Resistance in Black Popular Culture
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Black Panthers, Brown Berets: Radical Social Movements of the Late-20th Century
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Dixieland? - Literature and Culture of the American South
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More Than A Game: Leadership and Social Change in Sports
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Race, Gender & Horror: Reading Psychoanalysis in American Film & Fiction
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Reimagining Leadership: Art and Social Change
Do you enjoy making meaningful art, being creative, and being part of an engaged and caring community? This course will provide an opportunity for you to cultivate a creative practice, engage in dialogue about the potential for art to be a catalyst for social change, and build a critical toolbox of resources and experiences to strengthen individual and collaborative art-making. Experienced and novice art makers, musicians, dancers, poets, and multimedia creators will find new ways to channel your creative energies into an Action Plan with community impact. Through a contemporary and historical lens, you will explore the relationship between the self and the collective to understand better the collaborative relationship between the “artist” and the “audience.” You will leave this course prepared to continue developing a socially-conscious creative practice in their community.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyVisual Art & Art HistoryCreative WritingPerforming & Media ArtsModern Culture & MediaPsychologyMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness: An Interdisciplinary Approach
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Leadership and the Politics of Food
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Reimagining Leadership: Art and Activism
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Rome, Italy - Making of an Eternal City
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Ethical Questions of the Information Age
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Introduction to Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3D Printing
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"All of them Witches!": Race, Gender, and Witchcraft in Popular Culture
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20th Century Literary Movements and Theories
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Beyond the Book: Text, Image, and Experiments in the In-between
This course will explore the possibilities of what we can make, quite literally, from our own experience: what happens when our hand doesn’t stop moving, goes from writing to visual art, and back again? We will draw on a combination of creative nonfiction, poetry, and collage, and, working from personal experience and the world around us, make physical objects (chapbooks, hybrid essays, comics, etc.) that blend forms and themes and ask: what is “creative work”? In what ways can social media and technology contribute to the creative process, and how can they help us see alternative examples of the “book”? How can they hinder it? How can we look at the personal—our past and present experience, the ways we interact with the world, the ways we talk to ourselves and synthesize our surroundings—as a way to connect with individuals and the world at large?
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Tagged With: Visual Art & Art HistoryCreative WritingEnglish & World LiteratureModern Culture & Media
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Comedy and Cruelty
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Innovative Writing Across Media: An Introduction to the College Workshop
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Law and Literature
This course considers how law and literature contribute jointly to our sense of justice and our understanding of injustice. Through novels, poetry, film, legal writings, and legal opinions, we examine how law and literature create interrelated narratives that shed light on issues like identity, sexuality, injury, policing, speech, and silence.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyEnglish & World LiteratureLegal StudiesModern Culture & MediaPolitical Science
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Literature, Culture, and American Identities
America has been described as a melting pot and a nation of immigrants, but what does it mean to be an “American” and to claim an “American” identity? This course will introduce students to the study of personal and group identity in U.S. literature and culture. Crossing multiple genres, historical periods, and cultural forms (fiction, film, TV), we will examine a diverse range of texts by African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, Jewish American, and Native American writers. We will ask how these writers have come to understand the United States, and how they have used literary and cultural expression to represent their own experiences and the experiences of their communities in the U.S.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyEnglish & World LiteratureHistory & American StudiesModern Culture & Media
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Monstrosities: The Meaning of Monsters in the Modern World
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Multimedia Storytelling
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Web-Based Language Art
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Build A Better Mousetrap: Solving Environmental Conundrums
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You Can’t Spell “Earth” Without “Art”: Art & Environmental Leadership
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Intermediate to Advanced Spanish
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Screening Social Justice in the Spanish-Speaking World
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Popular Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
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Power and the Production of History
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Segovia, Spain - Spanish Life and Culture
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Ancient Art in the Flesh: Discovering Ancient Art at the RISD Museum
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Art, Fashion, and Gender in the Modern Age
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Trends in Modern Art
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Around the World in 10 Days: Exploring Tourism
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Celluloid Deaths: Cinema, Pleasure, and Death
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Documentary Production and Practice
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From Mayberry to Netflix: Topics in Television Studies, Race, Gender, and Class
Television’s modes of content creation, distribution, and consumption are changing rapidly. Some would argue that television has usurped film as the preeminent visual medium of our age, while others would suggest that television and film are converging to the point that these very labels are becoming meaningless. Regardless, alternative modes of production and distribution allow for a plethora of diverse shows that no longer have to “play in Peoria.” Concurrently, issues of race, gender, and class on television are more prominent and pervasive than ever. But is increased representation—of minority, female, and LGBTQ characters—enough? What is “good” or “bad” representation, or should we eliminate this binary altogether? How do we define quality and/or relevant television? The purpose of this course is to collect the tools that we need in order to think critically about what we watch.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyHistory & American StudiesModern Culture & MediaPolitical Science
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Introduction to Film Analysis
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Post-Cinema? New Media and the Digital Turn
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The *@#%* Media: Enough Disinformation!
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The People vs. The Media: Race and Gender in Representations of Crime
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"Who Run the World? Girls": Women's Music for Social Change
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Electronic Music Production: From Idea to Practice
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Implicit Bias - What is it and Who is to Blame?
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Nevertheless, She Persisted: Current Issues in Feminist Philosophy
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Introduction to Women’s Studies
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Making Sense of the World: Analyzing the Key Players in the International System
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Posting Power - Digital Media and the Transformation of Politics
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The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Culture and Psychology
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Freud: Psychoanalysis and Its Legacies
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Media and Mental Health
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Leadership for Educational Equity
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The F-Word: Examining the Science, Culture, and Politics of Fatness
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Women and Leadership
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Acting
Acting is about doing! Explore your unique potential. You will develop valuable acting, collaboration, and communication skills. This is a useful, challenging, and fun exploration of the art of acting.
In class, students work on scenes, applying new techniques. There will be multiple presentations of scene work, the final one open to the public. Develop physical, vocal, emotional, and intellectual skills. CREATE a supportive collaborative space. Have fun exploring!
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Tagged With: Performing & Media ArtsEnglish & World LiteratureHistory & American StudiesPsychologyMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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Culture War Bootcamp: Curation, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship in the Arts
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Effective Communication: Presenting to the Public
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Persuasive Communication and Public Speaking
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Playwriting I
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Presenting to the Public
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Writing for Performance/Designing Creative Inquiry
Humans not only communicate through stories, we build our lives around them. We inherit stories, invent them through both necessity and imagination; we justify wars based on stories, we create borders based on stories, we make stories out of love and family and fear and longing and joy. The ability to focus on a story, to follow a line of curiosity, or inquiry, has powerful implications for discovery and for how we shape the future of our world. Constructing a rigorous creative practice is one of the most exciting and important things we can do. This course will provide a workshop setting in which those who are interested in storytelling, in writing, in play (playwriting, play-making), in the big ideas that shape our lives, will focus on the development of a single performance text.
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Tagged With: Creative WritingPerforming & Media ArtsWriting & CommunicationsMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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Drawing Intensive
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Female Forces: Hidden Histories of Art + Design
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Foundation Painting
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Photography Foundation
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Queer Strategies of Resistance: Fools, Tricksters, Shapeshifters
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Sculpture Foundation
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Studio Foundation
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