Schedule 2007/2008

I have finally organized my schedule for the upcoming year. A few minor glitches appeared, but have since been worked out. Due to my negligence, I won't be able to take any NSCAD courses this year, because I signed up too late. Potentially I could take them in the summer.

My classes are as follows:

FALL 2007:

Romantic Era 1789-1832
Monday & Friday: 11:35 am - 1:25 pm
This course focuses on a selection of writings by men and women from this Age of Revolutions. Students will get a sense of the spirit of the age through reading poetry, novels, and the prose of political controversy. The creative development of canonical writers like Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley will be studied in the context of works by female authors and other representative but neglected writers.

Photojournalism
Monday: 6:35 pm - 8:25 pm
This course will explore visual perception as applied to photojournalism. Students will be taught to “see” photos and explore ideas visually, especially as applied to the essence of news photography. Students will also examine the beginnings of news photography and modern developments in the business. Students must have their own digital cameras to take this course.


Post Modern Strategies in Literature by Women
Tuesday: 6:05 - 8:55
Against a widespread view that postmodernism is inimical to feminism, the readings in this class demonstrate that recent literature by women, both fiction and critical theory, has widely adopted postmodern strategies in order to advance feminist views. The postmodern canon has allowed female authors to question the way in which woman’s subjectivity has always been constructed through male-oriented processes of signification. The works of fiction covered in this class, by Kathy Acker, Angela Carter, Marianna Hauser, Octavia Butler, and others, exemplify aesthetic subversions of phallocentric discourses. Literary texts will be supplemented with theoretical works by leading feminist/post-structuralist thinkers such as Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Diane Elam, and Gayatri Spivak. The class includes video-taped material and slide-shows of postmodern feminist art.


Listening to Classical Music
Wednesday: 6:05 pm - 8:25 pm
Designed for the interested listener who desires to acquire an informed response to musical experiences. Knowledge of musical notation and terminology is not a prerequisite. The class is a survey of musical styles from the pre-modern era through baroque and classical styles and into the ate nineteenth century. We will consider: music and image; music and the elated arts; the art and psychology of listening. This class is for non-music majors and cannot be counted as a credit toward a degree in Music.


Foundations of Journalism
Thursday: 1:35 - 6:25
This course gives students both a theoretical and practical introduction to journalism. In one part, students will learn how to read, listen and watch the news knowledgeably and critically. They will look at the history of journalism as it has developed in newspapers, radio, television and internet and examine how the structure of the media influence journalistic principles and practices. The other part of this class teaches students how to write imaginative and interesting prose using correct English and effective story telling methods. Students will be required to write nearly every day and will have their work assessed by professional journalists.

WINTER 2008

Romantic Era 1789-1832
Monday & Friday: 11:35 am - 1:25 pm :: Part 2

Contemporary Critical Theory
Monday: 7:05 pm - 9:25 pm
A survey of major issues and schools in recent literary theory. This class will debate the merits of various critical approaches to literature, including formalism, Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, new historicism, and cultural studies.

Renaissance Drama
Wednesday: 11:35 am - 1:25 pm
Friday: 12:35 am - 1:25 pm

This class will explore the richness and strangeness of some of the playwrights too often obscured by Shakespeare’s shadow. Between the opening of the first professional playhouse in London (1576) and the closing of the theatres by Parliament (1641), the Globe was only one of many venues catering to an avid theatre-going public, and the first English play by a woman was circulated in manuscript. Playwrights to be studied include Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary and John Ford.

Fiction of the Later 20th Century
Wednesday: 7:05 pm - 9:25 pm
An introduction to fiction in English from the middle of the twentieth century to the end.


Foundations of Journalism
Thursday: 1:35 - 6:25 :: Continued

Let's see how much complaining I do.