Curriculum & Courses

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Learning Outcomes

LA_SLG1) Ways of Knowing Students: Students will demonstrate awareness and appreciation of multiple ways of knowing, as reflected in the fields of study and areas of expertise within the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
LA_SLG2) Cultural Breadth and Global Awareness: Students will demonstrate familiarity with a range of cultural, social, and intellectual traditions in the context of a changing, globalized world.
LA_SLG3) Critical and Analytical Thinking: Students will be able to analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments, engaging with ideas, evidence, and artifacts.
LA_SLG4) Effective Communication Skills: Students will be able to speak and write effectively, communicating with precision, clarity, and rhetorical force.
HUM_SLG 1) Students will study and question how crucial ideas about human and non-human nature, knowledge, experience, and value have been developed, supported, and/or expressed in major areas of the humanities, such as philosophy, religion, literature (including poetry and the dramatic arts), and music in various cultures and time periods.
HUM_SLO1.1) Students will demonstrate understanding of the methods used in the humanities, such as argumentation and interpretation.
HUM_SLO1.2) Students will demonstrate understanding of the crucial ideas in the humanities as they have been explored in different cultures and times, and/or in connection to issues that currently affect individuals and societies across the globe.
HUM_SLO1.3) Students will evaluate claims and the evidence and/or reasons given in support of these claims, as found in primary and secondary sources.
HUM_SLO1.4) Students will construct their own claims and defend them in written and/or oral forms, and using proper methods of documentation (e.g. citation and bibliography).
SCI_SLG1) Students will increase their knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the natural world, science, and mathematics.
SCI_SLO1.1) Students will demonstrate knowledge of the nature of science and/or mathematics as a knowledge making process.
SCI_SLO1.2) Students will develop and evaluate claims that involve a scientific or mathematical component.
SCI_SLO1.3) Students will display curiosity about nature, natural science, and/or mathematics.
SCI_SLO1.4) Students will confidently attempt reasoning tasks that involve a scientific or mathematical component.
SCI_SLO1.5) Students will demonstrate appreciation for the role of science and/or mathematics both in everyday life and in contemporary issues.
FYS_SLG1) Students will learn to embrace the writing process and establish writerly habits, while developing guided critical reading, thinking, and writing skills necessary for their success in upper-level course work. Students will learn to collaborate and to take their work, and the work of their peers seriously, thereby establishing best practices of critique.
FYS_SLO1.1) Students will formulate inquiries emerging from readings of texts.
FYS_SLO1.2) Students will establish research methods.
FYS_SLO1.3) Students will analyze and synthesize multiple texts and cite evidence.
FYS_SLO1.4) Students will construct a complex claim and an argument.
FYS_SLO1.5) Students will practice the writerly process (i.e. revision, reflection, and peer review).
SOSCI_SLG 1) Students will question and explore how human behavior, societal arrangements, and cultural practices vary across time and space.
SOSCI_SLO1.1) Students will demonstrate understanding of the investigative methods used in the social sciences.
SOSCI_SLO1.2) Students will evaluate and develop claims based on primary and secondary sources.
SOSCI_SLO1.3) Students will communicate clearly in written and oral forms.
SOSCI_SLO1.4) Students will write citations and bibliographies in accordance with one or more social science disciplines.

Courses

Title	Catalog	Instructor	Schedule
FYS I: The Art of Life Writing	1001 (001)	Aaron Greenberg	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description The art of life writing includes yet transcends the genres of (auto)biography, memoir, confession, diaries, journals, and social media posts. It is a way of life, a creative practice, a performative invitation of past, present, and future selves. As an essential skill of self-representation beyond the classroom, life writing is ideal for exploring the roles of memory, time, authority, and experience in creating individual and collective identities. This seminar will engage key figures across the span of life writing, including Frederick Douglass, who, regarding biographical details such as his age and parents, writes, ¿I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me.¿ As we experiment with innovative tools for writing life in the 21st century, including voice-based composition, we¿ll consider the styles and effects of life writing, including its power to discover as well as create knowledge. Other texts may include St. Teresa¿s Life, Mary Karr¿s The Art of Memoir, Tara Westover¿s Educated, and Ben Franklin¿s Autobiography. Authors including Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, Leigh Gilmore, and Ben Yagoda will provide critical context for our discussions. Students will create 15-20 pages of formal, revisable, and publishable writing across three short essays and two in-depth revisions. FYS I guides students through college-level writing, establishing foundations for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts classes.	Class Number 1453	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
Reading Art	1001 (001)	Jennie Berner	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.	Class Number 1067	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
FYS I:Hyphenated Identities	1001 (002)	Maryjane Lao Villamor	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description FYS I breaks down the critical writing process to provide a guided experience in college-level writing, thereby forming the necessary foundations for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts classes. The class will explore whether the concept of a hyphenated identity (a dual identity divided by ethnicity, race and culture) stands for otherness, opposition, inclusion, or all of the above. Essays by hyphenated writers, such as Ronald Takaki, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Amy Tan, and Audre Lorde, will act as points of departure as well as models of writing for our exploration of the myth of the United States as a cultural melting pot and whether we can reclaim the hyphenated identity as a source of pride and empowerment in today¿s political climate. Students build writing skills through 15-20 pages of formal, revisable writing (i.e. three multi-draft essays) in addition to homework exercises and in-class writings. Through thoughtfully crafted writing, can we begin to give voice to ethnic populations and create an open dialogue about race, displacement, migration, post-colonialism, post-imperialism, and representation?	Class Number 1430	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
Reading Art	1001 (002)	Sophie Goalson	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.	Class Number 1063	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Sharp 409
FYS I: Class Matters	1001 (003)	Maryjane Lao Villamor	Fri 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description Through thoughtfully crafted writing, can we begin to identify and address how problems of class, race, and gender are intertwined in ways that maintain oppression and inequality? This course attempts to do so by breaking down the critical writing process and providing a guided experience in college-level writing, thereby forming the necessary foundations for FYS II and upper-level Liberal Arts classes. Student writing will explore the American class-based system and its connections to race and gender. Course materials include essays by bell hooks, Donna Langston, and Audre Lorde, as well as screenings, such as interviews with Isabel Wilkerson discussing her book Caste. These course materials will act as points of departure as well as models of writing for our critical examination of class in American society and its role in maintaining systems of oppression and inequality. Critical writing skills are developed through 15-20 pages of formal, revisable writing (i.e. two multi-draft essays and one in-depth revision project) in addition to homework exercises and in-class writings.	Class Number 1476	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 205
Reading Art	1001 (003)	Aiko Kojima Hibino	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.	Class Number 1068	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location 280 Building Rm 120
FYS I: Cinema and Greek Drama	1001 (004)	Kerry Balden	Fri 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Greek tragedies not only established tragedy as a form, but they crystallized accounts of the Greek myths that have pervaded the cultural imaginary ever since, attested in the many filmic adaptations of Greek tragedies. In this course, we read the tragedies, coupled with viewing their adaptations. Preferring the translations of poet Anne Carson, we read seven tragedies, watch seven adaptations, and read a handful of literary and film criticism. In particular, we read Susan Sontag, Laura Mulvey, Claire Johnston, and Carolyn Dunham, and watch films by Jules Dassin and Sophie Deraspe. For the first half of our meeting, we¿ll discuss a tragedy, or watch and discuss one. For the second half of the meeting, we¿ll learn specific writing concepts, which we¿ll then apply to the previous week¿s completed Writing Exercise, analyzing the writing of your peers, and suggesting revisions. Students can expect to write one to two pages per week for most of the term, with the goal being to have produced 15-20 pages of formal, revisable writing by end of term.	Class Number 1431	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
Reading Art	1001 (004)	Jennie Berner	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.	Class Number 1064	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 206
FYS I: Writing About Music	1001 (005)	Emily C. Hoyler	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Music is sometimes called the universal language, yet writers often seek to describe it in words. Music scholars, music critics, music fans, and musicians use words to describe music and to make claims about its merits. This course will explore various styles, techniques, and vocabularies for writing about musical sound and performance. The focus will be on reviews of live concerts, album releases, and film music. Students will develop critical thinking skills by evaluating the effectiveness of an author¿s argument. Students will practice making claims and presenting arguments that are successfully supported by writing style, sources, evidence, structure, and logic. Students will read various articles, essays, and chapters about music by historical and contemporary music scholars, critics, and journalists. Topics vary but may include film music, art music and modernism, music technology, and the recording industry, with a focus on music in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States. In addition to in-class writing assignments, students will write an original research paper, broken down into several assignments/ drafts. Students should expect to write 15-20 double-spaced pages over the course of the term, including revisions based on instructor and peer feedback.	Class Number 1477	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 206
Reading Art	1001 (005)	Jennie Berner	Fri 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description Reading Art is a seminar that orients students to college studies and emphasizes students' advancement of college-level critical reading and thinking skills. Students learn how to read and analyze artworks using the formal vocabulary of art and design, as well as how to read about art in art history textbooks, scholarly journals, and other sources. Students improve their ability to process, retain, and apply information by using active learning strategies and graphic organizers, including a schematic note-taking system. In addition to weekly readings and exercises, students complete an in-depth synthesis project on an artwork of their choosing. Regular museum visits complement class work.	Class Number 2449	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 206
FYS I: Law as Story	1001 (009)	Frank Bonacci	Mon 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description As citizens, our only contact with the legal system usually occurs when we have gone awry of the law. We see the legal system from the outside, and it¿s not pretty. We also know that the law protects our rights¿despite this knowledge, the legal system has a reputation of working for the rich while stepping on ¿the little guy.¿ And lawyers? Everybody hates lawyers. But at its heart, the law is two parties telling a story and submitting those stories to a third party who judges which one best fits the law. This course will begin with discussions and writing exercises based on stories and storytelling. Each week after that, we will read and discuss cases or stories related to the law and write about these stories, their role as ¿story,¿ and how they fit into the general standards and notions of what a story is. Papers will focus on the story¿s relation to the law, and the structural and rhetorical elements used in the stories, storytelling and academic discourse as a whole. They will also focus on effective ways to present opinions. Through the legal elements of the course, students will learn critical thinking skills by evaluating the case, the story, and the relationship between the two. They will discern how the case was put together, which elements of argument were used, and why. Students will read cases that are vital to U.S. history, are entertaining, or both. These will include Marbury v. Madison, Palsgraf, and others. Among other readings will be works by Jonathan Shapiro and Franz Kafka. In addition to in-class writing, students will write 15-20 pages of formal writing over the course of the term, using a process approach, including instructor and student feedback.	Class Number 1435	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
FYS I: Contemporary Shorts	1001 (010)	James Sieck	Mon 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description In this first-year seminar course, we will explore a variety of contemporary short films, stories, and poetry to help us hone our ability to make meaning with complex works of art and to engage in critical, interpretive analysis of how and why each work was constructed. Using short films, short stories, and poems as our core texts gives us the unique opportunity to engage with a wide range of both storytellers and stories told. Meaning, expect to interact with a diverse landscape of authorial voice, thematic content, and narrative technique. All three of these forms are able to convey complex truths about the world we live in, and our discussions and classroom practices will give us the tools to create focused, nuanced interpretations of each piece and to make critical connections between themes and techniques. By the end of this course, students will have a more sophisticated grasp of the mechanics of film, narrative, and poetry. This is an inquiry and discussion based course, and we will learn to situate questions as the basis of our practice as readers, writers, and thinkers. In addition, FYSI guides students through college-level writing, establishing foundations for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts classes. Students will write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing. Our writing workshops will focus on generating questions and language, collecting meaningful evidence, constructing sophisticated thesis statements, creating helpful outlines, and drafting our essays. Peer feedback; 1-1 teacher feedback; and in-class writing workshops will be key components of this course.	Class Number 1455	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS I: Sound, Noise, Power	1001 (011)	Joshua Rios	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This class examines cultural and political power in relation to ideas about sound and noise. What we hear, mis-hear, do not hear, cannot hear, or choose not to hear plays an important role in social life. Those that have power have the power to decide what counts as an acceptable sound or disturbing noise. These facts make sound and noise central to issues of social justice, political activism, and public space. Sound and noise are also vital to the creation of communities of celebration and dissent ¿ in the form of the noise strike, the protest chant, or the collective sing-along, for example. Social groups produce themselves through their listening practices and shared forms of sounding out. We will read and listen closely to scholars, artists, experimental musicians, and journalist like Jennifer Stoever (The Sonic Color Line), Kevin Beasley (A view of a landscape: A cotton gin motor), Gala Porras-Kim (Whistling and Language Transfiguration), Moor Mother (Irreversible Entanglements) and Gregory Tate (Flyboy in the Buttermilk). Additionally, we will learn from a variety of types of sources including Literature, Musicology, Art, Cultural Criticism, Music Journalism, and Poetry. Along with experimental writing assignments linking related topics, key terms, and ideas to personal and social experiences, students will produce 15-20 pages of organized writing broken into drafts and revisions.	Class Number 1436	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 818
FYS I: Pop Music and Power	1001 (012)	Claire Lobenfeld	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description What can pop music uncover about power? In this writing-intensive course, we'll look at pop music through the lenses of artistry, politics, and history while developing college-level writing skills that build a foundation for FYS II and upper-level Liberal Arts courses. Artists up for discussion include Lizzo, Britney Spears, Jojo Siwa, Chappell Roan, SOPHIE, and, of course, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. We'll read authors like Danyel Smith, Sasha Geffen, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Rawiya Kamier and hear from the artists themselves through music, interviews, performances, and documentaries. Class time will be spent writing, revising, and developing skills in critical analysis and making a claim in service of 15-20 pages of multi-draft, formal writing. Throughout the semester, peer-reviewing and one-on-one instructor conferences support the process.	Class Number 2172	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYS I: Curiosities	1001 (014)	Joanna Anos	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description To have curiosity is to be inquisitive, to wonder and to want to know. To be a curiosity, on the other hand, is to be a novelty or rarity, something odd or unusual or strange. In this writing intensive course, students explore curiosities, practice wonder, and pursue questioning. Readings include verbal and visual texts: essays and articles, photographs and artifacts. Students write and revise several essays of modest length, including analyses of visual texts and their own ¿curated collection¿ of curiosities.	Class Number 1437	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 518
FYS I: Edward Yang	1001 (015)	Annette Elliot-Hogg	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Taiwanese director Edward Yang is a poet of film. His intimate epics exhibit a mastery of form characterized by meditative narrative rhythms, long takes, medium shots over close-ups, and a detached, static camera. In this class, we will formally analyze three films¿Taipei Story (1985), A Brighter Summer Day (1991) and Yi Yi (2000) to understand how cinematic techniques work together to create meaning in a film. We will also examine the films within the broader context of the Taiwanese New Wave. First Year Seminar I is an intensive writing course. In class, we will engage deeply with course materials in productive discussions that will foster critical thinking and inform student writing. In addition to weekly homework assignments and in-class writing, students can expect to compose and revise 15-20 pages of formal writing through a process approach to hone their argumentative skills and build their confidence in expressing their ideas clearly and effectively.	Class Number 1480	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYS I:The American Short Story	1001 (016)	Alexander W Jochaniewicz	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This class will examine the American short story and survey its origins and development over the past two hundred years. Our study of the American short story will begin with formal elements of fiction, including how writers use and innovate within traditional storytelling practices, and then we will widen our scope and consider historical and cultural contexts. This literature is challenging and controversial--and studying it will help refine our own thoughts and modes of expression, too. The reading list includes (among others) Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Sarah Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Raymond Carver, Juhumpa Lahiri, Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie, and Z.Z. Packer. Individual interpretations will be emphasized, and a slow-and-close reading of both the literature and our own writing will be practiced. This class will also engage in the process of writing, including prewriting (inquiry and brainstorming), drafting, peer review, and revising. Written assignments will include personal reflection, analysis, and synthesis. FYS I develops college-level writing skills, prepares one for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts courses, and allows one to improve expressing their ideas in writing.	Class Number 1438	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
FYS I: Surrealism and its Afterlives	1001 (017)	Stephen Williams	Tues 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description Surrealism is among the preeminent modes of twentieth century art. It is the product of a specific moment in history, and yet it has proved remarkably adaptable through time and across cultures, languages, media, and genres. This FYS I course introduces students to college-level writing, reading, and critical thinking skills using Surrealism and its legacy as a focal point, and prepares them for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts courses. We will consider critical and creative writing, as well as some visual art, by figures such as André Breton, Phillippe Soupault, Leonora Carrington, Alice Rahon, Aimé Cesaire, Octavio Paz, Barbara Guest, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Bei Dao. Some topics we might investigate include Surrealism's relationship to the art that came before it; its conceptions of daily life, and individual and collective personhood; its engagement with contemporaneous developments in science and technology; and its relationship to issues of race, class, gender, and to historical events. Students should expect to compose (plan, draft, critique, and revise) 15-20 double-spaced pages of formal writing, in addition to regular in-class and out-of-class writing assignments.	Class Number 1456	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 818
FYS I: Art and Ideas	1001 (018)	Robert Kiely	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description The First Year Seminar program at SAIC gives students the opportunity to develop their analytical writing skills while studying compelling subject matter. Consequently, this course plays two roles. First and foremost, it serves as a writing studio, a forum in which students can develop their prose style and their ability to construct effective written arguments. The course also explores the relationship between artistic expression and the ideologies that characterize a given culture. Artists live in a specific cultural context. Their works reflect the influence of the dominant ideas of that culture, and often serve as a conscious commentary on those ideas. In this course, we will examine the impact of ideology upon art in a variety of world cultures, with an emphasis on cultural comparison.	Class Number 1457	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1428
FYS I: Civil Disobedience	1001 (019)	Suzanne Scanlon	Tues 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This class will read texts that explore civil disobedience, protest, the role of the individual in society; the role of government in the lives of individuals; and the intersection of community, government and individuals. We will read from different historical periods, and explore how individual participation is essential for a functioning democracy. Readings will discuss different forms that participation takes, with special attention paid to various types of civil disobedience (Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and others). Students in FYS I should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing (i.e. two essays and one in-depth revision) in addition to homework exercises and in-class writing.	Class Number 1458	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
FYS I: Problems in Democracy	1001 (020)	Kieran Aarons	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This course will approach the art of critical thinking and writing through the study of social and political philosophy. Readings will confront us with a wide range of positions for and against democracy, from Ancient Athens to current-day social movements. Our focus will be on recognizing and assessing their core arguments, discussing them critically together, and translating our conclusions into persuasive academic-level essay writing. Is genuine democracy an impossible ideal, only suited to Gods? Can the state express the will of the people through the constitution, the vote, and other procedures of public discourse, or is democracy best conceived as an anarchic force that challenges all institutional authority? Are ¿the people¿ the sum of individuals, a common power, or a potentially-criminal mob? Taking a stance on such debates will allow us to refine the skills essential to good essay-writing: summary, analysis, citation, organization and logical flow, but also suspense, effective use of stories and examples, and mystery. These skills form the necessary foundations for FYS II and upper-level Liberal Arts classes. Students can expect to produce 15-20 pages of scaffolded, revisable, formal writing that includes two essays as well as preparatory homework assignments and in-class writings. In-class workshopping of student papers should also be expected.	Class Number 1439	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
FYS I: Asian-American Writers	1001 (021)	Mika Yamamoto	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description In this class, we will discuss the works written by contemporary Asian American writers. As FYS I is a writing class, we will examine these works with the lens of writers. How do these writers create space for themselves and others? Who are they making space for? What problems do they confront? What tools do they use? Our goal is to practice our critical thinking skills as well as our writing skills through studying the works of writers such as: Chin Chin, Grace Lin, Priya Parker, Esme Weijun Wang, Cathy Park Hong, and others. We will also utilize SAIC¿s amazing resources like the Service Bureau, the Art Institute, the writing center, the diversity department, and Title IX office. In this class, students will exercise their voices and embrace the writing process. They will think of writing beyond what happens on the page. Students will be required to write weekly reflections, multiple drafts of an argumentative essay of their chosen topic, and do a class presentation. Students in FYS I should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing. Attendance is extremely important and heavily weighted.	Class Number 1440	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 206
FYS I: Dreams: Intro to Psychoanalysis	1001 (022)	Steven Reinhart	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description This writing-intensive seminar will explore what psychoanalysis and aesthetics offer us in an attempt to feel our way around a gap, a hole, that both traditions posit at the center of human experience. Psychoanalysis, regarded from its inception as ?the talking cure,? has taken its impetus from precisely that which cannot be spoken. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the first psychoanalyst, organized this new practice of managing the unconscious stifling of desire under modern life around processes beyond speech such as the dream, hysterical symptom, repetition compulsion, trauma, and the return of the repressed?-all of which testify to a certain pressure that drives our being in language even as it escapes capture in words. Aesthetic experience, like psychoanalysis, finds its power in a play of representation that brings us to the edge of what we can represent, and, in so doing, pushes us into contact with the force exerted within and between us by the unrepresentable. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the foundational theorist of modern aesthetics, conceived of aesthetic experience?-of the experience of the beautiful and the sublime?-as a momentary seizure by the feeling of ourselves as beings who cohere around something that we can feel but cannot express, that we can neither rationally explain nor communicate to one another. We will begin with a series of texts in psychoanalysis and aesthetics, and then we will conclude by turning our attention to a series of artistic forms as we use the concepts we have studied to think about painting, film, literature, music, and voice. Using in-class writing exercises and three short paper assignments with drafts and revisions, we will try to collectively develop a style of reading, of writing, and of thinking together that is attentive to feeling and affect rather than exclusively concerned with meaning, understanding, or information. Our writing together will be both an opportunity to learn and refine technical dimensions of writing and also to take seriously writing as a creative space for going beyond technique and into aesthetic invention.	Class Number 1459	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
FYS I: Minds and Machines	1001 (024)	Guy Elgat	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description What are minds? What is it to have a mind, to have consciousness? How, if at all, are minds different from machines? In this course, by reading pieces by Shaffer, Carruthers, and Searle, we will become acquainted with these concepts and issues and learn how to think about them in a more informed and critical fashion. The course is writing intensive: students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing (i.e. two essays and two in-depth revisions) in addition to homework exercises and in-class writing and discussion.	Class Number 1460	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYS I: Rewired by Colonization	1001 (025)	Suman Chhabra	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description We associate colonization with large-scale consequences of violence and diaspora. But what about the less obvious impacts of colonization, those that have become everyday and have rewired the minds of a culture? In our class we will examine subtler forms of colonization on South Asians, particularly those who live in America and the UK. By turning the word anglophile in our hands, we will study how colonization continues through the English language, colorism, and the model minority myth. In addition to readings, we will watch films (such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist) and listen to albums (Riz Ahmed¿s The Long Goodbye). In our FYS I class, we will develop our critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. This is a studio writing class in which we will focus on writing as a process. We will freewrite, formulate conceptual questions for the readings/films/albums, write responses, and compose and revise 15-20 pages in multidraft essays. Students will direct the topic of the final essay based on their individual inquiry. FYS I develops college-level writing skills, prepares one for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts courses, and allows one to improve expressing their ideas in writing.	Class Number 1442	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
FYS I: Witches in the Words	1001 (026)	Sherry Antonini	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description In this course, we?ll read about witches across diverse forms of literature including folk and fairy tales, poetry, plays, and short stories. We?ll read writing by The Brothers Grimm, Octavia Butler, Arthur Miller, Joy Harjo, Rebecca Tamas, Jane Yolan, and Yumiko Kurahashi to trace the footsteps and flight patterns of witches as they appear in various roles such as mother, monster, healer, and teacher. In support of our investigations, we?ll also read selected critique essays from Donald Haase?s Fairy Tales and Feminism and from Emma Donoghue?s Kissing the Witch, a collection of deconstructed and reassembled fairy tales. As a FYSI course, the core emphasis of this class will be developing writing skills in preparation for FYSII courses and other writing assignments across SAIC?s curriculum. Students will engage in comprehensive discussion of these readings, conduct related research, and write response and analytical essays, with a final project that incorporates a creative component	Class Number 1461	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYS I:Music and Society	1001 (027)	Emily C. Hoyler	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Music reflects and informs many aspects of society and culture. This course examines the writings of scholars and critics who have argued for various philosophies, functions, and styles of music. Each week, we will feature a topic related to music¿s role in society and explore issues of aesthetics, expression, and performance. Writing exercises will focus on a specific writing technique or strategy. Students will develop critical thinking skills by evaluating the effectiveness of an author¿s argument through rhetoric, logic, and evidence. Students will practice making claims and presenting arguments that are successfully supported by writing style, sources, structure, and reason. Students will read a selection of music scholars, critics, and writing specialists, including but not limited to Joseph Auner, Jane Bernstein, Susan Douglas, Hua Hsu, Mark Katz, Alex Ross, and Kate Turabian. Topics vary but may include opera, film music, modernism, music technology, protest music, text setting, and musical genre. In addition to in-class writing assignments, students will write an original research paper, broken down into several assignments/drafts. Students should expect to write 15-20 double-spaced pages over the course of the term, including revisions based on instructor and peer feedback.	Class Number 1462	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS I:American Writers in Paris	1001 (028)	Anita Welbon	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description Attracted by the economic and creative freedom Paris offered, twentieth-century American writers found a place to become the writers they wanted to be and discovered a supportive community of intellectual and visual artists. We will read creative and autobiographical writings, view relevant films, and examine the historical and cultural connection between France and the United States that contributed to the development of American writers, including James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Bennett, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Stein. In this course, students will develop their critical reading and writing skills and write three short papers and one longer paper based on research.	Class Number 1443	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
FYS I: Film Aesthetics & The Studio System	1001 (029)	Jacob A Hinkson	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description In this writing intensive course, we will develop the skills of argument-driven composition as we examine the aesthetic foundation of American cinema: the classic Hollywood studio system of the 1940s. What was the studio system? How was it formed, how did it function, and how did it shape the aesthetics of modern American cinema? We will look at the ways Golden Age studios developed individual identities and how they shaped their specific ¿house styles.¿ In doing this, we¿ll also track the codification of genres like the melodrama, the musical, and the film noir. Readings will include critical works by Raymond Borde and Étienne Cahumeton, Jeanine Basinger, and Ethan Mordden. These materials will inform multiple argument-driven essays which students will draft and revise over the course of the semester. In composing these essays, students will study thesis formation, rhetorical modes, and ways to incorporate outside sources into researched-based arguments. Students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing in addition to homework exercises and in-class writing. By providing guided experience in college-level writing, this course forms the necessary foundation for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts classes.	Class Number 1464	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYS I: Good Grief	1001 (030)	Jessica Anne Chiang	Thurs 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description What does it mean to grieve? To perform sadness & loss? Who is the audience? Where is the stage? This first year seminar focuses on writing as self care, writing to breakthrough, and writing to/for our own collective trauma. We will read & consider a range of art & writing from Alison Bechdel, to Rachel Cusk, Sally Mann & Virginia Woolf. We will also welcome, (but not require) stories of our own losses and unimaginable pain, in turn examining, through deep concentration and discussion; something permanent and good. Students will complete 15-20 pages of writing (2 essays followed by a substantial revision) in addition to in-class writing, presentations, and peer workshopping.	Class Number 1444	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS I: Frankenstein and Media	1001 (031)	Michael R. Paradiso-Michau	Thurs 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description FYS 1 provides guided experience in college-level writing, thereby forming the necessary foundation for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts classes. This section of FYS 1 will take a deep dive into the minds of both Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1818) and Victor Frankenstein, the infamous scientist who reanimated body parts into his infamous Monster. We will read, write, think, watch, discuss, and critically reflect on one novel and its continuing legacies into the twenty-first century. Readings and screenings will include the Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley, secondary scholarship on her novel, films that adapt and rework Frankensteinian themes, and one graphic novel updating of the classic myth. Students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing (i.e. two essays and one in-depth revision) in addition to homework exercises, two presentations, and in-class writing.	Class Number 2173	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
FYS I: Freedom and Authenticity	1001 (032)	Guy Elgat	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This class serves as an introduction to the basic concepts of existentialism through a study of a couple of foundational texts by one of its principal philosophical proponents: Jean-Paul Sartre. The class will focus on existentialism¿s response to a newly emerging awareness of the contingency of moral values. With respect to this problem, we will explore central existentialist concepts such as freedom, and authenticity. The course is writing intensive: students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing (i.e. two essays and two in-depth revisions) in addition to homework exercises and in-class writing and discussion.	Class Number 1445	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS I:The Rocky Childhood	1001 (033)	Eileen Favorite	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description In this writing-intensive course, we'll read coming-of-age novels and memoirs from influential contemporary writers. Students will engage in close readings of texts that interrogate concepts of resilience, racism, and economic and class oppression as childhood struggles. Writers will include Jeannette Walls, Allison Bechdel, and Kiese Laymon. CONTENT WARNING: The content and discussion in this course will necessarily sometimes engage with issues of human suffering, including physical and sexual abuse. Students will write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing. In-class activities include peer review, workshopping, and free writing to generate paper topics, including a formal, argument-driven paper.	Class Number 1467	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
FYS I: Contemporary Poetry	1001 (034)	Alexander W Jochaniewicz	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description In this writing course, students will read and write about different forms and movements of contemporary poetry, ranging from 1951 to the present, including sonnets, prose poems, Black Arts Movement, confessional poetry, and free verse. Not only will students be introduced to a wide range of poets¿like Gwnedolyn Brooks, Cathy Song, Li-Young Lee, Garret Hongo, Jericho Brown, Ada Limon, Layli Long Soldier, Franny Choi, and Billy Collins¿but students will also add to the curriculum by presenting poets of their own choosing. Individual interpretations will be practiced through a slow-and-close reading, and written assignments will include a sequence of shorter papers and end with a longer project where students will compose and share their own anthology¿all of which will add up to at least fifteen pages of revised writing. The process of writing will be practiced throughout this course, from brainstorming, to drafting, to peer review and revising. FYS I develops college-level writing skills, prepares one for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts courses, and allows one to improve expressing their ideas in writing.	Class Number 1446	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 111
FYS I: Mystic, Poet, Sorceress, Nun	1001 (035)	Sherry Antonini	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This course will focus on texts by ancient and medieval women dating from the earliest years of recorded writings and spanning time up to the Renaissance. Who were the women writing during those mysterious periods? To whom were they speaking and what did they dare to say? For some of them, relatively few of their works have survived for us to read, so our investigation will include consideration of a combination of factors that are relevant to each such as historical perspectives, specific life circumstances, and, of course, the content of their writing. Writers we will study will include Sappho, Sei Shonagon, Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pizan, and Akka Mahadevi, among others. As a First Year Seminar I course, the essay writing focus of this class will be to develop and build skills in writing response and analytical essays related to assigned readings, research, and class discussion. The final project will be a research-based presentation, with a creative component.	Class Number 1468	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 205
FYS I: Anthropology of Time	1001 (036)	Matilda Stubbs	Fri 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This writing intensive seminar introduces the anthropological study of time and ethnographic writing about time. From Doctor Who and the Tardis, to keeping or losing track of time like Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole, notions of temporality vary across time zones, culture, and space. Using ethnographic writing, this course examines time as a social and historical phenomenon. From agricultural rhythms of rural life in Africa and the Pacific Islands, to astrological and archaeological accounts of time from Celtic and Greek mythology, students will explore the social lives of calendars new and old. This includes other timekeeping tools like clocks and chronological standards in modes of transportation for buses, trains, and planes, including communication and recordkeeping systems like banks, phone records, and emails. Specific emphasis will attend to the objective and subjective understandings of time and the various temporal forms of daily life, drawing from contributions of ethnographic research and social science writing to the study of time from a cross-cultural perspective. Course activities center around developing analytic skills in the genre of ethnographic writing through in-class free writing, generating observational field notes and journaling, two formal and revisable essays, and peer review.	Class Number 1469	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1428
FYS I: The Sea	1001 (037)	Kate Lechler	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description The oldest art depicting boats was created 40,000 years ago. For just as long, the sea¿barrier, connector, nurturer, destroyer¿has fascinated artists and authors. Its sound calms us; its mystery thrills us; its strength terrifies us. This course will focus on texts that span a variety of nations, languages, time periods, genres, and mediums, all of which explore the collective human experience of the sea. What voices does the ocean use to speak to us, and what does it say? In response to these questions, we¿ll read texts by Herman Melville, Rivers Solomon, and Homer; examine ancient myth and Lovecraftian mythos; view illustration and animation by Trungles and Hayao Miyazaki; and listen to sea shanties, Debussy, and clipping. As a First Year Seminar I course, the essay writing focus of this class will be to develop and build skills in writing response and analytical essays related to assigned readings, research, and class discussion. Students in FYS I should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing in addition to homework exercises and in-class writing. This writing will take the form of two essays with multiple drafts based on instructor and peer workshop feedback.	Class Number 2174	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 111
FYS I:Death and Life	1001 (038)	Herman Stark	Wed 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description This course emphasizes, in keeping with First Year Seminar I courses in general, student writing and rewriting. Students will achieve both content and form for their writing by a close reading of texts and critical thinking about them, and then by considered review of feedback from the other seminar members. As is normal in seminars, student presentations occupy a significant amount of class time. In particular, this course confronts death, along with related phenomena such as aging, dying, grieving, and bereavement, in both interdisciplinary and intercultural manners. The direction of study will move from death as a biomedical event thru religious, spiritual, and existential events, and conclude with postmodern possibilities such as cryonics and mind-uploading. A key concern is whether, and to what extent, one?s attitude and approach to death informs one?s attitude and approach to life. The course utilizes various classical and contemporary texts to help expand and enrich our understanding, and each week students will provide thoughtful and polished reports on the assigned readings from them. By the end of the semester students will have written 15-20 pages of formal, revised writing in the form of weekly seminar reports, a midterm paper, and a final paper.	Class Number 1434	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS I: Adolescence and Magic	1001 (039)	Christine M Malcom	Wed 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description Adolescents feature prominently as saviors and remakes of the world in culture stories and myths from around the globe, as well as in contemporary young adult fantasy. Anthropologically, adolescents are potentially powerful agents of change because they are imperfectly socialized and not yet tied to conservative adult roles and norms. In this course students will develop their skills in writing at the college level as well as critical reading and analysis of Young Adult Fantasy novels and scholarly works on the genre and the phenomenon of adolescence. Students will read three novels in totals by authors such as Terry Pratchett, Diana Wynne Jones, Nnedi Okorafor, and Garth Nix. They will also read a small number of scholarly work by anthropologists and scholars in the genre of Young Adult Literature as a point of deeper entry into a body of literature that is often dismissed as simplistic, and a phase of the life cycle that is underscrutinized. Through scaffolding of short writing assignments, including peer review, students will produce three essays, resulting in approximately 15?20 pages, total, of formal, revisable writing.	Class Number 1463	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
FYS I: Asian American Poetry	1001 (040)	Suman Chhabra	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description In our class we will read recently released poetry by Asian American authors. The poems and poetry collections are written by individuals who are amongst the multitude of identities known as Asian American. Readings often include works by Jenny Xie, Ocean Vuong, and Rajiv Mohabir. In our FYS I class, we will develop our critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. This is a studio writing class in which we will focus on writing as a process. We will freewrite, formulate conceptual questions for the readings, write responses, and compose and revise 15-20 pages in multidraft essays. Students will direct the topic of the final essay based on their individual inquiry. FYS I develops college-level writing skills, prepares one for FYS II and upper-level Liberal Arts courses, and allows one to improve expressing their ideas in writing.	Class Number 2175	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYS I:Irish Literature	1001 (041)	Eileen Favorite	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course first explores the myths and folktales of pre-Christian Ireland. We read about dolmen and druids, Maeve, Queen of Connacht, Finn MacCool, Deirdre, and Cuichulain. How do battle-hungry, sexually-charged Celts compare to characters in James Joyce's Dubliners' Historical texts (including How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill) examine how the status of women changed after the arrival of Roman (vs. Celtic) Catholicism, the Book of Kells, and the long-term effects of the Great Famine on the Irish character. Contemporary fiction writers studied include, W.B. Yeats, Eavan Boland, Rosemary Mahoney, and postmodern favorite Flann O'Brien, among others, with a focus on the influence of Celtic myths on contemporary Irish life and writing.	Class Number 1482	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS I:Writing About Art	1001 (042)	Fred Camper	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This is a writing course, with the goals of helping you write excellent basic English and developing your skills in presenting arguments, using careful observations of art works and careful readings of writings on art. Reading is one way of improving your writing, and we will study essays almost entirely by artists, likely including photographers (Paul Strand and Edward Weston), painters (Gerhard Richter and Agnes Martin), sculptors (Constantin Brancusi), filmmakers (Dziga Vertov and Maya Deren), architects (Louis Sullivan), and conceptual artists (Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer). We will view art by the artists whose work we consider, and discuss both how their written statements connect with their work and the larger problem of using writing to describe and interpret visual art. There will be short assignments on the writing and work of the artists we consider, and one assignment in which you write an artist's statement, either for the work you are now making or for the work you hope to make. There will also be a research paper on an artist of your choice with the instructor's approval, in which you argue a thesis about that artist's work. Each of these assignments will also be revised based on the instructor's comments, and the minimum length of all together will be at least 7,500 words.	Class Number 1484	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 518
FYS I: Self-Portraiture & Society	1001 (043)	Nat Holtzmann	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description The terms ¿self¿ and ¿portrait¿ are so ubiquitous that they often go underexamined. This class invites students to consider the ¿self¿ on a philosophical level, and to feel out the complex, blurry parameters distinguishing a portrait an artist makes of another from a self-portrait. The historical contexts within which various self-portraits in 20th century art and literature were produced will inform our inquiries into how society shapes the ways we think about/represent our 'selves' and vice versa. These will include artworks by Claude Cahun, Beauford Delaney, Catherine Opie, and Marisol, as well as texts by Joe Brainard, Michelle Tea, Edouard Levé, Nathalie Léger, and contemporary literary critics. Selections from diaries of artists and writers will also feed our interests, including those of Frida Kahlo, Eva Hesse, Franz Kafka, Audre Lorde, and David Wojnarowicz. Finally, we will interrogate the ethics and implications of self-portraiture today, in a culture glutted with them to an unprecedented degree. What does it say about our ability to register and respond to the present moment¿one shaped by large structures and forces¿that our art and literature often operate at the scale of the individual self? FYS I courses develop college-level writing skills and prepare students for FYS II and upper-level Liberal Arts courses. In this process-oriented class, students will build such skills through 15-20 pages of formal, revisable writing (two multi-draft essays) in addition to preparatory homework assignments and in-class writing. Work will be undertaken independently and collaboratively through self-assessment, guided workshops, and peer review.	Class Number 2231	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 205
FYS I:Writing About Film	1001 (044)	Fred Camper	Tues 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description FYS I are theme-based writing courses designed for first-year students, with an emphasis on teaching foundational writing skills. Students will develop the intellectual skills of reading critically, and writing responsively, which forms the basis of each student's career at the School. While faculty have autonomy in determining course theme, the theme is an accessory to the writing; the balance in these classes is weighed toward explicit writing instruction and workshopping of student writing, not content. This course provides guided experience in writing college-level essays of various kinds, which may include critical, analytical and argumentative essays. A significant amount of time is devoted to the craft of writing. Grammatical and organizational strategies, argumentation, and skills in thesis/claim and idea development are explored. Students should expect to write 15-20 pages of formal, revisable writing across the course of the semester. A significant amount of time may be devoted to re-writing essays, so as to develop first drafts into final versions. In-class writing, short homework exercises, and workshopping of student work may be included. Individual meetings to discuss each student's papers should be expected.	Class Number 2232	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 518
FYS I:Bird Talk	1001 (045)	Joanna Anos	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Bird talk is talk about birds, about flight and flying, migration, metamorphosis, and song; about bird-beings and human beings, who want to be birds or, at least, bird-like, and about artists whose art is avian inspired. Readings for this writing course include essays and a selection of myths, tales, and poems; visual texts include bird-art at the Art Institute. Students write and revise several essays, including a comparative textual analysis and a verbal-visual ¿field guide¿ of their own design.	Class Number 2316	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
FYS I: Wizards	1001 (046)	Peter O'Leary	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Do you believe in wizards? Are you a wizard? Then pack up your talismans, fetishes, and gamelans into the mysterious little satchel you carry at your side and get ready for some incantatory magic. We will investigate the figure of the wizard as an archetype, a literary symbol, a vehicle for fantasy, and as a commanding reality while considering such things as A Wizard of Earthsea, the figure of Merlin, The Teachings of Don Juan, Conversations with Ogotemmeli, the figure of Harry Potter, Howl¿s Moving Castle, Yeelen, the poetry of W.B. Yeats, Jay Wright, and Hoa Nguyen, the spells of Maria Sabina and Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft, as well as some other things too secret to reveal at present, including the nature of esotericism. FYS I develops college-level writing skills and prepares students for FYS II and upper-level Liberal Arts courses. This is a studio writing class in which you will focus on writing as a process. You will formulate lines of inquiry, develop arguments, and use your writing to engage meaningfully with the material you read for and discuss in class. You can expect to compose and revise 15-20 pages in a variety of formal writing assignments. All of your writing can be revised. Peer review and one-on-one writing conferences with the teacher is something you can also expect.	Class Number 2332	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1428
FYS I: The Wire	1001 (06S)	Raghav Rao	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This class invites students into a conversation around the HBO series ¿The Wire.¿ Through writing, discussion, and peer review, students will think critically about television as an art form, hyperrealism, and the lived experience of people in and excluded from civic institutions. This is a writing-focused course investigating both the form (broadcast television) and the content of a commercial art form. The assignments are intended to help students master college-level writing skills namely drafting, espousing an argument, revision, and peer review. Aside from the primary material (Most of Seasons 1-4 of ¿The Wire¿ with Season 5 as optional viewing), students will read excerpts from Toni Morrison, Michel Foucault, James Baldwin, Alec Karakatsanis, Dennis Lehane; Jonathan Abrams; Felicia Pearson. Students are expected to write two essays and a substantially revised version of either one of the essays. Essay 1 will be 4-6 pages. Essay 2 will be 6-8 pages. This is in addition to the several one-page reflections and episode-breakdowns interspersed through the semester.	Class Number 1432	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 818
FYS I: Funny Thing	1001 (07S)	Sophie Goalson	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This First Year Seminar course will explore humor writing as a serious artform, and will employ analysis strategies to get at the core of the question of what makes something funny. By the end of the semester, students will be able to write analytical essays that pick apart and organize ideas around both literature and humor, and will read and explore humorous writing throughout the English canon. The psychology of humor - exactly what it is that makes something funny - is complicated and requires careful mastery. This course will examine how writers and artists have historically used humor to reach audiences deeply, emotionally, and politically. Through works by Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, Nora Ephron, Susan Orlean, Jack Handey, and Trevor Noah, we will get to the heart of what makes something funny, and how humor has changed over time. We will also look at the different formats of comedy, including satire, parody, film-writing, stand-up comedy, and more. Students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing (4 short papers and one medium-length paper). In addition, they will do regular, rigorous in-class writing, and engage in weekly analytical conversation.	Class Number 1433	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS I: What is a Poem?	1001 (08S)	Sherry Antonini	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Musicality and an exquisite choice of words, sensory detail, and form¿the elements of masterful crafting in poetry offer a flight into worlds both familiar and unfamiliar and language for experiences which are often otherwise wordless. In this course students will consider a range of poems across the timeline of literature to learn how to read poetry deeply and thoroughly, both for content and to recognize craft as it supports meaning. Some poets likely to be considered are Sappho, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, Julia Alvarez, Jericho Brown, Ocean Vuong, Jo Harjo, and Amanda Gorman, among others. The work of this course will involve assigned readings, related research, and presentations. Students will be expected to write essays based on course content that are developed from early draft through final revision stages to total 15-20 pages of writing, as well as engage in writing exercises and discussions.	Class Number 1478	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 517
FYS I:Illness as Metaphor	1001 (13S)	Irina Ruvinsky	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Modern European literature is often characterized by an attraction to decay, nothingness and an obsession with physical corruption and death. In L. Tolstoy¿s Death of Ivan Ilych (Cancer), T. Mann¿s Death in Venice (Cholera) and A. Camus¿ The Plague (Bubonic Plague) disease is both the literal subject of the novel as well as the symbol of individual and social dissolution, disintegration and despair. Modern writers have inherited from the German Romantics the idea that the artist is ill and that illness gives her knowledge and spiritual power. In this course we will examine the legend of disease associated with the German Romantics. By turning to the works by V. Woolf, Novalis and Schopenhauer we will examine why they endowed disease with positive value, crediting it with the development of spiritual values that would otherwise remain dormant. We will also consider S. Sontag's anti-Romantic argument that disease spell deterioration, physical, mental and moral rather than some indefinable precious value. Students will be expected to write 3 papers, 5-6 pages each, aimed to develop analytical, persuasive and critical thinking skills.	Class Number 1479	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 608
FYSe: Photography and Truth	1002 (001)	Jennie Berner	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Photography can count as a forensic technology, a form of official identification, a documentary record, and a means of surveillance. Yet photographs can also be deceptive, particularly in our age of digital manipulation. In this writing-intensive course, we will examine the circumstances under which photography is treated as art and/or evidence. Readings will cover a range of subtopics from social media & selfies to political photography, from advertising & Photoshop to family albums. Writing assignments ? totaling 15-20 pages over the course of the semester ? will emphasize analysis, argument, research, revision, and other academic writing skills. Prerequisites Must complete AAP: Academic Foundations Seminar (AAP1001) and Foundations Writing Workshop (AAP 1011)	Class Number 1452	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYSe: Con Artists: Facts and Fictions	1002 (002)	Jacob A Hinkson	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Why are we fascinated with con artists¿both real and imagined? In this writing-intensive course, we will deepen the skills of argument-driven composition as we explore the sometimes tenuous boundary between authenticity and duplicity. We will examine the con artist as both the protagonist and antagonist in fictional works, as well as the subject of ¿true crime¿ books and documentaries. These materials will inform multiple argument-driven essays which students will draft and revise over the course of the semester. Students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing in addition to homework exercises and in-class writing. By providing guided experience in college-level writing, this course forms the necessary foundation for FYS II and upper level Liberal Arts classes. Prerequisites Must complete AAP: Academic Foundations Seminar (AAP1001) and Foundations Writing Workshop (AAP 1011)	Class Number 2476	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYSe: Green Minds	1003 (001)	Diane Worobec-Serratos	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description How do different conceptions of nature and the environment affect how the planet is treated and sustained? What is the role of the human in nature? In turn, what can nature teach humans about equity, resilience, and reciprocity? Can adopting a decolonial mindset offer a pathway to both ecological and social healing? By exploring differing cultural conceptions of land and nature, students will investigate a variety of paths to sustainability led by ecologically conscious writers who have turned both to nature, Buddhist thought, and indigenous wisdom for balm and inspiration. Texts will include short selections from the naturalist Sy Montgomery, Margaret Rankl, Diane Ackerman, Edward Abbey, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marman Silko, Yiwen Zhan, and Bing Song, as well as short films and artworks that address environmental issues. Prerequisites Must complete English Fluency I (EIS 1021)	Class Number 1486	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 818
FYSe: Edward Yang	1003 (002)	Annette Elliot-Hogg	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Taiwanese director Edward Yang is a poet of film. His intimate epics exhibit a mastery of form characterized by meditative narrative rhythms, long takes, medium shots over close-ups, and a detached, static camera. In this class, we will formally analyze three films Taipei Story (1985), A Brighter Summer Day (1991) and Yi Yi (2000) to understand how cinematic techniques work together to create meaning in a film. We will also examine the films within the broader context of the Taiwanese New Wave. Prerequisites Must complete English Fluency I (EIS 1021)	Class Number 1487	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 518
FYS II:Anarchism	1005 (001)	Kieran Aarons	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description The term 'anarchism' derives from the Greek an-archia, non-rule, and describes the idea of a society without state, classes, or other forms of oppression and exploitation. However, anarchism is not only an idea, but also a practice: it names a political struggle for emancipation, an attempt to bring the idea of self-organization and solidarity into practice. We will begin by exploring a range of classical anarchist positions concerning the state, human nature, mutual aid, the family, and revolution. Readings will be drawn from classical theorists like Kropotkin, De Cleyre, and Goldman, as well as contemporary philosophers like Chiara Bottici. Reconstructing these debates will allow us to practice analyzing, synthesizing, and situating philosophical claims and political arguments, while formulating our own understanding of a diverse range of social problems. In the second half of class, we will also explore the utopian imagination of anarchist science fiction, including work by Le Guin and others. Applying theoretical frameworks to the analysis of literature will allow us to practice more sophisticated styles of writing and argumentation incorporating multiple sources, styles, and formats. Students can expect to produce 20-25 pages of scaffolded, revisable, formal writing, including two essays and an in-depth research project. In-class workshopping of student papers should also be expected. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1471	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1428
FYS II: Writing for Art	1005 (002)	Kerry Balden	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description FYS II further develops the skills learned in FYS I, with specific attention to writing for readers. Throughout, students will learn, practice, and analyze principles of writing such as argument, introductions, conclusions, and more. But all of this with a view to motivating and convincing particular readerships. After several introductory weeks of finding and reading pieces from your fields of interest, we begin short written assignments that focus on a certain writing principle of the week. By the third or fourth week, each student will have selected a research topic that they will focus on for the remainder of the course. Those who do not already have some notion of a topic beforehand will be supported with suggestions of artists, critics, and movements across the far-reaching areas of study at SAIC. Students can expect most class days to be divided into three parts: peer analyses of the previous week's writing, lecture and exercise on a new principle of writing, and in-class time for writing and research. The course depends on and flourishes from the peer analyses, and the samples of writing that students find in their fields of interest. From these, students experience how, as a reader, it is to read both the better and the worse, and how to improve from the latter to the former: Writing is a process, to which revising for readers is essential. The variety of topics, techniques, styles, and discourse communities provide the opportunity not only to become well-versed in your particular field of interest, but competent to discuss and critique other fields, whether adjacent or otherwise. From week to week, the written assignments become slightly longer, with students writing in total 20 pages of formal, revisable writing. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1447	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1428
FYS II:Goodbye Home	1005 (003)	Suman Chhabra	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description We have all left our homes to venture here. Perhaps it has been a physical, mental, spiritual, or emotional journey away from home. Now what? What do we think of ourselves in our new homes? What can we understand about ourselves and our previous homes now that we have left them? In this course we will read fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and poetry by South Asian diasporic writers. These writers have left India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka themselves or are first generation in a new country. Readings often include works by Mira Jacob, Deepak Unnikrishnan, Durga Chew Bose, Faisal Mohyuddin, Mohsin Hamid, and Kazim Ali among others. In our FYS II course, we will develop our critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. This is a studio writing class in which we will focus on writing as a process. We will freewrite, formulate conceptual questions for the readings, write responses, and compose and revise 20-25 pages in multidraft essays. FYS II develops college-level writing skills, prepares one for upper-level Liberal Arts courses, and allows one to improve expressing their ideas in writing Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1472	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 206
FYS II: Taiwan New Cinema	1005 (004)	Annette Elliot-Hogg	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description In the 1980s, the political climate was rapidly changing in Taiwan. A group of radical filmmakers emerged determined to capture the mundane beauty of local culture. Directors such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang and Tsai Ming-liang created a protest cinema articulating a previously repressed national selfhood. Their innovative style was characterized by frontal framing, long takes, muted emotions and a contemplative mood. They fractured time and space to tell quiet stories of loneliness, longing and memory. In FYSII, we will expand our critical reading, writing and thinking skills. We will develop a descriptive vocabulary to analyze the use of camera movements, cutting and composition of the frame that goes into the making of a film. We will write two critical essays (20 to 25 pages of formal writing), which will be workshopped in class and revised. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1448	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS II: Hidden from History	1005 (005)	Deborah S. Hochgesang	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This seminar will use Voices of a People¿s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove to explore how ordinary people in American history spoke out and fought for social justice. Their voices have not been included in the conventional historical narrative of the United States, and students will learn from their speeches, letters, poems and songs how they viewed and shaped the major social justice movements in American history. Additional materials will expand the scope of this historical survey as needed. Students should expect to write 20-25 pages of formal, revisable writing in addition to homework and in-class workshops. First Year Seminar II provides students with guided experience in college-level writing, thereby forming the necessary foundation for upper-level Liberal Arts classes. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1473	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
FYS II: Ethics and the Environment	1005 (006)	David B. Johnson	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description In this writing-intensive course, students will work to improve their writing skills through an exploration of environmental ethics, the branch of thought devoted to understanding what makes the nonhuman world valuable, how we human beings should conceive of our relation to and role within that world, and what obligations we owe to the beings that populate it. After a brief introduction to philosophical ethics in general, we will study several texts outlining some of the major approaches to environmental ethics, including anthropocentrism, biocentric egalitarianism, and ecofeminism. These readings will be drawn from a range of disciplines, historical eras, and cultural sources. Students will have the opportunity to explore topics of further interest in the field of environmental ethics through their written work, which will make up the bulk of their coursework and will comprise two major essays, amounting to between 20 to 25 pages of formal, revisable writing. Students will also complete several short homework assignments and in-class writing exercises. The overarching goal of the course is to deepen students¿ understanding of and facility with the standards and rigors of evidence-based argumentation and analysis. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1449	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
FYS II: Space, Heaven, and God	1005 (007)	Robert Kiely	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description The First Year Seminar Program at SAIC gives students the opportunity to develop their analytical writing skills while studying compelling subject matter. Consequently, this course plays two roles. First and foremost, it serves as a writing studio, a forum in which students develop their capacity to construct effective written arguments. The course also treats the history of religion and cosmology in a global context; the analysis of this material provides the grist for student writing in the course. In this course, we will study the interrelationship of religion and cosmology in a number of different historical periods and cultural settings, from ancient Egypt to medieval Mesoamerica. We will examine different mythological, religious and philosophical traditions: examples include the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Greek poet Hesiod, or the Arab philosopher Ibn Sina. We will place these works in their cultural context, and trace their influence on the visual arts. Finally, we will look at the rise of modern secular views of the natural world and their effect on contemporary culture and views of the environment. Students should expect to write 20 pages of formal, revisable writing, including 3 short papers, one research project, and a significant amount of in-class writing, including regular journal entries. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1474	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 205
FYS II: Protest Art	1005 (008)	Andrew Lindsay	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course will examine a wide variety of art that attempts to make some sort of protest. From literature, to folk music, to rap music; from James Baldwin to John Prine to Kendrick Lamar, this course will ask students to write weekly analyses of a wide variety of art forms and artists. We use these short papers as building blocks to our Midterm and Final Papers. The short papers force students to attempt to make claims, our class discussion allows us to workshop these claims, and we look to our larger papers to demonstrate the ability to take greater risks with our theses. In this course we will focus on the core skills of reading and writing, preparing us for all our future coursework at SAIC. Students learn to make nuanced observations about the texts we study, observations which form the basis for the argumentative papers we write. This course focuses on a wide range of protest art ? beginning with the sometimes debates on protest art between James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. We move forward to the protest art of the 60s, and conclude with rap music of the last twenty years. Assignments consist of informal, observational journals, short papers and a larger Final Paper at the end of the course. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1450	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 205
FYS II:Modern Short Fiction	1005 (009)	Andrew Lindsay	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This course will trace the development of the modern short story, focusing primarily on the 20th century. There are three goals of this course. First, we will look closely at the form of the short story - the tools an author has at his/her disposal. Second, we will examine the innovations that occurred in the 20th century. And finally - through in-class discussion and workshop - we will focus on the craft of paper-writing. Through repetition of short writing exercises, we aim to make the basic structure of academic writing second-nature. We will also learn the art of thesis-writing - translating our general observations of the short-story form into unique and penetrating arguments. In this course we will focus on the core skills of reading and writing, preparing us for all our future coursework at SAIC. Students learn to make nuanced observations about the texts we study, observations which form the basis for the argumentative papers we write. This course begins with Anton Chekhov but focuses mainly on 20th century American authors. Authors include Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O?Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson and Donald Barthelme. Assignments consist of informal, observational journals, short papers and a larger Final Paper at the end of the course. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1475	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1428
FYS II: Dreamers, Utopians, and Mystics	1005 (010)	Irina Ruvinsky	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This course explores the literary genre of fantasy, including the subgenre of science fiction. Through the lenses of Russian literature and film we will investigate fantastic¿s sister genres: ¿the uncanny¿ or ¿the marvelous.¿ We will examine how classical Russian writers and cinematographers, ranging from Gogol, Nabkov, Bulgakov to Tarkovsky, engaged with the fantastic, the supernatural and developments in science and technology. We will study how political ideology and resistance helped shape Russian fantasies and fears in the 20th and 21st centuries in literature and film. Students will be expected to write 3 persuasive papers, 6-7 pages each, aimed to develop persuasive, analytical and critical thinking skills. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1451	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1427
FYS II: Fiction, Falsehood, & Artistic Form	1005 (011)	Stephen Williams	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Where is the line between a work of art and 'real life,' and what happens¿aesthetically, ethically, politically¿when artists and writers question, blur, subvert, or conceal it? To what extent is an author part of the fiction they create? What is 'true' in a fictional or virtual world, and who decides? Though these questions¿implicit in any kind of aesthetic figuration¿are as old as art itself, they have taken on a particular urgency as mistrust and disinformation¿and the technologies that enable them¿increasingly pervade our lives. The course, then, takes these issues as a focal point as students build upon the foundational writing skills they began learning in FYS I, introducing more rigorous argumentation and research. Among the topics we might consider are the concepts of the persona, the shibboleth, and the 'fourth wall'; trompe-l'oeil painting; the poems of Ossian; Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms; Borges's Pierre Menard; Brecht's 'alienation effects'; pseudonyms (as a means of personal liberation, as a response to oppression); camp (in its emphasis on artifice over naturalism); forgeries and disputed attributions; NFTs and Artificial Intelligence. Students will produce 20-25 pages of formal, revisable writing, as well as informal at-home and in-class assignments. The course involves extensive peer review and collaborative work, and culminates in a research paper on a topic of the student's choosing. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 1481	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
FYS II: Becoming Human	1005 (012)	Aaron Greenberg	Fri 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description In ¿Becoming Human,¿ students will explore diverse representations of non/humanity across eras and locales, engaging humanity not as a fixed entity but a continuous process influenced by power and cultural shifts. FYS II develops college-level writing skills, preparing students for upper-level Liberal Arts courses. Students will create original research and textual art around topics including human rights, the Anthropocene, (post)humanism, anthropomorphism, (non)human exceptionalism, anthropogenesis, mimesis, and becoming. We¿ll develop and refine the writing skills learned in FYS I while experimenting with generative writing and research methods. Students will leave this course with a portfolio of original, publishable writing, as well as a foundational grasp of the history and futures of humanity. Students will create 20-25 pages of formal, revisable, and publishable writing across three short essays and two in-depth revisions. Students will also learn to write a research paper, practicing scholarship to enhance creativity. We will engage with authors and artists including Ovid, Bruegel, Giorgio Agamben, Yuval Harari, Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and Franz Kafka. Prerequisites Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.	Class Number 2235	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 818
Foundations Writing Workshop	1011 (001)	Jacob A Hinkson	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description The Foundations Writing Workshop is a process-based writing course that serves as students' initiation to the foundations of academic writing in a school of art and design. Students engage in the writing process, learn strategies for exploring topics, and develop their knowledge of the concepts and terminology of art and design through the practice of various kinds of written compositions. Analysis of essays and active participation in writing-critiques are integral components of the Workshop.	Class Number 1065	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
Foundations Writing Workshop	1011 (002)	Alexander W Jochaniewicz	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description The Foundations Writing Workshop is a process-based writing course that serves as students' initiation to the foundations of academic writing in a school of art and design. Students engage in the writing process, learn strategies for exploring topics, and develop their knowledge of the concepts and terminology of art and design through the practice of various kinds of written compositions. Analysis of essays and active participation in writing-critiques are integral components of the Workshop.	Class Number 1069	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 818
Foundations Writing Workshop	1011 (003)	Peter Thomas	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description The Foundations Writing Workshop is a process-based writing course that serves as students' initiation to the foundations of academic writing in a school of art and design. Students engage in the writing process, learn strategies for exploring topics, and develop their knowledge of the concepts and terminology of art and design through the practice of various kinds of written compositions. Analysis of essays and active participation in writing-critiques are integral components of the Workshop.	Class Number 1066	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 818
Foundations Writing Workshop	1011 (004)	Peter Thomas	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description The Foundations Writing Workshop is a process-based writing course that serves as students' initiation to the foundations of academic writing in a school of art and design. Students engage in the writing process, learn strategies for exploring topics, and develop their knowledge of the concepts and terminology of art and design through the practice of various kinds of written compositions. Analysis of essays and active participation in writing-critiques are integral components of the Workshop.	Class Number 1070	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
Foundations Writing Workshop	1011 (005)	Alexander W Jochaniewicz	Fri 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description The Foundations Writing Workshop is a process-based writing course that serves as students' initiation to the foundations of academic writing in a school of art and design. Students engage in the writing process, learn strategies for exploring topics, and develop their knowledge of the concepts and terminology of art and design through the practice of various kinds of written compositions. Analysis of essays and active participation in writing-critiques are integral components of the Workshop.	Class Number 2450	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
English for International Students: English Language Fluency	1021 (001)	Jacqueline M Rasmussen	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This is the first of two English language fluency courses for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students improve their academic English skills by reading and responding to art appreciation and art history texts. Texts are analyzed for formal as well as contextual information. Students learn how to integrate their own observations and knowledge with information gained from reading and lecture. Students also build competence and confidence in college-level writing. Topics include formal analyses and/or critical responses to works of art. Presentations and class discussions also give students practice communicating their knowledge through speaking.	Class Number 1405	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
English for International Students: English Language Fluency	1021 (002)	Jacqueline M Rasmussen	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This is the first of two English language fluency courses for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students improve their academic English skills by reading and responding to art appreciation and art history texts. Texts are analyzed for formal as well as contextual information. Students learn how to integrate their own observations and knowledge with information gained from reading and lecture. Students also build competence and confidence in college-level writing. Topics include formal analyses and/or critical responses to works of art. Presentations and class discussions also give students practice communicating their knowledge through speaking.	Class Number 1415	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
English for International Students: English Language Fluency	1021 (003)	Maryjane Lao Villamor	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This is the first of two English language fluency courses for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students improve their academic English skills by reading and responding to art appreciation and art history texts. Texts are analyzed for formal as well as contextual information. Students learn how to integrate their own observations and knowledge with information gained from reading and lecture. Students also build competence and confidence in college-level writing. Topics include formal analyses and/or critical responses to works of art. Presentations and class discussions also give students practice communicating their knowledge through speaking.	Class Number 1406	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 818
English for International Students: English Language Fluency	1021 (004)	Nat Holtzmann	Fri 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This is the first of two English language fluency courses for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students improve their academic English skills by reading and responding to art appreciation and art history texts. Texts are analyzed for formal as well as contextual information. Students learn how to integrate their own observations and knowledge with information gained from reading and lecture. Students also build competence and confidence in college-level writing. Topics include formal analyses and/or critical responses to works of art. Presentations and class discussions also give students practice communicating their knowledge through speaking.	Class Number 1416	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 111
English for International Students: Critique	1031 (001)	Annette Elliot-Hogg	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This critique course is offered for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students build competence in giving critiques, participating in class discussions, and giving presentations. Students make artwork to present to the class. They learn and practice the vocabulary of visual and design elements and use these to analyze and critique their own and their classmates' works. Students practice a variety of critique formats by using formal, social-cultural, and expressive theories of art criticism. They discuss and critique works both verbally and in writing.	Class Number 1407	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 111
English for International Students: Critique	1031 (002)	C. C. Ann Chen	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This critique course is offered for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students build competence in giving critiques, participating in class discussions, and giving presentations. Students make artwork to present to the class. They learn and practice the vocabulary of visual and design elements and use these to analyze and critique their own and their classmates' works. Students practice a variety of critique formats by using formal, social-cultural, and expressive theories of art criticism. They discuss and critique works both verbally and in writing.	Class Number 1417	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
English for International Students: Critique	1031 (003)	Annette Elliot-Hogg	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This critique course is offered for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students build competence in giving critiques, participating in class discussions, and giving presentations. Students make artwork to present to the class. They learn and practice the vocabulary of visual and design elements and use these to analyze and critique their own and their classmates' works. Students practice a variety of critique formats by using formal, social-cultural, and expressive theories of art criticism. They discuss and critique works both verbally and in writing.	Class Number 1408	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 111
English for International Students: Critique	1031 (004)	Erica R. Mott	Wed 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description This critique course is offered for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students build competence in giving critiques, participating in class discussions, and giving presentations. Students make artwork to present to the class. They learn and practice the vocabulary of visual and design elements and use these to analyze and critique their own and their classmates' works. Students practice a variety of critique formats by using formal, social-cultural, and expressive theories of art criticism. They discuss and critique works both verbally and in writing.	Class Number 1409	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 111
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (001)	Sonia Da Silva	Tues 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1419	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1011
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (002)	Sonia Da Silva	Tues 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM In Person
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1420	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1011
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (003)	Sonia Da Silva	Thurs 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1410	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1011
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (004)	Sonia Da Silva	Thurs 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM In Person
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1421	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1011
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (005)	Alicia Castañeda-Lopez	Tues 6:45 PM - 8:15 PM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1411	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (006)	Alicia Castañeda-Lopez	Wed 6:45 PM - 8:15 PM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1422	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (007)	Ned Marto	Mon 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1412	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1011
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (008)	Ned Marto	Thurs 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1413	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1011
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (009)	David P Norris	Mon 6:45 PM - 8:15 PM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1423	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (010)	David P Norris	Thurs 6:45 PM - 8:15 PM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1414	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (013)	Suman Chhabra	Thurs 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1426	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (014)	Suman Chhabra	Thurs 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 1427	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (017)	Aram Han Sifuentes	Fri 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 2169	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (019)	Aram Han Sifuentes	Thurs 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 2171	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
English for International Students: Tutorial	1035 (020)	Aram Han Sifuentes	Tues 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM All Online
Description This class offers small group tutoring for students who do not speak English as their first language. Students meet with an EIS instructor in groups of three for 1 1/2 hours each week. Students receive assistance with their class assignments for Art History, Liberal Arts and Studio classes. Activities may include discussing class concepts, checking comprehension, exploring ideas for papers or projects, revising papers, or practicing pronunciation and presentations.	Class Number 2479	Credits 1.5	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
Spanish I	2001 (001)	Sabra Duarte	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description An introductory course in reading, writing, and conversational Spanish. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1671	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 203
Survey of Literature I: Medieval to Emily Dickinso	2001 (001)	Irina Ruvinsky	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This literature survey examines a great variety of material from the period, giving students a broad sense of the history of literature in English. Readings include some combination of poems, plays, essays, prose narratives, sermons, satires, and letters, by writers ranging from anonymous ballad makers to popular novelists. We will read a range of writers, from stalwarts of the English tradition like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Austen, and Keats to Americans Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, to other lesser-known figures. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1632	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
Spanish I	2001 (002)	Sabra Duarte	Wed 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description An introductory course in reading, writing, and conversational Spanish. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1667	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 203
Arabic I	2003 (001)	Wael Fawzy	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description Arabic I ???? is a fully integrated introductory course for students with no background in the language. The course is designed for beginning students whose learning objectives and needs are in any of the following categories: continued language study, business purposes, or travel. Students will learn to speak and understand Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and read and write Arabic script. Students will develop speaking and listening skills through audiovisual media, interactive fun activities, and paired dialogue practices. There will be a strong emphasis on oral proficiency needed to provide the necessary framework to communicate clearly and effectively. These objectives will be achieved through the following approaches: speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural studies. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1674	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
French I	2005 (001)	Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description An introductory course in reading, writing and conversational French. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1672	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1428
French I	2005 (002)	Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam	Tues 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description An introductory course in reading, writing and conversational French. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1673	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1428
Chinese I	2008 (001)	Marie Meiying Jiang	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM All Online
Description Chinese I is designed for beginners who take Chinese as a foreign language. Students who speak Chinese as their native language are not allowed to attend this course. Students who have taken Chinese study in the past are required to take the evaluation test and gain approval of the instructor to enroll. Students will study the Chinese Mandarin sound system PIN YIN, the basic strokes from the Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese numbers, common Chinese Radicals and Lessons 1-5 of <> (Level 1 Part 1). Students can speak and write systematically more than 150 essential vocabulary words, master the key grammatical structures, build the real-life communicative skills. They will also write and tell a story about themselves and their interests on Chinese paper utilizing 150 characters. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1668	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
Chinese I	2008 (002)	Junming Han	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description Chinese I is designed for beginners who take Chinese as a foreign language. Students who speak Chinese as their native language are not allowed to attend this course. Students who have taken Chinese study in the past are required to take the evaluation test and gain approval of the instructor to enroll. Students will study the Chinese Mandarin sound system PIN YIN, the basic strokes from the Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese numbers, common Chinese Radicals and Lessons 1-5 of <> (Level 1 Part 1). Students can speak and write systematically more than 150 essential vocabulary words, master the key grammatical structures, build the real-life communicative skills. They will also write and tell a story about themselves and their interests on Chinese paper utilizing 150 characters. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1669	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 501
German I	2009 (001)	Kimberly Kenny	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description An introductory course in reading, writing, and conversational German. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1670	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 919
Discovering Science and the Art of Communication	2098 (001)	Elizabeth Freeland, Caroline Marie Bellios	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:15 PM In Person
Description In this studio symposium we will explore how we gain knowledge, what we do with it, how we communicate it, and the motivation to gain further knowledge. We will ground our understanding of this cycle in the works of Émilie du Châtelet in the 1700s and Mary Somerville in the 1800s. Both women¿s contributions to the physical sciences, in original works and in gathering, processing, and communicating the revolutionary ideas of their time, were crucial and indispensable. Complementing their extraordinary work in science, they contributed to a wide range of human endeavors, from theater and poetry to philosophy and mathematics, all of which had to be balanced by expected societal performances. Their complex lives, built in realms that the majority of their contemporaries could not imagine intersecting, serve as an invitation for you, as an artist, to make and communicate the science of our time as a part of your interdisciplinary practice. Readings will include excerpts of works by Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville, and their biographers. They will also include modern texts about climate change and the communication of climate science. Course work will include labs and activities investigating topics of 18th and 19th century experiments and scientific practices, creative responses to these ideas, weekly assignments to assess factual understanding or synthesis of ideas, and acts of doing that would have been performed by women of those times. In a final project students will translate, transmit, or communicate the modern scientific issues important to them through their own art practice. Prerequisites SAIC Scholars Program Students Only	Class Number 1989	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1503
Discovering Science and the Art of Communication	2098 (001)	Elizabeth Freeland, Caroline Marie Bellios	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:15 PM In Person
Description In this studio symposium we will explore how we gain knowledge, what we do with it, how we communicate it, and the motivation to gain further knowledge. We will ground our understanding of this cycle in the works of Émilie du Châtelet in the 1700s and Mary Somerville in the 1800s. Both women¿s contributions to the physical sciences, in original works and in gathering, processing, and communicating the revolutionary ideas of their time, were crucial and indispensable. Complementing their extraordinary work in science, they contributed to a wide range of human endeavors, from theater and poetry to philosophy and mathematics, all of which had to be balanced by expected societal performances. Their complex lives, built in realms that the majority of their contemporaries could not imagine intersecting, serve as an invitation for you, as an artist, to make and communicate the science of our time as a part of your interdisciplinary practice. Readings will include excerpts of works by Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville, and their biographers. They will also include modern texts about climate change and the communication of climate science. Course work will include labs and activities investigating topics of 18th and 19th century experiments and scientific practices, creative responses to these ideas, weekly assignments to assess factual understanding or synthesis of ideas, and acts of doing that would have been performed by women of those times. In a final project students will translate, transmit, or communicate the modern scientific issues important to them through their own art practice. Prerequisites SAIC Scholars Program Students Only	Class Number 1989	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1503
Queer Worldmaking	2098 (001)	Kirin Wachter-Grene, Jade Yumang	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description We live in a world we didn¿t create. But we innovate how to exist within it. This Scholar¿s blended academic/studio symposium course explores what it might mean to ¿queer¿ space through installation strategies. Installation art is the desire to transform the perception of space to produce new experiences. What could it look like and feel like to take up space while simultaneously making room with others and for others? Together, we will explore these questions through the lens of feminist and queer historical texts that archive radical experiments, aspirations, and failures in kinship, collectivity, and utopian world building efforts. Additional readings will look at affect theory, disorientation, desire, accessibility, and community-building. Students are expected to keep up with the reading weekly and to come to class ready to write about it and discuss it in depth. Studio work, solo and group, will explore and transform space through different techniques such as the arrangement of found/rescued objects, soundscape, light manipulation, video projection, smell, activation via performance, haptic textures, and other modes of site-specific strategies. Artists in focus will include Allyson Mitchell, Nayland Blake, Tiona Nekkia Mcclodden, Jacolby Satterwhite, Chris E. Vargas, Ernesto Pujol, Kang Seung Lee, AK Burns/Katherine Hubbard, and more. Prerequisites SAIC Scholars Program Students Only	Class Number 2051	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Sharp 409
Queer Worldmaking	2098 (001)	Kirin Wachter-Grene, Jade Yumang	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description We live in a world we didn¿t create. But we innovate how to exist within it. This Scholar¿s blended academic/studio symposium course explores what it might mean to ¿queer¿ space through installation strategies. Installation art is the desire to transform the perception of space to produce new experiences. What could it look like and feel like to take up space while simultaneously making room with others and for others? Together, we will explore these questions through the lens of feminist and queer historical texts that archive radical experiments, aspirations, and failures in kinship, collectivity, and utopian world building efforts. Additional readings will look at affect theory, disorientation, desire, accessibility, and community-building. Students are expected to keep up with the reading weekly and to come to class ready to write about it and discuss it in depth. Studio work, solo and group, will explore and transform space through different techniques such as the arrangement of found/rescued objects, soundscape, light manipulation, video projection, smell, activation via performance, haptic textures, and other modes of site-specific strategies. Artists in focus will include Allyson Mitchell, Nayland Blake, Tiona Nekkia Mcclodden, Jacolby Satterwhite, Chris E. Vargas, Ernesto Pujol, Kang Seung Lee, AK Burns/Katherine Hubbard, and more. Prerequisites SAIC Scholars Program Students Only	Class Number 2051	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Sharp 409
Writing Everywhere	2098 (001)	Sherry Antonini, Jenny Magnus	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This blended academic/studio course offers Scholars Program students an opportunity to explore and analyze art forms that incorporate text within interdisciplinary projects. Our academic investigations will serve as a base of information and inspiration to facilitate students¿ processes of writing and making in creating text-inclusive interdisciplinary work. We¿ll engage in viewing, listening, reading, writing responses, and discussing pieces created by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Robert Ashley, Patti Smith, Kurt Schwitters, Idris Goodwin, Claudia Rankine, and Emil Ferris. We¿ll then consider what we¿ve seen, learned, and discussed as we work in the studio, moving across generative exercises, writing workshop sessions, and individual making time focused on developing and fine-tuning both words and structures for new projects. Students will experiment with their writing in combinations involving 2d and 3d image, sound, and performance ideas, with critiques as follow-up feedback. Students should expect to work loosely, but passionately, to create distinct trial projects reflecting assigned investigations, as well as meet related reading and written response deadlines along the timeline of the semester. Final projects will present further steps of revision toward a chosen finished piece. Prerequisites SAIC Scholars Program Students Only	Class Number 1658	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
Writing Everywhere	2098 (001)	Sherry Antonini, Jenny Magnus	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This blended academic/studio course offers Scholars Program students an opportunity to explore and analyze art forms that incorporate text within interdisciplinary projects. Our academic investigations will serve as a base of information and inspiration to facilitate students¿ processes of writing and making in creating text-inclusive interdisciplinary work. We¿ll engage in viewing, listening, reading, writing responses, and discussing pieces created by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Robert Ashley, Patti Smith, Kurt Schwitters, Idris Goodwin, Claudia Rankine, and Emil Ferris. We¿ll then consider what we¿ve seen, learned, and discussed as we work in the studio, moving across generative exercises, writing workshop sessions, and individual making time focused on developing and fine-tuning both words and structures for new projects. Students will experiment with their writing in combinations involving 2d and 3d image, sound, and performance ideas, with critiques as follow-up feedback. Students should expect to work loosely, but passionately, to create distinct trial projects reflecting assigned investigations, as well as meet related reading and written response deadlines along the timeline of the semester. Final projects will present further steps of revision toward a chosen finished piece. Prerequisites SAIC Scholars Program Students Only	Class Number 1658	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
Storytelling, Narrative, and Design	2198 (001)	Mark N. Stafford, Zachary Tavlin	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM In Person
Description This studio symposium joins an exploration of narrative theory (narratology) with workshops where students write and make their own narrative art across different forms and media. Narratology is concerned with big questions about storytelling: What are the fundamental concepts of narrative? How do narratives work, and how do we process and understand them? What are the key differences between alternative narrative forms? How do differences in media, genre, and cultural traditions inform how stories are designed and understood? How have narrative forms changed over time, up to our digital present? Even: what is the function of narrative and are we ever outside it? Why do we share a common drive to tell stories in and with our making? We will read foundational theoretical texts (from Plato to twentieth-century and contemporary authors) and discuss them in relation to mythic, literary, cinematic, graphic, and serial narratives. Students will bring new ideas to the studio, where they will develop and complete narrative works individually and collectively. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1659	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 202
Storytelling, Narrative, and Design	2198 (001)	Mark N. Stafford, Zachary Tavlin	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM In Person
Description This studio symposium joins an exploration of narrative theory (narratology) with workshops where students write and make their own narrative art across different forms and media. Narratology is concerned with big questions about storytelling: What are the fundamental concepts of narrative? How do narratives work, and how do we process and understand them? What are the key differences between alternative narrative forms? How do differences in media, genre, and cultural traditions inform how stories are designed and understood? How have narrative forms changed over time, up to our digital present? Even: what is the function of narrative and are we ever outside it? Why do we share a common drive to tell stories in and with our making? We will read foundational theoretical texts (from Plato to twentieth-century and contemporary authors) and discuss them in relation to mythic, literary, cinematic, graphic, and serial narratives. Students will bring new ideas to the studio, where they will develop and complete narrative works individually and collectively. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1659	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 202
Top: The Politics of Pleasure	3007 (001)	Ivan Bujan	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This seminar interrogates the concept of pleasure. Pleasure occupies a fraught space in feminist and queer theory. This course examines several ways that people have theorized pleasure as a space for politics, a space for conservatism, or a way to think about racialized difference. This course is not interested in defining what pleasure is, but it interrogates what the stakes of talking about pleasure have been within contemporary theory and culture. Beginning with an examination of pleasure in the context of early twentieth century sexology, this course looks at the sex wars of the 1970s, the turn toward pleasure as a space of protest, and ends by thinking of ways to imagine pleasure outside of current paradigms of sexuality. The course takes gender, race, and sexuality as central analytic components. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2035	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Gender and Sexuality Location MacLean 112
Top: Queer of Color Critique	3007 (002)	Omie Hsu	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course welcomes students interested in the field broadly called ¿queer theory¿--even if they don¿t have a background in women¿s, gender, or sexuality studies. It requires neither expertise nor past experience precisely because the primary question the class experiments with is: ¿What could queer theory look like if we begin from the premise that its model subject is not white?¿ The syllabus is organized around how ¿queer theory¿ is differently distributed and taken up by various fields of inquiry/analysis, methodological approaches, and traditions of activism and cultural production. We¿ll use many genres and forms of queer of color theorizing as points of entry into concepts central to queer/critical thought (like intimacy, power, subjectivity, labor, sex). We¿ll read legal scholars (like Kenji Yoshino, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ian López) alongside theorists of performance/performativity (like E. Patrick Johnson, José Muñoz); we¿ll put historical manifestos (like those by Radicalesbians, the Combahee River Collective) in conversation with contemporary literary manifestos (like Joshua Chambers-Letson¿s); we¿ll treat graphic novels (like Jaime Cortez¿s Sexile) as works of philosophy and works of political philosophizing (like writing by Cathy Cohen, C. Riley Snorton, Jeff Nunokawa) as poetic/aesthetic; we¿ll watch web series (like Brown Girls) and we¿ll write a lot. We¿ll use short, though frequent, critical reflections to frame class discussions and you¿ll use longer paper and/or creative projects to consolidate/present your learning. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2036	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Gender and Sexuality Location Lakeview - 205
Astrobiology and Speculative Futurism	3098 (001)	Sarah Zhou Rosengard, Andrew H. Scarpelli	Thurs, Thurs 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field of science that focuses on the existence of life beyond Earth. It leans heavily on understanding the habitability of life on Earth as a basis for understanding the probability and physiology of extraterrestrial life in the universe. Unsurprisingly, astrobiology has inspired generations of scientists, artists, and designers to envision not only alien life, but also the future of human life on Earth in the Anthropocene and on other planets. Set in AT/SP¿s Bio Art facility, this course blends concepts and methods of creative studies such as speculative design, futurism, and semiotics with fundamentals in natural science (biology, geochemistry, and astronomy) to imagine what life will look like beyond our current existence. The artistic concepts will be explored via written material by Paola Antonelli, Anthony Dunn, Fiona Ray, etc.. We will focus on discussions of speculative design, bioart, and various lenses of futurism while mantinaining a harmony with scientific understanding of key concepts about life, ecology, and environmental chemistry. At the same time, scientific readings and podcasts in this course will focus on the works of past Chicago scientists Enrico Fermi and Frank Drake who postulated the probability of extraterrestrial life, and several researchers doing active research on life in extreme Earth analog environments and other celestial bodies in our solar system (e.g., scientists at the Biosphere 2 facility and SETI Institute). Students will consider various media ranging from scientific papers to short films and artistic dialogues to show a firm grasp on astrobiology and its philosophical implications. Hands-on experiments in the Bio Art lab will provide opportunities to practice various astrobiology research techniques. The final project will challenge student teams to imagine a potential future or extraterrestrial ecology and use that to design and create a potential gallery piece. Prerequisites Studio Symposia - Students must enroll in both ARTTECH 3098 and SCIENCE 3098	Class Number 2188	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Art/Design and Politics, Art and Science, Sustainable Design Location Michigan B1-19, MacLean 818
Astrobiology and Speculative Futurism	3098 (001)	Sarah Zhou Rosengard, Andrew H. Scarpelli	Thurs, Thurs 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field of science that focuses on the existence of life beyond Earth. It leans heavily on understanding the habitability of life on Earth as a basis for understanding the probability and physiology of extraterrestrial life in the universe. Unsurprisingly, astrobiology has inspired generations of scientists, artists, and designers to envision not only alien life, but also the future of human life on Earth in the Anthropocene and on other planets. Set in AT/SP¿s Bio Art facility, this course blends concepts and methods of creative studies such as speculative design, futurism, and semiotics with fundamentals in natural science (biology, geochemistry, and astronomy) to imagine what life will look like beyond our current existence. The artistic concepts will be explored via written material by Paola Antonelli, Anthony Dunn, Fiona Ray, etc.. We will focus on discussions of speculative design, bioart, and various lenses of futurism while mantinaining a harmony with scientific understanding of key concepts about life, ecology, and environmental chemistry. At the same time, scientific readings and podcasts in this course will focus on the works of past Chicago scientists Enrico Fermi and Frank Drake who postulated the probability of extraterrestrial life, and several researchers doing active research on life in extreme Earth analog environments and other celestial bodies in our solar system (e.g., scientists at the Biosphere 2 facility and SETI Institute). Students will consider various media ranging from scientific papers to short films and artistic dialogues to show a firm grasp on astrobiology and its philosophical implications. Hands-on experiments in the Bio Art lab will provide opportunities to practice various astrobiology research techniques. The final project will challenge student teams to imagine a potential future or extraterrestrial ecology and use that to design and create a potential gallery piece. Prerequisites Studio Symposia - Students must enroll in both ARTTECH 3098 and SCIENCE 3098	Class Number 2188	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Art/Design and Politics, Art and Science, Sustainable Design Location Michigan B1-19, MacLean 818
Cont Narr: Art of Hip Hop	3105 (001)	Andrew Lindsay	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course proposes that hip-hop is the most literary of all musical genres. We understand hip-hop best when we apply the same critical questions to these songs that we apply to short fiction, autobiography, and other literary genres. Our fundamental goal is to see the ?art? of hip-hop more clearly. Good observation leads to good argument, and at heart, this is the fundamental skill we will be practicing. Personal taste in music is an extraordinarily subjective position and often involves unconscious preferences and inclinations. Discovering why we feel the way we feel, and learning how to argue for something ?unprovable? is the fundamental goal of rhetoric; in doing so we aim to strengthen our writing skills across all subject matter. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1629	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 205
Cont Narr:Queer Literature	3105 (002)	Terri Griffith	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description American and European literary tradition has long included authors that contemporary readers would recognize as queer. Yet works that openly address queer sexualities and gender are relatively new. In this course students read a variety of works starting from ?the invention of homosexuality? (1890s) to the present with particular focus on issues germane to the genre: societal constraints on content, the subtext of cloaked sexuality, and authorial responsibility to the queer community. Assignments include two 10-page literary analysis papers. Readings include works by Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, and Susan Sontag. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1630	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 620
Cont Narr:What is Narrative	3105 (003)	Todd S. Hasak-Lowy	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This course will serve as a rigorous, systematic introduction to the concept of narrative. By analyzing a variety of narrative forms (especially short fiction, film, and comics) students will learn what virtually all narratives have in common. Students will gain an understanding of narrative as a particular mode for both creating and conveying meaning. Our primary texts will include short stories by Jumpha Lahiri and David Means, the film The Third Man, and Alison Bechdel's autobiographical comic Fun Home. In addition to our primary sources, students will read key works on narrative theory. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2253	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
Masterworks: Emily Dickinson & Her Heirs	3110 (001)	Leila A Wilson	Fri 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1800 poems, publishing only a few anonymously in her lifetime. Many know her as a recluse, ¿the woman in white¿ who rarely left her room in her family¿s home in Amherst, MA, though her poems prove her radicality, edginess, and performativity. Her poems¿ imagistic slants, lilting rhythms, and urgent breaks open possibilities that continue to inspire experimentation by poets and artists around the world. In this course we¿ll first ground our discussions by learning about Dickinson¿s life¿her family, friendships, education, cultural influences, and political contexts¿and we¿ll lean into her fascinations by slowly and closely reading her poems together. Then we¿ll spend time with some of her correspondence and see how her letters, along with her poems, enact and embody her queerness, feminism, environmentalism, and social critique. Digitized versions of her original fascicles, as well as some fragments and unbound sets, will allow us to examine her hand script and consider how her poems exist as physical art objects. Thrillingly, her poems invite and resist our knowing; they push back against easy summary and exert their own questions, satire, and sass. As we delve into her work, we¿ll also enjoy a diverse group of modern and contemporary poets and artists who have been sparked by Dickinson¿s poems, placing them in dialogue with Dickinson in our own expanded room. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1639	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 205
Masterworks: Norse Eddas and Sagas	3110 (002)	Pamela Barrie	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description During the late 12th and 13th centuries, the Norse settlers of Iceland created a body of prose narratives rivaling the modern novel in psychological penetration and sheer narrative craft: the famous Sagas of the Icelanders. They also preserved a treasure trove of Nordic myths in verse and prose versions known as the Eddas; nearly all we know about Odin, Thor, and Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods, derives from a few Icelandic manuscripts, along with the familiar tales of the death of Baldr, Sigurd the Dragon slayer, and the valkyrie Brunhild. This course engages students in an exploration of the literary, mythic, and historic world of the medieval Icelanders, including a reading of the outlaw sagas of Gisli and Grettir the Strong, and the Eddic lays that inspired the creations of Wagner, William Morris, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Coursework includes two take-home exams with a mix of short answers and essays, and a class presentation and term paper on suggested topics. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2254	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 920

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