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34997 ISP 101 906 W 05:45 PM - 09:00 PM LPC Chin,William
GAMING & GAMES OF CHANCE
Two of the popular played games of chance are blackjack (twenty-one) and poker. These games perhaps form the most interesting examples of games of chance where risky decisions can profitably be made using sophisticated strategies based on the theories of probability and game theory. They can be statistically evaluated and have been studied to a mature status. Of particular interest is the theory and practice of card-counting in blackjack, and the mathematics and psychology of poker. We shall deal with the basics of such analyses and indicate how they have been developed and evaluated by computer simulation. Some requisite probability theory and its foundations will be introduced. The theory shall be reified and made manifest with examples, concrete problems and live play (as in the popular focal point course on chess/culture), while keeping a constant eye on mathematical and psychological emendations. We will examine these and other games of chance, focusing on how they can be played with positive expectation (or not). Fallacies regarding gambling and their psychological origins will be discussed in the context of games, and generalized to other decision-making processes.

33926 ISP 101 301 M W F 8:30 AM 9:30 AM LPC Ross,Judithrae E
THE HOLOCAUST
11,000,000, the majority of whom were Jewish, continues to raise troubling questions. Why did a "civilizes" nation acquiesce to the butchery? Why did other nations in Europe either remain silent or participate? Why didn’t the Americans try to stop the industrialized march to death? " We didn’t know," or" We were only following orders" just doesn’t cut it. At some level most people did know. The Holocaust seminar raises questions often left rattling in the closet. Participation examines the events, and how they may have acted had they lived between 1993-1945. The material is graphic and includes videos, guest speakers, a field trip to the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. This seminar will make you think. Warning….it’s a gut-wrenching experience, not for a faint of heart.

33927 ISP 101 302 M W F 8:30 AM 9:30 AM LPC Bannan,Rosemary S
LOURDES BELIEF
How does a personal religious experience- without witness- become a social fact shared by millions of people? Well, this actually happened in France, 1858, when Bernadette Soubirous, a poor, Catholic, not very bright farmer's daughter said she had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A preposterous belief! It was challenged by hostile officials, clergy, family and friends. She died not knowing that her visions were accepted by the Roman Catholic Church. She was canonized a saint.
This course studies Bernadette's life and experiences based on a novel. Students are introduced to a variety and level of texts and disciplines while investigating many different non-Christian belief systems with the aid of theology, metaphysics, cosmology, and science. Yes, natural scientists have their belief systems, their followers, their saints, and mysteries wherein the ordinary social, psychological and physical events of existence occur within the context of the extraordinary, the visible as well as the invisible.

33928 ISP 101 303 M W F 9:40 AM 10:40 AM LPC Pierce,Lori

33929 ISP 101 304 M W F 9:40 AM 10:40 AM LPC Edwards,Ronald
EVOLUTIONARY BIO AT THE MOVIES
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.

33930 ISP 101 305 M W F 10:50 AM 11:50 AM LPC Rumold,Inca
COLUMBIA:TRAGIC VIOLENCE

33931 ISP 101 306 M W F 12:00 PM 1:00 PM LPC Isackson,R.J. J
FOLK ROCK TO ROCK FOLK 1950-70
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.

33932 ISP 101 307 M W F 1:10 PM 2:10 PM LPC Zamsky,Robert

33933 ISP 101 308 M W F 1:10 PM 2:10 PM LPC Wake,Peter
TRAGEDY
This course will focus on Nietzsche and his book, The Birth of Tragedy, as a means of coming to understand what he calls "the craving for ugliness" that gives rise to the need for tragic narratives. Why do we tell stories about the most intense suffering? And perhaps more importantly, why do we like hearing, reading, and watching them so much? Attempting to account for this leads to the question of what a work of art is if it does not fall under the exclusive domain of the beautiful. When we take seriously Nietzche’s challenge that the existence of the world can only ever be justified as an aesthetic phenomenon, then the need to account for this "craving" becomes all the more imperative. In other words, if it stands that when we presume to make judgment about one culture as opposed to another, we judge according to the "artwork" of that culture, or perhaps the manner in which a culture creates itself as a work of art, then the definition and the role of morality as it is traditionally conceived comes into question. Issues like these will guide our reading of the tragedies.
As a means of introducing these themes, we will read Nietzche’s "Attempt at Self-criticism" written fifteen years after The Birth of Tragedy and stories from Raymond Carver’s What we Talk About When We Talk About Love, as well as screening the film, The Sweet Hereafter. We will then work through plays by Sophocles and Euripides in order to get different ancient interpretations of tragedy, those of Plato and Aristotle in particular.
In addition to close readings of the texts, students will be expected to actively engage in class discussion. In order to facilitate this, students will be required to write short papers each week (1-2 pages in length). The topics for these shorter papers will vary according to the nature of the reading assignments. Each student will be expected to give one protocol during the quarter. This protocol is a short presentation given in collaboration with one or two other students summarizing the central points of the reading and raising question aimed at guiding subsequent class discussion. A final paper roughly 6-8 pages in length will be required focusing on either a detailed reading of a specific text or a general theme raised in the course.

33934 ISP 101 309 M W F 2:20 PM 3:20 PM LPC Dube,Caleb
CHICAGO BLUES & JAZZ
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.

33935 ISP 101 310 M W 3:30 PM 5:00 PM LPC White,David
PLATONIC LOVE
This course consists in a close reading of the two Platonic dialogues analyzing the nature of love-the SYMPOSIUM and the PHAEDRUS. The approach to love developed in these dialogues will be contrasted with parallel expressions in the lyrical poetry of Sappho on love, loss of love, and individual emotions, as well as modern poetic statements concerning these themes by Amy Lowell and Emily Dickinson. The purpose of the course is to present a powerful and influential philosophical perspective on love and to compare that perspective with evocative and penetrating poetic visions of the same reality. The primary topics covered will be: the place of sexuality in love, the importance of communication through discourse between the lover and the beloved, and the status of emotions in the love-relationship. The popular notion of "Platonic love" will also be closely scrutinized by reading the dialogues from which this notion was distilled and determining just how "Platonic" the notion of "Platonic love" really is.

33936 ISP 101 311 M W 3:30 PM 5:00 PM LPC Meyer, Karen
DISABILITY CULTURE
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.

33937 ISP 101 312 M W 1:10 PM 2:40 PM LPC Johnston,Guillemette C
YOGA SUTRAS
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.

33938 ISP 101 313 M 1:30 PM 4:30 PM LPC Harp,Steven J

33939 ISP 101 314 W 1:30 PM 4:30 PM LPC Steger,Wayne P
POLITICS IN FILM & REALITY

33941 ISP 101 316 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM LPC Mayo,Larry W

33942 ISP 101 317 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM LPC Pereira,Birgitta
GENDER POWER POLITICS

33943 ISP 101 318 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM LPC Pereira,Peter D
SYMMETRY
Symmetry, or near symmetry, abounds in the world around us. You can see it in natural objects such as butterflies, beehives, animals, the human body, fruits and nuts, flowers, snowflakes, waves, or geological formations. You can see it in artistic productions such as paintings, sculpture, poems, novels, or musical compositions. You can see it in cultural artifacts such as textiles and carpets, decorative patterns, corporate logos, technological inventions, architecture, tilings, or agriculture. And you can see it in scientific theories about molecules, crystals, genes, primitive organisms, astronomy, gravitation, electricity, or the human psyche. While these topics are often studied separately, we will try to look at them from a common perspective. During the first week, we will look at the world around us, describing and analyzing what we see. Then, for about 3 weeks, we will take an abstract look at symmetry considering questions about types of symmetry, relations between various symmetries, combinations of symmetries, harmony and proportion, fuzzy symmetries, and anti-symmetries. Though this will introduce a mathematical perspective, no special knowledge of mathematics beyond that required of any entering freshman will be assumed. After this, we will apply this abstract knowledge to a variety of phenomena that reflect students' interests, considering approaches to symmetries in various cultures. (Islamic art, Yemeni textiles, Turkish carpets, Navaho blankets, Mayan architecture, Hindu sculpture, Japanese origami, African masks, impressionist paintings, Renaissance music, or Pythagorean philosophy are all possibilities.) Finally, in the last portion of the course students will be asked to construct something -- perhaps a poem, a model, a musical composition, an art object, a computer program, or an essay -- and then to analyze its symmetrical or asymmetrical properties. These constructions will be critiqued by the rest of the class and could become part of the student's portfolio.

33944 ISP 101 319 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM LPC Scott,Karen
JOAN OF ARC
This Course focusses on St. Joan of Arc, both the fifteenth-century French woman whose life and death, thought, and times can be known from historical documents like her trial records, and the person she has become in the imaginations of politicians, religious leaders, artists, film makers, and other people since the Middle Ages.
The first half of the class will focus on the historical Joan of Arc. Who was she, what did she accomplish, and why was she important? In what diverse ways did her contemporaries view her, and why? To what extent can we find answers to these questions in the available documents, and why should we care? How do our own personal identity questions relate to Joan's identity questions? A complex and controversial figure already in her own day, Joan has been understood and represented in various ways by modern people as well. The second half of the class will focus on Joan in the twentieth century. What aspects of the historical Joan have attracted our contemporaries= attention, and why? What does she mean to first-year DePaul students today? What is the significance of Joan at the turn of the third millennium? Students will be encouraged to debate the many possible answers to these questions, to discern and refine their own positions, and to communicate carefully reasoned arguments for their views in both oral and written form.
Classes will include lectures, discussions, oral presentations, films, art slides, and music.

33945 ISP 101 320 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM LPC Steinberg,Naomi A
WHO INVENTED GOD?
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?

33946 ISP 101 321 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM LPC Larrabee,Mary J
NATURE IN THE CITY

33947 ISP 101 322 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM LPC Cosentino,Delia A.
VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE IN HISTORY AND IMAGE
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.

33948 ISP 101 323 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM LPC Bowden,Darsie M
TIANANMEN SQUARE
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.

33949 ISP 101 324 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM LPC Weiss,Meredith L
VIETNAM AMERICAN WAR

33950 ISP 101 325 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM LPC Martinez,Susana S
RIGOBERTA MENCHU

33951 ISP 101 326 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM LPC Demissie,Fassil
WORLD FAIRS & MUSEUMS
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?

33952 ISP 101 327 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM LPC Johnson,Valerie C

33953 ISP 101 328 T Th 1:30 PM 3:00 PM LPC Kozlowski,Dorothy
USE OF ANIMALS IN SCIENCE

33954 ISP 101 329 T Th 1:30 PM 3:00 PM LPC Grossman,Nancy E

33955 ISP 101 330 T Th 1:30 PM 3:00 PM LPC Ibata-Arens,Kathryn C

33956 ISP 101 331 T Th 3:10 PM 4:40 PM LPC Meritt Jr,Dennis A
ENDANGRED SPECIES/HABITAT
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. Students will take periodic quizzes and examinations, write a major term paper, and give an oral presentation

33957 ISP 101 332 T Th 3:10 PM 4:40 PM LPC Amer,Kim Marie
CHILDREN'S HEALTH
This course explores the genetic, biological, psychological and societal influences on children’s health. A variety of frameworks will be explored to analyze the strength of influences on children’s health. Healthy People 2000 and 2010 will be used as the focus of synthesis for the multiple aspects of children’s health issues. Frameworks which will be used to explore influences on children’s health include social ecology, family stress and coping models, the culture of poverty, and developmental theory. The conceptualization of health in children will be presented using a holistic view of the complex interactions of biological, psychological and social influences. Health promotion models will be analyzed in regard to the complexity of designing models for promotion of children’s health. The student will participate in evaluating the ethical and moral issues related to providing societal support structures which promote health in children.

33958 ISP 101 333 T Th 3:10 PM 4:40 PM LPC Drury,Lin J
VOLUNTARY MOTHERHOOD
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.
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33959 ISP 101 334 T Th 3:10 PM 4:40 PM LPC Vallier,Robert
US CONST/PRIVATE/PUBLIC

33960 ISP 101 335 T 1:40 PM 4:40 PM LPC Heilizer,Fred H
MOTORCYCLES

33961 ISP 101 601 M W F 10:50 AM 11:50 AM LOOP Behun,William A
ENIMIES OF CHURCH & STATE
Because heresy in one form or another has been a touchstone for our culture's value system, looking at those who contradict or oppose current values will allow participants to examine the culture from which these heretics spring. Heresy is a product of existing moral authority, and seeing how authority is contested will give an enlightening perspective on that morality. The seminar will ask questions of what it means to brand someone as an enemy of the Church or the State and show how this can used to marginalize minority groups and limit their power. The seminar will examine modern "synonyms" for heresy: terms that function in our contemporary society in a similar way to the term "heretic" in more religious societies. Hopefully, this will allow students to examine how this rhetoric is applied to other minority groups, and even to challenge their own beliefs in regards to one's position vis a vis moral or social authority.

33962 ISP 101 602 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM LOOP Goergen,Juana

33963 ISP 101 603 T Th 1:30 PM 3:00 PM LOOP Simo,Gloria A
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
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.

33964 ISP 101 901 T 5:45 PM 9:00 PM LOOP Singh,Joshua Anand


33965 ISP 101 902 T 5:45 PM 9:00 PM LPC Garcia,Alesia
LALLORONA
The Legend: "During the colonial period in Mexico, a young, unmarried mestiza (mixed blood woman) is abandoned by her Spanish lover. Left to fend for herself and her illegitimate children, the woman, desperate and ashamed, takes revenged upon her lover by drowning the children in a ravine. Upon her death, her spirit is condemned to endlessly roam the earth in penance for her crime of infanticide. For centuries, where ever Mexicans and people of Mexican descent live, her spirit can be heard late at night, in desolate waterways, in rainsoaked alleys, and along steep ocean cliffs. Since her death, Mexicans and Chicanos have recounted stories of La Llorona, the weeping woman. They tell of her bloodcurdling wailing and sobbing; of her cry "aye, mis hijos!" ("oh, my children"). Her spirit wanders aimlessly throughout the Americas, terrifying all who cross her path." This brief narrative represents the "classic" version of the Legend of La Llorona. For centuries, it has been a transcultural legend and cautionary tale that inscribes a submissive role for Mexican women and Chicanas in a patriarchal culture. More recently, La Llorona has emerged as a positive feminist icon for women. In this focal point seminar, students will be introduced to several versions of the Legend from oral tradition, in short stories, artwork, music, and performances by Chicanos and Chicanas, or people of Mexican descent, living in the United States. A key factor that will help students understand the Legend in its historical, cultural, colonial, and postcolonial contexts will consist of comparisons of this "New World" Legend to legends of goddesses from pre-conquest Mexica culture, goddesses from Greek and Roman mythology, and female characters from classic Greek and Roman drama. This is a writing-intensive course. Students will write weekly papers, take a midterm and final, and give a group presentation. Attendance and participation will be mandatory and graded heavily.

33966 ISP 101 903 W 5:45 PM 9:00 PM LPC Kohli,Amor N

33967 ISP 101 904 W 5:45 PM 9:00 PM LPC Honold,Randall R
THE CYBORG
This course will examine the figure of the cyborg. A synthesis of the natural and technological, the cybernetic organism has been depicted often in popular media, fiction, and has been the subject of a wide variety of criticism. “Real-life” examples of cyborg reality abound as well: people kept alive and/or functional by technology, the growth of cyber-communities over the Internet; “virtual reality” games and simulators; cybernetically governed environments, production methods, and service providing. In our encounters with cyborgs, we will ask the following questions from a multiplicity of perspectives: What is natural? What is artificial? Where is the line between what is human and what is engineered? What is at stake if and when we consider ourselves to be cyborgs? Can we imagine cyborg communities, societies, politics, economies, and religions? Are cyborgs gendered or have an ethnicity? Do cyborgs reflect upon mortality?