I continue to maintain this list of classes, now with UVA support! -- Lou Bloomfield, Professor Emeritus of Physics
A liberal education should develop in students an ability to interpret, evaluate and participate in artistic expression and abstract argument. Cultivating these sensibilities fosters a more profound understanding of and connection to one's own subjective experience of a mutually perceivable world. Courses in this category will develop a student's capacity to conceptualize shared meaning from words, objects and performance, which is fundamental to the activities of all other disciplines.
You can read the “Love” of this course’s title as an adjective, noun, or imperative verb: we are going to deepen our love of poetry by studying the poetry of love written across time periods (from antiquity to the present) and global cultures: from Sappho and Horace to Rita Dove and Lisa Russ Spaar. We will be looking closely at how poems work -- how they accomplish their particular magic – while also thinking about the varieties of love and the complexities each offers to language and to art. Daily writing and small group conversation, occasional larger group meetings where you will be called on to speak, two formal papers, and a concluding exercise.
In this studies in fiction course, we will read short stories, a short novel or two, and watch some short television shows (think Black Mirror) or films about the fear of things going horribly wrong. Along the way we will practice close reading strategies; reflect on acts of interpretation through brief references to some works by literary and cultural critics; and inquire into some of the elements, functions, and effects of narratives. Students will write regular reading responses, lead discussions with brief oral presentations, write two short essays, and take a final exam.
Fulfills Second Writing Requirement/WE.
This class has no textbook costs but does require students to rent Adobe InDesign software for one month (about $30). Students may optionally choose to print their final projects using print-on-demand for approximately $12.
Public Speaking: Speaking Digital Publics will examine what it means to “speak” to a “public” in the digital age. Students will engage in the production and analysis of digital forms of public speaking, such as vlogs, Zoom presentations, podcasts, videos, and social media posts. We will collectively ask where and how digital publics are addressed, to what ends, and in what forms. We will develop rhetorical frameworks for analyzing and preparing forms of digital public address and reflect on how these frameworks might prepare us for public speaking IRL.
This course will meet online synchronously (that is, live at the designated meeting time) via Zoom.
This course satisfies the Second Writing Requirement (SWR).
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AAS 2224 Black Femininities and Masculinities in the US Media
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