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
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: 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
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
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 (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
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
The Art of Rational Thinking	3121 (001)	Luna Jaskowiak	Fri 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description What does it mean to think well? In this course we will explore classical logic from a modern formal point of view as a prerequisite for investigating this question. Topics covered will include propositional logic, truth tables, validity and soundness of arguments, inductive vs. deductive logical systems. There will be significant emphasis on natural deduction as a type of game that features its own particular set of permissible moves?much like chess or checkers. This is not a course focused on rhetoric or debate, but rather on the experimental creative process of constructing logically sound arguments and the way in which abstract information can be organized visually. In our exploration of these subjects, collaborative learning techniques will be utilized extensively. This will include in-class group work, regular homework assignments, a two-stage collaborative midterm. The final will be a self-directed project. A familiarity with any kind of mathematics, such as a high-school-level understanding of algebra, would be helpful, but it is not required. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1966	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
The Art of Rational Thinking	3121 (002)	Luna Jaskowiak	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description What does it mean to think well? In this course we will explore classical logic from a modern formal point of view as a prerequisite for investigating this question. Topics covered will include propositional logic, truth tables, validity and soundness of arguments, inductive vs. deductive logical systems. There will be significant emphasis on natural deduction as a type of game that features its own particular set of permissible moves?much like chess or checkers. This is not a course focused on rhetoric or debate, but rather on the experimental creative process of constructing logically sound arguments and the way in which abstract information can be organized visually. In our exploration of these subjects, collaborative learning techniques will be utilized extensively. This will include in-class group work, regular homework assignments, a two-stage collaborative midterm. The final will be a self-directed project. A familiarity with any kind of mathematics, such as a high-school-level understanding of algebra, would be helpful, but it is not required. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2248	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
Shakespeare	3122 (001)	Christian M Sheppard	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This course is both a broad introduction to Shakespeare and an opportunity to delve deeply into some of his most enchanting, disturbing, maddening, and comical works. Students should expect a good amount of reading (as well as a good amount of learning how to navigate the challenging aspects of his language and style). We will likely read at least one play from the following major genres (paying the most attention to the last): history, comedy, romance, and tragedy. We will also consider performances and adaptations and spend time on a broad selection of Shakespeare's sonnets. Students will engage in multiple formats of peer discussion, take turns presenting material, and complete regular writing assignments in response to the reading. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2355	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 111
The Elegance of Abstraction: Contemporary Mathematics	3123 (001)	Eugenia Cheng	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Is there such a thing as 'new' mathematics? You can't just discover a new number after all. This course will give insights into contemporary mathematics, emphasizing how the partner processes of abstraction and generalization lead to new discoveries and insights. We will consider classical mathematics in this light, and then apply the same methods to thinking about shapes, surfaces, knots, maps. Crucially throughout we will apply the methods and way of thinking to questions of social justice and political arguments to show that abstract mathematics is highly relevant to our daily lives. Hands-on activities will emphasize the visual and structural aspects of mathematics, reshaping your view of what math means. No previous proficiency in mathematics is expected, only curiosity and an open mind about the subject. The textbook for the course is 'How to Bake Pi' by Eugenia Cheng. All content will have the aim of developing skills in logical reasoning, and appreciation of rigorous logical arguments. Assignments will take the form of math problems, open book quizzes, writing assignments and class participation. No memorization will ever be required. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1980	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
The Elegance of Abstraction: Contemporary Mathematics	3123 (002)	Eugenia Cheng	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Is there such a thing as 'new' mathematics? You can't just discover a new number after all. This course will give insights into contemporary mathematics, emphasizing how the partner processes of abstraction and generalization lead to new discoveries and insights. We will consider classical mathematics in this light, and then apply the same methods to thinking about shapes, surfaces, knots, maps. Crucially throughout we will apply the methods and way of thinking to questions of social justice and political arguments to show that abstract mathematics is highly relevant to our daily lives. Hands-on activities will emphasize the visual and structural aspects of mathematics, reshaping your view of what math means. No previous proficiency in mathematics is expected, only curiosity and an open mind about the subject. The textbook for the course is 'How to Bake Pi' by Eugenia Cheng. All content will have the aim of developing skills in logical reasoning, and appreciation of rigorous logical arguments. Assignments will take the form of math problems, open book quizzes, writing assignments and class participation. No memorization will ever be required. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2244	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Top: Native American Literature & the Environment	3151 (001)	Jane Robbins Mize	Tues 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This course explores how the environment is imagined, represented, and engaged in Native American literature from the early twentieth century to the present. We will ask questions such as: How does Indigenous storytelling frame subjects including human-nonhuman relations, natural and urban spaces, and environmental law? What might Native American literature reveal about the tensions between Indigenous epistemologies of the environment and settler environmentalism? What is the connection between environmental justice and decolonization¿and how does Indigenous literature, film, and art contribute to such movements? We will analyze texts within their unique environmental, historical, and cultural contexts¿and we will also consider larger frameworks including settler colonialism, capitalist industrialization, and Indigenous sovereignty. Readings will include literature such as Linda Hogan¿s Solar Storms (1994) and Tommy Pico¿s Nature Poem (2017) as well as scholarship by Gerald Vizenor, Nick Estes, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2351	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
Mathematical Thinking	3151 (001)	Elizabeth Freeland	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This course surveys various ideas in math in search of an understanding of what mathematical thinking is. The aim is to consider the underlying thought patterns of a particular math topic. What is that type of math used for? Why and how did it develop? What does it help humans do? What does it tell us about how humans think abstractly? Topics typically include deductive reasoning and logic, coding, geometry and the link to algebra and music, proofs, probability and statistics, symmetries, tilings. Classes are typically run in an interactive lecture style. Students work many steps and examples along with the lecture. This allows students to use their own experience to learn of the strengths, weaknesses, and mental leaps found in the various topics. Students will look for connections between different topics and their use, and also for the use of mathematical thinking in their own lives and work. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1972	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1608
Top: Literature and the American Empire	3151 (002)	Jane Robbins Mize	Wed 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description In her 2020 collection Postcolonial Love Poem, the Mojave poet Natalie Diaz writes, ¿I have never been true in America. America is my myth.¿ Since its founding, the United States has promoted a mythologized identity grounded in freedom and equality while expanding its projects of settler colonialism and imperialism. In this course, students will analyze literature that both reflects and resists U.S. myth-making from the early twentieth century to the present. As we examine both canonical and non-canonical texts, we will ask questions such as: How does literature contribute to the formation of American identity both at ¿home¿ and abroad? How do diverse cultures, ethnicities, and identities contribute to the production and reception of American literature? How might literature challenge cultural hegemony, settler colonialism, and American imperialism? Readings include novels by Leslie Marmon Silko and Julia Alvarez as well as poems by Natasha Trethewey, Ada Limón, and Joy Harjo. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2356	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
Top: Tarot & Its Influence	3159 (001)	Christian M Sheppard	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Topics in religion and literature offer students the opportunity to explore the boundaries between religion and literature, as well as the points of dynamic contact between these two fields. Courses offered in this topic are concerned with the intersection of religion, in its historical context and its thematic concerns, with literature and related cultural forms and practices. Both the religion and the genre may vary according to the topic, allowing for both broadness of reach and depth of focus in modes of religious and literary expression. Artists/Works/Screening/Reading/Content Area examples to be determined, based on the specific course being offered under this topic, but will include key texts in religious literature, both historically and culturally, as well as key texts from a variety of literary genres and perspectives. This 3000-level Humanities course, including readings, reading responses, essays, mid-terms, and finals. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1646	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 620
LH:The Personal Essay	3190 (001)	Eileen Favorite	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Personal essayists, according to Philip Lopate, 'are adept at interrogating their own ignorance. Just as often as they tell us what they know, they ask at the beginning of an exploration of a problem what it is they don't know--and why.' In this course, we'll read many essays, including work from 10th-century Japan (Sei Shonagon), 16th-century France (Montaigne), and 21st-century America (Kiese Laymon). We'll explore the many forms a personal essay can take--lists, letters, traditional narrative--to see how writers explore topics that range from trauma to the quotidian concerns of meal prep. We'll discuss how nonfiction functions as an artform distinct from academic scholarship, yet how research elements can be integrated into the personal essay to add depth to a topic. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1656	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
LH:BIPOC SF: Other Worlds Exist	3190 (002)	Kirin Wachter-Grene	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) writers have used SF¿which stands for speculative fiction (science fiction, horror, and fantasy)¿to imagine alternative worlds for centuries. In this class we will closely consider such texts¿ visions of race and ethnicity, sexuality, gender, power, and worldbuilding by situating them within the social, political, and historical contexts of their time. How do these texts¿some written by writers from marginalized groups who have already survived or are daily surviving apocalypse¿represent self-determined visions of resistance, decolonization, abolition, environmental justice, and interspecies solidarity? Fictional texts will include work by Larissa Lai, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, Rebecca Roanhorse, Neon Yang, N.K. Jemisin, and more. Students should expect to read, on average, 75 pages per week and to write about and discuss texts in depth. Students should also expect to take turns as discussion leaders. For their final project, students will write an argumentative essay or develop a creative project with a written reflective component inspired by concepts central to the texts but pertaining to a topic of their choosing. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2255	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
Top: Ecocriticism	3192 (001)	Zachary Tavlin	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Detailed and ongoing study of thematic material related to climate crisis, including historic and present-day responses in literature. The period and works may vary. To be determined, based on the specific course being offered under this topic. Assignments will vary depending on the instructor and topic, including readings, reading responses, essays, mid-terms, and finals.	Class Number 2256	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Economic Inequality & Class, Community & Social Engagement, Sustainable Design Location Lakeview - 203
Spiritus Mundi: Art and Esotericism	3198 (001)	Peter O'Leary, Frank Piatek	Thurs, Thurs 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Esotericism refers both to a field of knowledge hidden from common view and a moral reality suggesting secrecy, occultism, danger, conspiracy, and vast quantities of arcane lore and revelation. This course introduces students to a basic theory of esotericism in relation to the active production of art in the context of the spiritual. The spiritual has a living context in art, visible in various forms of the visionary, the sacred, and the sublime, for which the doctrines of different esoteric disciplines, such as Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Astrology, and Alchemy, can serve as keys. The catalogue 'The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1890-1985' will serve as a master resource for this course, as well as selected readings from artists, scholars, and researchers, including Marsilio Ficino, Carl Jung, Antoine Faivre, Jeffrey Kripal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Arthur Versluis, Hermes Trismegistus, Evelyn Underhill, H.P Blavatsky, and Richard Tarnas, to name a few. Students will generate visual art on the themes of the class during the studio portion of the course; for the symposium portion of the course, they will produce several short informative essays about figures from the history of Western Esotericism, as well as a final research project, in the form of a personal essay, work of creative fiction, poetry, or drama, or an advanced horoscope, to be presented to the class. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1635	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location 280 Building Rm 123, 280 Building Rm 325
Spiritus Mundi: Art and Esotericism	3198 (001)	Peter O'Leary, Frank Piatek	Thurs, Thurs 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Esotericism refers both to a field of knowledge hidden from common view and a moral reality suggesting secrecy, occultism, danger, conspiracy, and vast quantities of arcane lore and revelation. This course introduces students to a basic theory of esotericism in relation to the active production of art in the context of the spiritual. The spiritual has a living context in art, visible in various forms of the visionary, the sacred, and the sublime, for which the doctrines of different esoteric disciplines, such as Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Astrology, and Alchemy, can serve as keys. The catalogue 'The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1890-1985' will serve as a master resource for this course, as well as selected readings from artists, scholars, and researchers, including Marsilio Ficino, Carl Jung, Antoine Faivre, Jeffrey Kripal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Arthur Versluis, Hermes Trismegistus, Evelyn Underhill, H.P Blavatsky, and Richard Tarnas, to name a few. Students will generate visual art on the themes of the class during the studio portion of the course; for the symposium portion of the course, they will produce several short informative essays about figures from the history of Western Esotericism, as well as a final research project, in the form of a personal essay, work of creative fiction, poetry, or drama, or an advanced horoscope, to be presented to the class. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1635	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location 280 Building Rm 123, 280 Building Rm 325
Western Music: Medieval To Mozart	3210 (001)	Katarzyna Grochowska, Daniel Atwood	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This course surveys over 2,000 years of music in Western civilization. Historical, cultural, and social contexts are studied as they pertain to the music. After an introduction to the Greeks (8th century BCE), music such as medieval chants, motets, Renaissance masses, madrigals, Baroque concertos, operas, and Classical symphonies (ca. up to 1800) are studied. Lectures trace the changes from vocal to instrumental practices with closer looks at some representative period instruments. Biographies are used to demonstrate social, educational and geo-political changes, which shaped the final results of composers' creativity: music. European musical centers -- Paris, Venice, and Vienna -- and their musical establishments receive special attention. Students learn a macro-level music vocabulary and are encouraged to use it in their discourse. Each lecture is structured around a composition that exemplifies the most salient features of a particular period. Listening and reading is required before each lecture. Students are assigned two short essays (6 pages each) as well as a midterm and a final exam that focus on listening skills and understanding/usage of music vocabulary. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1644	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Western Music: Medieval To Mozart	3210 (001)	Katarzyna Grochowska, Daniel Atwood	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This course surveys over 2,000 years of music in Western civilization. Historical, cultural, and social contexts are studied as they pertain to the music. After an introduction to the Greeks (8th century BCE), music such as medieval chants, motets, Renaissance masses, madrigals, Baroque concertos, operas, and Classical symphonies (ca. up to 1800) are studied. Lectures trace the changes from vocal to instrumental practices with closer looks at some representative period instruments. Biographies are used to demonstrate social, educational and geo-political changes, which shaped the final results of composers' creativity: music. European musical centers -- Paris, Venice, and Vienna -- and their musical establishments receive special attention. Students learn a macro-level music vocabulary and are encouraged to use it in their discourse. Each lecture is structured around a composition that exemplifies the most salient features of a particular period. Listening and reading is required before each lecture. Students are assigned two short essays (6 pages each) as well as a midterm and a final exam that focus on listening skills and understanding/usage of music vocabulary. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1644	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Search for Life in Universe	3211 (001)	Lucianne Walkowicz	Thurs 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description Finding alien life across cosmic distance has challenged the limits of human imagination and technology for millenia. In this course, we will look at the fundamental questions that animate the search for life beyond Earth, delve into the scientific methodologies that we use to detect and recognize life, and unpack the sticky social questions of what it means to search for life (and what happens if we succeed!). Students will emerge understanding the many technical approaches to finding alien life, the ways human social values and pressures affect the pursuit of these methods, and an appreciation for the ways in which the search for alien life is intertwined with the study of life on our own planet. Last but not least, this course aims to help students contextualize reports and announcements about discoveries related to the search for life, and ask questions that will enable them to understand the significance of those reports. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1992	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1608
Cont: Hip Hop Music and Culture	3215 (001)	Amina Norman-Hawkins	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Rising out of a relatively obscure urban youth movement in the 1970s, hip-hop would become one of the world's preeminent forms of artistic expression wielding tremendous influence in the world of music, fashion, dance, and popular culture. Created primarily by teenagers in New York¿s South Bronx to amplify their creative and socio-political voices, hip-hop also served an important role in preserving the heritage and cultural identity of Black and Brown communities in the United States. This course will explore hip-hop¿s musical and cultural roots examining its distinguishing characteristics, aesthetic practices, and position in the world. The course begins by exploring the African and Caribbean music and dance traditions that helped shape hip-hop practices, from drum rhythms to syncopated vocal delivery, and communal performance circles. We will explore the music production process, lyric construction, narrative storytelling, and encoded messages. We will also examine how advancements in technology have played critical roles in making hip-hop more accessible due in part to the affordability of personal computers, the shift from analog to digital music formats, and the creation of the Internet. Additionally, we will explore the associated elements of fashion, dance, language, and entrepreneurialism connected to hip-hop. Students will be assigned quizzes, music and song analysis, video feedbacks, a midterm album presentation, and a creative independent (or collaborative) final project. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1638	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
Decolonizing Music	3215 (002)	Oliver Shao	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description What does it mean to hear the world through ?imperial ears?? How can music and sound be used to decolonize minds, bodies, and land? What can listening to music teach us about the interwoven relationships between colonizing and decolonizing forces? This course will address these questions and others through examining the diverse roles of music in various colonial and postcolonial contexts. We will study a range of topics that include British colonialism?s impact on music and sonic practices; the role of music in resistance movements in Africa and Asia-Pacific; and the capacities of music to negotiate, oppose, and refigure colonial legacies. This course aims to strengthen our abilities to hear and critique the echoes and reverberations of coloniality across time and space. Most importantly, we will center our attention on the sounds and songs of indigeneity with an emphasis on the role of musicians and communities involved in generating freedom from oppression. Coursework may include short writing assignments, essays, presentations, and podcasts. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1654	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Introduction to African American Music	3215 (003)	Amina Norman-Hawkins	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Through a socio-cultural historical approach, this course provides a chronological survey of the broad repertoire of music created by people of African descent in the United States from the period of enslavement to the present day. Students will explore African American music's characteristics, techniques, styles, and aesthetics, examining secular and religious folk music, compositions in the Western classical music tradition, and contemporary and popular music forms. Beginning with its West African roots, this course traces the dynamic aspects of African American music through examining successive generation¿s diverse styles, narratives, and distinctive performance practices. This course will explore the roots, aesthetics, and connections between African American musical genres like gospel, blues, jazz, soul, funk, disco, house, and hip-hop, through the works of composers, artists, and musicians like Thomas Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, Robert Johnson, Nina Simone, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and DJ Kool Herc. Students will also examine African vocal and musical characteristics preserved in the United States and still prevalent in African American music such as call & response, polyrhythms, syncopation, guttural effects, and improvisation. Additionally, this course will highlight Chicago¿s rich musical history and contributions to the African American musical landscape. Assignments will include readings, music and song analysis, video/documentary feedback, a song review, and a creative independent (or collaborative) final project/presentation. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2452	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 608
America's Musical Roots	3234 (001)	Allie n Steve Mullen	Wed 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description This course examines the unique role that music has played in the cultural development of the United States, taking a critical look at the historical and geographical context for the development of American musical styles, including the role of slavery. We will critically engage the role that 19th Century blackface and minstrelsy played in providing the framework for both the foundations of the popular culture industry, and the conditions that resulted in the construction of cultural 'blackness.' We will examine the various regional styles of music that have developed in the United States, including the blues, ragtime, spirituals, country, jazz, bluegrass, and folk music, noting the manner in which style and gesture is traded back and forth. We will identify the musical characteristics of the primary styles of early American music, what distinguishes each, and trace their evolution to the music we listen to today. By spotting the way a note is bent or how the backbeat is played, we will map the route from the churches of the early frontier to the songs of Kendrick Lamar. Assignments may include weekly readings, approximately 3 short papers, one term paper, a final exam, and an in-class presentation, presented either alone or in a small group. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1633	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Music of Caribbean & Brazil	3240 (001)	Jon Turner	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM All Online
Description This course follows migrations both forced and voluntary from Africa across trade routes to the Caribbean and Brazil as a frame for examining musics traditional and popular. In addition to examining these specific musics and musical instruments we will consider how musics from the Afro- Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian experiences influence Latin and South America and the Untied States. This course emphasizes selected ethnographic reading, seminar discussion, individual ethnographic experiences, and the chance for students to connect knowledge from the seminar to real world performances and musicians. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1628	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
Topics in Physics: Acoustics	3250 (001)	Brett Ian Balogh	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM All Online
Description This course provides an introduction to the physics of sound and how it is percieved by the ear. We produce and store sound in many different ways, using it in medicine, environmental studies and even in new methods of refrigeration. This course covers the concepts and application of acoustics, including sound wave theory, sound in music and musical instruments, recognition of musical sound qualities, auditorium acoustics and electronic reproduction of sound. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1988	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
Top: Music in Modern Cinema	3252 (001)	Emily C. Hoyler	Fri 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM All Online
Description This is a course on music and cinema in the late-20th and early-21st centuries. The focus will be on original scores for full-length films made over the last forty years, with historical, contemporary, and animated subject matter. Students will learn about the history of film scoring and evaluate uses of music by featured composers in selected films. Topics include narrative underscoring, musical motives, diegetic and extradiegetic music, and sonic signifiers of time and place. Course objectives include building strong audio-visual listening skills and acquiring the vocabulary to speak and write about film music and its historical and cultural contexts effectively. Screenings and viewings will vary but typically include examples of feature-length films with original music by composers including Terence Blanchard, Wendy Carlos, Alexandre Desplat, Patrick Doyle, Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, Philip Glass, Hildur Gu?nadottir, Joe Hisaishi, James Horner, Quincy Jones, Dario Marianelli, Ennio Morricone, Rachel Portman, Howard Shore, Gabriel Yared, and Hans Zimmer. Readings will vary but typically include works by musicologists and film theorists such as Michel Chion, Rebecca Coyle, Dean Duncan, Julie Hubbert, Lawrence Kramer, Frank Lehman, Richard Leppert, and Laura Mulvey, as well as film critics and journalists. Students will write 15-20 double-spaced pages during the semester, including revisions based on instructor and peer feedback. Assignments may include discussion threads, a close listening essay, an original research paper, and an oral presentation. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1643	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
Physics of Motion	3252 (001)	Elizabeth Freeland	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This class provides a basic introduction to the conceptual and quantitative framework necessary to understand the physics of the dynamical world around us. Some questions we address are: What do we need to know to describe motion? How do we model the movement of objects (kinematics)? What makes an object move (interactions, dynamics)? What different ways do we have to think about motion (forces, energy)? Reviewing skills in algebra as we go, we cover Newton's laws of motion and the analysis of physical systems in terms of forces and energy. We study the motion of objects on surfaces and those moving through the air. We take an introductory look at the forces of gravity and surface forces like friction and the so-called normal force. Some time will be spent studying the lack of motion, or static equilibrium. Laboratory and problem solving explorations help us develop important physical concepts and scientific reasoning skills. Applications are drawn from everyday phenomena as well as topics in architecture and design. Assignments include weekly homework, in-class problem solving and lab activities, two to three exams, and a short final project on a topic of the student's choosing. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1974	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1503
Top: Music and Artificial Intelligence	3252 (002)	Daniel Atwood	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Selected issues in music and related areas are studied. Topics vary each semester and may include (but are not limited to): musical structure and form, aural literacy, opera studies, music and words, music and the visual arts, history of recorded music, history of the oral tradition, semiotics, communications theory, and others. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1631	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Top: The Architecture of Western Music	3252 (003)	William Harper	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Selected issues in music and related areas are studied. Topics vary each semester and may include (but are not limited to): musical structure and form, aural literacy, opera studies, music and words, music and the visual arts, history of recorded music, history of the oral tradition, semiotics, communications theory, and others. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1647	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Music, War, and Peace	3253 (001)	Oliver Shao	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This course examines the multifaceted ways music is interwoven with social processes of war and peace. In what ways do people use musical sounds to control, torture, and kill individuals and populations? What types of concepts elucidate the ways music reproduces oft-hidden forms of violence? How can music heal trauma and resolve conflict? Throughout this course, we will work towards developing a deeper understanding about the ways music is used to support, oppose, and heal from actions and consequences made in the name of war and peace. Through studying films, texts, and audio recordings, students are expected to think critically and write persuasively about the diverse ways musicians, politicians, military personnel, and civilians use music in wartime contexts. While case studies will vary, we will pay particular attention to the role of Western popular music in the United States-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A broader goal of this course is to analyze music in ways that generate critical responses to the permeation of violence throughout society and everyday life. Coursework will include reading responses, short writing assignments, a mid-term, and a final project. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1636	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Class, Race, Ethnicity, Public Space, Site, Landscape, Art/Design and Politics Location MacLean 617
Erotics of Excess	3298 (001)	Jeremy Biles, Rebecca Walz	Thurs 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course investigates the relationship between eroticism, excess, artistic practice, and modes of representation. Taking an interdisciplinary and transgeneric approach (with readings in theory, history, philosophy, psychology, and literature), the course will treat a variety of mediums, with special emphasis on painting, drawing, and adjacent practices. Instructors frame the concept of ?erotics? as a mode of practice that investigates and integrates sex, gender, and a variety of ambivalent movements, for example, the play of form and formlessness, figuration and monstrosity, taboo and transgression, attraction and repulsion, incorporation and excretion, abjection and sublimity. Key ideas discussed in class include sex/uality, gender, difference, bodies, ritual, violence, representation, desire, ?perversion.? Students will read texts from art theory and history, psychoanalysis, literature, and psychology. Throughout the class, they will be asked to synthesize course readings and discussions with their own artistic practice. Prerequisites Studio Symposia - Students must enroll in both PTDW 3298 and HUMANITY 3298	Class Number 2290	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Location 280 Building Rm 124
Erotics of Excess	3298 (001)	Jeremy Biles, Rebecca Walz	Thurs 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course investigates the relationship between eroticism, excess, artistic practice, and modes of representation. Taking an interdisciplinary and transgeneric approach (with readings in theory, history, philosophy, psychology, and literature), the course will treat a variety of mediums, with special emphasis on painting, drawing, and adjacent practices. Instructors frame the concept of ?erotics? as a mode of practice that investigates and integrates sex, gender, and a variety of ambivalent movements, for example, the play of form and formlessness, figuration and monstrosity, taboo and transgression, attraction and repulsion, incorporation and excretion, abjection and sublimity. Key ideas discussed in class include sex/uality, gender, difference, bodies, ritual, violence, representation, desire, ?perversion.? Students will read texts from art theory and history, psychoanalysis, literature, and psychology. Throughout the class, they will be asked to synthesize course readings and discussions with their own artistic practice. Prerequisites Studio Symposia - Students must enroll in both PTDW 3298 and HUMANITY 3298	Class Number 2290	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Location 280 Building Rm 124
Top:Ecology of Contested Space	3300 (001)	Alex Williams	Tues, Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM, 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Amid global environmental and political turmoil and local grassroots activism, we will traverse regenerative urban spaces with different organizational frameworks and ideas about what it means to be with others and what it means to include the non-human. This course explores these new modes of being, with fellow humans and among other species and things, in a changing world. The course is structured around critical readings, as well as community-based projects in North Lawndale. This course generally meets at Homan Square 5-6 times a term. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2029	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 202, Homan 1200
Top:Asian American Studies	3300 (002)	Omie Hsu	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course is 'not quite introductory' because it is more specific, more experimental, and far less thorough than a survey class on major textual and conceptual touchstones of the field of Asian-American Studies. It has twin goals: the first, to organize encounters with a variety of textures and styles of representation, political action, and cultural production loosely defined as, or associated with, 'Asian-American.' This means that in addition to theoretical texts intended to anchor and stage each unit, we will also be reading across genres of analytic objects, like the blog, memoir, novel, documentary, and play. The second, to treat these studies of Asian American life/living as extended cases, immanently constitutive, of the study of politics. Units will be thematically organized around conceptual concerns that include: economies of labor, circulations of stereotype (from terrorist to model minority), articulations of the nation and citizenship in the context of diaspora, and food. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2030	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
Top: Global Media Industries	3300 (003)	Peter L Haratonik	Thurs 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This seminar explores various media industries from both US and Global perspectives. A number of major topic areas are examined. We historically compare the media industries before the Internet era. We then take an overview of a variety of today's media businesses followed by an examination of current global television business and management structures. We also survey the competitive and creative outlook in areas such as programming, distribution, markets and seek to develop a basic knowledge of nomenclature, practices and career paths. Readings include work by media theorists such as Theodor Adorno and Marshall McLuhan and by contemporary business strategists Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Screenings include documentaries by Adam Curtis and Douglas Rushkoff. Assignments include responses to weekly readings, a commentary on current research, an at home exam that examines readings in-depth, and a project that explores each student¿s interest in the media industries. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2031	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 202
Environmental Disasters	3302 (001)	Jackson Watkins	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description Scientists now know that global warming is causing more hurricanes? or is it? This course will explore how environmental disasters ? both man-made and natural ? impact human society and the biosphere, and how they have changed in both frequency and intensity in response to climate change. Some relevant topics that this class will investigate include: heat waves and cold snaps, links between climate change and vectorborne diseases, tropical cyclones, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, environmental impacts of natural gas fracking and oil spills, El Ni?o, long and short-term species extinction, ecosystem responses to climate change, and more. We will consider current news articles and relevant policy solutions/responses, and class work will involve group work, critical thinking, quantitative practice and analysis of scientific literature. Course work will include quantitative in-class assignments, relevant scientific readings, qualitative homework, quizzes, an exam and a final project.	Class Number 2357	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Art and Science Location MacLean 301
Oceanography	3310 (001)	Michele Hoffman	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM All Online
Description The topics of physical, chemical, geological, and biological oceanography are discussed in this course. The ocean as a stew of nutrients (chemical oceanography) which feeds marine life (biological oceanography) and in turn is controlled by the shape and makeup of its container (geological oceanography) are considered. Additional topics include reef formation, fisheries, ocean circulation, seabed mining, coastal development and hazards, and offshore drilling. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1994	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Online
Critical Thinking	3311 (001)	Beth A Barker	Fri 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description In this course, students will develop the skills they need to recognize and evaluate arguments, wherever they find them: journalistic media, social media, advertising, and even the arts. They¿ll do this by learning how to identify argument patterns, how to draw out implicit arguments, and how to avoid common mistakes in reasoning, both psychological and formal. Students will primarily learn through guided practice, and through the work of philosophers like Vaughn, Nguyen, and Setiya. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1637	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 203
Marine Biology and the Aquatic Realm	3311 (001)	Michele Hoffman	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description The oceans and the animals that dwell there are a key resource to planet earth, providing food, medicine, the bases for sacred cultural customs, and much more. However, they are in trouble. This course is a survey of marine ecosystems and the organisms that make them up from diatoms and dinaflagellates, to seahorses and great white sharks. We will discuss the abysmal forecast for the future of the planetary sea and how we can change the outcome now. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1971	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Sustainable Design Location Lakeview - 1503
Abrupt Climate Change	3314 (001)	Mia T Tuccillo	Thurs 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description Since 1970, global temperatures have risen more than a degree Fahrenheit, yet, despite dire warnings from climate scientists, humanity continues to emit climate-warming greenhouse gases at record pace. In the past two decades we have seen the increasing effects of devastating sea level rise, stronger and more powerful storms, longer droughts, deadly heat waves, destructive wildfires, accelerating loss of the world?s rainforests, growing species extinction rates, and changing water availability. In this course, we will explore the scientific explanation of contemporary climate change as well as the economic origins of our fossil fuel addiction. We will discuss future projections of climate change, the underpinnings of modern ?climate change denial?, and whether we can avoid what scientists call ?catastrophic climate change? in this century. We will consider current news articles, and articles in the scientific literature. We will address relevant policy solutions/responses, and screen relevant documentaries/news clips. Class work will involve group work, critical thinking, quantitative practice, relevant scientific readings, qualitative homework, quizzes, an exam and a final project. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2358	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 112
Earth and Planetary Science	3322 (001)	Catherine M Philpott	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description What makes Earth unique? In this course, we place the study of the Earth in the context of other Solar System bodies, comparing their surfaces, interiors, and atmospheres. We begin with a study of universal concepts including light and gravity, and we apply this knowledge to our investigation of why the planets are so diverse. We explore the planets' formation processes as an explanation for some of their differences, and we look to other newly discovered solar systems as a way to contrast with ours. Finally, we examine what makes Earth suitable for life, and we consider whether life might exist elsewhere in the Solar System ? as well as whether humanity could someday leave Earth. We will use the textbook ?The Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System? (Bennett et al.) and the Mastering Astronomy website. Each week, we will also discuss recent articles describing new discoveries in the field, chosen and presented by the students. Course work typically includes a 5-minute oral presentation, a 5-page research paper, in-class labs, 2-3 weekly reading questions, two homework assignments, and a final exam. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1975	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1503
Top: Phil of Internet and Online Interactions	3330 (001)	Burkay Ozturk	Thurs 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description A detailed philosophical investigation of a few topics of special contemporary interest. See topic description for more information. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1649	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 920
Top:Philosophy of Love	3330 (002)	Irina Ruvinsky	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course examines the role of love and relationality in human life. A basic, innate longing for association drives us in our various endeavors, and relationships permeate every aspect of human becoming. When we examine our love relationships we find trust, mutual reliance, reciprocity, and care, but also a tangle of strife, misunderstanding, angst, and longing for connection. We explore the nature of love through works of philosophy, literature and film. We investigate the distinction between eros, philia, and agape, and discuss ideas of love as a feeling, an action, or a species of ?knowing someone.? We evaluate several philosophical theories of romantic love, and question the tension between the individual?s desire for self-discovery and her responsibility towards others. We address the concept of love from the Platonic, Kantian, and existentialist perspectives. We also read work by Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche and De Beuvoir. Assignments vary, but they might include some or many of the following: weekly reading responses, quizzes, papers, and exams. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1627	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 608
Top: Philosophy of Race and Racism	3330 (003)	Corbin Covington	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course provides a broad overview of philosophical discussions of race and racism in American, African, and Latin & Caribbean culture. In this overview, we will focus on issues concerning the experience of race and racism, epistemological issues concerning racial distortions and ignorance, and ethical and political issues concerning racial oppression. Some of the central questions that we will address are: How should we understand the concept of race and the processes of racialization through which people come to see themselves as having a racial identity? What are the different kinds of racial injustice that we can identify, and the different kinds of exclusion, subordination, marginalization and stigmatization that can be part of racial oppression? How should racial oppression be resisted? How should racial violence be stopped? How should we build racial solidarity and fight for racial justice? We will also explore the connections between race and other identity categories such as gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, religion, nationality, etc. Some authors we will read are Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Alain Locke, Franz Fanon, Charles Mills, Sally Haslanger, Kirstie Dotson, and Quayshawn Spencer. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1648	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Top: Philosophy of Work	3330 (004)	Claudia Hogg-Blake	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description In this course we will consider the meaning of ¿work,¿ the importance of meaningful work and the role that work plays in the good life, issues of justice in the modern workplace ¿ including conceptions of domination, exploitation, alienation, and the right to strike ¿ and imagined alternatives to the modern workplace. We will also focus on women and work, and animals as workers. We will consider the work of historical figures such as Karl Marx, William Morris, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as contemporary thinkers such as Elizabeth Anderson, Alex Gourevitch, and Emily Guendelsberger. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2453	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 111
Philosophy of Sex	3331 (001)	Raja El Halwani	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description The course examines conceptual and ethical questions surrounding sexual desire and behavior. The questions we address include: Is there such a thing as sexual perversion and what is it? Are prostitution, adultery, casual sex, promiscuity, and pornography morally wrong? If yes, why? What is objectification and is it wrong? What is sexual harassment and why is it wrong? Most of the readings are by contemporary authors, though some are by important historical figures, such as Immanuel Kant. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1645	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 707
Philosophy Of Art	3340 (001)	Raja El Halwani	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description This course examines basic questions in the philosophy of art from the analytic tradition. Some major questions include: What is the definition of ?art?? What is the role of artistic intentions in interpreting and evaluating art? What connections are there between art, on the one hand, and beauty and aesthetics, on the other? What are aesthetic (artistic) principles and how do they differ from aesthetic (artistic) judgments? Are aesthetic or artistic judgment objective or subjective, and how do they connect to issues of taste? What connections are there between art and ethics? And what is the value of art? Philosophers that we study include Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and contemporary ones such as George Dickie, Jerrold Levinson, Monroe Beardsley, Kendall Walton, Noel Carroll, Berys Gaut, Marcia Muelder Eaton, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Paul C. Taylor, Richard Shusterman, Frank Sibley, and Malcolm Budd. Assignments vary, but they might include some or many of the following: weekly reading responses, quizzes, papers, and exams. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2250	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 816
Political Philosophy	3350 (001)	Herman Stark	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description This course examines both the explanation and justification of central concepts and ideas in political thought. These include, but are not confined to, the nature and scope of political (governmental) authority in its various forms (e.g., democracy, monarchy, and dictatorship), social contract theories, citizenship, nationalism, cultural pluralism, political obligations, civil disobedience, revolutions, and terrorism. Readings range from historical to contemporary sources, including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Rawls, Dworkin, and Nozick. Assignments vary, but they might include some or many of the following: weekly reading responses, quizzes, papers, and exams. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1640	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Art/Design and Politics Location Lakeview - 202
Top: Origin and Evolution of the Solar System	3350 (001)	Maria Valdes	Fri 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description About 9 billion years after the Big Bang, our Solar System's sun ignited from the gravitational collapse of a molecular cloud. This course explores the 4.6 billion years of subsequent chemical evolution of the Solar System. Our tool of study, cosmochemistry, lies at the crossroads of chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy, and biology. As such, we can use it to help us answer some fundamental questions, including: What are the elemental and molecular building blocks of our Solar System? Under what conditions, and by which processes, did these building blocks assemble into planets, asteroids, moons, comets, meteorites, and interstellar dust? What is the Earth made of, how did it evolve over time, and why do we need to study extraterrestrial materials to understand our home planet? Where did water come from and what led to the rise of life on Earth? How can we use this knowledge to guide future space exploration? Formerly called: The Universe (SCIENCE 3212) - students cannot receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for The Universe (SCIENCE 3212) Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2296	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 202
Top: Origin and Evolution of the Solar System	3350 (002)	Maria Valdes	Fri 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description About 9 billion years after the Big Bang, our Solar System's sun ignited from the gravitational collapse of a molecular cloud. This course explores the 4.6 billion years of subsequent chemical evolution of the Solar System. Our tool of study, cosmochemistry, lies at the crossroads of chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy, and biology. As such, we can use it to help us answer some fundamental questions, including: What are the elemental and molecular building blocks of our Solar System? Under what conditions, and by which processes, did these building blocks assemble into planets, asteroids, moons, comets, meteorites, and interstellar dust? What is the Earth made of, how did it evolve over time, and why do we need to study extraterrestrial materials to understand our home planet? Where did water come from and what led to the rise of life on Earth? How can we use this knowledge to guide future space exploration? Formerly called: The Universe (SCIENCE 3212) - students cannot receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for The Universe (SCIENCE 3212) Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2437	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 608
Mushrooms, Molds and Medicine	3362 (001)	Patrick R. Leacock	Tues 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Fungi are members of a kingdom of organisms that is distinct from plants and animals. They are exceptionally enigmatic, not just to everyday people, but to scientists as well. This course serves as a primer to the world of fungi, defining what fungi are and what they are not, and providing a conceptual understanding of these organisms. We explore the taxonomic diversity of fungi before considering their diversity from an ecological perspective. Students learn to identify different forms of fungi, grow them in the lab, and perform experiments to understand how they function. Finally, this course evaluates the importance of fungi from a practical human standpoint (food, medicine, art, spirituality), and discuss important questions to be addressed in the scientific field of mycology. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1976	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1503
Mushrooms, Molds and Medicine	3362 (002)	Patrick R. Leacock	Tues 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description Fungi are members of a kingdom of organisms that is distinct from plants and animals. They are exceptionally enigmatic, not just to everyday people, but to scientists as well. This course serves as a primer to the world of fungi, defining what fungi are and what they are not, and providing a conceptual understanding of these organisms. We explore the taxonomic diversity of fungi before considering their diversity from an ecological perspective. Students learn to identify different forms of fungi, grow them in the lab, and perform experiments to understand how they function. Finally, this course evaluates the importance of fungi from a practical human standpoint (food, medicine, art, spirituality), and discuss important questions to be addressed in the scientific field of mycology. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1977	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1503
Jazz And Blues Aesthetics: The Influence Of Jazz And Blues On American Culture	3410 (001)	William T. Faber	Fri 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This course engages jazz and blues traditions on three interrelated fronts: as a set of historically situated practices emergent within the context of the African diaspora; as critical strategies of resistance, collectivity, and self definition; and as dynamic systems of sonic signification, meaning, and value. Lectures, readings, discussion, and critical listening will introduce students to the historical contexts, soundscapes, and discourses of jazz and blues, as well as the musical and social structures at work in their creation and reception. Throughout the semester we will critically consider the writings of musicians, historians, ethnomusicologists, and critics, as well as musical recordings, filmed performances, and documentary films. Through this students will synthesize foundational theories and concepts relating to the study of music, race, gender, and diaspora; cultivate their skills as critical listeners and musical analysts; and will integrate these capacities within a final project due at the end of the semester. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 1651	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 617
Chemistry of the Anthropocene	3437 (001)	Sarah Zhou Rosengard	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description At the turn of the 21st century, scientists proposed that we have entered a new geological epoch, defined entirely by the impacts of human activities on the planet. They titled this epoch `the Anthropocene¿. Chemistry provides a unique, powerful toolbox to measure these human imprints on our soils, air, waters and biological life. But, which human impacts best define the Anthropocene? Did it begin with theIndustrial Revolution, or atomic bomb testing? With widespread conversion of forest to cropland, or dispersion of microplastics into oceans and lakes? In this course, we will learn and use chemistry to consider and debate these questions on our own. We will merge primary scientific observations and written works by Kyle Whyte, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Kathryn Yusoff and Naomi Oreskes to consider case studies on carbon emissions, radioactive debris, marine pollution, and more. We will inspect the evidence for human influence on the planet through time, and evaluate just and sustainable solutions to the racial, gender and socioeconomic inequities tied to these environmental impacts. Assignments for this course will consist of brief, weekly homework problems and readings, one open-book midterm exam, and an end-of-term Anthropocene Expo comprising the final project. Note that no prior experience in chemistry is required for this course. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2242	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Art and Science Location MacLean 301
Chaos, Catalysis and Kinetics	3450 (001)	Gary McDowell	Wed 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description The world today may seem like it spirals further and further into chaos. But increasing disorder has always been a fundamental requirement of natural processes like chemical reactions. Balance, stability, order and chaos are as fundamental to how the world works on the microscopic level as they are in our daily lives. This class will explore our events, institutions, and art through the lens of chemical concepts such as entropy, equilibrium, catalysis, and kinetics. Class work will involve collaborative group work, critical analysis, and engagement with current concepts in the scientific literature across a range of disciplines. We will use quantitative in-class assignments, qualitative homework, quizzes, an exam, and a final project. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2243	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 203
Chaos, Catalysis and Kinetics	3450 (002)	Gary McDowell	Wed 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description The world today may seem like it spirals further and further into chaos. But increasing disorder has always been a fundamental requirement of natural processes like chemical reactions. Balance, stability, order and chaos are as fundamental to how the world works on the microscopic level as they are in our daily lives. This class will explore our events, institutions, and art through the lens of chemical concepts such as entropy, equilibrium, catalysis, and kinetics. Class work will involve collaborative group work, critical analysis, and engagement with current concepts in the scientific literature across a range of disciplines. We will use quantitative in-class assignments, qualitative homework, quizzes, an exam, and a final project. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2439	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1503
Top:Sociology of Sex	3500 (001)	Maya Novak-Herzog	Mon 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM In Person
Description These classes cover a variety of topical and geographically oriented courses in Sociology. These include courses on race, ethnicity, gender, and class from a sociological perspective. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2032	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 608
Top:Sociology of Food	3500 (002)	Aiko Kojima Hibino	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description Eating is a highly individualized behavior. What you put in your mouth is solely and exclusively consumed by yourself, thus issues surrounding food is often understood in terms of personal taste, choice, and practice. While such an individual aspect of food and eating holds true, however, we should realize there is another aspect, namely, a social aspect of food and eating. One?s preference and choice does not emerge in a social vacuum. Individual practice is formed in a society, also vice versa, it is reforming back a given society. This course sociologically inquires the interplays of individual practice and social structure surrounding food issues. We will consider issues of food and diet by using sociological concepts, such as, class, gender, social status, ethnicity, nationalism, and agency and structure. With those conceptual tools, we will explore various food topics: culinary culture, identity, globalization, GMOs, Slow Food movement, urban food desert, ethical consumption, etc. Students are expected to bring their thoughts derived from their own daily food practice, and actively develop theoretical and empirical insights into issues of food cultures. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2049	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 301
Top:Law and the Environment	3500 (003)	Frank Bonacci	Tues 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description The law is the gateway to all things. It opens doors to some activities, and it closes doors to others. As citizens, our contact with the legal system usually occurs when we have gone awry of the law. But the reach of the law is much greater than our usual contact with it. In this course, we will study one such aspect of the law¿its effects and influences on the environment. The course will begin with a general introduction to the legal system. Then we will examine environmental law and policy, including major cases. Throughout the course, we will ask ourselves how these laws¿writing, implementing, and enforcing them¿affect art and artists. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2033	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location MacLean 302
Politics in the United States	3508 (001)	Joseph Karas	Wed 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM In Person
Description The course is a general introduction to politics in the United States, closely examining several current policy debates. Significant attention is given to the ways that the critical engagement and intervention of artists, writers, and other creators contribute to and shape these debates. Topics include but are not confined to Iraq and the politics of war, globalization and economic change, immigration 'reform,' global warming and environmental politics, cultural policymaking. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2041	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Class, Race, Ethnicity, Economic Inequality & Class, Art/Design and Politics Location MacLean 608
Anatomy & Physiology	3513 (001)	Dianne Jedlicka	Mon 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM In Person
Description This course serves as a basic introduction to human anatomy. The skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory, nervous, and reproductive systems are covered, with special emphasis on the skeletal system in reference to other mammals (a little bit of comparative anatomy!). The physiological processes of the aforementioned systems are examined allowing students to understand the processes. Laboratories include the use of plastic human and mammal models and dissections of preserved ?recycled? sheep organs (kidney, brain, heart, and eye). Labs designed by students while observing concerts at Chicago Symphony Center will focus on the Nervous system (especially special senses) and the Endocrine system (hormones). Other labs will be conducted at our Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2245	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Location Lakeview - 1503
Biology of Sensation and Perception	3515 (001)	Bruce Doblin	Tues 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM In Person
Description This course covers the science behind the biologic systems that allow us to gather information about the world around us collected through our five major senses (sight, sound, hearing, taste, smell, and touch). Each sense is examined individually. In addition, we discuss how our bodies constantly monitor internal data on biologic functions such as digestion, respiration, pain and position. We explore ways in which animals and plants sense the world differently than humans and what we can learn from them. Finally, this course considers how our brains serve as the final arbitrator in our integration of this data and how we bring meaning to it. Prerequisites Prerequisite: First Year English requirement.	Class Number 2246	Credits 3	Department Liberal Arts Area of Study Gender and Sexuality Location MacLean 707

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