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This course explores, through literature and film, a variety of the emotional and psychological experiences of women. Insights from works on the psychology of women by Jean Baker Miller and Phylis Chesler are brought to discussion of short novels, short stories, and films. Through literature and films students examine the relationship between patriarchal culture and differing psychological definitions of women and men's emotional life. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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This course is an examination of reading poetry, with emphasis on how poets use the imagination to renovate the world, lessen its violence, and make it habitable. Students explore the evolving roles of poetry and the poet in the United States. Discussions focus on the transformative power of poetry as students consider poems about war, urban violence, madness, race and ethnicity, gender, the AIDS epidemic, the body, and the soul. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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How did Robert Frost model even some of his simplest poems after Greek and Roman Poetry Why did William Carlos Williams think that literally and figuratively, "so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow " What makes "The ReWheelbarrow" a poem in the first place Why are some twentieth century and contemporary poems so hard to understand This course offers an historical overview of American poetry and poets from the Puritans, Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson through the moderns, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens; the late moderns, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, and Sylvia Plath, in addition to the rich mixture of genres and voices that make up the last forty years or so of our history. Students will also learn interpretative strategies, vocabulary, terminology and history to equip them for making sense of American poetry. The course also traces the thematic cross currents that typically run through American poetry: the world of work; Mysticism, Neo-Paganism, Buddhism and Christianity; Gay and Lesbian voices; immigration and cultural identity, feminist concerns; the uses of art, philosophy and theory; how American poets have responded to war, etc. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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Traditionally there has been an assumption that "literature" and "theory" are two different, perhaps even irreconcilable modes of writing. The goal of this course is to examine, test and question this distinction, and to expose students to the pleasures of theory. Students read 19th century classic literary texts from the canon, alongside radical theoretical interpretations that seek to disrupt the notion of a stable or true meaning. The focus is on deconstruction, feminist, psychoanalytic, queer and multicultural theories, as well as theoretical writings that blur the lines between creative and theoretical forms. Students are asked to apply the theoretical insights they have gained to a work of literature. Particular attention is paid to the notion of theory as a useful tool that can bring the diverse experience and historical struggle that has been hidden within literature to the surface. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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This workshop explores the gender conditioning role models presented through fairy tale heroes and heroines. Students become aware of both overt and subliminal gender-based messages inherent in fairytales and expressed through the characters' language, action, and behavior. Students discover how this process impacts adult lives and the ability to engage in meaningful relationships. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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This workshop explores, through literature, the psychology of the aging and how people experience growing old in a culture focused on youth, fearful of the elderly, and in denial of the inevitable aging process inherent in each of us. Through the lens of poetry and literature from several cultures, students explore the emotional responses of the aging to cultures that render them worthless and invisible and that have created rigid stereotypical notions of what it is like to grow old. Students learn to envision new ways for society and individuals to feel and think about the aging. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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The Iliad is one of the most important works of Western Literature. Although this epic poem is timeless, sometimes people find Homer tough going - a remote, distant culture; characters that are hard to penetrate, whose motives and values are very different from our own; a language and writing style that is not always inviting. Students briefly examine Homer's impact on Western art and literature. The course also explores some of the ongoing academic questions regarding Homer: Was there an historical Homer or one writer of the epics How do the metaphors work What is the narrative and dramatic structure No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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This workshop examines the blurry distinction between memoir and fiction. As memoirs have become a deeply popular form of reading culture, the popularity of the novel continues to wane; however, do the two really do differ so very deeply Many readers seem invested in the "honesty" of the memoirist, and conversely,the ability of the fiction writer to "make it all up." What is the ethicalresponsibility of the memoirist By the same token, how much of what we consider to be fiction is actually fiction - in other words, not true Working to understand the fine distinctions between fiction and non-fiction, students hone analytical and interpretive skills. Texts include Lauren Slater's book, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, in which she set out to write a fictionalized memoir and examples of romans a clef - novels purported to be thoroughly autobiographical. Students learn about the tradition of memoir, attempting to determine what is at stake in the debate over fact versus fiction. In addition, students workshop their own personal essays, whether true-to-life or true-to-imagination. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Through review and analysis of poetry, memoir, and fiction written from a child's point of view, students reflect on the experiences of children, social and environmental justice issues related to children, and some aspects of psychological and social child development from the pre-verbal stage through adolescence. Selected literature illustrates how children perceive the world at different ages, how they make meaning from life experiences, and how they relate to themselves and others in different situations and cultures. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a practical approach to mathematical problems which students encounter in the everyday reality of living and a foundation for and introduction to understanding and applying mathematical concepts and issues in retirement planning, health benefits, exponential growth and decay, management science, the stock market, voting, and the changing value of the dollar. QUANTITATIVE METHODS DOMAIN
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