Course # & Sec
Title
FYHH
Our Human Heritage
FYHH 1020-01-09
Our Human Heritage: "Power" or "Turning Points"
Instructor
Day and Time
Team Power: Yates, David; Franey, Laura; Ammon, Ted; Smith, Elise Team Turning Points: Storey, Bill; Caballero, Judith; Gleason, Michael; Golden, Kristen; Raley, Lynn
Description Our Human Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the human experience from pre-history to the present. Students examine the intellectual developments, artistic expressions, and social and cultural changes that have shaped our world. This course develops skills for seeking, understanding, and interpreting cultural phenomena across numerous human contexts. Students choose from two teams of faculty. Each team approaches the content of the course differently, even though the courses have similar requirements. The first team, “Power,” examines how power is manifested in society through gender, ownership, the state, religion, warfare, and the individual. The course proceeds topically (not chronologically) and draws on the expertise of faculty in Art History, Classical Studies, English, and Philosophy. The second team, “Turning Points,” examines significant transformations in society chronologically and draws on the expertise of faculty in History, Classical Studies, Spanish, Music, and Philosophy.
DISCOVERY (for transfer students) TRCS 1050 TRCS 1050-01
Music: As a Way of Knowing
Coker, Tim
MWF 10:30AM11:35AM W 1:00PM4:00PM
This course is designed to allow students to explore disciplined listening to music. While the listening techniques studied will certainly apply to many music styles, both Western and otherwise, the focus will be on honing skills that are presented in Western culture. What does music communicate? What do we know when we truly listen to music? How does music thinking progress temporally? In general, students will be introduced to the type of thinking that composers use as they create and develop musical ideas and help them evolve larger music forms.
Connections FYCS 1020
Title
Instructor
Day and Time
Description
FYCS-1020-01
The Captive Voice in American History
Rolph, Stephanie
MWF 8
FYCS-1020-02
Existentialism
Smith, Steve
MWF 8
FYCS-1020-03
Shakespeare’s Renaissance
Griffin, Eric
MWF 10:30
FYCS-1020-04
The Captive Voice in American History
Rolph, Stephanie
MWF 10:30
FYCS-1020-05
Drugs, Druggies, and Druggists: A History of Drugs from Opium to LSD to Weed to Adderall
Forbes, Amy
MWF 10:30
This class explores the captive voice in American history through personal narratives, histories of marginalized people, and literature. Throughout the course of the semester, we will define “captivity” in a variety of ways and through a variety of voices from the past who have crossed over from physical, mental, and/or political sequestration to share their experiences and perspectives with the liberated. Starting with Kierkegaard and culminating with Sartre and Beauvoir, a series of important thinkers made “existence” a leading theme to criticize rational objectivity in a world of scientific disenchantment, increasingly destructive wars, and bitter new awareness of the social poisons of racism and sexism. Do the existential thinkers come to grips with these challenges more powerfully than anyone else? William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is arguably the most influential writer who ever lived. By 1623, a mere seven years after his death, we can observe the "Shakespeare paradox": already, he had been recognized as the “Soul of the age” and “not of an age, but for all time!” Our class will revel in this paradox: by setting Shakespeare’s plays in their Renaissance context, we will explore the similarity and the strangeness of this key historical epoch; by focusing on the Renaissance, we will discover how Shakespeare continues to be reborn in our own time. This class explores the captive voice in American history through personal narratives, histories of marginalized people, and literature. Throughout the course of the semester, we will define “captivity” in a variety of ways and through a variety of voices from the past who have crossed over from physical, mental, and/or political sequestration to share their experiences and perspectives with the liberated. If you are like most Americans, you “do” drugs: drink tea, coffee, beer, or wine; smoke or chew tobacco; take Prozac, Xanax, or their herbal kin; depend occasionally on NyQuil; or perhaps use illicit substances. All are part of America’s long history of drinking and drug use. What is a drug? How have they been used as remedies? How and why have people used them for recreation? Why have some been
promoted and others outlawed? Using historical methods and sources we will analyze how drugs and their use have evolved in the modern era. FYCS-1020-06
Blake, Wordsworth, Byron
Pickard, Michael
MWF 11:45
FYCS-1020-07
The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros: Two Plays by Ionesco – How absurd!?
Fermon, Priscilla
MWF 11:45
FYCS-1020-08
Drugs, Druggies, and Druggists: A History of Drugs from Opium to LSD to Weed to Adderall
Forbes, Amy
MWF 11:45
FYCS-1020-09
The Pentecostal Explosion: A 20th Century Global Phenomenon
Poe, Shelli
MW 12:55
What power does reason have, and how should we use it to organize our ethical and political lives? How do we balance obligations when our aspirations conflict with those of other people? What role do beauty and imagination play in our efforts to live just and happy lives? What does it mean to fail at something and how can we, in the words of the poet William Matthews, “metabolize loss” for other purposes? In this course, we’ll explore the answers that three Romantic writers—William Blake, William Wordsworth, and George Gordon, Lord Byron—posed to such questions. Do all literary critics use the term absurd to describe Ionesco’s theater? Are these plays nothing but nonsense? If so, how does anyone make sense of the non-sense? And why bother? In this course, we will discover answers to those questions and others by considering the historical moment and the literary movements that profoundly influenced and greatly inspired Ionesco and that will help us wonder significantly about the language we use to make meaning matter. If you are like most Americans, you “do” drugs: drink tea, coffee, beer, or wine; smoke or chew tobacco; take Prozac, Xanax, or their herbal kin; depend occasionally on NyQuil; or perhaps use illicit substances. All are part of America’s long history of drinking and drug use. What is a drug? How have they been used as remedies? How and why have people used them for recreation? Why have some been promoted and others outlawed? Using historical methods and sources we will analyze how drugs and their use have evolved in the modern era. Did you know that Pentecostalism is one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the world today? The Pentecostal story is filled with interesting accounts of speaking in tongues, divine healing, being “slain in the Spirit,” getting “the jerks,” and “holy laughter.” By taking this course, you’ll learn how to study one of the most fascinating topics in our world today: religious traditions and individuals’ religious experiences.
FYCS-1020-10
The Pentecostal Explosion: A 20th Century Global Phenomenon
Poe, Shelli
MW 2:30
FYCS-1020-11
Spiritual but Not Religious
Williamson, Lola
TTh 9:55
FYCS-1020-12
The Theatre of AIDS
DeZutter, Stacy
TTh 9:55
FYCS-1020-13
Happiness and the College Student
Hopkins, Patrick
TTh 9:55
FYCS-1020-14
Living in Translation
Murchison, Julian
TTh 9:55
FYCS-1020-15
Bob Dylan and American Culture
Svec, Henry
TTh 12:55
Did you know that Pentecostalism is one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the world today? The Pentecostal story is filled with interesting accounts of speaking in tongues, divine healing, being “slain in the Spirit,” getting “the jerks,” and “holy laughter.” By taking this course, you’ll learn how to study one of the most fascinating topics in our world today: religious traditions and individuals’ religious experiences. This course will explore a phenomenon known as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR) as it manifests today within the United States. Yoga, meditation, Tai Chi, ecofeminism, and mysticism might all be considered forms of SBNR. What ties these together? How is “spiritual” different from “religious”? How does spirituality intersect with medical or other secular institutions? These are a few of the questions raised by the term SBNR that we will attempt to answer. In the 1980s, when our country faced the specter of a rapidlyspreading life-threatening disease, many turned to theatre as a means to wrestle with and respond to this highly politicized epidemic. This section examines the theatre of AIDS, considering how different modes of theatre do different work for a society trying to come to terms with a frightening and little-understood phenomenon. Happiness! What is it? How important is it? How can we get it? Using classical philosophy and contemporary science, we will analyze happiness and how to get it. The special emphasis, however, is happiness for college students. What works and what doesn't work specifically for you—your age, your time, your world? All the class research projects will focus on specific issues related to your life now—Money, Love, Sex, Friendship, Drugs, Education, and SelfDiscipline. Ever wondered about 'Spanglish'? Ever marveled at the incredible diversity in the ways that people use English (or another language)? In this course we will examine heteroglossia and code-switching as ways of being in the world. We will look for evidence of these practices of mixing languages and ways of speaking in the past and consider whether these practices are a product of the contemporary globalized world. This course will explore the ever-shifting image, voice, and work of Bob Dylan. We will read music criticism and interviews, feature and documentary films, fiction and poetry, and numerous albums. And,
FYCS-1020-16
The Qur'an comes West
Fischbach, Rahel
TTh 2:30
although we will delve deep into “Dylan” and his various cultural sources and historical contexts, we will also be thinking more generally about how one goes about studying songwriters, singers, and stars. This course explores how Western thinkers have approached and used the Qur'an to think about Western philosophy, politics, and society through the past three centuries. Examining the complicated relationship of the West with the Qur'an elucidates how struggles over religion, faith, secularism, identity, alienation and citizenship have been fought out on the back of the “Muslim question.”
