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Course Descriptions
- MLS Seminars
- Archives
- LBST D601
- Recommended Electives
- Graduate courses offered in the Arts & Sciences schools
MLS SEMINARS FOR FALL 2010
26901 LBST D510: Intro to Grad Liberal Studies Finkel 4 cr.hr.
6:00-7:40pm MW LB230
The course provides a comprehensive introduction to graduate liberal studies, as well as preparing students to participate successfully in all facets of the MLS program. The course will examine principles of intellectual inquiry in the three fields represented in the MLS program: Arts & Letters, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. These methods will be applied to the Common Experience topic for the year.
27488 LBST D501: Public Sphere and World War I Zorn 3 cr. hr.
6:00-8:30pm T
The course investigates the relationship of creative productions (primarily theatre, but also art and literature) and the public sphere in Europe around the time of World War I. Since it was around World War I that the formation of the modern public sphere took place through the growing circulation and expension of the press, theatre, political and artistic performances, a case study of this time period gives us a unique glimpse into the origins, processes, and effects public consciousness.
27487 LBST D502: Poverty and Industry Barry 4 cr. hr.
6:00-9:00pm R
The course will take up the question of the Industrial Revolution, but in so doing we will be less concerned with the rise of machine technology and production than with the creation of a new social and political reality. Thus, we will pursue a critical examination of industrialism as a broad based transformation in how people are organized, and yet a transformation that now seems as if it was a natural and inevitable social development.
27489 LBST D503: Philosophy & Science of Yoga Manwani 3 cr. hr.
4:15-5:45 MW OG 069
The goal of the course is to understand yoga and to us it as an enhancement of mental and physical health. The course surveys the ancient philosophy behind yogic practices and scientific data concerning the benefits on the mind and body. Physical practice of yoga will be involved.
MLS SEMINARS FOR SPRING 2011
LBST D510: Intro to Grad Liberal Studies Finkel 4 cr. hr.
4:15-5:50 TR
The course provides a comprehensive introduction to graduate liberal studies, as well as preparing students to participate successfully in all facets of the MLS program. The course will examine principles of intellectual inquiry in the three fields represented in the MLS program: Arts & Letters, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. These methods will be applied to the Common Experience topic for the year.
LBST D501: Political & Social Rhetoric Abernathy 3 cr. hr.
6:00-8:30pm W
The last sixty years have seen remarkable changes in the ways in which messages are conveyed. The development of radio, television, and the internet has made it easier than ever for those with a message to communicate with their constituents. However, the negative aspect of these developments is that people are bombarded with more messages than ever. This course is designed to look at those communicators and messages which have made an impact in the last 50 years, specifically in the areas of politics and social reform.
LBST D502: Advertising & Consumer Culture Reddy 3 cr. hr.
6:00-8:30pm R
The consumption of goods and services plays a crucial role in the American economy, but consumer culture is more than the sum of the things that we own. Whether we're in public or in the privacy of our homes, strolling across campus or watching television, we're enveloped by advertising. It's the world we inhabit today - one where it seems normal to be addressed as a potential consumer in virtually every waking moment of our lives, where we happily turn ourselves into living advertisements by wearing clothes that announce the brands that we buy. The goal of this course is to make us more aware of how advertising operates in society and how we live within consumer culture.
LBST D503: Environmental Sustainability Hollenbeck 4 cr. hr.
6:00-9:00pm T
Human activities have changed the types and rates of processes occurring throughout the planet. Understanding the near-term and long-term effects of these actions on the quality of the environment requires a broad view of the science on how earth functions without human intervention, and how society has changed these functions to support itself. This course will include selected readings, discussions, case studies, and laboratory experience in microclimates.
LBST D601
D601: Graduate Thesis Proposal Seminar (3 credit hours)
- START: area of interest or vague research idea
- END: well-defined and researched thesis proposal
- two chapters of thesis:
- (1) literature review (2) method
- knowledge of relevant research ethics
- thesis committee members identified
- signed thesis proposal form submitted to director
- two chapters of thesis:
- REQUIRED: One meeting of the entire thesis committee with the student to discuss the thesis proposal.
- FORMAT:
- taken as a course with other students taught by the MLS Director
- taken as independent study with a member of the thesis committee
- RECOMMENDED TEXT:
- Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., & Williams, J. M. (2003). The Craft of Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Recommended electives
HON-H306: Multidisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Social Sciences (3-6 cr.):
Topic varies with the instructor and semester. Possible topics include Art as Literature; Death and Dying; Utopias through History.
HON-H307: Multidisciplinary Seminar (3-6 cr.):
Topic varies with the instructor and semester. Topics will include those outside the humanities and social sciences.
Graduate courses offered in the Arts and Sciences schools:
BIOL-L579: Community Ecology
ENG L649: British Literature since 1900
ENG L650: Stds in American Literature to 1900
ENG L639: English Fiction to 1800
ENG L653: American Literature 1800-1900
ENG L681: Genre Studies
ENG W553: Theory & Practice of Exposition
FINA S561: Graduate Ceramics
MUS E545: Guided Professional Experiences
MUS K710: Composition Graduate Elective
MUS M566: Ethnic Music Survey
MUS P700: Piano Graduate Elective
MUS V700: Voice Graduate Elective
PSY P502: Developmental Psychology
SOC S620: Deviance & Social Control
WOST W695: Grad Readings/Research-Women’s Studies
