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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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3.00 Credits
In writing a scholarly paper, students address the following topics: selecting a focus of inquiry; researching a topic using scholarly databases; conducting a literature review; establishing a theoretical orientation and critical methods; evaluating the validity of sources; documenting sources in an appropriate and consistent scholarly manner; integrating experiential learning and field data; and organizing and writing a scholarly paper. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
In this course students do writing exercises, discuss fiction writing in a structured workshop format, read and discuss ideas about fiction based on reactions to the essays of Winterson, Kundera and other texts, and discuss some of the short stories in The Art of the Tale. It is advanced in the sense that it is best suited for students who have some prior experience in creative writing and fiction writing. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course is the primary incubator for some of the most advanced creative writing a student will do in the B.A. Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. This course is designed for the experienced writing student who is prepared to originate new work or revise work in progress and present it in a supportive and rigorous workshop setting. Each piece is given a close reading by all students in the workshop. Participants give detailed written comments as well as engage in a group critique of all work presented. As space allows, students may enroll in Mixed Genre during multiple quarters. A different member of the creative writing faculty teaches the Mixed Genre Workshop in rotation over six quarters, allowing students to experience diverse bodies of literary works as well as varied approaches to textual analysis and critique. Students are encouraged to work in multiple genres within and between pieces as they blur the lines and press at the boundaries of each generic form encountered and engaged. Enrollment in this course is contingent upon the approval of the Creative Writing Advisor. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a variety of moral, political, and legal concerns regarding the relationship between human beings and the natural environment, including forms of economic development, social structures, and ideological traditions. Dimensions of the human approach to the natural environment include land-use patterns, utilization of resources, impact of various practices on the biosphere, relations to non-human species, and the role of population growth in testing the carrying capacity of the Earth. The focus on modernity addresses the realm of the contemporary urban crisis. The impacts of recent natural catastrophes (tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, fires, etc.) are explored as they interact with social, economic, political, and ecological concerns. The course concludes with an extensive discussion of strategic issues - economic, cultural, and political - regarding apossible shift toward green sensibilities, practices, and institutions that many critics view as essential to staving off ecological catastrophe. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
This workshop explores the ecology and importance of wetlands. Wetlands are more than just habitat for wildlife and marsh plants, they function to manage storm water flow and to improve water quality. The workshop includes lecture, discussion and a field trip to the Ballona Wetlands. No grade equivalent allowed. SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
It is easy to define what is urban. It is not so easy to define wilderness. The concept of urban wilderness further complicates the process. A day spent in a complex urban wilderness ecosystem provides experience, insight, and understanding of the complex arguments for and against conservation of urban wilderness. The class meets in one of the state parks in the Santa Monica Mountains to look at the interactions of the wild and the urban. Students review and discuss the range of perspectives as to what constitutes wilderness, what is nature, and what is not. Students examine the natural processes at work in living biotic communities while looking at the political forces that advocate for the preservation, development and restoration of the landscapes in which these communities are situated. No grade equivalent allowed. SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
Since the late nineteenth century, when Los Angeles County officials began recording wildfires, areas of the Santa Monica Mountains as large as 60,000 acres have burned in a single incident. Between the years 1950 and 2000 county officials recorded 181 incidents involving a total of 172,811 acres burned. There is no question that fire is a major potential hazard in this coastal mountain range which divides two major areas of the city, contains some of the most expensive real estate in the world, and stops just short of a densely populated downtown area. As unimaginable as it might be to some, fire is also a necessary periodic disturbance regime that releases bound up energy stored in "stable" ecosystemsand facilitates plant and animal species diversity. The class meets at the Ahmanson Ranch to discuss fire in both its hazardous and beneficial forms. The class examines an actual burn site and conducts a field analysis of a recent fire and the successional process that has followed in its wake. No grade equivalent allowed. SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
No river, no Los Angeles. That was, according to the Spanish King, one of the chief rules of settlement in the "New World." The Tongva, had lived along theshifting banks of what is now officially referred to as "The Los Angeles Storm Control Channel," for possibly as many as seven millennia prior to King Phillip'spronouncement. During the course of a full day, the class visits six sites along the river. Along the students explore the rich history of the river, its unique original character and the process by which it has become perhaps the first lost river in North America if not the world. The class discusses the importance of the river as part of the watershed of the greater Los Angeles Basin, as well as the effects on adjacent ecosystems along its 71 miles resulting from a human settlement process which ultimately resulted in its channelization. The discussion concludes with an overview of environmental and civic activism that has resulted in the possibility of an exciting future restoration process for the river that would benefit mostly those inner-city residents who live along its banks. No grade equivalent allowed. SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a variety of recently released documentaries. These documentaries examine current events that reflect the impact of corporate control on our society. Particular emphasis is placed on documentaries that illustrate how business interests influence the American lifestyle. Selections may include: The Corporation, Outfoxed, Supersize Me! Advertising and the End of the World, Bush's Brain, Shattering Silence, Fahrenheight 911, The Oil Factor, The Fog of War, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Hijacking Catastrophe, The Control Room, and Bowling for Columbine. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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