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This workshop will focus on determining persuasive influences, goals and techniques used in the mass media to further governmental and or corporate interests that are contrary to the publics best interest.~ Participants will identify, discuss, and review factors that contribute to media bias of four different countries and determine how and to what degree those positions have distorted the pervasive media messages.~ In doing so participants will compare and rank each countries media accuracy in addition to the level of popular acceptance of messages based in part on Chomsky's Propaganda Model.~ As a final project participants will be given an imaginary country and asked to create and present their own new "media model" with system of checks and balances that promote both long term sustainability and message accuracy
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Before students reach the college level, they have some exposure to the Transcendentalist Movement through the literature of Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne. Due to the various interpretations of the founders of the movement, students usually only remember that it was idealistic. Throughthe direct comparison of the Transcendentalist's biographies, their movement (from approximately 1836-1860) to the post innocent 1950's rock and roll era of the 1960's (from approximately 1962-1969), students should be able to integrate how American society's external and factual macrocosm shifted in both eras to the individual consciousness/experience microcosm that defines what it is to be uniquely America
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Successful grantwriting requires clear goals and objectives. This workshop will cover the basics on how to state what you want and need to a potential donor clearly and succinctly. During the workshop, students will be taken through all of the steps in writing a grant and will complete a "mock" grant which could be acceptable to a private foundation or public agency.
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The student will learn from this course a fuller sense of how to think about, speak about, and write poems. Students will also have new models of poetry to read and explore, and will have produced a number of poems in which they feel a personal investment.
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"Eudiamonia" or " Happiness"; we can't find it but we know it exists somewhere or does it. Is it a Noun or a verb Is it something we can find and keep or is it transitory This course will explore, explain and provide some of the modern and historical conceptions of Happiness as well as the newer scientific findings. It will also present pragmatic ways of living in ways that will assist the student with "catching the elusive Happiness" and incorporating it into their li
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This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with a variety of contemporary & traditional spiritual practices. Reading and discussion will focus on aspects of the modern western spiritual journey: it's transpersonal dimensions; application to stress reduction and service to others; relationship to culture, religion and death. During this workshop we will take time to experiment with short periods of meditation, yoga, and dream work.
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This workshop presents strategies to improve one's reading rate, flexibility, concentration, and comprehension. The workshop also discusses study techniques for college students.
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3.00 Credits
This workshop will critically investigate the scientific basis for the claims being currently made that the earth's mean temperatures are rising, and that these rising temperatures have led to climatic changes globally. We will also investigate the claims that causal links can be drawn between the increases in Greenhouse Gases, mainly attributable to the burning of fossil fuels, and climatic changes. Finally, we will examine the likely consequences that purported climatic changes will bring - in particular by focusing on glacial melting, rising sea levels, and catastrophic weather events. We will conclude by addressing what any of this may mean for how we, our children, and our grandchildren will conduct our lives.
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This solution-oriented workshop uses the latest training techniques, which incorporate a variety of methods to accommodate different learning styles. Case studies and role-plays involve the participants in exploring the meaning and cycles of conflict.
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What's So Funny A workshop in the roots of comedy, comic perspective and the uses of satire. This workshop will introduce students to theater as a historical form of social commentary while exploring comedy as a pervasive need in modernism and contemporary society. In particular we will look at the comic techniques of Lucille Ball, W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton as a way of "taking a stance" in society. The workshop will discuss modern manifestations of comedy as seen in animation, puppetry and commercials.We will also look at the roots of comedy in Europe and the West. In particular, we will explore the Commedia Delle' Arte, an improvisational comic theater form that flourished in Europe for two hundred years, from the 16th through the 18th Century. The seminal comic characters of Pantalone, Harlequin and Columbine will be traced through their through their antique origins into their contemporary manifestations. The use of mask, verbal acuity and physical dexterity will be studied as an expression of mirth, hilarity, doubt, resistance and satire.
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