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3.00 Credits
Beyond the artifice of film and filmmaking lies a complex system of codes and symbols that define our understanding of our identities, our communities, our relationships and our visions of the future. In this course, students explore the maps we find in the work of other filmmakers, how and where they lead us, in order to understand and convey our own narratives our own voices. Students discuss how we interact with the films we see, incorporating symbols and metaphors into our beliefs and understandings and how to effectively create pervasive symbols in our own work. After conceptualizing and developing their ideas throughout the course, students use disposable video cameras to create their own work short films in the final portion of the class. FINE ARTS DOMAIN
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In this one day workshop students explore various models of constructions of the primitive other, followed by an opportunity to apply these models to a variety of popular films and documentaries. Students gain a greater understanding of the sundry means by which the Western world, broadly speaking, negotiates difference, civilization and the primitive, and self and other. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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This course offers students the theoretical and analytical tools necessary to approach the notion of mediated information and spectatorships from Gutenberg to blogging. Students apply these tools to develop and share practical, conscious filtering strategies that sharpen their media literacy. The course addresses the history of press, radio, TV, the Internet, and the current state of amalgamation, interactivity, agency, globalization and commodification in which media operate. Students learn to use the frameworks provided by the Frankfurt school, McLuhan's Laws of Media, Semiotics and Baudrillard's simulacra to develop their media analyses. Using a range of concrete examples and exercises students apply these frameworks to discern the social function of media and the dilemmas these currently pose. COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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Urban Economics examines the choices made by families and firms about where to live and do business. Students address the issues of urbanization and commercial development as they apply to the city of Los Angeles. In addition, the course frames these contemporary issues in historical context by considering how modern urbanization evolved from city-state origins. The course addresses how local governments attend to their housing crises, the homeless, and property tax equity in times of limited budgets and scarce resources. Similarly, the course examines the effects of budget initiatives (Proposition 13) and popular referendums (Prop 209) on social spending and educational diversity in Los Angeles. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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This course introduces new students to Antioch University Los Angeles, preparing them to make the most of their time at this unique educational institution. Students develop a good sense of AULA's learning community, the more than 150 year history of the university, the philosophies of education that inform the undergraduate program, and the culture of the AULA classroom. In order to promote a challenging, respectful, and creative learning environment, the course focuses on issues of diversity, difference, the relationship of social justice to higher education, as well as the place of identity and experience in the classroom. In this course students develop an educational plan tailored to the individual student as well as institutional requirements. They also acquire a familiarity with the concepts of critical reading and writing; an understanding of what is meant by "social justice", examining its place in students' lives as individuals and in AULA as an institution. Students consider how issues of social justice play out in terms of diversity, discrimination and multiculturalism in the classroom and in education as a whole. They also acquire an understanding of the place of identity and experience in the classroom, including the concepts of experiential learning in higher education. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
This course serves three purposes: (1) to help students decide if graduate or professional school is right for them, and if so, to identify appropriate programs; (2) to support students in the preparation of application materials including a personal statement or statement of purpose, curriculum vitae, and letters of recommendation; and (3) to discuss "survival strategies" for successfullycompleting a graduate degree. The workshop is collaborative - students critique each others' work in true "workshop" format; rigorous - they think deeply abotheir goals and life experiences in an academic way; and intensive - students produce several important documents, which can be used in nearly every graduate application with some modification. No grade equivalent allowed. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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What is research In what ways can one approach a question or problem in the world of academia Where does one start searching How does academic or scholarly research apply to social justice and activism This course covers the basics of research using Antioch University Los Angeles' library resources. Students are introduced to different types of information sources and shown how to access these sources as well as how to conceptualize academic research and research methods. Recommended for all students. No grade equivalent allowed. COMMUNICATIONS & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course assists students in developing their writing styles across all university disciplines. Theories and principles of writing style are examined in relation to the various purposes of student writing - demonstration of learning, research, narrative, and creative writing. In each case students learn various means of developing an appropriate public voice. The ENG 291 course requires that the student work with a tutor in the writing center in addition to attending in the class. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course expands the notion of argument beyond commonly held conceptions of conflict between competing points of view and suggests a wide variety of discourses and sites - from text to television, verse to video -- that can be understood as practices of argument. The course covers the distinction between argument and opinion, encouraging a move from subjective writer-centered to effective reader-centered writing strategies. It also focuses on the identification, development, and evaluation of arguments and supportive evidence. The ENG 294 course requires that the student work with a tutor in the writing center in addition to attending in the class. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course expands the notion of argument beyond commonly held conceptions of conflict between competing points of view and suggests a wide variety of discourses and sites - from text to television, verse to video -- that can be understood as practices of argument. The course covers the distinction between argument and opinion, encouraging a move from subjective writer-centered to effective reader-centered writing strategies. It also focuses on the identification, development, and evaluation of arguments and supportive evidence. The ENG 294 course requires that the student work with a tutor in the writing center in addition to attending in the class. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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