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2009-2010 University Catalog [Archived Catalogue]
Courses
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Course Renumbering
Commencing with the 2013-14 academic year the University began a multi-year course renumbering. For additional information visit the Course Renumbering page on the Office of the Registrar website.
Renumbered Course List
- Division of Liberal Arts
Many courses within the Division of Liberal Arts commencing with the Summer and Fall 2014 terms will be offered under new course numbers. Students registering for Summer 2014 coursework and beyond will do so using the new course numbers.
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LALL 803 - German I One-year course of basic grammar. The aim of the course is to develop reading, writing, and conversing skills of the first-year German student. Formerly HU 131A
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 804 - German I One-year course of basic grammar. The aim of the course is to develop reading, writing, and conversing skills of the German student. Formerly HU 131B
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 805 - Italian I This course covers conversation about everyday Italian life and culture and basic grammar through reading of Italian prose. Formerly HU 132A
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 806 - Italian I This course covers conversation about everyday Italian life and culture and basic grammar through reading of Italian prose. Formerly HU 132B
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 807 - Spanish I This introduction to Spanish is open to students who have had little to no previous Spanish language experience. In this course, the fundamentals of Spanish grammar, pronunciation and Spanish culture are introduced. Students will develop listening comprehension, speaking and writing skills. Emphasis on conversational Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 808 - Spanish II Spanish II is the continuation of Spanish I. It is open to students who have had Spanish I or equivalent high school experience. In this course, the fundamentals of Spanish grammar, pronunciation and Spanish culture are further developed. Students will improve listening comprehension, speaking and writing skills. Emphasis on conversational Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR102, LALL 807 or permission from the department.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 811 - Western Literary Masterpieces I Ancient to Medieval Works from antiquity through the Middle Ages that form the foundation of Western literature. Focuses on the creation of character, the structure and form of the works and the perspectives and values they reveal. Examines the questions asked by different cultures and how human potential, fate, and reality are defined. Formerly HU 320A
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 812 - Western Literary Masterpieces II Renaissance to Neoclassical Works from the Renaissance through the Neoclassical period that form the foundation of Western Literature. Focuses on the creation of character, on structure and form, but also on tone (humor, parody, satire, and irony) and the perspectives and the values that the works reveal. Formerly HU 320B
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 821 - Lyric Poetry A survey of lyric poetry, with particular emphasis on a single period or a group of poets, e.g., Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and the English Romantics. Formerly HU 201
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 822 - Haiku: Classical to Contemporary A survey of Haiku poetry from its development in Japan to its influence on American and world poets of the 20th century. This short, enigmatic poetic form is approached from three perspectives. First, we will focus on understanding the craft of haiku and the use of that knowledge to interpret the individual poems. Second, the foundations of haiku’s aesthetic principles as they developed over the centuries in Japan. And third, the influence of Japanese haiku on such 20th century poets such as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and the Beat poets. Throughout the course, English language haiku of contemporary North American poets is read, and students write their own haiku verses.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 823 - Women Writers This course explores and perhaps reclaims the provocative treasures of women writers, ancient and contemporary and their potential capacity to transform us as human beings. The various woks studied, from the ancient poetic fragments of Sappho to the solitary lyrics of Emily Dickinson from the fictional classic of Bronte, Austen, Wharton and Virginia Woolf to the 20th century voices of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, and Julia Alvarez, all give us the spectrum of authenticity in the female voice. In our reading, the questions will emerge: Do women think/write differently from men? What is the role of gender in artistic imagination? As a counter example, students will also look at Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women with its classic work in feminine psychology and Gilbert and Gubar’s groundbreaking textual analysis on women writers.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 825 - The Short Story A study of the short story from Poe to the present. Samplings from the British, the American, and the European, with particular attention to the major authors who reinvented the genre. At the end of the semester, students look at developments in contemporary fiction, the anti-story, the new wave, the surreal, the minimal, the mythic. Formerly HU 216
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 831 - 19th Century American Writers From the Gothic darkness of Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen Crane’s Red Badge, from Irving’s mystic Sleepy Hollow to Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, from Thoreau’s idyll on Walden Pond to Melville’s terror rounding Cape Horn, from Whitman’s barbaric shout to Emily Dickinson’s lyric whisper, from Emerson’s “Self Reliance” to Mark Twain’s despairing loss of innocence, the trajectory of American Literature in the 19th century traces a movement from the past to the future. This course looks at the major writers of 19th century America, a fascinating and revolutionary period in American art, where an American past becomes an American Voice and our Original Sins form our future.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 832 - 20th Century American Writers An introduction to 20th century American literature and its roots. What can be traced in that literature is a movement from idealism to cynicism or, perhaps, from idealism to realism. As America from an agrarian, small town culture to an increasingly urban and industrialized society, the American Dream of infinite potential and freedom for each citizen was re-mapped, just as the Western movement changed the geographical landscape of America. How the individual - the “little guy” marginalized from self and society - reacted to this aloneness, this powerlessness is the focus of the course. We ask, as a new American century begins, what does it mean now to dream dreams, to endure nightmares? What truths do Americans continue to hold as self-evident in the wake of international terrorist violence and the uncharted seas of a new future? Of what use is literature in this?
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 833 - African American Literature Readings may include works by Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Imamu Baraka, and Gwendolyn Brooks, focusing on the larger question of the role of the African-American writer in American society. Formerly HU 217
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 835 - American Politics and Culture: 1945-1975 The interaction of politics and culture from 1940 to 1975. Course material includes fiction and poetry, history and journalism, and film. Formerly HU 422
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 841 - Introduction to Mythology A definition of mythmaking and an analysis of different approaches to myth, exploring the function of different myths, their relevance to the culture that created them and the forms through which the myths survive, particularly the epic tragedy.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 842 - Literature of the Roman Empire After a glance at Greek influences, the course focuses on the literature of classical Rome. Readings from epic, drama, and lyric, with an emphasis on the interaction between those classical forms and the culture that produced them. Formerly HU 318
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 843 - Latin American Literature The major literary trends and writers of Latin America where the way in which writers such as Rulfo, Marquez, Lezama Lima and Mutis reinvented the Western literary tradition as they incorporated a common landscape and history into their work is explored. The origins of both their style and imagery are traced by looking at earlier exponents of Latin American literatures.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 851 - Greek Drama Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes are examined to understand their integrity as works of art and to develop an appreciation of the extraordinary accomplishment of Greek drama. Formerly HU 311
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 852 - Modern Drama A study of the modern theater from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Students read some of the world’s most famous playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Pirandello, Lorca, Brecht, and Beckett. Theater trips are part of the experience of this course. Formerly HU 315A
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 853 - Contemporary Drama A study of the experimental developments in today’s theater, both on Broadway and off, from Waiting for Godot to the present moment. Students read some of the most famous playwrights of our times: Genet, Beckett, Ionesco, Albee, Pinter, Shepard, and August Wilson, as well as some exciting major new voices. Theater trips are part of the experience of this course. Formerly HU 315B
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 860 - Literature & Film This course explores different subjects through the arts of literature and film. Among the topics treated have been images of Vietnam, the thriller, and science fiction. Formerly HU 314
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102 May be taken twice for credit.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 861 - Film History A survey of the history of film. Films to be shown are selected from the following categories: early film forms (Lumiere, Griffith, and De Mille); Dada and Surrealist influences (Leger, Bunuel, Marx Brothers, and Resnais); the impact of Constructivism and the Machine Aesthetic (Eisenstein, Vertov, and Chaplin): German Expressionists’ influence on Hollywood (Ford, Welles, Wyler, and Hitchcock); modern European and American films (Bergman, Godard, Kubrick, and Altman); and avant-garde art influences on new American cinema (Deren and Brakhage). Formerly HU 248A
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 862 - Issues in National Cinema Films from modern and post-modern European cinema and from emerging national cinema that demonstrate both their interaction with politics and culture and an alternative discourse to Hollywood commercial filmmaking. Italian Neo Realism; French REVISED Wave; postwar European national cinema and other national cinemas (China, Japan, Brazil, Chile, etc.) are included.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 871 - Poetry Writing Workshop Students’ poems are discussed, criticized, revised, and improved. Principles governing the decision to change a poem in various ways, the study of poems by American and English poets, the reading of some criticism, and concentration on the basic principles of craft are all included. Theories involve sound, content, meaning, and purpose of student poems and of poetry in general. The poet’s sense of an audience also figures in the discussion. Formerly HU 313
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 875 - Fiction Writing Workshop This course focuses on writing short fiction in a workshop setting. Students study the elements of creative writing, experiment with several forms, and develop a clear voice. The goal is to produce a portfolio of finished pieces. Formerly HU 325
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 901 - French II Open to students who have completed French I or have had two or more years of high school French. Emphasis is on speaking French and reading French short stories, modern poetry, newspapers and magazines.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LALL 802
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 902 - French II A continuation of LALL 902. Open to students who have completed French I or have had two or more years of high school French. Emphasis is on speaking French and reading French short stories, modern poetry, newspapers and magazines.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LALL 901
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 905 - Italian II Open to students who have completed Italian I or have had two or more years of high school Italian. Verbal skills in Italian are developed as well as the ability to read poetry, short stories and newspaper articles in Italian.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LALL 806
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 906 - Italian II A continuation of LALL 905. Open to students who have completed Italian I or have had two or more years of high school Italian. Verbal skill in Italian and ability to read poetry, short stories and newspaper articles in Italian.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LALL 905
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 907 - Spanish III An accelerated course which reviews the basic principles of the Spanish language for students with some background of high school Spanish or Spanish I and II at UArts. Spanish grammar and culture are introduced in the context of short literacy readings, and articles from newspapers and periodicals. This course helps students develop listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It is given predominantly in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102, LALL 808 or permission from the department.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 908 - Spanish IV This course will offer a content-based review of Spanish grammar and systematic vocabulary and skill development. At this level, more advanced grammatical structures are presented. The course integrates language, culture, art, and literature. It is given predominantly in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102, LALL 907 or permission from the department.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 911 - Major Writers Focuses on the life and work of a single important writer. Among the authors who have received this intense examination have been James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Emily Dickinson. Formerly HU 420
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 913 - 19th Century Novel We study some of the most admired, best loved books of the world, written in the heyday of the novel, the 19th-century: Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Wuthering Heights, by Bronte, Great Expectations, by Dickens, Portrait of a Lady, by James. This is a course for people who love to read. Formerly HU 414B
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 914 - Contemporary Novel This is a course for people who like to read. We study 10 (count ‘em 10!) novels by some of the most interesting authors of the past two decades including works from North and South America and Eastern and Western Europe. Some are weird, some beautiful, some sexy, some funny. Formerly HU 416A
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 915 - Modern Poetry A consideration of both the central figures and the central movements in modern poetry. The first part of the semester addresses the stylistic changes and the ideological currents which shaped the high modernist mode. The second part of the course explores the major figures through their most important work. Figures include Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Frost.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 916 - Contemporary Poetry A survey of both the central figures and the central movements in contemporary poetry. Dominant currents that emerged after WWII, including Beats, Confessional and New York Schools are included as are the formal, technical, thematic experimentation of the poetry written in the 60s and early 70s. Finally, the course examines the way a younger generation of poets has come to terms with the work of their predecessors.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 921 - Superheroes This course examines the most important heroes of popular culture in the Middle Ages – Beowulf, Roland, Siegfried, and King Arthur. What do these heroes and the epics in which they appear reveal about their culture? How do they compare to modern popular superheroes? Formerly HU 218
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 922 - Big Fat Famous Novel Three of the world’s best and most important novels: Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Melville’s Moby Dick, and Joyce’s Ulysses are read. Each provides great pleasure to the serious reader and much material for intense discussion. Each novel has the equivalent of its own little course, about one month long. Formerly HU 414A
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 923 - Children’s Literature This course investigates the oral traditions of world literature, which continue to nurture the imagination and sense of identity of children today, and the modern tradition of children’s literature. The course focuses on children’s literature as an introduction to the principles and forms of art and to the rule of the imagination in child development. Formerly HU 219
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 925 - The Uncanny The phenomenon of the Uncanny as it has been represented in literature, the graphic arts and film. Material varies but may include from Holbein and Bosch to Poe, Kafka, Lynch, and Hitchcock.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 927 - Detective Film and Fiction An examination of the genre known as hard-boiled detective fiction as it developed in literature and then was extended by feature films. Among the authors to be considered are Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald; among the films are The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and The Long Goodbye. Formerly HU 412
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 930 - Shakespeare The dramatic works of the supreme writer of the English Renaissance: Shakespeare. A selection of his comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances are read. Focuses on the plays not only as literary accomplishments but also as theatrical performances existing in three-dimensional space. Concerned with both the parameters of the original Renaissance stage and with modern translations and transformations of the plays. Formerly HU 411
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 951 - American Playwrights A study of the American theater in the past 75 years, looking at the works of such authors as O’Neill, Miller, Williams, Albee, Shepard, continuing with some recent, exciting new playwrights. Theater trips as well as showings of filmed plays. Formerly HU 316
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 953 - Art of Song Lyric A study of how modern song lyrics developed from the ancient tradition of lyric poetry and folk ballads and hymns. Close analysis of notable song lyrics in terms of the theme, settings narrative, character, imagery, drama and emotion. Genres include opera, blues, jazz, cabaret, musical comedy, rock, and hip-hop. Popular and classical songs are examined to show the problems and challenges of putting words to music. Performance and interpretation will also be considered. There is a substantial writing requirement: students may elect to study song lyrics or librettos or to write original song lyrics of their own. Formerly HU 417
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 955 - Dante in the Modern World An exploration of Dante’s journey in the Divine Comedy, his search for order, for answers to ultimate questions and his inspiration of artists in various media, such as Baudelaire, T.S. Elliot, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Rodin, Rauschenberg. The main subject for the study is Inferno, with references to the Purgatorio and the Paradiso.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 961 - Avant Garde Cinema A examination of the arts and history of experimental film and video. The development of non-traditional forms and structures is emphasized, specifically the exploration of mental states, visual metaphors and process.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 963 - American Film Genres A consideration of a particular film genre and style in cinema, which may include film noir, horror, comedy, political film and independent film, and varying from semester to semester.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102 Repeatable once for credit.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 965 - Literature and Film: From Text to Screen Explores the conceptual and the technical leap between the written text and its transformation to a cinematic text on the screen. The students examine what happens to plot, characterization, bound and free description when a narrative text is converted to an audio-visual presentation. In certain examples, the transformation of narrative structure is from the novel to the screenplay to the finished film. Students gain insights into the relationships between written and filmed dialogue, between written description and cinematic mise-en-scene, between the novel’s omniscient narrator and the film’s voice-over. Formerly HU 413
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 973 - Advanced Playwriting A follow-up to Playwriting. Students further develop their writing and revising skills. In addition, the class analyzes selected contemporary plays and writes playwrights’ critiques of modern theatrical practices. Students complete a polished one-act or radio drama.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LALL 873
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LALL 974 - Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop An extension of the knowledge and experience of reading and writing poetry that students gained in the Poetry Writing Workshop. Students write, revise, and critique original poems, review individual books of poems, and survey the broad sweep of contemporary poetry.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LALL 871
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPI 930 - Age of Consumer Culture 1945-1972 An exploration of the way in which consumer culture redefined America in the post-war period and transformed its culture, including the reconfiguration of space. Particular focus is placed on the rise of the suburb, television and malls and the ways in which these redefined the role of public and private, reshaping art, politics and audiences. Students look at poetry, fiction, and the visual arts and trace their reaction from an initial anti-materialist critique to gradual incorporation and appropriation.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 210
Student must have completed the second semester of their Sophomore year (45 credits).
Credits: 3 cr, 3hrs |
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LAPR 811 - Topics in Philosophy Selected topics in Western philosophy. Focusing on developing an understanding of the arguments of selected Western philosophers and analyzing the various ideas they present. Some of the “big questions” that appear in philosophy questions concerning the nature of reality, the definition of terms such as “justice” and “happiness” and the meaning of “values” are examined. Primary sources comprise most of the readings.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 812 - Introduction to Chinese Philosophy Basic principles in Chinese philosophy, particularly Daoism and Confucianism. Students examine the philosophical texts such as the Doa De Jing, the Zhuangzi, and the Analects, working from primary sources. In the process, students gain an understanding of Chinese thinking in metaphysics, ethics, and other areas of philosophy.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 813 - Greek Philosophy Topics in Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on the works of the pre-Socratics, Plato, and the Stoics. Emphasizes the development of ability to understand the arguments of selected Greek philosophers and analyze the various ideas they present. To do this, some of the “big questions” that appear in Greek philosophy - questions concerning the nature of reality, the definition of terms such as “justice” and “happiness,” and the meaning of “values” is examined. Primary sources comprise most of the readings.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 831 - Introduction to the Bible The main themes of the Bible are explored from a modern, critical, nondenominational point of view. No knowledge of the Bible is assumed. Using historical and literary analysis, continuities as well as differences between the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are examined. Formerly HU 268
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 832 - Introduction to World Religion An exploration of world religious traditions originating in Africa, America, China, India, Japan, and the Middle East. Religions are studied in their historical and cultural context, including their development into various forms over the years and in different places, and their beliefs regarding the cosmos, society, the self, and good vs. evil. Formerly HU 292
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 841 - Comparative Religion: ASIA A study of the world’s Asian religions through their historical development, beliefs, sacred literature, and the works of contemporary writers. The course discusses Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism Taoism, Shintoism, and Yin-Yang school of mysticism. Formerly HU 466
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 842 - Comparative Religions: Religions in America A historical study of beliefs and practices of various religious groups that have shaped American culture, including Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Scientologists and others. We discuss traditional main-line groups as well as newer movements, and pay special attention to ethnic and racial minorities, as well as to women in American religion. Formerly HU 467
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 850 - Introduction to Aesthetics An introduction to the philosophy of art. After a brief examination of analytic philosophical methods and the history of aesthetics, we consider some of the fundamental problems in aesthetics, such as the intention of the artist, the physical object/aesthetic object distinction, and the nature and comparison of different kinds of media. The relationship between language and art are central to the course. Formerly HU 270
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 851 - Arts Criticism A writing course designed to promote understanding and interpretation of the arts across a multidisciplinary spectrum and to provide students with the basic tools of critical analysis. Group discussion and selected readings. Formerly HU 323
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 853 - Ethics The history of ethics and the fundamental ethical problems that have concerned philosophers for the past 2,500 years. The study begins with Plato and Aristotle and extends to the contemporary analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism. Problems include the “is/ought” distinction, the ultimate objective of life, religious issues, human rights, justice, and welfare. Formerly HU 373
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 855 - Style in Art A seminar exploring the question of style in the literary, visual, and performing arts as well as in craft and applied arts (including film, industrial design, and the fashion industry). We consider theories about organicism and periodicity in style, as they relate to tradition, trends, social and economic conditions, and evolving cultural norms. Themes include: ateliers and authorship; historic “revivals,” changing standards of beauty and form; and stylistic phases in the careers of major writers, artists, and composers. The aim of the course is to develop a practical, descriptive vocabulary for the analysis of artistic style. Formerly HU 395
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 862 - Dance & Expressive Culture Dance is woven into the mythology, theater, music, poetry, and literature of many cultures. The course considers dance as it has influenced and has been influenced by these forms of creative expression in the Western World. Formerly HU 293
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 911 - Contemporary Philosophy An examination of some of the problems occupying today’s philosophers and the strategies they have devised to address them. Formerly HU 474
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 913 - Existential Philosophy Selected concepts in Existential philosophy, discussed in the context of selected works from Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Camus, Nietzsche and others. The course examines further many of the issues concerning epistemology, ethics and the search for meaning brought up in LAPR 811.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 914 - Modern Russian Thought: Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism Cultivates an understanding of modern Russian thought in its various manifestations and an acquaintance with and a critical appreciation of the thinkers discussed. A special attention is paid to comparative and interdisciplinary issues, focusing on “Russia and the West”, and how Russian intellectuals reacted to the challenge of Western thought and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Students read and discuss the works of many prominent Russian philosophers, including Nikolai Berdiaev and Lev Shestov, a Russian émigré mystic and founder of theosophy, Elena Blavatsky, as well as world renowned Russian writers, Lev Tolstoi, Fiodor Dostoevskii.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 933 - Introduction to Zen Buddhism An examination of the Zen understanding of being human: the problem of human existence Zen seeks to resolve, the liberation it claims to achieve, the meaning of the satori or “Awakening,” which Zen claims is the basis of this liberation, the Zen koan as the meaning through which the Awakening is attained, the art that results from Awakening, and the possible contributions of Zen to the contemporary spiritual, philosophic, and artistic situation in the West.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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LAPR 950 - Aesthetics Seminar Advanced philosophic problems that are related to works of art and discourse about works of art. Focus varies from year to year but may include Postmodernism, Neo-Marxism, reception aesthetics, and gender and sexuality identity.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: LACR 102 and LAPR 850
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs |
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