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ISP 101 Sec 329 Course#30827 - Rigoberta Menchu
Susana Martinez, LPC TTh 1:30-3:00
This class will explore the controversy surrounding the Latin American human rights activist Rigoberta Menchu. She is a Mayan woman from Guatemala that has gained international prominence because of her activism and her efforts to make people aware of her people's suffering during the 36 year civil war in her country. We will view documentaries, films, and read Menchu's first person account. This course seeks to enhance the student's knowledge of Guatemalan history, culture, and politics and to reflect upon the nature of U.S. intervention in this Latin American country.

ISP 101 Sec 320 Course#35155 - Fast Foods: The Politics of Food in the New Millennium
Jessica Jerome, LPC TTh 10:10-11:40
Understanding the social, political and economic forces that shape our nation’s taste for particular kinds of food require asking questions such as, how do we come to prefer certain foods to others? How are race and class intertwined with the food industry’s marketing techniques? And how do governmental regulations and organizations impact what we define as a fruit, or a vegetable, as a kind of food or as a drug? In addition to examining these questions, this course will also look at the conflicts between the food industry and the scientists and nutritionists who evaluate food safety issues.

ISP 101 Sec327 Course# 30825 - Virgin of Guadalupe in Colonial History and Image
Delia Cosentino, LPC TTh 1:30-3:00
The goddess at the heart of modern Mexican nationalism today is an almost omnipresent symbol with multiple layers of meaning. This class takes as its focus the topic of the Virgin of Guadalupe, especially as her image developed during the colonial history of Mexico. Explorations of the Virgin’s early significance will be grounded first in a solid understanding of the historical and art historical context in which she first appeared. Readings and discussions will then consider various aspects of the emerging cult, including sources for the original legend, issues of syncretism, and aspects of Marian iconography celebrated in early depictions of Guadalupe.

ISP102 Sec 319 Course#35154 -- History, Memory and the Holocaust
Matthew Girson, LPC TH 10:10-11:40
Tragic events cast long shadows. This class will explore the evolving form of the Holocaust as it slips away from living memory and deeper into the discourses of history. Literature, film, and art will frame larger discussions of how history and memory form and are formed by our understanding of the Holocaust. Class discussions, assignments, and projects will provide students with opportunities to explore the topics at hand while negotiating their place in the past, present, and future.

ISP 101 Sec 303 Course# 35149 -- Chinese Art
Curt Hansman, LPC MWF 10:50-11:50
Sometimes the questions asked by one individual and the paths and patterns of that individual's life reflect those of an entire generation or an era or even a culture. One such individual is Su Shih - Confucian scholar, imperial official, dissident, philosopher, art theorist, poet, painter, husband, father, friend, lover, intellectual, traveler, - whose life spanned the middle decades of the Song dynasty (960-1279) one of the richest and most intellectually creative periods in Chinese history. In this course we will explore Su Shih first as an individual - his birth, family, training, political career, poetry and painting - and then as a member of the society in which he lived. We will engage the major issues of Song political, social, intellectual, and artistic history through the political writings, poetry, painting of Su Shih and his contemporaries.

The following are among the issues we will address: what political structures allowed the Song emperors to rule? What was the nature of Song society? What were the major areas of disagreement among writers and thinkers of the period? What place did men, women, peasants, scholars, merchants, Chinese, foreigners, among others play? What would it have been like to live in the capital city or any provincial city during the period? What would one have eaten, worn? What languages might one have spoken? What place did education play? Who was afforded an education? How?

ISP 101 Sec 334 Course#31734 -- Endangered Species
Dennis Meritt, LPC TTh 3:10-4:40
This course will work to develop a definition of endangered and see how well the definition works as it applies to a range of life forms, including plants, animals, and natural habitats. The course will explore the probably causes of endangerment, consider the impact of our own species as well as that of natural occurrences, discuss possible solutions, and explore ways people can become involved and affect a long-term solution.

ISP 101 Sec 308 Course#30813 -- Evolutionary Biology at the Movies
Ron Edwards, LPC MWF 12:00-1:00
The course addresses movies as representatives of human concerns. Students are required to watch films as homework, and course time is reserved for analysis through discussion, responsive writings, presentations, and peer review. The main activity of the class is to research and present the connections between a specific set of biological information with a specific set of films.

All narrative (story-telling) concerns, values and inherent conflicts among people; these values and inherent conflicts arise from the confluence of nature and culture. This course provides a means to investigate that confluence using a specific form of narrative (cinema) and a specific model for human behavior (sociobiology, evolutionary psychology). Both of these terms, "human nature" and "culture," are often mentioned but rarely used critically. In this course, they are given close, disturbing scrutiny. The goal is to move beyond the traditional and non-productive construction of Nature/Nurture and for the students to begin the life-long process of individually constructing how biology and values are intertwined in the context of culture.

ISP101 Sec306 Course#35151 -- Black Images in Film
Kimberly Moffit, LPC MWF 12:00-1:00
This course will survey the historical image of African descended people in film. Students will analyze the impact these images, perceptions, and stereotypes have on society and on African descended people's self-concept. In addition, the course will examine the ways in which the images have changed (or been perpetuated) when rendered by African American filmmakers, both in the independent and commercial contexts.

ISP 101 Sec 601 Course#35161 -- NAFTA
Animesh Ghosal, Loop MW 10:50-12:20
An important feature of the much discussed movement toward globalization is the formation of preferential trading groups. Among these, the North American Free Trade Agreement is unique in attempting to integrate developing and developed countries. The differences in income levels between Canada and the United States on one hand, and Mexico on the other, pose a challenge to the orthodox theory of economic integration, and have given rise to much political rhetoric. The cultural differences between the NAFTA trading partners is also profound, and further complicate the attempt to remove economic barriers. In this course, we will focus on economic aspects of integration in North America, but beyond that, we will try to see how historic, cultural, and political forces influence economic policy, and how that, in turn, affects economic performance. We will examine globalization and the concerns it raises, the terms of the NAFTA agreement, the motivations of the parties, and the effects of NAFTA on each of the three economies, as well as on non-members. We will also discuss the theory of economic integration, compare NAFTA to the European Union, and analyze the expected effects of the agreement on capital, skilled labor, and unskilled labor. Finally, we will try to consider NAFTA from the point of view of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, as well as of business and unions.

ISP 101 Sec 335 Course# 35160 -- Brown vs. the Board of Education
Joan Lakebrink, LPC TTh 3:10-4:40
The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education1954 focused the world's attention on the phrase "separation but equal" in terms of race relations in this nation. This phenomenon has deep roots in American culture beginning as early as 1619 and can be studied through the lenses of the American jurisprudence system, African-American culture, American history from the colonial times to the present, and in literary genre. The class will study primary and secondary sources including colonial slave codes plus Supreme Court documents from Dred Scott to Plessey v. Ferguson and other selected cases that help understand Brown in terms of its historical, political, social and educational contexts. In addition, writings, including speeches, essays and fiction written by such African Americans as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Leon Higginbotham, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou will be studied. Students are expected to be active participants in class, write short reflective essays, keep a journal, and write and present a summary paper reflecting on their own experiences and reflections relative to themes developed in the seminar.

ISP 101 Sec324 Course#35157 -- Tiananmen Square
Darsie Bowden, LPC TTh 11:50-1:20
The goal of this course is to gain insight into the complexities of modern China through the lens of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations that took place in June 1989 in Beijing. Using the Internet, novels, documentary and feature films, historical accounts, personal accounts, interviews (both on-line and in-person), we will explore the events leading up to the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China, the forces that resulted in the violent suppression of the protest, and the present-day ramifications and contradictions within China.

A ten-week course on China can only be introductory. This course promises to more than a history course or a lesson in politics but rather a glimpse or series of glimpses into the lives of people who have been shut off from the West for nearly half a century and the accompanying rhetoric with and through which they live their lives. Students will be encouraged to investigate as fully as possible their own personal interests and intellectual connections to the events we read about, see and discuss.

ISP 101 Sec 309 Course#35152 -- In Cold Blood
Margaret Nellis
LPC MWF 12:00-1:00
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is the study of a mass murder without motive or profit. This seminar will examine the influence the book has had on psychological studies of mass murderers, on the media's role of in covering mass murders, and on society's attitudes toward capital punishment. Students will then follow the course of American violence to the present day rampage killings and school shootings. A class presentation will focus on a current situation. Last year the class held a mock trial for "The Texas Seven." Materials will include the text, film, newspaper and magazine articles.

ISP 101 Sec 902 Course#31767 -- Politics of the Occult
Jason Winslade, LPC W 5:45-9:00
This course explores occultism as a Western phenomenon, consisting of magical and mystical practices that penetrate everyday life. For some practitioners, it is a religion, for others a form of self-exploration and actualization, and for still others, a site of personal politics and activism. We will discuss the structures and philosophies of the secret society, of initiation as a cultural performance, and the practice of ritual magick in its various forms. We will trace the connections between magick, Wicca, secret societies, and popular culture, in texts ranging from the dollar bill to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

ISP 101 Sec 307 Course#30812 -- From Folk Rock to Rock Folk: Music in America 1950-1970
R.J. Isackson, LPC MWF 12:00-1:00
Our American musical history of the second half of the 20th century corresponds to our social and historical progress. From the folk music of the 1950's, sung by the Weavers, Odetta, and Miriam Makeba, to the music of the Woodstock generation, the music connects with pleas for fair employment practices, protests against racial and social inequality, to differences between life in urban and suburban America. The Civil Rights movement can be traced in song. The course will focus on the connection between our country's heritage and how music both reflects and affects our history. There will be readings from at least two texts.

ISP 101 Sec328 Course# 30826 -- Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic
Nancy Clum, LPC TTh 1:30-3:00
The focus of this course is Aldo Leopold’s The Land Ethic, an essay published in 1949 that revolutionized the way we look at nature, and ultimately formed the basis of modern conservation biology. The purpose of this course is to place current environmental issues and approaches in a historical context, and to use that context to teach students about how ethical decisions are made and influenced. The course will be divided into three parts; an examination of the climate and events that were Leopold’s "inheritance", the evolution of Leopold’s personal conservation ethic that culminated in The Land Ethic, and the development of this ethic into its present diverse forms. We will use the original writings of selected individuals to examine the nature of societal-level changes in environmental ethics and how they have shaped subsequent attitudes and policies. In addition, we will examine the evolution of individually-held ethics by studying a series of writings by Leopold, who experienced a profound change in his personal views on ethical behavior towards nature over the course of his life. In the final portion of the course, we will ask students to use what they have learned so far to evaluate the emergence, diversification, and viability of current attitudes towards the environment.

ISP 101 Sec 325 Course#30824 -- Automation
Patrick McHaffie, LPC TTh 11:50-1:20
This course will focus on automation, a process that occurred at a quickening pace during the 20th century. In automation, articles that were principally made by hand or through mixed manual-machine processes become almost exclusively produced through processes using highly integrated numerically controlled devices (sometimes referred to as robots). Articles produced through highly automated processes include many consumer articles that we use today, and with the coming of the information age, various information commodities are also produced automatically. In the course, this process will be viewed as a time-place contingent socially constructed constellation of technologies, institutions, ideologies, and other cultural forms.

ISP 101 Sec 333 Course#31733 -- African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Margaret Storey, LPC TTH 3:10-4:40
This seminar will explore the history and significance of the all-black regiments of the United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) during the American Civil War, 1860-1865. We will read about and discuss the political thought, military policy, philosophical and social movements, and individual perseverance which made African-American soldiering a reality. Our themes will include the struggle of African-Americans to gain admission into the army in the first place; the military, political, and social pressures placed on the Union Army by runaway slaves from the South; the efforts of black leaders in the North-such as Frederick Douglass-to make the war for the Union a war against slavery; the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 upon the role of African-Americans in the military; the personal histories and experiences of particular soldiers and regiments; the role of southern slaves as spies and saboteurs on behalf of the Union Armies; and the part played by African-American soldiers in the very early years of the South's Reconstruction. Students will also be asked to critically evaluate the ways that black participation in the war has been presented by a variety of scholarly, documentary, and popular sources, especially film- and video-based interpretations.

ISP 101 Sec 312 Course#30816 -- El Salvador: The Body Politic
Michael Mclntyre, LPC MWF 1:10-2:10
Politics is, among other things, the arena in which human bodies are broken. This course will concern itself with the breaking of human bodies through torture, war, and poverty. Throughout, a focus will be maintained on the interface between bodies and language, on how bodies placed under extremes of pain and degradation lose their capacity for speech, and how language reaches its intrinsic limits in trying to represent bodies in pain. Each text in this seminar struggles, in one way or another, with those limits. In keeping with the nature of a focal point seminar, all of our texts will focus on the country of El Salvador. In part, this choice is arbitrary. El Salvador is simply one country among dozens where bodies find themselves at the business end of the most brutal sort of politics. In another sense, though, this choice is not at all arbitrary. DePaul University has a long-standing relationship with the National University in El Salvador and through the El Salvador Project has developed relationships with a number of communities throughout that land. This course, then, can serve - if you wish it to - as an open door to further involvement with El Salvador throughout your years at DePaul.

ISP 101 Sec 314 Course#30818 -- Yoga Sutras
Guillemette Johnston, LPC MW 1:10-2:40
This course is based on the text Yoga Sutras of Patañjali. This text, which provides the authoritative exposition of classical Yoga and underlies all yoga practice as it currently exists in India and throughout the world, has been ascribed to the semi-mythical grammarian and yogi Patañjali, about whom essentially nothing is known. Best estimates place the composition of this work around 200 CE.

ISP 101 Sec 326 Course#35158 -- Napoleon
Pascale-Anne Brault, LPC TTh 11:50-1:20

ISP 101 Sec 313 Course#30817 -- Colombia:The Tragic Violence
Inca Rumold, LPC MWF 1:10-2:10

ISP 101 Sec 603 Course#31764 -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Gloria Simo, Loop TTH 1:20-2:50
This course will explore the life, philosophy and work of one of the most creative and distinctive architects of the 19th and 20th centuries. Frank Lloyd Wright had many interesting views of the world that still influence us. The course includes the biographic study of his life and career. From an educational perspective, we will examine his formal and informal education and training and explore how his thoughts on art and architecture influenced the way that our homes look today. We will examine how his views on ideal communities are seen as idealistic and how his designs are focused on a deep respect for the environment. We will explore how his religious and ethical philosophy shaped the way he lived his life and how this perspective was also shaped by the major historical events of his day. The historical perspective will also look at Mr. Wright’s personal philosophy in comparison to and in contrast with several of his contemporaries.

ISP101 Sec336 Course# 31735 -- Voluntary Motherhood
Ron Graf, LPC MWF 9:4-10:40
This seminar course examines the Voluntary Motherhood Movement in relation to the right of women to control their reproductive destinies during the late 19th Century and through the 20th Century. Feminist theory as it speaks to the issues of access to contraceptive information, the right to limit family size, and fair access to reproductive technology are issues for discussion. Issues of abortion and parenthood as a right for men and women, whether single or married, heterosexual or homosexual are presented and debated. The history of the voluntary motherhood movement serves as a lesson about the changing status of women and the nature of family in society. The course involves seminar discussion, site visit, assigned readings, independent library & Internet research, abstracting, critique, and personal narrative. Please come register for this course, if you find these issues to be of importance in your life.

ISP 101 Sec 302 Course#35148 -- Jealousy, the Green-Eyed Monster
Elizabeth Millan-Zailbert, LPC MWF 9:40-10:40
It is known as the “green-eyed monster,” the cause of many a “crime of passion,” the theme of songs, poems, tragedy. It is a most destructive passion, one most of us have experienced in one degree or another, that provides important clues concerning our vulnerability as human being Jealousy is a passion, and it is the passion that we will analyze in this seminar.

ISP 101 Sec 321 Course# 30822 -- Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas
Susana Pagliaro, LPC TTh 10:10-11:40
At the Intersection of Race, Sex and American Politics: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Hearing will critically examine the dynamic clash between racial and sexual politics within the context of the 1991 Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearing. The course will proceed by asking a series of critical questions that will attempt to reveal the social, political and historical relationships among sex, race and power in late 20th century America. What happens when racial and sexual politics meet with competing interests or agendas? What kind of political space is created? What hierarchies result? What fuels the divide historically, politically and socially? How is sexual harassment itself a politically, historically and socially constructed phenomenon?

At the Intersection of Race, Sex and American Politics: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Hearing will draw on feminist theory, race theory, philosophy, and political and social theory. The majority of class meetings will engage students in discussion of the texts. Students will do extensive writing throughout the quarter. In addition, students will be responsible for formal group presentations. Students will learn how to engage in university-level critique, be sensitive to the multiple perspectives from which a complex issue can and must be viewed, and be aware that diverse political and social agendas exist and may be as important as their own. Primary objectives of this course include the development of critical reading, writing, thinking and speaking skills.

ISP101 Sec 330 Course#31403 -- Film :Cowboys, Samurai, and Other Thugs of the Sublime
Daniel Selcer, LPC TTh 1:30-3:00

Taking as its focus the complex exchange of story, character, image, and metaphor in the early samurai films of Akira Kurosawa and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, this course will investigate problems and concepts in the history of the cinema of action. Kurosawa’s earliest films take up classic Japanese stories and mythologies, presenting them under the adapted imagery of early American Westerns and Noir. In turn, Leone ’s Italian westerns adapt Kurosawa’s samurai imagery, plots, and characters, returning them to a West that is now populated by the ruins of Roman necropoli, the wandering nameless outsider, and the aesthetic of the six-shooter. New Wave French directors of the 60s transpose Leone and Kurosawa (as well as Noir) onto the streets of Paris, while from the 60s to the present Hong Kong Kung-Fu, Wuxia (‘flying swordsmen’), and Triad genres – standing at the cultural cusp of Japanese, British, and American colonialism – appropriate and transform many of those same images and characters. Finally, contemporary American and Chinese filmmakers turn to this entire tradition of filmic exchange as both the source and object of their material. Supplementing the films themselves with theoretical, philosophical, and critical texts, we will investigate questions about the nature of a ‘remake’ and the constitution of aesthetic originality, the existential outsider as unassimilateable antihero, the boundaries of artistic genre, the aesthetic function of violence, and the cinematic body.

ISP 101 Sec 602 Course#30828 -- Enemies of the Church and State: Socrates and Galileo
William Behun, Loop TTh 10:10-11:40

ISP 101 Sec331 Course#31405 -- The Trail and Death o f Socrates
Michael Naas, LPC TTh 1:30-3:00
This course will focus on one of the most important trials, and, indeed, one of the most important events in Western history and culture-—he trial and death of Socrates. We will be viewing the trial from a variety of different perspectives, that is, as an historical event, as a drama at the center of some of the most beautiful and significant works of art in Western culture, and as the origin and inspiration for philosophy itself.

ISP 101 Sec 310 Course# 30814 -- The Manhattan Project
Christopher Goedde, LPC MWF 10:50-11:50
This seminar examines the events surrounding the construction of the first atomic bomb, beginning with the discovery of the atomic nucleus at the turn of the twentieth century, and continuing through to the first three nuclear explosions: the Trinity test in New Mexico and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The main goal of the seminar is to understand how and why a group of scientists (supplemented by thousands of technicians, construction workers, machinists, etc.) came to build what they called "the gadget." We will first discuss how and why the bomb came to be built, including both the scientific discoveries that made an atomic bomb possible and the historical events that led to the large-scale, secret military-run project to build the bomb. We will then focus on the relationship between science and society: how society affects the way science is done and how society decides whether and how to use the technological products of science. Finally, we will discuss the ethics of the Manhattan Project from the perspectives of the scientists involved, the government, and the citizenry at large.

This course is by nature interdisciplinary-it draws on topics and methods from several different academic areas. It is partly a science course, partly a history course, partly a political science, and partly a philosophy course. Because of this, we will draw upon and develop skills from all these disciplines. Much of our introduction to this wide range of subjects will be through the assigned readings and selected videos; the main focus of the seminar is on learning to analyze and synthesize this material and on developing the ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, at the university level. However, we will also make use of some of the quantitative reasoning skills that are characteristic of the physical sciences. This is also a seminar course, in which all students are expected to participate in the classroom discussions. Most days we will spend discussing and analyzing the assigned reading for that day. In addition to discussing the readings, students will write a series of two-page papers throughout the quarter. The topic of each writing assignment will be a question based on the readings and classroom discussion. Students will be expected to answer the question, basing their responses on the material in the readings, or formulate an opinion on the topic and support it with facts. There will also be a midterm and a comprehensive final exam.

ISP 101 Sec 318 Course#30821 -- World Fairs and Museums
Fassil Demissie, LPC TTH 10:10-11:40
The emergence of ethnographic museums and world fairs as distinctive products of modern societies came into being with the rapid explosion in intellectual energy of the "Enlightenment" period. Their distinctive configuration, mode of operating and the discursive knowledge was stamped by the culture of the very societies that gave rise to these important modern institutions. How and why did these institutions emerge? Why did they assume the forms and structures that they did? What were the key processes that shaped their development? What role did they play in colonial empires?

ISP 101 Sec311 Course#30815 -- Fidel Castro
Rose Spalding, LPC MWF 12:00-1:00
Is he a nationalist hero, the savior of his poor, colonized nation? A brilliant Marxist who version of socialism has endured while weaker form collapsed? A patriarch who rules his country like an old-style plantation master? Cuba's revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, is one of the most controversial political figures of out time. Competing images and interpretations of his life and impact are presented with great passion by his advocates, rivals, and enemies. This course is designed to bring you into that debate. It will let you sort through the competing perspectives and construct your own interpretation of the man and his revolution. In the process, you will become familiar with the history of Cuba and inter-American relations, competing theories of revolution and social change, the major transformations that have been made in Cuban society (class, power, gender, race) during his rule, and the debate within the Cuban-American community about how to understand and respond to him. Students in this class will read competing biographical materials, steep themselves in his speeches and writings, talk with some Cubans who have left the island to escape his rule and others who have stayed, and debate the current U.S. policy toward the Castro regime. Assignments include essays comparing competing biographical texts, interviews with Cubans and Cuban Americans, archival research in the Venceremos Brigade collection in the Richardson Library, and participation in formal class debate.

ISP 101 Sec304 Course#30811 -- Homelessness
Cathy May, LPC MWF 10:50-11:50

ISP 101 Sec 305 Course# 35150 -- Palestine
Norman Finkelstein, LPC MWF 10:50-11:50
This seminar will explore the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict from multiple perspectives. It will situate the conflict in broader historical trends and examine these trends through comparative analyses that illuminate the nature of the conflict. It will analyze crucial turning points such as the June 1967 War. It will reflect on the underlying philosophical and moral issues that suggest that the Israel-Palestine conflict raises questions both relevant to all of us and not susceptible to easy resolution.

ISP 101 Sec 332 Course#35159 -- The Motorcycle as a Value Metaphor
Fred Heilizer, LPC Th 2:00-5:15

ISP 101 Sec 317 Course#35153 -- Humor and Group Identity
Midge Wilson, LPC W 1:10-4:25
This focal point will explore how humor empowers different groups, whether defined by their gender, religion, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation or in some other way. We will take a look at how issues of power and the historical treatment of various social groups influence what is deemed funny versus mean spirited. In addressing such questions, the inherent tensions between issues of so-called political correctness, the limits of taste and tolerance, and the forbidden-like nature of what makes something hilariously funny will be noted. Also slated for discussion is how individual members from non-majority groups can find their voice and identity through comedy. So bring your funny bone and put on your thinking cap to seriously dissect an amusing subject area. Students will be required to keep weekly journals in response to questions posed by the instructor about issues of humor and group identity. In addition, there will be two short research papers on different topics of the student's choice, with a classroom presentation devoted to one of them. In general, class time will be spent viewing humorous materials representative of different social groups, after which students (with the help of the instructor) will lead the class in a critical analysis of various raised issues. There is also at least one field trip to a comedy club planned for this course.

ISP 101 Sec322 Course#30823 -- Buddha and Jesus
Robert Ludwig, LPC TTh 10:10-11:40
Jesus and Buddha are two very significant spiritual teachers and founders of religious traditions. Their impact has been felt in the East and the West, on the whole world—particularly their influence on devotees and followers over the centuries and in various cultures—but beyond those religious communities as well. The course will explore what we can know with great probability about their lives and the historical-cultural contexts in which they lived and taught, learning to distinguish between historical narrative and religious myth. We will explore what the core experience and teachings from Jesus and Buddha might mean in our present-day contexts.

ISP 101 Course#323 -- Who invented God?
Naomi Steinberg, LPC TTh 10:10-11:40
The deity commonly thought of simply as “God” has a history, and a very particular one in the two numerically dominant religions of North America, Judaism and Christianity. The course will demonstrate that the character of God is rooted in the west Semitic deity of “El,” first mentioned in texts from ancient Syria-Palestine, an area known as Canaan. These texts date from the mid-second millennium B.C.E. The course will investigate these issues in order to answer question such as: What is a god? How does the distribution of divine responsibilities reflect and challenge notions of “natural gender”? In what direction does the figure of El move as the Hebrew Bible begins to develop the nature of Yahweh for its ancient Israelite readers?

ISP 101 Sec 301 Course#30810 -- Scopes Monkey Trail of 1925: Religion and Science in America
David Breed, LPC MWF 8:30-9:30
Throughout the 20th century in America, controversies over the teaching of evolution in public schools have focused attention on the problematic relationship of religion and science. We study the first and most famous of many court cases, the Scopes Trial, and its impact on American culture. In the summer of 1925, in Dayton, Tennessee, a high school teacher John Thomas Scopes was tried and found guilty of violating Tennessee law and fined $100. The Scopes Trial raised the controversial issue of deciding the relative merits of religious doctrines and scientific theories about human origins: creation or evolution. Are humans created by God as the Bible teaches? Are humans descended from a lower order of animals according to the Darwinian theory of evolution? Does the teaching of evolution undermine the moral character of American society? Is science opposed to religion? How can science and religion be related? Through reading, writing, discussion, and a course project you will discover and articulate a your own way of relating religion and science.

ISP 101 Sec 315 Course#30819 -- Chicago Blues and Jazz
Caleb Dube, LPC MWF 2:20-3:20
Great black migration of the 1940s brought over five million African American from the South to the North. Chicago was a main port of entry. The entire cultural and politics of the city was forever changed. The city was transformed into a cultural capital for music, and the city itself changed the musical forms that had been born in the rural southern America. Today, many of the working class communities that sustained blues on the southwest sides of the city are gone, few like Artis and Lee’s Unleaded remain. Black musicians mainly play blues to predominantly “white” audience on the northside of the city. Like our city, jazz has also been segregated, giving way to different musical expressions. However, both blues and jazz musicians and the music scene continue to be a place of exchanges and dialogue in the city. This course aims to understand the history of Chicago, it demographics, race relations and place in the world today through a study of the history of its music, specifically blues and jazz. Question’s of race, politics, and community development will be looked at through music. Students will be introduced to a series of books written by musicians. In addition, we will spend time at the Blues archives of the Harold Washington library and in conclusion students will conduct a research project about the state of musicians in the city. Throughout the quarter we will go out to the various clubs and walk through the neighborhoods.

ISP 101 Sec 316 Course#30820 -- Disability Culture
Karen Meyer, LPC MW 3:30-5:00
This course will focus on the mosaic movement of the 1990’s, which are people with disabilities. This segment of our populations is the largest and fastest growing minority group in the nation. Disability is one culture that anyone can be a part of at anytime. In order to understand this, the course will explore a variety of disability related topics. Each week a major theme will be addressed, a theme designed to teach individuals about aspects of the disability movement, one which represents every race, ethnic, religion, age and socio-economic group.

ISP 101 Sec 339 Course# 31765 -- American Culture
Dean Corrin, LPC TTh 8:30-10:00
For decades, popular motion pictures have both reflected and directed the ways in which Americans and the world define the character of the United States. This course will explore what has changed and what remained consistent in the definition of "America" by focusing on the way in which presidents and the presidency have been portrayed by in popular American films (especially during the final quarter of the 20th Century). The class will analyze the depiction of presidents in a selection of popular American films, considering the context of the time the films were made, their cultural significance and contemporary responses to the films, the historical record, the conventions of dramatic construction, and the form of myth. This discussion will be grounded in a look at the history of the presidency and the significant developments in the administrations of several prominent presidents.

Assuming the perspectives of various members of the film industry (executives, critics, directors, marketing specialists, writers and actors) the class will reflect on how the images in these films reflect and shape our feelings about the presidency and, through that, our identity as Americans. From this understanding of past portraits of the presidency, the class will culminate in an exploration of how a contemporary portrayal of the presidency might be created to reflect or challenge our current perceptions of America and ourselves.

ISP 101 Sec 340 Course#35334 -- Pop Theater
Carlos Murillo, LPC TTh 11:50-1:20
This course explores the evolution of popular music performance through the lens of theatre practice and theory. Popular music, in its various forms, has made an indelible impact on world culture, shaping perceptions of age, gender, race, sexuality, politics, economics and art on a scale and with a force of impact only dreamed of by theatre practitioners. Yet, the theatre has had a profound impact on the medium of pop music, particularly in the realm of live performance, providing inspiration to some of the most forward thinking and enduring works in the age of mass culture. POP THEATRE is an inquiry into the symbiotic relationship between the recordings, live performances and personas of ground-breaking artists working in the idiom of popular music and the stage productions, manifestoes and theoretical writings of leading theatre visionaries.

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