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Undergraduate Record 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED RECORD]
Course Descriptions
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ISHU 3061 - Sacred Paths: Introduction to World Religions
Introduces six major religious traditions deeply rooted in different cultures including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Examines the historical evolution, the doctrines, beliefs, practices, institutions, and cultural expressions of these religious traditions.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3070 - Prophets and Prophecy
Examines the phenomenon of prophecy in anthropological and theological perspective. Focuses on the way prophecy operated in ancient Israel. Explores how prophecy is the area beyond prediction, with regard to social context, ethics, theology, gender, politics, literature, and psychology.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3071 - Jesus in History and Interpretation
Examines the life of Jesus of Nazareth as it is analyzed by modern historians and how this life was interpreted by early believers in Jesus. Evaluates the main source of information that early Christian works called gospels, as they create their own images of Jesus of Nazareth, beginning a long tradition of interpretation.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3080 - Islam
Provides students with refined knowledge which is relevant in both the professional and private spheres. Focusing on both the history of Islam, from its founding through the present day, and (more specifically) on the principles of Islam and how different Muslim theologians and statesmen have interpreted and applied those principles throughout Islam’s history. The course is a purposeful mix of anthropology, history and political science.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3081 - Buddhism and Women
Explores the role of women in Buddhism while drawing attention to women’s changing status throughout Buddhism’s history from its origin to the present day. Examines women’s worldly and spiritual presence in various buddhist traditions and their contribution to the propagation of Buddhism.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3082 - Tibetan Buddhism
Explores the multi-faceted world of Tibetan Buddhism through doctrinal, instructional, contemplative, social, and historical perspectives. Examines the religious lifestyles, ritual practives, and social practives of religious specialists and lay people. Exposes students to a variety of Tibetan literary genres as well as some methodological conerns of contemporary Tibetan studies.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3083 - Studies in Buddhist Meditation
Explores meditation in various Buddhist texts as well as its interpretation by contemporary practitioners. Explores meditative practices in different countries such as Sri Lanka, Burma, Tibet, China, and Japan with a focus on each culture’s unique techniques of Samata (awareness), Vipassana (insight), and Tantric meditation. Introduces meditation teachers and Western modes of teaching meditation.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3085 - Gender and Religion
Explores historical, textual, and social questions relevant to the status of women in Eastern and Western Religions. Studies major religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Understand where these traditions place women within their sacred texts, beliefs, and ritual practices.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3086 - Asian Religions
Provides a historical and thematic overview of some of the major religious traditions of Asia including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto, by focusing upon the forms they have taken in India, Sri Lanka, Tibet, China, and Japan. Explores how these traditions have attempted to understand the nature of the world, human society, and the individual person’s place therein.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3090 - Religion in America
Examines the concept of America and to what extent it is a product of religious mindsets of particular times. Explores multi-media materials, including: Hollywood films, 20th Century folk music, literature of the west, 18th Century primary sources, 19th Century theses on American identity, and 20th Century journalism and criticism.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3100 - Advanced Writing I
Students read, study, and practice a variety of prose forms, including narration, short stories, and non-fiction and critical essays.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3110 - Aspects of Narrative I
This course focuses on the writing and analysis of narrative prose, fiction or non-fiction. Full-group workshop discussion of works in progress are accompanied by discussion of short examples of published fiction and memoir and occasional writing exercises on aspects of narrative, including revision. Students write and revise at least two separate works, totaling at least 20 pages.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3120 - Aspects of Narrative II
This course focuses on the writing and analysis of narrative prose, fiction or non-fiction. Full-group workshop discussion of works in progress will be accompanied by discussion of short examples of published fiction and memoir and by occasional writing exercises on aspects of narrative. Students will write and revise at least two separate works, totaling at least 20 pages. Readings, exercises, and topics focused on will be different from those in ISHU 3110.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3121 - Ancient Greek Culture Through Modern Eyes
Examines ancient Greek myth, literature, and philosophy through the lens of modern psychology.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3130 - The Writing Side of Children’s Literature
In this course, students will immerse themselves in the best of children’s literature while learning the basic tenet of effective writing for any age: easy to read, hard to write. Students will read within seven genres of children’s literature, examine how nonfiction writers for children research, organize, and document information, examine how fiction writers create setting, plot, tone, voice, dialog, and characters. Students will also learn how published writers self-edit and revise. Children’s literature will also serve as a model while completing short writing exercises. By the end of this course, students can expect to become masters of compression as they write and revise one piece of nonfiction and one piece of fiction.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3140 - Writing Descriptively
Writing Descriptively
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3150 - Reading Poetry Aloud
Students will read a variety of poems out loud. By comparing what is written with what is read, students will arrive (maybe) at what is said. If a reader can hear a poem as a living voice, as vivid as a friend talking over the telephone, and can reproduce what the friend has said either as a mimic, or as a reporter, then the reader understands the poem. Further analysis is just that, a separate venture. Understanding poetry is much like understanding other people: No two poems are alike, and there are no right answers or this-is-it meanings. By the end of the course, students will develop an appetite for reading poetry, and confidence in hearing and responding to others’ voices.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3160 - A Poetry Workshop: The Poet’s Journey
Focuses on the process of poetry as an ongoing creative journey. Explores the ways in which poets access the subconscious and the irrational and channel them into poems, via the elements of craft including image, metaphor, tone, sound, meter, rhythm and line. Students will keep a poetry journal and write poems in response to exercises designed to help them move beyond their initial “comfort zone.”
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3170 - The Writer as Cartographer: A Class in Poetry and Memoir
Just as a cartographer is one who makes maps, projecting an area of the earth’s surface on a flat plane, so is a writer able to transform an imagined shape into real shape. In much the manner of a cartographer, a writer must “brave the elements” in order to come closer to an understanding of what is mysterious. With a focus upon poetry and memoir, this class will ask students to read widely, to respond to assigned readings through essays and annotations, to produce creative work on a weekly basis, and to share such work openly in a workshop setting.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3171 - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Examines the human impetus for pilgrimage using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as its principle text.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3172 - Victorian Characters
Shows the centrality of “character” to Victorian literature. Analyzes different types of literary characters and investigates how they represent the core Victorian values of “self-improvement,” “independence,” and “steadfastness” in response to the pressures of modernity.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3180 - Roots and Stems of Effective Writing – The Essay
Writing begins with intuition, moves towards consciousness and strives for clarity. Such movement, such unfolding, calls for a steady eye and an enduring approach. Accordingly, this class will focus upon resurrecting the fading art of patience, a faculty required for writing. The focus of the class will be on creative essays and academic essays. To convey thoughts effectively one must be willing to take the time to observe one’s subject, accurately. It is necessary to attend ardently to the language in order to articulate our explorations, to argue our viewpoints. One must keep the hand practiced in the actual activity of writing. This class will ask students to read widely, to respond to assigned readings through weekly essays and to share work openly in a workshop setting with a focus on revision.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3181 - Writing with Meaning: Using Creativity and Style to Write Powerful Essays
Explores the methodology behind writing academic essays, professional exposition, and personal nonfiction with honesty, depth, and flair. Examines the work of essayists and looks at how they use diverse techniques to write engaging essays.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3182 - Creative Writing Fiction Workshop and Analysis: A Dialogue Between Writers
Analyzes the elements of fiction; structural elements such as character, plot, point of view, and conflict will be discussed in addition to stylistic elements, such as dialogue, setting, and sensory details. Includes readings of essays and short stories by published authors and class critiques of fiction written by the students.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3183 - Writing the Story of Your Life: Creative Nonfiction
Student learns how to bring together the imaginative strategies of fictional story telling with new ways of narrating true, real-life events. Explores how Creative Nonfiction writing allows you to share your stories in compelling ways, helps you write effectively in professional and personal situations, and provides new ways for you to document real-life experiences as they occurred.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3184 - Writers in Conversation: A Workshop
Approaches the study and practice of writing through seminar and workshop. Read examples of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry and join in the conversation with their own creative writing for workshop. Write, read, and peer-critique each other’s writing and produce a portfolio of work.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3185 - Literature About the Body
Explores the relationship between the physical body and human identity through such topics as body image, eating disorders, sexuality, aging, disease and its affects on the body by reading and discussion of short stories, poems, and novels. Engages students in frequent formal and informal writing, beginning with personal narratives and journal responses.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3190 - Writing for Your Life
This course gives students a general overview of prose writing and teaches them strategies of rhetoric and composition for their own work. The course has four components, given approximately equal portions of the semester: (1) the personal essay and fiction, (2) professional writing, (3) research and journalism, and (4) opinion/analysis. Each reading assignment has a companion writing assignment, which will be critiqued and edited by peer students and by the instructor.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3192 - From Short Story to Film: The Art of Adaptation
Teaches students how to develop and write short stories that make good adaptations into film. Studies successful screenplay writing methods and the reading and viewing of certain films that have been adapted from short stories. Explores the process of adaptation. Emphasizes the beat-by-beat journey from idea to rewrite of an original story. Learn how to mold the story into step outline for a full length screenplay.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3193 - Writing About the Environment
Focuses on classic, contemporary, and non-traditional literature about the environment. The course is divided into three sections: nature writing, place-based writing, and environmental writing. Readings focus on issues beyond landscape as gender, race, politics, ethics, and culture all play a part in environmental writing.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3201 - Happy Wars and Sad Love Songs: A History of Ireland
Examines Ireland’s contributions to the wider history of the British Isles and Europe, as well as the consequences of the Irish diaspora in the modern era. Utilizes a broad range of primary sources, including imaginative literature and music. Addresses the major trends in the history of Ireland from earliest times to the present day.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3210 - American Literary Naturalism
American Literary Naturalism
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3220 - American Autobiography
In this course, students explore through reading and writing the ethics and mores of autobiography, and consider how memoir-making plays a part in American reinvention of self. Students focus on critical writing and reading skills.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3230 - Poetry and the African-American Experience
Students will explore the diverse history of African-American poetry, focusing on intersections between religion, history, and literature, and exploring how interdisciplinary approaches can enhance our understanding of American culture. Beginning with the work of eighteenth-century writers like Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley, students will consider the ‘vernacular traditions’ of spirituals and secular music, and later writers including Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, as well as contemporary poets.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3240 - 20th Century American Literature
Students explore fiction and poetry of U.S. writers ranging from early modernists to contemporary writers, including such prose writers as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison and poets such as Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, and Williams.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3251 - Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop
Explores the process, form, and voice of writing poetry. Offers the chance to read widely in contemporary American poetry and develop reflective prose essays on poetry, poetics, and the philosophy of poetry.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3252 - Contemporary American Poetry
Studies the work of poets in America from the 1920s to the 21st century, examining form, prosody, and movements within the art of poetry. Writes on these topics. Discusses poems from Gwendolyn Brooks to Billy Collins.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3253 - Lyric Love: Poetic Devices and Emotional Effects
Uses the theme of love to present poetic forms and techniques in English. Draws on poetry from a wide range of time periods to analyze how poetic devices such as rhyme, meter, and metaphor, convey the experience of loving. Compares different representations of love within the tradition.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3254 - Great Modern Poetry and Poetics
Surveys chronologically the major shapers of contemporary poetry from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson to Rita Dove and Billy Collins.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3255 - The Short of It: Poetry’s Briefer Forms
Approaches the study and practice of poetry’s short forms through seminar and workshop. Studies short forms such as sonnets, haiku, pantoums, limericks, epigrams, and couplet verse. Explores short forms in a topical sense: pastorals, elegies, love poems, dramatic monologues, etc. Engage in reading, writing, and peer-critiquing poems in a variety of traditions.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3260 - Contemporary American Fiction
Examines American novels and short stories since the 1960s in social, historical, and aesthetic contexts. Considers writers such as Anaya, Silko, and Morrison and attends to how previously marginalized identities have altered the canon. Asks the following questions: What is postmodernism? How do American narratives negotiate between “fact” and “fiction”? How is the production and reception of literature affected by social issues?
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3261 - Books Behind Bars: Life, Literature, and Community Leadership: 21st Ce
Offers an integrated academic-community engagement curriculum, and provides an opportunity for service learning, leadership, and teaching by facilitating discussions about course readings with residents at a local juvenile treatment center. Provides a first-hand appreciation of cultural diversity and an appreciation of how the study of literature can contribute to positive social change.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3280 - Great Historical Speeches
Familiarizes students with some of the most notable speakers and speeches in world history. Increases appreciation of the impact of public address in world history and culture. Deepens the understanding of public address as a rhetorical art. Familiarizes students with standards and approaches to the criticism of speeches, enhancing the ability to analyze and evaluate discourse.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3281 - The Art of Public Speaking
Examines the five canons of the art of public speaking allowing students to learn and practice the skills needed to speak persuasively, confidently, forcefully, and intelligibly to an audience.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3282 - Effective Business Writing and Speaking
Develops communication possibilities through a number of writing and speaking activities. Emphasizes plain English style writing, essential for clear, concise messages. Examines how to create and deliver clear, persuasive, and professional short speeches and includes learning to write effective email, letters and memos. Explores online writing environments. Develops awareness of self and others.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3290 - Core Writing: The Basics of Analytical Writing
Develops analytical writing skills needed to efficiently and effectively produce university research papers. Hones abilities in developing a thesis, handling contradictory evidence, organizing material, outlining, anticipating gaps in logic, and writing effectively and powerfully. Teaches grammar, usage, punctuation, avoiding plagiarism, and using MLA style book. Masters capabilities needed for the Capstone
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3300 - Socrates at the Cinema
Students will examine major topics in Philosophy through the discussion of the issues raised in contemporary cinema. Students will view films, whether in whole or in part, both individually and in class, with a focus on the critical issues raised by those films. Films will include: The Matrix, Being John Malkovich, Citizen Ruth, Bruce Almighty, and Lord of the Flies.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3301 - Introduction to Film
Examines the cultural and commercial contexts of film production, including the directors, the intended audience, and the audience’s response. Investigates film structure, how meaning is created, and how this structure can be read and understood. Examines genres, stories, and the ways in which films and their audiences are a part of the larger structure of the culture in which they exist.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3302 - Hollywood’s America: How Movies Portray and Influence American Life
Examines Hollywood films and encourages students to learn about the people and organizations that produced these influential productions.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3303 - Shakespeare on Film
Examines Shakespeare’s plays as well film adaptations, with particular interest in how each film’s cultural context influenced how it interpreted the original text.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3304 - The Films of Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock
Studies the films of Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, two very different but equally creative filmmakers who explored their medium with an intensive imagination. Analyzes such films as Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, and Psycho, examining what makes them work and looking at the cultural and historical context of the films.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3305 - The Impact of Media on the Development of Popular Culture
Examines the media;s role in conveying cultural meaning through popular culture. Analyzes the histories and theories underlying media and popular culture. Focuses on print, film, radio, television, the Internet and social media. Critiques contemporary popular culture through music, movies, tv programming, advertising, sports, fashion, celebrity culture, language and, collective public expression.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3306 - American Film and Culture in the 1950s
Explores the way film echoes and influences the culture that contains it. Examines a number of film genres that were particularly sensitive to cultural and political currents including melodrama, the gangster film, the Western, science fiction, and others. Determines how Post-World War II America saw itself in films.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3310 - Film, History, Politics, and Controversy
Examines movie case studies that aroused controversy. Analyzes the messages these movies communicated on the screen. Considers what the filmmakers intended to communicate, and how audiences and media critics responded to the portrayals.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3322 - Literature of the Fantastic: Myth, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
Studies critical thinking using literature of the fantastic written in Europe and the U.S. since the late 1800’s. Discusses the idea of the fantastic and the development of rational thought in western culture as compared to medieval notions of an animate world and storytelling that depicts heroes as gods rather than as common individuals or antiheroes.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3330 - Write Where You Are
Develops the skills to inspire and cultivate writing and creativity.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3331 - Advanced Expository Writing: On-the-job and for college
Studies writing as a process and the conventions shared by writing communities in various academic disciplines, business, and the professions. Course topics vary depending on students’ major fields. Focuses on revision techniques, with students writing and revising several papers.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3350 - Close Encounters with American Culture: Alien Imagery in Contemporary Popular Discourse
‘The truth is out there’ - and the truth is that in many ways UFOs and concepts of the alien (and the extraterrestrial) have come to constitute a quintessential part of contemporary grassroots American mythos. This course explores the dynamics of UFO-based cultural discourse in contemporary American life. Students will ask profound and probing questions about the construction of cultural discourse in both twenty-first century American society and throughout the evolution of American history.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3383 - The Dark Side of the Twentieth Century
Enables students to reflect on what was perhaps the greatest downfall into barbarity, genocide and mass oppression. Examines first-hand accounts of both the Holocaust and crimes of the Communist regimes in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and Cambodia. Explores historical, intellectual, cultural, and psychological roots of Nazism and Communism.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3421 - The Psychology of Music
Examines research, illusions, popular texts, and case studies (e.g., musical savants) to learn about the fundamentals of sound, music perception, and the influence of developmental and cultural experiences.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3422 - Appalachian Musical Traditions via the Appalachian Dulcimer.
Examines Appalachian music, history, and folklore. Assembles dulcimers from kits and learns to play traditional Applachian tunes in group and solo settings. Conducts guided research on aspects of Applalachian music.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3423 - Country Music as Literature
Examines Country music as it was first recorded nearly a century ago and how the genre has evolved from merely a southern form listened to by southern people into a vibrant form of American popular culture. Through the exploration of language within and of the genre, we’ll probe social, historical, psychological, racial, sexual, and economic concerns.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3450 - Cultural History of the Depression: Art & Society in 1930s America
Examines some of the most powerful, interesting, and influential music, painting, film, and literature produced during the period of the Great Depression. Exploring these various artistic developments in the context of the Great Depression will facilitate a deeper understanding of American Culture and art not only in the 1930s, but also today.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3453 - Food for Thought: An Exploration of the Way We Eat
Looks at ways food has influenced western culture, and its significance in our lives from the invention of agriculture to the contemporary debate about health foods; examines films and texts to find woman’s role in food production, how religious beliefs, economic factors, and ideas about health influence why and what we eat. Should we live to eat or eat to live? Where do we eat? What forces shape our choice of foods? That’s plenty to chew on!
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3455 - Sources and Development of Modern Architecture and Design
Examines some of the major themes and movements of modern architecture and design from the late 19th century to the 20th century in Europe and the United States. Explores major artistic ideas and movements of the period, including French rationalism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Streamline Modern, Bauhaus, Scandinavian National Romanticism, and American Modernism.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3456 - History of Western Architecture from Antiquity to the Present
Examines the tradition of Western architure from its inception in Greece and Rome to the present. Focuses on aesthetic, cultural, and political ideas framing the design, uses, and meanings of these celebrated buildings. Provides tools for visual analysis using a variety of methods from text anaylsis to visits of buildings.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3457 - Global Architecture
Examines architecture from a global perspective. Focuses on aesthetic, cultural, and political forces that influence design, use, and meaning. Provides students with a vocabulary for discussing architecture as well as tools for visual analysis and interpretation.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3470 - Late Bloomers in the Arts
Focuses upon the phenomenon of creative bursts within the final years of long artistic lives by examining artists such as: Sophocles, Leonardo de Vinci, Monet, Matisse, and Georgia O’Keefe. Emphasizes this phenomenon using literary texts with parallel examples from the artistic worlds of painting and music.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3485 - Childhood, Memory, and Society
Explores changing concepts of the child from medieval times to the present by examining personal memoirs, competing social theories, and literary visions of the child. Focuses on medieval childhood, the romantic child, the Victorian child, slave children, pioneer childhood, immigrant childhood, childhood and the Great Depression, and childhood in today’s family.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3500 - Photography as Art
Examines the tense but fruitful relationship between photography and art. Draws upon aesthetics, history, and criticism to explore controversies about photography as art, examine the impact of photography on artistic ideas and practices, and evaluate the importance of photography and art in modern culture.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3615 - Leonardo and Michelangelo
Examines the notion of artistic genius in relation to these artists through a study of the context from which they emerged, looking closely at the Florentine workshops in which they trained and questioning long-held beliefs regarding the myth of the artist. Develops a deeper understanding of the relationship between Leonardo and Michelangelo through a comparison of their other extant works.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3616 - What is Art?
Introduces the study of the visual arts by way of ideas from current artistic practices and institutional culture, history, aesthetics, and anthropology. Examines art objects from a wide range of epochs and cultures, prehistoric to contemporary, that respond to and help illuminate questions of original purpose, commodity status, beauty, and historical significance.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3621 - The Biological Basis for Art
Investigates the idea of approaching art as a form of human evolution. Examines the art of several past and present cultures. Blends art and science to connect aesthetics to an understanding of human nature from the cognitive and biological sciences. Examines existing personal and cultural theories of art and art criticism.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3622 - Art as Protest: The Situationist International and the Contemporary World
Examines art as protest in the contemporary world. Traces the history and influence of the Situationist International on contemporary art and culture as a culmination of other Avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Requires students to create artworks, or write proposals for artworks, in dialogue with Avant-garde movements such as DaDa, the Surrealists, CoBrA, Art Informal, and Abstract Expressionism to determine their impact on the present.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3623 - Studio Art Seminar: Painting
Introduces painting techniques and concepts, with emphasis on the understanding of its formal language and the fundamentals of artistic expression. Explores color theory, linear perspective, pictorial composition , figure/ground relationships, visual perception, spatial concepts, and critical thinking skills.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3624 - Visual Culture and Aesthetics: The Practice of Seeing
Examines the cultural elements involved in the interactive process of defining and interpreting the meaning of visual images with regard to how art images are produced, consumed, and made meaningful. Explores images in art history and digital media to investigate the philosophical, social, and cultural influences which affect how we interpret and define the art experience.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3625 - Bruno Schulz: The Age of Genius
Explores Bruno Schulz’s two collections of short stories, as well as his letters and essays. Examines reproductions of his drawings and paintings. Engages student opinions and critical discourse with regard to his writings and paintings.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3626 - Studio Art Seminar: Sculpture
Immerses students immediately into the medium of sculptue through discussion and creation. Examines the history of sculpture from antiquity to the present through emphasis on contemporary sculpture. Observes the sculptural works of several artists including Duchamp, Brancusi, Judd, Smithson, Beuys, Hess, Nuaman, Goldsworthy, and many others the exploration of a wide variety of materials and techniques.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3630 - The American Presidency in Film and Television
Examines representations of government, specifically the presidency by analyzing fictional depictions of the presidency in film and tv. Allows students to grasp the language of political film and television, by its necessary manipulations, guided and misguided intentions, and its tangible results on society.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3700 - The Romans
Incorporates important Roman works, including art and architecture. Reviews the major interpretations of modern scholarship.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3720 - Victor Hugo’s Paris
Explores literary, historical, artistic, biographical and cultural Paris through the lens of author and activist Victor Hugo and offers students opportunities to analyze the impact Hugo and Paris had on each other. Encourages students to consider Hugo’s ideas about freedom, architecture and nature; learn from French Hugo experts; and analyze how both Paris and Hugo affect them and expand their understanding.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3800 - Important Issues in Art Since 1945
This course covers the development of high modernism, beginning with Abstract Expressionism, and continue through postmodern practices of conceptual art, feminism, performance art, and site-specific installation art.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3810 - Ethical Issues
Introduces the philosophical concept of the ethical discrimination of actions. Examines primary sources in some detail by presenting prevailing philosophical systems. Studies decision-making in the context of the contemporary world using examples such as business environment, faith and religion, and the political arena.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3820 - American National Identity
Examines how to reconcile national unity and cultural diversity; the responsibilities of democratic citizenship with the cultural values of a consumer society; and being a patriotic American citizen with the contemporary imperative to become citizens of the world. Explores important writings by comparing American figures and ideas of 1968 to some of the key figures and ideas of 2008.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3840 - The Ethical & Philosophical Primate: Evolution, Ethics and Human Altruism
Examines evolutionary explanations for the origins of morality, philosophy and religion, and their ramifications for ethics and culture. Recognizes the views of Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and Natural Selection and identifies the cultural and ethical implications of living with each view in today’s world.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3850 - Virtues and Vices
Evaluates the conceptions of the virtues and the vices that are articulated by the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Friedrich Nietzsche and others. Explores ethical theories concerned with the relation between morality and human happiness/human flourishing.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3851 - Screening Terrorism
Examines cimematic and televisual representations of terrorism. Promotes critical awareness of the ways in which terrorism is depicted on screen and explores the complex ways in which real acts of terror involve performance and theatrics.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3860 - Faith and Doubt
Explores the relationship between religious faith, forms of reasoning, and scientific explanation. Examines such questions as: What is the nature of religious faith? Is religious faith a rational, irrational, or non-rational belief? Does reasoning undermine faith or strengthen it? Are scientific and religious perspectives compatible?
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3900 - Identity and Culture in Contemporary Dance
This course examines the ways in which dance creates and expresses ideas of personal and cultural significance in ritual, theatrical, and social contexts. By observing dance on film and reading ethnographic, historical and theoretical texts, students explore the emergent meaning of dance from the perspective of both performers and spectators.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3901 - Dance: Anthropological Origins of Dance and Music in World Cultures
Examines the anthropological origins of dance history in world cultures. Discusses the importance of dance to define and preserve the historic traditions within a culture. Explores the inherent relationship between dance and music within both the socio-cultural and folk aspects, as well as the ceremonial, religious, and ritual aspects of a culture.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3902 - Dance: Origins, Ethnology, and Evolution
Examines how dance is the human expression of communication through movement. Explores how dance is used as a universal language to express such things as emotion, entertainment, storytelling, or representation of religious or ritualistic ceremony. Follows the history of dance, its origins, ethnology, and the evolution of dance to present day.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3950 - Acting
This course will introduce students to the craft of acting. Students will learn fundamental techniques for the actor, including defining the character through text analysis, creation of subtext, analysis of the structure of the text (beats) and of the character motivations (objectives and obstacles).
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3951 - Discovering the Art of Acting
Studies the fundamentals of acting. Focuses on textual analysis, personalization, objectives, and characterization. Uses some of the basic techniques of pivotal acting teachers, Constantine Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Sanford Meisner, in scene work and in performing short plays.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3952 - Exploration of Theatre as an Art Form
Studies the people of the theatre: actors, directors, designers, and backstage personnel and topics that include the core and characteristics of a script; theatrical forms and styles; acting and theatre history. Gain a deeper appreciation for the various tools, techniques and collaborative styles required when producing theatre in a team setting.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3953 - African-American Theater, Music and Dance from the 19th - 20th Century
Explores the historic perspective of the influence of African-American culture on theater, music and dance of 19th-20th Century U.S. Examines the socio-cultural aspects of the integration of West African slaves into America. Probes the evolution of early American theater beginning with minstrels, for example, and continues with the development of both music and dance of the Jazz Age.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 3960 - The Elements of Action
This course explores the concept of Action, the basic fundamental tool of all theatrical art, and how it informs the creation of performance for the stage. Through games, improvisations and scene work, ranging from Shakespeare to Sam Shepard, students experience and develop the idea of what it takes to be fully Alive in the Present Moment, and connect that with the imaginative craft of acting.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 4000 - Writing the Unwritten
Since the Romantic era, writing has often been motivated by the desire to say what has not been said, whether through neglect or through social censorship. Reading works by American and British novelists from the 19th century to the present, students will explore changing definitions of the unwritten during this period as well as write their own personal narratives, analytic essays and prose fiction as a means to discover and bring forth the unwritten in their own experience.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 4010 - The Performing Arts: Myth, Mysticism, and Merriment
Examines the history of western culture through the history of the performing arts, beginning with plays of ancient Greece and ending with musicals of twentieth-century Broadway and Hollywood. Examines different works of art in order to discover what they can tell about the aspirations, fears, and basic conflicts of the societies from which they emerged.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 4011 - That Devil Music: A Cultural History of Blues Music in the U.S.
Examines why many scholars claim that Blues formed the basis for Rock n’ Roll, Classic Rock, and even some of today’s music. Analyzes the sophisticated art form known simply as the Blues. Formulate your own questions, or investigate topics within the scope of the course that are of particular interest to you.
Credits: 3
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ISHU 4012 - Popular Music and Media
Examines how media technologies have impacted the production, dissemination, and consumption of popular music. Considers the economic and legal issues that intersect this ongoing history.
Credits: 3
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