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1.00 - 15.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This freshman seminar is an exploration of the genre of Autobiography, from St. Augustine to the present, and serves as an introduction to critical issues of narrative and how it is deployed within different autobiographical texts. Emphasis on writing clear prose and development of literary analytical skills is also a primary component of this course. Open to first year students only, any and all others will be removed.
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1.00 Credits
A 7-week seminar course to introduce freshmen prospective biologists to the excitement of research at Rice and the Medical Center and to provide context with which to think about facts presented in biosciences textbooks. Small groups will meet weekly with a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher to explore a published research article by a local lab, gaining background information about the subject and exposure to the research techniques. In the final session, the group will tour the lab that produced the featured article. Additional tours and activities TBA. All first-year non-transfer students are eligible to enroll in BIOC 115/FSEM 115 regardless of AP credit. This course meets in the second half of the semester and features research in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Course organizers: Dereth Phillips and Bonnie Bartel.
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1.00 Credits
A 5-week seminar course to introduce freshmen prospective biologists to the excitement of research at Rice and the Medical Center and to provide context with which to think about facts presented in biosciences textbooks. Small groups will meet weekly with a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher to explore a published research article by a local lab, gaining background information about the subject and exposure to the research techniques. In the final session, the group will tour the lab that produced the featured article. Additional tours and activities TBA. All first-year, non-transfer students are eligible to enroll in EBIO 116/FSEM 116 (formerly BIOS 116) regardless of AP credit. This course meets in the first half of the semester and features research in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology. Course organizers: Strassmann, Phillips.
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3.00 Credits
The beginnings of modernity have to be seen in the context of the sociopolitical and intellectual upheavals at the end of the 19th century. Whereas extreme reactionism eventually led to fascism, progressive literature advocated artistic experimentation as manifested in a discourse of alienation (expressionism, dada, Kafka). Holocaust literature reflects the ultimate clash between progressiveness and reactionism. The primary readings will be from Wedekind, Trakl, Kaiser, Kafka, Hesse, Remarque, Brecht, Celan, Werfel. Taught in English. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course.
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3.00 Credits
The course presents an overview of German history via contemporary German feature films from World War I, through the Weimar and Nazi periods, the postwar years as a Divided Germany into East and West and finally a look at the new generation in Post-unification Germany. Taught in English. All films are subtitled in English. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will investigate the issues surrounding language endangerment, loss and revitalization. Using a seminar format, we will explore topics that include linguistic diversity, the implications of language loss, how researchers approach language documentation and description and look at revitalization efforts. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course.
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3.00 Credits
Readings of intimate, first person fictions (short stories, novels) by modern Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and other, lesser known authors from the Southern Cone, Colombia, and Mexico. Critical approaches will include anthropological, feminist, and post-modern readings. Close reading, interpretation and appreciation of (fictional) autobiography - in English translation - will be the focus of class discussion, presentations and critical essays. Taught in English. Open to first-year students only, any others will be removed.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Latin American Art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the eras of independence and revolution. We will examine such topics as art and nationalist discourse; legitimation/appropriation of the past; gender; art, dictatorship and revolution; surrealism; indigenism and social realism; the politics of muralism; plus modernism and alternative modernisms. Taught in English Open to first year students only, any and all others will be removed.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar will focus on three dimensions of Thomas Jefferson's life and legacy: first, what he said and did in the American Revolution; second, how he has been understood by historians; and third, how his words, ideas, and actions have been used by successive generations of Americans. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course.
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