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- Summer Term begins Monday, June 16, 2008 and ends on Friday, July 25.
- Online registration for summer term begins at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, April 28 and closes on Friday, May 30 at 4:30 p.m.
- Students registering after 4:30 p.m. on May 30 will be assessed a $50 late fee.
ART 550: Drawing in Todi, Italy Hall
For Summer 2008, this course is being offered in Todi, Italy from July 21-August 11. Taught in plein-air, weather permitting, the course will focus on methods, materials, and techniques of pictorial organization from observation, memory, and Italian works of art, using drawing mediums. Various readings will accompany studio sessions. Final portfolio of personal work for display is required. Visits to museums in Florence, Rome, Assisi, and Orvieto are part of the class work. No prerequisite. Open to all graduate students. **Application must be submitted to participate in this course. Visit the web site for all requirements: www.hollins.edu/mals_todi.
CRN: 62541
ART 550: Special Topic: Narrative Clay (4) Polseno
This course will offer all levels of students an opportunity to experiment with different hand building techniques (coil building, slab building, construction around paper models, and solid form construction) to create small scale sculptural pieces that are narrative in nature. We will make various different objects that will be assembled as a series or as one sculptural object that will tell a simple story or express an emotion. The concentration will be on dynamic form and expressive ways of handling the clay. We will learn methods to embellish unglazed earthenware clay such as carving, applying textures, and use of simple slips.
CRN: 62546 Monday, June 16th through Thursday, June 26th from 5:30-9:00 pm and Saturday, June 21st from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
GEOG 505: Cultural Geography and Landscape Studies (4) Bohland
This course introduces the student to the study of culture and landscape interpretation within modern geography. This course examines cultural processes and how they interact and construct the world we inhabit. Whether this is at a global scale or a local level, culture is a fundamental aspect of the way we make sense of the world. After introducing a number of key themes that will recur throughout the semester, we will be looking at cultural processes present within different geographical examples. In each of these cases, we will highlight popular cultural aspects like sports, music, television and film, literature, etc. The issues raised in each of these connect back to the key course themes that were outlined in the first few lectures of the semester.
CRN: 62531 Tuesday & Thursday 6:00-9:00 pm
HIST 533: War in the Western Tradition (4) Leedom
“War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! (Say it again).” This has become such commonplace that it is even used as the soundtrack for commercials. But if it really isn’t good for anything, why has it been the focus of so much human activity for so long? Why have western societies spent a considerable fraction of their total disposable income to invest in war? This class will look at war in western civilization from a variety of perspectives: historical, literary, and philosophical. Our aim is to understand the complex interactions of war and society in western history.
CRN: 62532 Tuesday & Thursday 6:00-9:00 pm
Course will begin on June 24 and will include two Saturday sessions on July 12 and July 26.
HIST 550: Modern American History through Literature Coogan
An examination of major themes in American history since the Civil War through fiction. Reading might include Cahan, Bellamy, Wright, Dos Passos, Dreiser, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Mailer, Heller, Doctorow, Carroll, Kerouac, Morrison, O’Brien, and others. Class discussions will emphasize the ways in which fiction helps us understand the major historical themes of Modern America rather than on the works as literature.
CRN: 62533 Monday & Wednesday 6:00-9:00 pm
HUM 500C: Philosophy & Narrative Art (4) Becker
This course explores two persistent conflicts in Western philosophy and literature. One conflict is epistemological – between people who deny or marginalize the importance of narrative as a way of knowing the world and those who assume or affirm its importance. The other conflict is ethical between people who insist that the value of a work of art is partly dependent on its moral value and those who reject or marginalize such moral criticism. Texts will include classic and contemporary pieces in philosophy and literary theory, together with examples of fiction and film that have special value as test cases.
CRN: 62534 Monday & Thursday 1:00-4:00 pm
HUM 550: Evil and Free Will Reimers
“Evil” is neither a prerequisite nor necessarily advantageous for “Evil and Freewill.” We will look at evil from a positive point of view: is evil a necessary result of human free action? Do we have to know evil to know good? Can you imagine a world without evil? Readings from, among others: Dante, Shakespeare, Ipsen, Freud.
CRN: 62547 Monday & Wednesday 6:00-9:00 pm
HUM 550: Images of Southern Women (4) Stevens
The American South has a history of producing stereotypical images of women. This, of course, does not distinguish the region. But the ways in which female stereotypes express themselves culturally in Southern literature and film have a character that is unique. The notion of the “Southern Belle”, for example, continues to be a staple of Southern cultural mythology. In this course we use films such as Steel Magnolias, Gone with the Wind, George Washington, and Sweet Home Alabama; and the fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Joyce Carol Oates to build a better understanding of both the stereotypes of Southern women and to explore the voices that resist these stereotypes.
CRN: 62535 Monday & Wednesday 6:00-9:00 pm
POLS 550(1): Constitutional Law (4) Ra
This course examines powers and authority of President, Congress, the relationship among the three branches, and division of power between states and federal government (federalism) as found in the U.S. Constitution and interpreted by the U. S. Supreme Court.
CRN: 62536 Monday & Wednesday 6:00-9:00 pm
POLS 550(2): Special Topic: The American Presidency (4) Ra
Study of the presidency in history and in the Constitution, of the institutional presidency, or presidential power, leadership, and accountability. Consideration of Presidential character, “the President as King,” and “impossible presidency.”
CRN: 62537 Tuesday & Thursday 6:00-9:00 pm
PSY 564: The Human Memory: A User’s Guide (4) Ledger
This course will cover the major models of the function, development, capacity, and limitations of the human memory system. Topics include: amnesias, multiple personality, learning, the knowledge base, biases in perception and recall, forgetting, stress, aging, dementias, and eyewitness accounts. The class format consists of lectures, workshops, computer laboratory exercises, demonstrations and videotapes. A final paper will cover any topic of interest in human memory.
CRN: 62548 Tuesday & Thursday 6:00-9:00 pm
SOSC 500C: Heritage Core: Politics and Literature (4) Lynch
Some works of literature spark political controversy. In recent years, some commentators have warned against Harry Potter books and movies, to give only one example. Censoring books and authors has been a matter of controversy since the invention of the printing press. Are there political messages in all works of literature, or most, or only in a minority? This course will focus on political messages in many different forms of literature, from Chicken Little to Dante, Shakespeare, and George Orwell. The course will divide literature into the explicitly political (1984, for example), the implicitly political (The Lord of the Rings, perhaps), and literature in which any political message may be only in the eye of the beholder. (Thomas the Tank Engine).
CRN: 62538 Monday & Wednesday 6:00-9:00 pm
Course will begin on June 23 and will include one Saturday session.
SOC 530: Jazz Through Film (4) Nye
Both jazz and the American cinema are approximately the same age and both really began in America and traveled abroad through cultural diffusion. Moreover,
the two forms are inextricably intertwined, both with each other and with 20th century U.S. history. This course will explore sociological themes the two genres share and will consider how movies use jazz both as subject matter and as sound track material. Special consideration is given to what has been called “the jazz myth” and to the roles played by phenomena of race, class, and gender. Films considered will include The Jazz Singer, The King of Jazz, The Benny Goodman Story, ‘Round Midnight, Mo’ Better Blues, Anatomy of a Murder, and Short Cuts.
CRN: 62539 Tuesday & Thursday 6:00-9:00 pm
WS 525: Women Warriors: From Amazons to the Citadel (4) Matzner
Women have often been stereotyped as passive and unwarlike, in contrast to aggressive men. Nevertheless, women warriors have existed throughout time and across cultures. In this course we examine some of these powerful women and the social contexts in which they have lived – and continue to live. Topics such as debates over women in the U.S. military, personages such as Joan of Arc, the popularity of Chinese female martial artists, and cross-dressing female soldiers in 19th century Europe will allow us to learn a great deal about gender roles and expectations in various societies.
CRN: 62540 Tuesday 6:00-9:00 pm
This will be a hybrid course with meetings in person (beginning Tuesday, June 17 from 6:00-9:00 pm) and half on-line (using Blackboard).
Theatre Course Available for MALS Students
The following course is available to MALS students who may be interested in the theatre. It will count toward the Visual and Performing Arts Concentration or as an elective for other areas of concentration. The course is being offered by Todd Ristau, director of the MFA in Playwriting and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hollins University.
NOTE: Because this course is being offered through the MFA in Playwriting program, the cost of the course will be $590 per credit hour or $2,360 for the course.
THEA 505: The Collaborative Art of Theatre (4) Ristau
Introduction to theatre as a collaborative art and profession. (For those without prior theatre training or undergraduate theatre degree)
CRN: 62504 Wednesdays and Fridays, 9 am – 12 noon
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