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3.00 Credits
This course examines the politics and pleasures of cinema, both traditional and experimental, both the products of Hollywood and "foreign" cinema. Through lecture, viewings and dialogue, students examine film as a socio-political apparatus, and the ways in which it not merely reflects but constructs and at times limits our identities. Using a historical approach, the class focuses on representations of "otherness" in the mainstream Hollywood vernacular, specifically through the lens of race, gender and sexual identity. Specific attention is given not only to the coercive nature of these images, but also to the ways in which politics interacts with desire in cinema, ideology inevitably unravels and undermines itself, giving way to something resembling pleasure. Finally, the class examines instances of global cinema with excerpts from radical attempts to create new modes of cinema and new forms of seeing. . FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Against a background of black Americans' struggle for social justice and the many changes experienced in American social, political and cultural landscape spanning from the 1950s to the 1990s, this course traces a vivid history of African Americans on network television. The course fosters a critical reading of the early and blatant stereotypes of the postwar era to the more subtle images of black folk witnessed throughout the 1990s. With a critical eye on the issue of race and its role in shaping audience perceptions and attitudes, students also examine a diverse set of weekly series, TV movies, and miniseries including an array of television characters and controversial black images including Kingfish & Sapphire to Julia, Dr. Huxtable and television host, Oprah. Class meetings consist of readings, short lectures, media presentations and a guest panel of television artists. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores fundamental ethical theories and applies them to an understanding of professional ethics in counseling. A variety of Western views are addressed including deontological, utilitarian, virtue ethics, and egoistic theories. The class includes several cross-cultural theories such as Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Buddhist. Students scrutinize basic ethical dilemmas encountered in the work of being a psychologist, as well as engaging in the debate about what is moral, how we make choices about right and wrong, and the responsibilities counselors shoulder in giving advice and in their influence over another person's life. SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the social, economic, and political contexts of the contemporary practice of psychology. Approaching the subject from a variety of disciplinary perspectives raises substantive questions concerning the role of psychologists in the politics of psychology. This course intends to broaden the horizons of understanding of the discipline's history, present day social practices, and future potential. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary humanities course explores a diverse array of alternative religious movements in the United States from 1950 to the present. Examples of groups that may be considered include: Baha'i, Vedanta Society, Unification Church, Eckankar, Scientology, Branch Davidians, Transcendental Meditation, and Self-realization Fellowship. These groups are placed in their historical and sociological contexts, and the variety of impulses that conditioned the rise of these movements is examined. Each group is also examined critically in terms of its major philosophical/religious tenets. The issue of the future of alternative religious movements is examined as well. Representatives of selected groups are invited to class sessions, and some visits to selected groups are arranged. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Using the novel as our catalyst students critically consider the question of a purposeful life. The novel's unique relation to modernity offers an opportunity to investigate provocative examples of the individual's relation to structures of power, the possibilities of resistance, and the potential for love. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
What is Islam Who are Muslims Where do Muslims live How do we see Muslims in the West Some of these questions will frame the investigation of Islamic Diversity. Students analyze the affects of European colonialism on Muslim countries, and how memory functions in Islamic narratives and Literature. While focused on what people in the West call the "religion" of Islam, the class ranges far beyond the narrower definitions of culture to examine the ideas and manifestations of Islam in both literary and contemporary examples. The course is closely focused on the literary and sacred texts of Islam and on specific examples of the interpretations and applications of these textual bases of modern beliefs and practices. Students learn to deconstruct many of the stereotypes of Muslims today especially in the media and explore the diversity and cultures in the Muslims world. The texts have been chosen to provide an overview of Early Islamic history, its inception, post-colonial narratives, and Literature. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the concept of love in its myriad expressions, analyzing each within a context of its role in maintaining psychological wholeness and health. Students gain an appreciation for and understanding of the concept of love in its various meanings and expressions as well as its value to a healthy psyche (consciously and sub/unconsciously) to both antiquity as well as contemporary society. Love is recognized as the force of creation and the energy by which life continues to exert itself in its many manifestations. Students discern the myriad experiences of love and their expressions within a personal experience of self and among/between others. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores, through the medium of film, a variety of social, cultural, and political themes within American society from the 1920's to the present. The goal of the course is to investigate a series of topics reflected in cinema, which influence popular consciousness through representation of images, values, ideals and myths. The topics are approached through Hollywood films, documentaries, film clips, texts, supplemental readings, and lectures. From such perspectives students can examine vital motifs and themes in American life: power and the issue of empowerment; gender and race relations; sexuality and romance; war and peace; crime and violence; class divisions; decline of the family, and so forth. This course emphasizes the dialectic between the larger cinematic enterprise and the social reality of American life, especially throughout the post-World War II years. HUMANITIES & FINE ARTS DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
This one-day workshop investigates and excavates the social and psychic geography of AULA and its nearby environs, allowing students to come to a deeper relationship with and more poetic, more embodied understanding of precisely where we are. The French Situationists' concept of Psychogeography serves as theoretical framework. This model has been defined as "the study of the precise effects of geographical setting on the emotions and behaviors of individuals." One of the major premises of the Situationists was that postindustrial capitalism engendered a profound state of alienation from one's physical surroundings. The class examines the history of Situationism and its key theories, including concepts of psychogeography, drift, detournement and situations. Students also analyze their own perception of AULA's locatedness by undertaking a group wandering around the environs surrounding AULA, attempting to remap AULA, resituate it in its environs and reimagine it. Students record what they find using writing, drawing, tape recordings, photography, and above all, their imaginations. No grade equivalent allowed. HUMANITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS DOMAINS
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