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4.00 Credits
Making poems will be a creative writing offering that teaches metrics and verse forms, poetry the old-fashioned way. Topics will include metric feet, rhyme, lines, and verse forms. For example, students will learn about the iambic foot, write some iambic lines of various lengths, and finally use the iambic line to write a sonnet. Rap poetry with its structured rhythms and elaborate rhyming is another possibility. This "formalist" approach promotes a kind of creativity that is strongly infused with craft and discipline in contrast to the "spoken word" or confessional approaches to making poems. This class involves making audio recordings of your poems; students will be required to purchase a headset/microphone and download and install free software. Competences: A1C, A2A, as. Faculty: Tom Sullivan
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4.00 Credits
Interested in learning to write about film The Western is a particularly creative and powerful medium for exploring dynamic social and cultural issues. It is particularly open to examining the nature of creative expression, social and historical contexts, and power relations among different groups. The Western provides wonderful and exciting topics for learning about the arts of analyzing and writing about film. We are going to saddle up and ride out, approaching the Western from viewpoints of how one can write about film, exploring various rich issues of creativity, society, history and power. Possible examples of films are High Noon (1952), Shane (1953), Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), Valdez is Coming (1971), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1985), Unforgiven (1992). BA-1999 Competencies: as, H4. Faculty: J. Warren Scheideman
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4.00 Credits
In this team-taught course, we will examine masterpieces of world literature, including principal works from selected literary periods and traditions. The first half of the course meets at Truman College and the second half at the Loop Campus and lasts a total of approximately 15 weeks. You may register for up to three competencies for this course. BA-1999 Competencies: A1B, A1C, aid, A1E, A2X, A3G. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL3, ALC, ALF, ALH, ALI, ALR.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar is devoted to the analysis of the great dialogues written by Socrates' famous student, Plato. In these works lie many of the keys to understanding the western world. They also illuminate much about ancient Greek culture. An appreciation for these great dialogues and their cultural significance is an essential part of higher education. The next time someone mentions Plato's Cave, you'll be in-the-know! Competencies: H1E, H3I, ale, A3G, A4, L7. Faculty: Corinne Benedetto
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4.00 Credits
Designed to help you explore the art of writing stories, either stories that are "made-up" or stories based on lived experience. You will be required to complete six fiction-writing exercises, and either one short story, one autobiographical story, or one story based on an oral history collected by the you. In addition, you write a final essay in which you reflect on your learning and experience in the course. Competencies: A1C, A2A, as, H1X, H3B. Faculty: Staff
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4.00 Credits
Drama is an ideal vehicle for portraying conflict. And the courtroom is often the place where such conflicts come to a head. In this course, we will read various courtroom and law-related contemporary American plays and use them as a lens for exploring issues of law, justice, fairness and the distribution of power in American society (H4).We will also explore how the playwright s creative process makes these works exciting theatrical pieces and analyze how the various design elements (lights, set, costumes, music) bring each work to life (as). Students who register for A2B will perform scenes and monologues from these plays. The class will attend various live theatrical performances in the Chicago area. Plays under consideration include: Twelve Angry Men, A Raisin in the Sun, The Laramie Project, The Execution of Justice, Permanent Collection, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Twilight, Los Angeles: 1992. Competences: H4, as, A2B, FX. Faculty: Fred Wellisch
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4.00 Credits
Achieving fulfillment during life's transitions can be a daunting task. This course is intended to help students understand, address and take advantage of planned and unplanned career and lifestyle changes and opportunities. Special attention is given to methods for achieving personal fulfillment goals. Students examine the views of philosophers, spiritual leaders, and artists, both historical and contemporary, including Blaise Lao-tzu, Cicero, Thoreau, Emerson, Shaw, Lewis, Peck, Angelou, Fulghum, Dychtwald, Sher, and Dyer. Students create their own mission statement for work and life. A primary objective of the course is to expose students to resources that can be used in their own self-discovery process. Multi-media activities include small and large group discussions and presentations, research, and report writing, video and audiotapes. Students are encouraged to use the Internet in their research. Competencies: A-1-D, A-3-D, F-X, L-7.
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4.00 Credits
Every significant social issue since the invention of photography has been documented. Social thought and political intention, especially in the 20th century, exists in visual form. Sometimes the record-making is intentional while, at other times, it is inadvertent. Photographs crafted through the filter of intention offer the viewer the ability to better understand the physical form of earlier ideas and eras thus offering everyone, at any time, an entrance to historically substantive social issues. Each class session will be devoted to a social issue that can be photographed. Students will photographically engage these themes using their own polaroid cameras. *SNL course, Artistic Issues in Instant Image Photography, is a pre-requisite for this course. Pre-1999 Competencies: PW-O, AL-F, AL-9 & AL10, HC-I, HC-9 & HC-10. BA-1999 Competencies: S-3-E, A-2-X, E-1, E-2, H-3-B.
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4.00 Credits
This class will examine the futures industry in Chicago from mid-19th century to the present. We will examine how the fledgling city provided fertile soil for the growth of futures trading and continues to support trading today. Commodity futures trading has a long history throughout the civilized world, with products from rice to wheat to tulips having been "forward priced" for centuries; however, it wasn't until the middle of the 19th century that futures or derivatives trading as we know it begin in Chicago. We will look at contemporary news accounts and literary portrayals of the marketplaces. In particular, we will read works by Frank Norris, an early critic of the industry and of late 19th century capitalism in general. The class will be organized around a schedule of lecture, discussion, and small group work. A series of readings will be assigned each week, and these will be discussed in detail. We will also see a few short films and have visits by guest speakers. Competences: ale, A4, H1C, FX.
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4.00 Credits
Student will look at what constitutes "art", then look at how original art could be created using technological tools, such as Microsoft Paint, Pixel-based art, such as Microsoft Graphics in PowerPoint; Digital Photography and PhotoShop; digital short-movies, and Digital Animation using Freeware GIF Animation software. The course will focus on electronic visual art, but will also include some general information on how to incorporate audio art forms. Competences: A2B, A2D, A2X, FX. Faculty: Ruth Gannon-Cook
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