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2.00 Credits
This seminar will examine the origins of Jazz, why and how is was created, the directions it has taken. We will discuss the history of jazz from its origins in New Orleans, to Chicago, New York and beyond. We will consider social reactions to the music and artists by listening to a variety of jazz styles, viewing documentaries, and through historical readings. Such artists as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, and Oscar Peterson will be considered.
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2.00 Credits
If porn is a central feature of American popular culture, then is a return to modesty necessary? This course is a seminar that includes thoughtful discussion, a weekly reading journal and a final position paper with an oral defense. We begin with basic cultural studies articles from Simon During's "Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction" in order to analyze Linda Williams' "Porn Studies" and Wendy Shalit's "A Return to Modesty". Our purpose is to debate the repercussions according to Williams and Shalit of cultural expressions of sexuality in the U.S. during the last decade, especially for adolescents and young adults by applying concepts about how culture works.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore the local-food movement developing throughout the country and taking root in our own backyard. Through select readings, class discussion, and field trips to area farms and businesses, students will examine the relationship between where and how food is grown/produced and its impact on the environment. The course will culminate in the spring with the design and planting of an organic vegetable garden and a meal prepared with local food.
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2.00 Credits
Dihydrogen Momoxide (DHMO aka water) is a unique chemical. Its excess or lack causes billions of dollars in economic loss and hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. DHMO¿s unique properties enable life on Earth, generate the beauty of rainbows and snowflakes, determine the awesome power of glaciers and iceberg, and provide the ubiquitous flush. Its unequal distribution drives history and politics. Join us as we non-technically explore just how unique and vital water was, is, and shall be.
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2.00 Credits
Earth Works will focus on essays, scientific articles, art, literature, and films about nature, the outdoors, and our cultural and individual attitudes toward the earth we all inhabit. Classes will center on discussions of such works as "Desert Solitaire", "The Monkey Wrench Gang", "An Inconvenient Truth", "Walden", "Self Reliance", "Silent Spring" and examine case studies of changing practices and changing attitudes. Journals kept by class members will aim to inventory outlooks and behaviors to document potential individual changes and/or to develop plans of action.
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2.00 Credits
What are dreams all about? Are they really meaningful, interpretable stories that are relevant to our lives or simply irrelevant neuron-firings that amount to unintelligible gibberish? What is the value of examining one's dreams closely? What is the function of dreams for the human organism? Are all of the prominent 'dream theorists', like Freud and Jung, just blowing smoke (cigar or pipe smoke, perhaps)? We will explore these questions and plunge into the world of dreams in this seminar. Artistic, scientific, social-scientific, and even business perspectives will be considered.
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2.00 Credits
With Bob Dylan as our guide, we will journey into that strange place called modern America. We will focus primarily on what Dylan himself has admitted was his greatest work: the songs on the albums from "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (1963) to "John Wesley Harding" (1967) with a look at some songs from later in his career. Looking closely at these songs, as performed poetry of the highest order, we will ask how Dylan the artist responded to such calamitous times. This course will allow students to come to terms with what Dylan has to offer them today and, by extension, students may ask which poetic voices, perhaps including Dylan's, figure in their vision of the cultural landscape of early 21st century America.
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4.00 Credits
Thematically-organized foundation course. Creative projects combine studio work with art theory. Instruction in wide range of visual media. Approaches and techniques include drawing from observation, abstraction, color theory, and painting as well as exposure to associated conceptual issues. (C)
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of IART 101.
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of IART 102.
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