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4.00 Credits
This class delves deeply into the history of Hollywood comedy as well as theories of comedy, and is divided into two parts. Part one explores theories of comedy, both formal/aesthetic (the elements of artistic form) and socio-cultural (philosophical and psycho-social theories of comedy). The second part of the course explores historical developments in Hollywood comedy in terms of the development of artistic form (performance, verbal and visual gags, narrative structure, visual style), the film industry, and questions of socio-historical impact. Students can also opt to learn how to write a comedic screenplay. Films and artists to be discussed include the Marx Brothers, Mae West, Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Seven Year Itch, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, The Philadelphia Story, Hairspray, and There s Something About Mary. Competences: A1I, A3G, H2G, A2A. Faculty: Ken Feil
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4.00 Credits
Ben LeShahn says, "Everyone of us, even if we have nothing else . . . has this one thing: a wholly separate and individual self with individual dreams and passions, its unique landscape, unmapped and unexplored . . . peopled with shapes and forms unknown to others. And that private unknown self, where it has been realized well, has been of increasing value and wonder to others." This class helps students design practices to create space in their busy lives through leisure, spirituality, and creativity. It helps the adult growth and development that occurs as people change throughout adulthood. This class makes time to think in order to experience how our outer and inner worlds interact to help us make meaning for our lives. Students will use a combination of reading, practices, small group work, guided imagery, journaling, and reflection papers to articulate and demonstrate understanding of the competences. Competences: A3B, A3D, as, H3C. Faculty: Mary Jane Dix & Veronica Buckley
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4.00 Credits
Students will be encouraged to understand their own relationship to myths, signs and symbols and to see how these have shaped their lives in the past and how they can be sources of empowerment for the future. Topics will include: archetypes and private symbols; language as symbolic action; myths of creation and fall; the hero's quest; myths of death and resurrection; myths and the process of individuation, that is, the integration of the self. Students will have assigned readings, keep a journal, and create a final project. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-5. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-D, A-2-A. Faculty: Elizabeth-Anne Stewart
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4.00 Credits
This course will provide participants the opportunity to experience and explore journal writing as a creative activity that contributes to the quality of one's life. While the primary model of expression for most journals is writing, participants will be encouraged to experiment with sketches and other media. Participants will choose topics and readings consistent with their registered competencies. Key approaches to understanding adult growth and development will provide a framework for much of the writing done in the course. Participant journals will be laboratories for examining the creative process, the contribution of leisure to quality of life, and various theories of adult development. Through keeping a personal journal intensively through the course, participants will gain insights into their own creative processes and their understanding of leisure as they compose their individual lives. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-2, AL-4, AL-D. BA-1999 Competencies: H-3-C, A-2-A, A-3-D. Faculty: Phyllis A. Walden
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4.00 Credits
The purpose of the class is to connect the making of art with the study of art history, so that an understanding of the elements, concepts and vocabulary of art connect directly to the student's experience as he or she learns to draw. Students will learn basic skills of drawing and become familiar with a range of drawing media. They will gain an experiential understanding of the elements of line, form, value, color, and composition. Students will also examine drawings and paintings of artists working in France between 1800 and 1930, covering the art movements of Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism, and Fauvism. Each student will choose two artists to research, and will write a paper comparing biographical and historical issues of those artists' work. Pre-'99 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-3, AL-C. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-A, A-2-A, A-1-C, A-1-D. Faculty: Patricia Pelletier
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4.00 Credits
The well known phrase "women have always worked" represents a statement women make about their experience, but also represents a reaction to varying social perceptions about its quantity, value and content. In this course we will explore women's diverse experiences of working. We will consider the role of economic, legal and social forces that shape women's work experiences, including the varying perceptions held by women, men and social institutions. Readings in social science and women's studies literature, sharing personal experiences of work, and service learning hours with a community based organization will provide a framework for our investigation. The learning through each of these will be integrated and further analyzed to expand our understanding of the impact of work on women's lives. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-N, HC-G, HC-Q, HC-R, WW. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-A, H-2-F, H-2-H, H-4, F-X. Faculty: Marjorie Altergott
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4.00 Credits
The aesthetic, cultural, intellectual, historical, and technical issues that animate contemporary photography will be explored through the use of Polaroid pictures created by class members using their own Polaroid cameras. Photographic ideas will be presented, discussed, and addressed in classroom critiques of the images created. Personal artistic visions will be explored, encouraged and revealed. Students will learn a language for discussing these pictures and develop the necessary personal and intellectual distance from their own artistic creations in order to critically analyze them. Competencies: A-1-C, A-1-H, A-2-A, A-5. Faculty: Alan B. Cohen.
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4.00 Credits
Most people who visit the art museum gravitate to those galleries where the art is familiar and in some ways comfortable, like the Impressionists or the Renaissance. Yet, the art museum can be a repository for so much more, if only we knew where to look and what to look for. This course is designed to introduce students to the art and cultures of societies outside of western civilization using the resources of such institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum and others. Students will be introduced to objects from China, Japan, Africa, India and the Middle East, as well as Native America. In a world which continues to grow increasingly smaller because of technology, one of the best ways to understand it people is to study their art and their culture. Student will demonstrate competence through reading and writing assignments and are required to attend field trips. BA-1999 Competencies: A1B, A1C, A1G, as. Pre-1999 Competencies: ALI, AL3, ALK, ALF. Faculty: Phyllis Kozlowski
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4.00 Credits
The course of true love never did run smooth, laments a frustrated lover in A Midsummer Night's Dream. His remark may rank as literary history's all-time understatement. During a survey of famous literature about love, romance, sexual politics, and the struggle for power between men and women, students will be invited to reflect on some of our traditional assumptions concerning masculinity, femininity, and sexual roles. Pre-'99 Competencies: HC-C, AL-C, AL-H. BA'99 Competencies: A-1-E, H-3-B, A-1-D. Faculty: David Simpson
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4.00 Credits
The artist stands between the world in which she/he lives and the product of his/her work - while using a particular medium to grasp and communicate an image and vision of that world. This course will survey and compare seminal ideas and trends that have taken place in music and the visual arts during the past forty years. Emphasis will be on how these two art forms responded to the same set of social circumstances and how artists in different media realized bith parallel and divergent concerns. Some of the artists that will be compared and John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg, Earle Brown and Alexander Calder, and Philip Glass and Donald Judd. Wherever possible illustrations will be drawn from film, literature, dance, and te other arts. Students will develop the tools and confidence to compare works in different media in order to gain insights into how artists, through similar formal concerns, arrive at results which are appropriate to their media. The course will try to develop the student's awareness of artist's social concerns primarily through their own perceptions and inferences and, secondarily, through reading artists' statements and writings.
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