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DEPARTMENTof HUMANITIESThe course offerings in the Department of Humanitiesattempt to sharpen students’ decision-making andcommunication skills, enlarge students’ understanding oftheir own culture and other cultures, and increase theirappreciation of major art forms in an intellectual andapplied context. The Department offers each studentan opportunity to select from a variety of required andelective courses. Courses that fulfill elective graduationrequirements but not core requirements in a subject aredesignated with an asterisk (*).Graduation Requirement in HumanitiesAll junior students must complete the two-trimester,interdisciplinary AS305 American Studies, or be exempt.All students must complete an additional two trimestersof core English credit. Students who exempt AS305American Studies must complete at least two units ofhistory or social science and four units of core Englishcredit.COURSE OFFERINGS: ArtAR302* Art ApplicationsOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 3 periods per weekThis course exposes students to four valuable art skills in onetrimester. Drawing in pencil and pen and ink introducesstudents to concepts of right brain stimulation, seeing andanalyzing reality, and interpreting reality by using abstractexpression to respond to their personal feelings. All sectionsof the course start out with this foundation and then proceedto a varying sequence of other skills: screen-printing,photography, ceramics, or other media as determined by theinstructor.AR304* CeramicsOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 3 periods per weekDesigned for beginning, intermediate, and advancedstudents, this course teaches the basics of handbuildingand wheelthrowing earthenware and stoneware clays, andincludes glaze composition and kiln firing.AR306* PhotographyOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 2 periods per weekprimarily black-and-white film based photography.AR308* Graphic and Media DesignOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 3 periods per weekThe course aims to develop an understanding of good design. Theassignments include web design, illustration, animation, and mediaart. This class involves in-class demonstrations and supervised worksessions as well as out-of-class work. Students assemble a portfolioof their work on CD in order to complete this course.AR312* Acrylic PaintingOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: One three hour evening class meetingThe course cultivates learners’ interest and appreciation foracrylic painting. The subjects include still life, landscape, andportrait acrylic painting, as well as art theory and appreciation.This course involves in-class demonstrations and supervisedwork sessions as well as out-of-class work. Students assemble aportfolio of their completed work.AR314* Oil PaintingOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: One three hour evening class meetingThe course cultivates learners’ interest and appreciation for oilpainting. The subjects include still life, landscape, and portraitoil painting, as well as art theory and appreciation. This classinvolves in-class demonstrations and supervised work sessions aswell as out-of-class work. Students assemble a portfolio of theirwork completed in this course.AR316* Digital Fine Art PhotographyOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 3 periods per weekThis course introduces students to the concepts and techniquesnecessary to create, edit, and store color photographic imagesusing digital technology. Units on color theory, image-editing,printing options, and digital image storage are also covered.Students focus on personal exploration using technology as acreative medium for visual expression.AR318* Mixed MediaOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 3 periods per weekIn this course, students develop an inventive and experimentalapproach to a variety of media and examine how media,idea, and composition relate. Nontraditional uses of traditionalmaterials are explored as well as the boundaries betweenpainting and sculpture when nontraditional materials areincorporated in assemblage form.HUMANITIES / artStudents learn how to use 35 mm film cameras, how todevelop their own film, and how to make photographicprints on paper. This class utilizes in-class demonstrations,instructor-assisted darkroom work, and independent studentwork so that students become confident in their abilities inconceiving and executing photographic prints. This course isNCSSM 2008-095COURSE CATALOG
HUMANITIES / englishCOURSE OFFERINGS: EnglishAS305 American StudiesTwo trimesters (2 units of core English credit and 2 units ofcore history/social science credit)Meeting pattern: 8 periods per weekThis double-credit, interdisciplinary course examines Americanliterary and historical writings. Students gain an understandingof the ideas, issues, events, and people that have made up theAmerican experience from the Colonial Era to the present. Througha variety of assignments and activities, students develop their skillsin reading, speaking, and research with special emphasis on thewriting process.EN302* Intensive Writing WorkshopOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 4 periods per weekThis course offers students the opportunity to engage in intensivedevelopment of their writing skills. From solving the mysteries ofEnglish grammar and mechanics to the fine art of developingthe well-wrought essay, this course teaches students to write welland more easily. Students experiment with a variety of writtenassignments and engage in peer review.EN352* African American StudiesOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 4 periods per week including labThis interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to AfricanAmerican history, literature, and culture. Students examinesignificant social, political, economic, and religious issues as wellas issues of identity in the lives of African Americans from thesixteenth century to the present. In addition to readings in historicalbackgrounds and documents, students explore texts ranging fromslave narratives, folktales, and spirituals to the works of writers, artists,and musicians during the Harlem Renaissance to contemporaryworks by such writers as Alice Walker and Henry Lewis Gatesand filmmaker Spike Lee. Through a variety of assignments andactivities, students continue to develop their skills in reading,speaking, and research, with special emphasis on the writingprocess.EN354* Creative WritingOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Prerequisite: Permission of Dean of Humanities.Meeting pattern: 3 periods per week including lab“There’s nothing quite as hopeful as a blank sheet of paper,” writerDaphne Athas once declared. In this course, students explore thepossibilities of the blank page in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.Students also gain experience in screenwriting. Studentsread and analyze both canonical and contemporary short stories,poems, and non-fiction works. Students examine fundamentaltechniques of fiction and poetry writing (point-of-view, narrativestructure, dramatic scene, characterization, diction, poetic formsand structure, etc.) and practice these techniques in extensivewriting exercises designed to help students find their way totheir own stories, poems, and non-fiction essays. Students keepa notebook in which they record budding ideas, snatches ofdialogue and description, reflections and observations, and otherpossible beginnings. Drafts are discussed and critiqued in classworkshops and in individual conferences with the instructor. By thecourse’s end, each student completes a full-length story, a sheaf ofpoems, and several non-fiction essays. The course culminates in thepublication of students’ work—in a class anthology, a website, anindividual chapbook, or a public reading.NCSSM 2008-096EN356* Introduction to Film Criticism: Auteur,Genre, and StyleOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 1 two-and-a-half hour evening classmeetingIn this course, through weekly film viewing, discussion, andreadings, students learn the fundamentals of film criticism: how filmtechniques work and how they support meaning in film; how thesetechniques developed; how distinctive directors have used themto create signature films; and how the elements of film may alsobe considered in relation to a particular genre or style. Studentsdemonstrate what they have learned through independent criticalprojects.EN358* Modern Drama:Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee?One trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 3 periods per week including labThis literature course examines works of modern European andAmerican drama by authors such as Anton Chekhov, Jean PaulSartre, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, and TomStoppard. Students use performance rehearsal techniques toexplore the plays; but no acting experience or talent is required,only the willingness to stand and deliver with everyone else.Students also study film versions of some of the plays. This coursefurther develops students’ skills in reading, writing, critical thinking,research, and public speaking.EN360* Advanced Topics in Academic WritingOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Prerequisite: Completion of AS305 American Studieswith a 4 or higher on the Writing Rubrics or completionof AS305 American Studies and EN302* Intensive WritingWorkshop with a B+ or higherMeeting pattern: 3 periods per week including labThis advanced writing class offers students who have alreadymastered the basic essay the opportunity to develop their criticalthinking, research, and rhetorical skills. The process of writing isemphasized in increasingly complex rhetorical situations witha focus on developing analytic thinking and problem-solvingstrategies in writing. Students learn methods of academic researchincluding evaluation, documentation, and incorporation of sourcesinto an argument. Students engage in exposition, narration, andargumentation in their personal writing as well as analytical writingover the texts they read. The class may be theme-based and mayalso include a focus on the research paper or personal essay.EN362* Classical MythologyOne trimester (1 unit of credit)Meeting pattern: 3 periods per weekGood stories told over and over form the cultural backbone ofevery world society. This course investigates the world-famousstories and story patterns of the ancient Greeks and other culturesof the ancient Mediterranean world including Rome, Egypt, andthe Near East. Special attention is paid to the history of mythinterpretation and modern mythology. Students read and researchextensively to interpret myth on their own.COURSE CATALOG
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