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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring Description This workshop focuses on the craft of creating fiction, including narrative design from the traditional to the experimental, point of view, voice, tension and resolution, character construction, and dialogue. We will also discover how student and professional writers catch and sustain their readers' attention. As models for creative writing, we will choose a small number of works by such authors as Jhumpa Lahiri, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, Tim O'Brien, Amy Tan, and Milan Kundera. Thinking as writers, not critics, we will read these stories as we read our own: with an eye and an ear tuned to the construction of imaginative stories people enjoy reading. However, the primary emphasis of this writers' workshop will be on shaping students' original short stories--or chapters from a novel. The sessions will be highly interactive, including peer editing and regular small-group work. We will also explore the possibility of students publishing their stories in small literary journals and eZines.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Fall Description This course is a workshop for those interested in writing for stage and screen. Students will work together on shaping dramatic structure, characters, conflict, and dialog. One-man/woman shows (dramatic monologs) will also be considered. Students will be given the opportunity to incorporate music into their dramatic writing or to write the "book" for a musical theater piece. First-hand experience in dramatic writing will also benefit composers who plan on writing music for theater, film, or television. Several plays and films will be examined as models for writing, but the focus of this workshop will be on original scripts.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 credits Prerequisites: LCOR-112 Course Chair: C. Colatosti Required of: None Electable by: All Offered: Fall Description This interdisciplinary course is a study of how artists, political figures, and everyday citizens continue to grapple with the diversity and tensions of Irish identity. The focus of the course will vary from semester to semester to include a broad range of topics centered on the fusion in Irish life of politics, history, and the arts. Literature study will include writers of the literary revival such as Joyce and Yeats; J.M. Synge, Eugene O'Neill, and other Irish-American writers; and contemporary authors such as Edna O'Brien, Seamus Heaney, and Roddy Doyle. Additional topics for each year's course will be chosen from the following: the Great Famine; the resistance to British rule; the Irish Civil War; Michael Collins, the IRA, and Sinn Fein; the "troubles" in Northern Ireland and the peace process; films by Jim Sheridan, Neil Jordan, and others; and contemporary Celtic music, from Altan to Sinead O'Connor.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring, Fall Description Students will learn the fundamentals of music criticism and apply those principles in writing reviews both of recordings and live performances. Music reviews will focus on writing both for professional musicians and for the general public.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring Description Utilizing interdisciplinary approaches to interpretation, composition, and music education, this course offers critical and creative approaches to understanding and articulating characteristics of exemplary musical and literary works for children and adolescents. This course explores the connections between children's music and children's literature through literary and musical analysis, as well as composition in both music and English. In the vast children's music market, some compositions exhibitvery high quality, while others seem to be market-driven drivel. What distinguishes the good from the bad, the meaningful from the fluff How do we account for the progression from Prokofiev to Barney the Dinosaur This course tries to answer these questions and more by positing that quality music for children can and should be both aesthetically interesting and intellectually engaging. We will look at music for children and explore the connections between children's music and children's literature. The course will focus on different genres of music and literature, from classical and folk to film scores and pop covers. We will also be reading and discussing the source material that inspired the music, including folk tales, nursery rhymes, and works by Lewis Carroll, Edward Gorey, Christina Rossetti, Shel Silverstein, and Lemony Snicket, among others. Particular attention will be paid to the nature of the diverse child audience that educators and performers will encounter in front of a classroom and an audience. As a capstone, there will be a music project component (that involves sequencing software), so that students can apply their musical and critical acumen to music composition for children.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 credits Prerequisites: LCOR-112 Course Chair: C. Colatosti Required of: None Electable by: All Offered: Spring Description This course is an examination of the philosophical arguments for the existence of God--cosmological, ontological, teleological, moral, and experiential or mystical--as found in the work of such philosophers as Plato, Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Paley, Kierkegaard, and Buber. The historical development of these various "proofs" will be studied, including Hume's skeptical arguments against them as well as what has existentially come to be called the I-Thou encounter and its relevance for the modern "eclipse of God."
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Fall Description Conducted as a basic introduction to ethics and its place in philosophy, this course explores the roots of Western values in the life and thought of Socrates as presented by Plato and in the comprehensive analysis of Aristotle. Also examined will be the existential relevance of ethics for modern life and thought.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 credits Prerequisites: LCOR-112 Course Chair: C. Colatosti Required of: None Electable by: All Offered: Fall Description This course is an examination of the nature of thinking and rational discourse, especially as these are found in actual philosophical texts. Deductive and inductive reasoning, definition, propositions, syllogisms, contradiction, and paradox, as well as various logical fallacies, will be studied.
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1.30 Credits
Credits:1.25 Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring Description This course focuses on defining different types of cultural or mythical "models" for society and individuals; how they are formed; how they help shape beliefs, worldviews, and historical events; and how they still inform our lives today. The thematic approach of mythology and folklore will draw on documents from the fields of history (especially the timeframe from Ancient Greece to the late Middle Ages), linguistics, law, music, theatre, literature, art, and film.
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3.00 Credits
Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Fall Description This course is an introduction to the vast history of Western philosophy and necessarily entails a close and careful consideration of its origins in ancient Greece. Such an examination of Socrates and Plato will enable the student to understand not only the meaning of philosophy as "the love of wisdom" but also the complexities involved in the subsequent development of ideas in various schools of thought. Another philosopher or two (such as Descartes or Nietzsche) will be closely examined to compare and contrast with the Greeks. The existential significance of the root meaning of philosophical thinking is crucial to an appreciation of what has been alternately lost and retrieved throughout the course of Western thought.
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