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4.00 Credits
In this course, students will examine works of literature generated by the African American community. Students will analyze and write about literature using critical techniques requiring them to discern themes and ideas from various works of African American literature. Furthermore, learners will examine characters against the backdrop of community expectation and societal reality, particularly as it relates to the African-American experience. The four required works, notable for their focus on urban life, are as follows: Black Boy by Richard Wright; A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks; Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley; and Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall (optional). Each work examines different social and historical issues, including the struggle and aspirations of African-Americans in a Southside Chicago community in the 1950's, major historical movements in African-American life, Civil Rights, migration, marginalization and the roles of American norms in African American culture. Competences: A1X, A2X, as, H1X. Faculty: Tacuma Roeback
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4.00 Credits
This class will concentrate on the continued development of the skills necessary to create a drawn composition. Color will be introduced to complement the study of line, space and form. Media will include ink, charcoal, pastel and various types of pencil, including color. Drawing will focus on the forms of nature, especially in plant and landscape scenes, and will allow students to develop rendering skills as well as their own unique means of expression. The learning experiences will include a day trip to the Botanic Gardens, and an intensive drawing seminar of one weekend on location. This time will allow students to use the ready access and solid tranquility of nature as their studio. The weekend will include one night and two days. Some past drawing experience is required: contact the instructor prior to registration via email at mlanterm@condor.depaul.edu or by phone at 773/ 929-7404. When this is a December Term class, you can register for up to 2 competencies. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, AL-3, AL-9 and AL-10. BA-1999 Competencies: A-2-A, A-1-C, E-1, E-2. Faculty: Margaret Lanterman
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4.00 Credits
An examination of personal identity and how it is imbedded in narrative. The course examines novels and non-fiction from a variety of sources to illustrate the formation of political identity. Students write about personal identity by using stories from one s own experience, stories derived from oral history, or stories transmitted from people with whom one has communicated. Students will use one or more of the various forms - short stories, journal, diaries, - to reconstruct stories of personal identity that constitute part of a larger narrative about how citizens understand and communicate the complexities of emotion and ideas connected to politics and political experiences in one s life. Competences: A2A, A3G, H1E, H3I, FX. Faculty: James Brask
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4.00 Credits
In this course students will read novels and other literary selections as well as critique films to analyze and interpret issues found in literature and culture such as: intolerance, injustice, racism, psychological and intellectual growth and, life's journey (coming of age). In so doing, students will learn the structure and concepts of the academic research paper. For the research paper, students will select a topic that is personally or professionally relevant. This course assumes a basic understanding of grammar and the structure of academic papers. Because students will practice writing and revising academic papers, this course can serve as a gateway to other SNL courses. Competences: H3A, H3B, H3X, A1C, A1X. Faculty: Peggy St. John
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4.00 Credits
This class will prepare students who are entering or enhance the skills of those already in the complicated and confusing world of corporate America. The course will look at some of the most historical ethical issues in the world of business (e.g. WorldCom, Enron) and provide students with the tools they will need to become an ethical and successful manager or executive. Competences: A3C, A4, H2A, H4, FX. Faculty: Michael Chachula
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4.00 Credits
The United States is the largest incarcerator in the world. Is this because we have more crime More criminals In this course we will explore questions about the prison industrial complex and the justice system through the words of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated writers. We will be looking at poetry, short stories, essays, and memoirs. Employing a mix of discussion, guest speakers, film, class team reports, and close readings of the literary texts, this course will take us on an imaginative journey into a world most of us have few reasons to understand. We will explore questions about the prison industrial complex and the justice system through the words of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated writers. Competences: A1A, aid, H5. Faculty: Ann Stanford
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4.00 Credits
Everyday we use stories to communicate. This course provides students with an overview of the art and practice of storytelling. Throughout the learning experience, students are encouraged to nurture their voices as writers and storytellers. Students will create and adapt tales focusing on both personal experience and traditional folklore. Storytelling is an oral art form. Students will learn by actively participating in storytelling and critique of story performance. The creative experience in this course will enable students to further their skills in: Oral presentation, story construction, performance, artistic critique and analysis. Students will develop and perform stories from at least three distinct areas, including personal experience, folklore, and history. This class will enhance the work of business professionals, teachers, artists and anyone who is interested in how stories communicate ideas. Competencies: BA-1999, A1X, A2X, as, H3E. Faculty: Emily Hooper Lansana
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4.00 Credits
The collapse of Enron, the billion-dollar corporate giant, was more than a scandal; it was a modern morality play that brought into sharp relief the competing ethical systems driving free market capitalism in America. This course is an introduction to moral philosohpy which will cover the major schools of thought in the field of social ethics from Plato and Aristotle to the present. We will focus particularly on the challenge of Nietzche's master vs.slave morality to the Protestant work ethic as it has played out in American business. Using the award-winning film by Peter Coyote, Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room, each student will be asked to reflect on the ethical assumptions being brought to the drama and these will then be traced back to their historical roots and examined. In this manner, we will be able to discern our inherited belief systems, and their contradictions, which have fueled the moral crisis and corporate eruptions of the last decade. Competences: H2X, A3X, A4, FX. Faculty: Dr. Rebecca Armstrong
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4.00 Credits
More than ever we hear that creativity and innovation are essential to save the U.S. economy, to adapt to a greater speed of change, to advance our own careers. In the 21st century we indeed need to raise a different IQ: Our Innovation Quotient. In this course we ll do just that by drawing water from three wells:1.Psychological research on individual and collaborative creativity, 2.Organizational innovation case studies and practices, 3.Experiential challenges and personal creative development. Students will explore three key creativity competencies fluency, flexibility and originality and gain insight into the mindset and practice of innovation required to take on the challenges and uncertainties facing us right now, both personally and professionally. Competences: H3X, L7, as, FX
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4.00 Credits
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Jane Austen must have known something about universal truths. Her novel, Pride and Prejudice, which begins with the sentence quoted above, was first published in 1813. Still in print today, it has also been made into at least eleven movies, four of which were released since 2000, including a Mormon and a Bollywood version. In this class, we will read the novel in the context of the gender and class norms at the time Austen wrote her book and then consider how Austen's exploration of universal truths is reinterpreted in more contemporary film versions of this novel. In exploring Austen's creation and the many reinterpretations of her work, we will use both analytic and creative writing assignments as well as class discussion to examine how context informs creativity and how creativity informs analysis. You most definitely do not need to be a creative writer to take this class. Competencies: aid, A1E, A1X, A5. Faculty: Staff
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