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3.00 Credits
How could the Holocaust have occurred? How can stereotyping and prejudice lead to discrimination, violence and genocide? Can individuals make a difference? Lessons of the Holocaust reflects current concerns with violence, racism and propaganda, ethical aspects of science and government, as well as the complexities of history, human behavior and moral choice, providing a framework for understanding life under Nazi control. Students will also explore methodology for using film and primary resources, such as documents, photographs and oral testimony. Satisfies: History/Liberal Arts elective requirement.
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Analysis of the forms, processes and materials of history as they have developed from oral history to the present, including the evolving roles of language and issues of evidence and interpretation. The emphasis of the course is on how we actually "do" history and includes site visits. Satisfies: History/Liberal Arts Elective requirement
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Using tools and constructs from the fields of sociology and anthropology, Gender Roles in American Society studies the development of male and female roles in contemporary American society. Satisfies: History/Liberal Arts elective requirement.
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Women and Religion explores women's roles in a variety of religious traditions and movements around the world. Topics may include Goddess Worship, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Shamanism, utopian communities and feminist theology. Course content and emphasis varies from semester to semester. Satisfies: History/Liberal Arts elective requirement.
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The History of Media and the Media of History will analyze interpretations of the past and present in a variety of media, including examples from contemporary culture. The class will analyze the history of human communication by working with different media to understand 1) the type of evidence generated by each form of communication, 2) the ways that each type of evidence can be researched and used to interpret the past, and 3) the challenges of each medium as a vehicle for representing historical interpretations. Satisfies: History/Liberal Arts Elective requirement
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This course introduces Japanese cinema and filmmaking in its relations to Japanese visual, literary, & performing arts, through the study of a dozen or more feature films by some of the world's greatest directors: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi, et al. It will pay particular attention to the roles of women, focusing on the unusually strong (from the standpoint of world history) role of women as protagonists, and on the ways that the definitive impact of women's voices on Japanese culture as a whole have shaped Japanese film-making. Readings will be put on reserve in the library and may include feminist film theory, Japanese literature, as well as film analysis and criticism. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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Students will study concepts of women in literature that still influence modern thinking, juxtaposing portrayals of women by male and female authors throughout Western literature. Beginning with interpretations of Eve and her role in "Genesis," the class will move quickly from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, examining texts that reflect women's struggle to define themselves. Readings will be selected from a variety of genre and may include authors such as Christine de Pisan, Moliere, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Andre Gide, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Katherine Ann Porter, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ursula Hegi. Satisfies: Humanities/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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Shakespeare's reach--into our everyday language, our entertainment, even our sense of ourselves as "actors" and personalities--is immense. But Shakespeare is also a dramatist of ideas. Perhaps no other writer probes difficult ideas so beautifully, earthily, and humanely. Students will read, watch, and discuss seven plays: As You Like It, The Winter's Tale, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, and The Tempest.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on close readings of contemporary short stories, including the work of Faulkner, Joyce, Malamud, Oates, and Singer. Students are encouraged to write their own stories.
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3.00 Credits
Studies in Poetry offers students the opportunity to read, discuss, and write about poetry past and present. Connections between form and content as well as style and process are explored. Poems are presented in historical and biographical contexts, supplemented with statements of poetics, and considered in relation to movements in the visual arts. Class discussions are supplemented with workshops in which students conduct hands-on writing experiments to understand the readings and develop their own creative writing skills. Course content may vary from semester to semester. Satisfies: Humanities/Liberal Arts elective requirement.
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