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4.00 Credits
Students will examine the history of their own immediate family against the backdrop of their ethnic identity. To do this will require gathering genealogical information, visual images (family photographs, newspaper or magazine articles, possibly drawings), oral history (interviews with family members) which reflect the often contradictory forces of cultural preservation and assimilation. Personal investigations will be integrated with original research from local ethnic museums and institutions, the Chicago Historical Society and web-based archives. This research will provide context for your 'tribe's' experiences in Chicago, a city called 'the most ethnically aware in America.' For your final presentations, you will produce a documentary using Microsoft PowerPoint incorporating images, text, voice-over narration and interviews. Scanning services will be provided of existing flat work (photos, etc.) for inclusion in the PowerPoint (Please note that prior experience with PowerPoint is NOT a prerequisite for this course). A reflection paper will also be required describing your research methods and reflections on how you view yourself in the 'melting pot' or, in the new paradigm for a multicultural America, 'the tossed salad.' Competences: A1B, as, H1X, H3X, S3X Faculty: Michael Boruch
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4.00 Credits
Ever wondered why it is so hard to read poetry Ever thought about what marketing, medicine, plumbing, and poetry have in common Come to 'A Poem of One's Own' and find out. In this class we'll ponder the nature of creativity; we'll discuss and practice techniques for reading, analyzing, and enjoying a wide array of poetry; we'll think about how the poems we read connect to our life experience; and we'll write our own poems and revise and revise them again as we learn something about the process of poetic creation. The class will be a mix of discussion, workshop, audios, film and short lectures. The workshop will include small groups. Competencies: A1C, A2A, A1A, and as. Faculty: Ann Stanford
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the cultural heritage of a nation built on ethnic diversity. From its early European roots to a nation known as a leader in the contemporary art world, this course will examine significant works that have established themselves as representatives of the various periods in American art and culture. Selected works from the Colonial Period, Federal Period, Early Modernist and Postwar Modernist Periods will be introduced. Artists such as Samuel F.B. Morse, John Singleton Copley, John Singer Sargent and Jackson Pollock as well as architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Sullivan will be introduced. Competencies: A1A, ale, A1B, A1G. Faculty: Staff
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4.00 Credits
Since the invention of the camera, people have used it to document and preserve a moment in history, and to reveal the tragedies and delights of the world around us. Enthusiasm for documentaries has grown tremendously in recent years, achieving a relevancy and popularity that would have been hard to imagine not long ago. This course is intended as an introduction to the documentary form while exploring its relationship to society. Each class session consists of lecture, film screenings, and discussion. Works screened survey the history and range of documentary expression including the classics, as well as examples of challenging work by independent film and videomakers. Along with a consideration of their artistic style, structure and subject content, we will explore the social and political relevance of the films and attempt to assess their historical impact. This course challenges students to develop a critical eye, and to deepen their appreciation of the documentary vision. Competencies: A1X, as, H1X,H2X. Faculty: Gary Fox
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4.00 Credits
In this course, students will be inspired to write from within, from the depth of their core. The course will take students on a journey into a world where they will comprehend the incomprehensible, and hear the inaudible. Students will present their intellectual and emotional complexities through words. The result of the journey is a liberation from the limitations of time and space. Through introspective exercises, students will gain an aesthetic appreciation of life. The course will focus on the intensive writing and reading of plays. Competencies: A-2-A, A-5, H-3-F, S-4. Faculty: Ezzat Goushegir
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4.00 Credits
Through life's many lessons, we have learned how to make a decision between what is the right thing to do and what is simply wrong. We can differentiate between good and evil, truth and lies, etc. However, most of our dilemmas do not stem from deciding the correct path, when we are faced with right and wrong decisions. What most often puts us into a quandary is deciding between what is right and what is right. In other words when good people are faced with tough choices, on what basis do they make their decisions In an era of perceived ethical incertitude and moral skepticism, students will examine how decisions are made based on one of many ethical systems. Students will learn about various ethical systems, and ethicists, such as utilitarianism, deontology, Kant, Aristotle, and Gillian, just to name a few. By the end of the course students should be able to apply their knowledge of moral, ethical and social issues, and have a better understanding of how the tough decisions they make could impact others. Competencies: A4, A3C, A3X, FX. Faculty: Christine Hayda
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4.00 Credits
Freedom of expression vs. censorship. The artist as agent of change or entertainer of the privileged. Intellectual property vs. freeware. The Slow Food movement vs. Globalization. Teaching evolution or creationism. Public education vs. home schooling. These are just a few of the controversies that swirl around the arena of American culture. There are many groups working to preserve the widest access to the arts, culture and means of expression. This course has a definite point of view: which is that creativity is an essential component of a vital democracy. If you believe that creativity should be a national value and national priority - then this course will show you several ways to translate your concern into meaningful action. During this course students will be given an introduction to community organizing strategies and tactics and will be exposed to a number of cultural policy controversies and the key players who are working to make a difference in those areas. We will hear firsthand from cultural activists and learn how to be effective organizers for cultural democracy. This class will combine readings, class exploration and an out-of-class research project where students will pick a cultural cause that is meaningful to them and organize a small event or action around that issue. Competencies: A3X, as, H1I, H2X. Faculty: Thomas Tresser
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4.00 Credits
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. --St. Augustine. China is the world s fastest growing economy. While economic benefits of its rapid development are clear, what risks are involved in such rapid cultural change What happens when ancient traditional cultures are devastated by hasty development What is the human cost of such losses This course asks students to consider these questions as they encounter regions in China that recent economic development has not yet completely altered from their traditional state. Students will gain valuable understandings of religion, art, history and culture by engaging with present day China while unraveling its rich and complex past. Through visits to cultural centers and interactions with local people, we will experience ethnic minorities in the Kunming area of Yunnan Province, attend a major cultural festival in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, and end the journey with a train ride on the Trans Siberian Railway across the Great Wall into Beijing. Travel: June 2009. Expenses will be approximately $3,500 plus tuition and international course fee of $150. You can register for up to three competencies. Competencies: ale, A1H, H1B, H1E,H5, E1, E2, L10,11 (LEX). Faculty: Dr. Michael DeAngelis & Susan McGury
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4.00 Credits
In this course, students will read the fiction of Iranian women authors and watch films by women directors, who have confronted the censorship, by creating new ways of resistance. Students will respond to these works and research, discuss and reflect upon the social, political and gender context. They will be required to give an oral report on an author or a film of choice, or a written essay. Competences: ale, A5, H1X, H3B. Faculty: Ezzat Goushegir
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4.00 Credits
The art of seeing has to be learned. In this course, students will explore the possibilities of looking at things differently. By the new way of seeing, they will have a chance to root and challenge BODY, DREAMS, and DEATH in order to find freedom, joy and life. The new language will be born by listening to the mysterious language and music of our body and dreams. The course will focus our body and our desires, and journeying into the origin of words, in order to challenge the old for the new. Students will write many exercises, read works by playwrights such as Helene Cixous and Marguerite Duras, and compose short dramatic pieces of their own. Competences: A2A, as, H3F, S4. Faculty: Ezzat Goushegir
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