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4.00 Credits
The content of this course will revolve around the topics of love, death, and magic in Hispanic literature. Students with the ability to read and speak Spanish will be given the option to read and discuss the selections in that language, while those who speak English will read and discuss the selections in English. Readings from such authors as Sor Juana, Neruda, Marquez, and others will be put in a historical and cultural context. References to other art forms will enrich the discussions. Included in this course will be field trips to the Mexican Fine Arts Museum and the Newberry Library as well as to appropriate concerts. This class meets the first part of the quarter at Truman College and then at the Loop campus. You may register for up to three competencies. Competencies: A1A, A1C, as, H1A, A3E Faculty: Staff
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4.00 Credits
Are politics ever just Should they be What is justice Throughout the ages, philosophers and statesmen have provided different answers to these fundamental questions. This course will explore the role of justice in politics, using as a guide the best known works of two great thinkers in the tradition of political philosophy. Plato's Republic and Machiavelli's The Prince appear to offer two very different answers to the questions of justice, and politics. By exploring their works, students will grapple with these questions, probe Plato's and Machiavelli's differing approaches to the role of justice in politics, explore their own conceptions of these critical issues and wrestle with the role of justice in current political events. Students will also gain an introduction to the tradition of western political philosophy as reflected by two of its most influential thinkers. Competencies: A-3-F, A-4, H-3-A, F-X. Faculty: Robert E. Shapiro
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4.00 Credits
Humans have always had an impulse to worship a God (or Gods). Humans have always been irresistibly drawn to sexual self-expression. Pervasive throughout history is this fascinating paradox: the God whom we worship condemns the sex we crave. Guilt is our link between the sacred and the profane. The triangulation of religion, sexual desire, and guilt has long been the concern of artists and writers. This course examines this phenomenon in such literary masterpieces as Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Tony Kushner's Angels in America (Parts 1 and 2), and William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. We will also study poetry, literary criticism, and relevant excerpts from sociological, theological, and psychological texts. In addition to participating in class discussions and presentations, students will be required to submit a final paper and a ten-entry journal. BA-1999 Competencies: aid, A1E, A3G, A5, H3X. . Faculty: Peter Forster
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of Creation Spirituality, a movement that draws on ancient spiritual traditions and contemporary science to awaken authentic mysticism, revitalize Christianity and Western culture, and promote social and ecological justice. Creation Spirituality teaches that God permeates all things and that humanity is an original blessing to the earth. In this paradigm, Christ is God's liberating and reconciling energy, transforming individuals and society's structures into conduits of compassion. As we embody God's love, we become the Creation that God intends. Topics to be explored include differences with fall-redemption attitudes, relationships to post-modern world views, and applying insights to personal life and work dynamics. BA-1999 Competencies: A3B, A3X, as, H4, FX. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL2, ALF, HCF, WW. Faculty: Richard Rossiter
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4.00 Credits
This course will carry students through a series of creative writing experiments aimed at stimulating their imaginations and discovering their literate voices. Students will be exposed to a variety of techniques for story writing, poetry, and avant garde experiments. The course will combine in-class group writing and critical sessions, and individual consultation with the instructor for personal development. Students will also learn how to find outlets for their completed creative work. Competencies: A-1-C, A-2-A, A-2-X, A-5. Faculty: R. Craig Sautter
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4.00 Credits
A series of dovetailing activities and exercises expose students to an increasingly broadened range of experience with the foundational elements of the writing process. Thus students arrive at an understanding of the creative process in the art of writing through their own writing experiences, as well as through reading and discussion of the writings of others. The context for writing understood as an art will be an interdisciplinary one that will also involve drawing. The students' explorations will take advantage of an arena of peers all sharing the process of personal discovery, and reading and discussing their own work as well as the works of literature together. Students produce a finished writing product of their own in an artistic form which meets the criteria of "art" explored by the class, present the work to the class, and explain their process. They will also produce a written evaluation of one or more writings of their choice in terms of this same criteria. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-4, AL-F BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-X, A-2-A, A-3-D. Faculty: Ann Schultz
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4.00 Credits
The U.S. incarcerates well over 2 million people. Proportionally, no other democratic country in the world comes close to this level. Locked away, out of sight and hearing from most of us, this population of women and men is represented by the media in lurid, predatory images. The writing that has emerged from prisoners paints an altogether different picture, however. In this class, we will study several literary texts--short stories, essays, poems--written by women and men who have been or are currently incarcerated. The class will be offered for one competence only and will meet the first five weeks of the quarter. BA-1999 Competencies offered: A5, H4, ale. Faculty: Ann Folwell Stanford.
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4.00 Credits
This course is about exploration, about discovery, about meaning. Together we will explore remarkable stories of world literature, and together we will discover remarkable worlds that open our lives with meaning. By means of consummate storytelling and remarkable language, respected masters and new and emerging writers, chosen for their literary excellence, will transport us to South America and to the Caribbean - - to North America; Europe; and Russia - - to the African Diaspora to the South Pacific - - to Mexico, Central America and to the Middle East - - to Mississippi and to Harlem - - to South Asia and to East Asia. The course will also include short stories from acclaimed Native American writer, Sherman Alexie, who also wrote the screenplay for the academy award-winning movie, Smoke Signals. This course's chosen classic and contemporary masterpieces of short fiction will reflect thematic, aesthetic, and cultural variety: different styles, points of view, and rich diversity of cultural, historical, and gender perspectives. The stories draw us in by powerful images garnered not only from our own backyard, but from the many yards across the globe. Competencies: L7, A1X, as, H3X, FX. Faculty: Susan F. Field
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to assist learners in investigating the perceptions, understandings and feelings about their lives and the contexts in which they are lived. It will help to reveal connections to the past and conditions shaping the future with special emphasis on non-traditional ways of knowing and learning. Students will choose persons from the past or present and examine how a family and/or cultural tradition is passed on through time, including forces shaping its future form. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-D, HC-2, AL-F, WW. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-B, H-3-C, H-1-F, L-7, F-X.
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4.00 Credits
This class will delve into ritual as an experiential, expressive performance of self, culture, spirituality, and ethics. We will be reading, viewing and discussing various examples of ritual forms, both religious and secular, Euro-American and non-Western, and looking at works about ritual performance by anthropologists and performance theorists like Ronald Grimes, Richard Schechner, and Victor Turner. We will also be experimenting with the role of ritual in our daily lives, creating our own rituals and ritual performances. This process will highlight what it means to endow everyday objects and events with sacred significance, and how such an expression of self establishes an essential relationship with community. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-H, A-2-A, A-5, H-1-E, H-3-I. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, ALE, HC-1, HC-W. Instructor: Jason Winslade.
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