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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
For this independent study, students will document and build on prior WARCH seminar work or may propose an independent project for credit. Program Director permission is required.
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2.00 Credits
Students will design, implement and evaluate an independent project to benefit the local and/or broader community. The seminar will support students through conceptualization, assets/ needs assessment, and budgeting (each project has a $150 budget). The project seminar will provide experience that is consistent with students' Professional Progress Plans for students' professional development. Prerequisite: WARCH 250
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2.00 Credits
This seminar provides support for WestARCHES students in the process of completing Individual Development Plans.
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1.00 Credits
Transfer elective that will count in Fine Arts and Humanities WCore.
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4.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of creativity and what it means to be creative. There will be opportunities to discover and develop our own creativity and to design and complete creative projects/products. Philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of creativity will be considered as well as more practical components of the creative process. We will investigate current research, literature, and approaches to creativity. Questions we will ponder include: What is creativity? What does it mean to be creative? Are there specific skills related to creativity that can be developed? If so, how might we develop and incorporate these skills/attributes into our learning and our lives? What is the importance of play? What is the power of failure? This course is highly experiential in nature and is geared toward the specific individuals who are enrolled. (WCore: WCFAH)
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4.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of the creative arts. We will consider what the creative arts are and why they matter in our lives, our learning, and in our world/society. We will examine a wide variety of artistic works in the realms of visual arts, music, dance/movement, drama/theatre, poetry, and film, etc. We will have opportunities to participate directly in a wide range of artistic experiences. We will discuss such fundamental questions as: .What is art? .Why do the arts matter? .What is an aesthetic? .What is it like to interact with art as a producer/creator rather than solely as an observer/consumer? .How do various art forms communicate ideas and express emotions? This course is highly experiential in nature and is geared toward the specific individuals who are enrolled. (WCore: WCFAH)
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the formal elements of film and its history, from the earliest experiments in motion photography through the present. Students will learn the terminology and concepts of film analysis (mise-en-scene, montage, cinematography, etc.) in the context of film's evolution across the twentieth century. Films may include profanity, violence, and/or sexually explicit images. (WCore: WCFAH, RE)
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the rich tradition of modern American literature by featuring some of the most captivating texts and innovative authors. While taking a problem-solving approach, it will specifically emphasize pertinent connections between literature and culture. For example, our main problem-solving task will be to interpret literary texts as cultural texts, allowing us to identify how imaginative writing illuminates, interrogates, and complicates fundamental aspects of American culture. We will discover that whether literary protagonists dream of freedom, refuge, success, or happiness, they all imagine and experience modern America in uniquely compelling ways. (WCore: WCFAH and DE)
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4.00 Credits
This writing emphasis (WE) Exploration course focuses on humor as a pivotal human experience in the twenty-first century. Students will explore how humor is tied to social contexts, and gain a deep understanding of ways in which humor entertains, instructs, and illuminates political issues. We will read comedy as a cultural text and explore a myriad of subgenres that span geographical contexts (including works by social activist Wanda Sykes, contemporary satirist George Saunders, Indian joke master Kushwant Singh, and cultural critic Barry Sanders), as well as examine styles of comic performances from Ali G's shock-comedy to Margaret Cho's political satire. In the process, we will investigate the meanings and effects of humor that have proliferated through social and digital media in the backdrop of such historical events as 9/11 and the Asian Tsunami. Throughout the course, students will reevaluate the concept of humor and ask "what's funny and why?" (WCore: WCFAH and WE)
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4.00 Credits
Photography is the visual language of our time. With the introduction of contemporary technology, vision itself has become our most immediate form of communication and expression. Although we will look at and discuss the work of others, this course is primarily about each student making her/his own personal images. In this course, students will learn basic technical skills for the beginning photographer. These include camera operation, developing and scanning black and white film, basic grayscale digital image processing, making prints from negatives, making inkjet prints and presentation. Students will also learn the grammar of this language; use of the frame, time, vantage, and detail. Students will investigate the relationship of form to content. Most importantly, students will use these skills to explore their own vision and ideas. Through discussions and group critiques, they will share this work with each other and receive feedback to help them refine it. They will produce affective images that examine their personal perception and concepts. Course fee is $90. (WCore: WCFAH)
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