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American Literature can be divided into five major periods. Examining what was written during each time period and in what form provides a historical context of America and an idea of what it was like to live during each particular era. In this course, you will develop your English writing skills and explore various forms of "the story". We consider a collection of written works and movies, relevant to American culture, and carefully examine how different aspects of language - metaphor, word choice, tense- function to create successful narratives. Various genres will be read and discussed, including articles, poems, short stories, and essays.
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Web Authoring is a creative writing workshop that combines basic web-publishing technologies and New Media theory to direct the writing, publishing, and discussion of literature and art that is composed for the Internet. By exploring trends in net.art and learning the tools to publish our own work, students will discover the Internet as a medium for rethinking what it means to “write” and “read” in the digital age. Online spaces such as forums, social net-working sites, and even the code of the Web itself will be critically examined for literary value.
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This course will explore the creative work of a unique and radically diverse group of artists who gathered primarily around the cosmopolitan cities of New York and San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s. This group of bohemian intellectuals revolutionized art and introduced a new way of seeing America. Although this course will focus on the origins of the "Beat Movement" by examining the work of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and several others, a significant portion of the course will be devoted to examining the role of women, African Americans, and non-Europeans in order to see the tremendous role they played in defining the "beat aesthetic" plus the appalling lack of contemporary critical recognition of their contributions. This course will take a close look at the eclectic and exciting artistic products of the movement : auto-biography, novel, essay, film, poetry, jazz, painting, etc, in order to come to a more comprehensive and theoretical understanding of the "Beat Vision" and its influence on contemporary culture. As far as possible, the class will be run as a discussion. Students will respond to assigned readings and will write a short critical essay which is aimed at developing university-level writing skills which will increase critical thinking in all subject areas. Students will also be responsible for a literary biography on a specific author. A literary biography includes not only information on the life of the author, but is also concerned with the author's life as a writer and the significance of their work over time. Prerequisite: enthusiasm and an open imagination!
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This blended Blackboard course on the Short Story will introduce you to a selection of works by important writers of this genre. We will explore the richness and diversity of short fiction through in-depth reading, discussion, and writing about these texts. Close reading and discussion should give you an understanding and appreciation of the short story in general, and of our writers' countries and histories in particular. Our focus will be on authorial strategies and themes explored. Artistic and political movements will be introduced as they impact on the works. Furthermore, you will learn the appropriate terminology as tools for textual and critical analysis. Finally, through this experience you can develop or refine the capacity for self-expression and communication.
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This course offers the analysis of literature and of genre types derived from a variety of literary works from different countries, all but one written in the second half of the 20th century. Focus is on terminology, genre, and authorial strategies. Through close reading, you will gain an understanding and appreciation of works of fiction in general, and of our writers' countries and histories in particular. Artistic and political movements will be presented as they impact on the works. Furthermore, you learn the appropriate vocabulary as tools for textual and critical analysis.
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Do you want to experience significant gains in your speed, strength and authority as a writer? Whether you’re writing an email to your teacher or a letter to your senator, it is crucial to communicate your ideas in a clear, comprehensible, and audience-friendly manner. After mastering the editing principles detailed in this class, you will be able to move with confidence and ease onto more intensive writing courses.
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Here's a challenge: what if writing could be more than just throwing words on a page?
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You and 2 teammates will build and program a stepping motor-driven, tank-steered rover. Each teammate will specialize in a certain skill necessary for the success of the team’s design. To begin with, the programmer on your team will have available a generic rover that can be programmed to navigate around obstacles and knock over a goal. Programming will be in embedded C. The mechanical specialist will assemble with Allen wrenches a chassis and drive train, using extruded aluminum rail. The electrical specialist will build a power unit and hook up stepping motor drivers to an on-board computer. The rovers will have lever switches to detect the walls of the track and phototransistors to sense bright lights over the goal blocks. Your programmer will debug code on the team's custom-made machine, to implement sensory feedback. By the end of the week your team's rover will compete with other rovers in short contests to see who knocks over their goal first. On the Saturday morning after the last day of class each team will demonstrate their rover and talk about its design to an assembled audience of parents.
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When we measure tiny things like germs and water molecules, what unit do we use? Inches? Meters? No, these are far too big for measuring tiny things. One of the most appropriate units used is the nanometer. How big is a nanometer? Do you wonder how scientists work with matter that is only 1/100,000 the width of a human hair? Have you ever heard of a nano-robot that is much smaller than blood vessels, can enter the body and be used to treat cancers and heart disease? Can you imagine that scientists are able to build an elevator to the moon using carbon tubes which are a million times smaller than a pencil? This course in nanotechnology will begin to address some of these questions.
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The lab you will work in has two types of robots: five fixed-arm, 6-motor, 4-joint, Rhino XR-3s, and stepper-motor driven mobile rovers that you help design and build for use in a competition.
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