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Okay, so there's a bunch of classes that look really good for next term. I'll give you all the course descriptions, and then you can vote in the poll. K?
STAR E-112 Book Art
Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm
Book art is a medium of expression, like photography, oil, watercolor, digital art, and sculpture. It is a means of visual storytelling in which the simplest and most complex ideas, concepts, and stories are related using images and text. Artists' books range from journals to collections of images to installations filling a room or hanging from the ceiling. This course teaches the basic techniques of book making. It explores content development and encourages challenging the conventional notion of a book--the form it takes and how it is read--and in doing so offers alternatives to how a story is told.
ANTH E-162 Human Origins and Evolution: An Introduction to the Fossil and Archaeological Record
Wednesday, 7:35-9:35 pm
Introduction to human physical and cultural evolution from our prehuman Miocene ancestors to modern Homo sapiens on the threshold of agriculture and the rise of complex societies. The fossil evidence for the major states of human physical evolution are examined while archaeological evidence of increasingly complex cultural behavior are considered in case studies of selected sites, including Olduvai Gorge, Koobi Fora, Olorgesailie, Terra Amata, Shanidar, Dolni Vestonice, and Lascaux.
HIST E-1207 Historical Narratives of Battering and Their Theological Implications
Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm
Historical and contemporary narratives of domestic violence. Attention to the general problem of domestic violence, to the study of historical narratives, and to the theological understanding of marriage, suffering, obedience, and ownership. Sources include medieval hagiography, inquisition records, an eighteenth-century diary, and transcripts of interviews with contemporary women. Secondary sources illuminate topics of historical and theological analysis.
STAR E-122 Turning the Century: Culture, Technology, and Representation, 1870-1910
Monday, 7:35-9:35 pm
This interdisciplinary seminar explores the rise of a culture of novelty in the period from 1870–1910. Focus on the emergence of new visual media such as photography and film, new ideas about the body and sexuality, and a new relationship to public space and consumer culture.
ENGL E-109: Becoming J. R. R. Tolkien: Life and Medieval Sources
Monday, 5:30-7:30 pm
A seminar on the medieval texts, myths, and heroic tales that most influenced Tolkien in the creation of his fiction. It is not a course on Tolkien's fiction itself, though a few less well-known stories are assigned. Instead, we operate under the assumption that you are what you read and, in the case of the philologist-medievalist Tolkien, what you study, teach, and analyze. A minor component of the course is the attempt to reconstruct aspects of the world of an Oxford don of Tolkien's period, with glimpses into his correspondence and the lives and works of his friends C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams. The main focus, however, is on Norse and Old English myth and literature, including the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Völsunga Saga, Beowulf, and other Old English heroic and elegiac poetry. This material is studied for its own sake, though sporadically also with an eye to how Tolkien understood it (for example, through a reading of his great interpretive essay on Beowulf). Although Tolkien's fiction is not discussed in the seminar itself, students can make the connection to sources and influences in their final papers. Prerequisite: students are assumed to have read The Lord of the Rings.
FOLK E-112 Folk Art, Folk Craft, and Material Culture
Wednesday, 7:35-9:35 pm
This course introduces class participants to major analytic approaches and issues in the study of traditional expressive behavior that employs artifacts. We examine how the costumes, cars, ritual accoutrements, and other objects of diverse religious, ethnic, age, and gender groups are used to construct worldview, values, and social relations. Topics include Native-American quilting traditions, cemetery decoration customs in the American South, Finnish-American saunas, Italian-American festivals, lowrider cars, and political murals in Northern Ireland.
MUSE E-100 Introduction to Museum Studies
Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm
This course provides a behind-the-scenes view of museums from the people who are actively involved in their operation. Students learn about the history and objectives of various types of museums (art, natural history, science, historical, zoological) through panel discussions that involve museum directors, curators, conservators, collection managers, and exhibit designers. The focus is the rich and diverse resources of Harvard University's museums, but there also are guest lecturers from other local museums.
MUSE E-135 The Historic House Museum
Tuesday, 7:35-9:35 pm
This course looks at the many aspects of operating and maintaining a historic house museum. Topics covered include preservation and restoration, interpretation, staffing, governance, and funding. The course also focuses on various ways a house museum can be used as an educational resource in its community.
There's some other things that also look good, like American Women's History and Contemporary Fiction and Intro to Editing (though I pretty much had that in Greensboro), and I could always do, like, Intro to Archaeology or Anthropology for noncredit because I never did take an intro class. But I don't really want to do one of those when there's so many other really exciting things! And I could take two classes, but I don't really want to give up two nights a week so I'd only do that if I had them back to back, and I don't think any of these interesting ones line up that way. I'm currently leaning towards Book Art, Human Origins, and Narratives of Battering (because I mightjustmight do that PhD in Women's Studies someday), but of course Book Art and Narratives of Battering are at the same time! There's also a section of Desktop Publishing that meets at that time, too. Grr.
Here's the poll!!
[Poll #391010]
STAR E-112 Book Art
Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm
Book art is a medium of expression, like photography, oil, watercolor, digital art, and sculpture. It is a means of visual storytelling in which the simplest and most complex ideas, concepts, and stories are related using images and text. Artists' books range from journals to collections of images to installations filling a room or hanging from the ceiling. This course teaches the basic techniques of book making. It explores content development and encourages challenging the conventional notion of a book--the form it takes and how it is read--and in doing so offers alternatives to how a story is told.
ANTH E-162 Human Origins and Evolution: An Introduction to the Fossil and Archaeological Record
Wednesday, 7:35-9:35 pm
Introduction to human physical and cultural evolution from our prehuman Miocene ancestors to modern Homo sapiens on the threshold of agriculture and the rise of complex societies. The fossil evidence for the major states of human physical evolution are examined while archaeological evidence of increasingly complex cultural behavior are considered in case studies of selected sites, including Olduvai Gorge, Koobi Fora, Olorgesailie, Terra Amata, Shanidar, Dolni Vestonice, and Lascaux.
HIST E-1207 Historical Narratives of Battering and Their Theological Implications
Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm
Historical and contemporary narratives of domestic violence. Attention to the general problem of domestic violence, to the study of historical narratives, and to the theological understanding of marriage, suffering, obedience, and ownership. Sources include medieval hagiography, inquisition records, an eighteenth-century diary, and transcripts of interviews with contemporary women. Secondary sources illuminate topics of historical and theological analysis.
STAR E-122 Turning the Century: Culture, Technology, and Representation, 1870-1910
Monday, 7:35-9:35 pm
This interdisciplinary seminar explores the rise of a culture of novelty in the period from 1870–1910. Focus on the emergence of new visual media such as photography and film, new ideas about the body and sexuality, and a new relationship to public space and consumer culture.
ENGL E-109: Becoming J. R. R. Tolkien: Life and Medieval Sources
Monday, 5:30-7:30 pm
A seminar on the medieval texts, myths, and heroic tales that most influenced Tolkien in the creation of his fiction. It is not a course on Tolkien's fiction itself, though a few less well-known stories are assigned. Instead, we operate under the assumption that you are what you read and, in the case of the philologist-medievalist Tolkien, what you study, teach, and analyze. A minor component of the course is the attempt to reconstruct aspects of the world of an Oxford don of Tolkien's period, with glimpses into his correspondence and the lives and works of his friends C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams. The main focus, however, is on Norse and Old English myth and literature, including the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Völsunga Saga, Beowulf, and other Old English heroic and elegiac poetry. This material is studied for its own sake, though sporadically also with an eye to how Tolkien understood it (for example, through a reading of his great interpretive essay on Beowulf). Although Tolkien's fiction is not discussed in the seminar itself, students can make the connection to sources and influences in their final papers. Prerequisite: students are assumed to have read The Lord of the Rings.
FOLK E-112 Folk Art, Folk Craft, and Material Culture
Wednesday, 7:35-9:35 pm
This course introduces class participants to major analytic approaches and issues in the study of traditional expressive behavior that employs artifacts. We examine how the costumes, cars, ritual accoutrements, and other objects of diverse religious, ethnic, age, and gender groups are used to construct worldview, values, and social relations. Topics include Native-American quilting traditions, cemetery decoration customs in the American South, Finnish-American saunas, Italian-American festivals, lowrider cars, and political murals in Northern Ireland.
MUSE E-100 Introduction to Museum Studies
Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm
This course provides a behind-the-scenes view of museums from the people who are actively involved in their operation. Students learn about the history and objectives of various types of museums (art, natural history, science, historical, zoological) through panel discussions that involve museum directors, curators, conservators, collection managers, and exhibit designers. The focus is the rich and diverse resources of Harvard University's museums, but there also are guest lecturers from other local museums.
MUSE E-135 The Historic House Museum
Tuesday, 7:35-9:35 pm
This course looks at the many aspects of operating and maintaining a historic house museum. Topics covered include preservation and restoration, interpretation, staffing, governance, and funding. The course also focuses on various ways a house museum can be used as an educational resource in its community.
There's some other things that also look good, like American Women's History and Contemporary Fiction and Intro to Editing (though I pretty much had that in Greensboro), and I could always do, like, Intro to Archaeology or Anthropology for noncredit because I never did take an intro class. But I don't really want to do one of those when there's so many other really exciting things! And I could take two classes, but I don't really want to give up two nights a week so I'd only do that if I had them back to back, and I don't think any of these interesting ones line up that way. I'm currently leaning towards Book Art, Human Origins, and Narratives of Battering (because I mightjustmight do that PhD in Women's Studies someday), but of course Book Art and Narratives of Battering are at the same time! There's also a section of Desktop Publishing that meets at that time, too. Grr.
Here's the poll!!
[Poll #391010]
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Date: 2004-11-24 12:30 pm (UTC)From:FOLK E-112 Folk Art, Folk Craft, and Material Culture
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Date: 2004-11-24 02:18 pm (UTC)From:good luck choosing:) it's a tough choice with all those cool classes:)