationalism, and the modern nation-state share the same eighteenthand nineteenth-century roots. Relationships between the works of novelists, local nationalisms, and state politics have however always been volatile. These tensions have assumed particularly dramatic expressive and political forms in Latin America and postcolonial South Asia and Africa. This course examines the inspirations, stakes, and ramifications of celebrated novelists' explorations of the conflicted and fragmentary character their own and/or neighboring nation-states. Beyond their intrinsic literary values, these texts illuminate distinctive religious, ritual, and popular cultural practices that have shaped collective imaginings of the nation, as well as oscillations in nationalist sentiment across specific regions and historical junctures. Studies in relevant visual media - films, paintings, and telenovelas - will further our comparative inquiry into the relationships between artistic narrative and critical perspectives on "the nation." Alongside the focal literary and visual texts, the course will address major historians' and social theorists' accounts of the origins, spread, and varied careers of nationalist thought and practice across our modern world. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or corequisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
critical examination of environmental ethics and the philosophical theories on which they depend. Topics may include preservation/conservation, animal welfare, deep ecology, the land ethic, eco-feminism, environmental justice, sustainability, or non-western approaches. This class may also include analyses of select, contemporary environmental issues. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or co-requisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.
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