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25870
M W F 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM 4 Goedde, Christopher G
Lincoln Park Campus
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
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.

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20942
M W F 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM 4 Bannan, Rosemary S.
Lincoln Park Campus
LOURDES BELIEF LOURDES: A STUDY OF BELIEFS
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.

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20943
M W F 09:40 AM - 10:40 AM 4 Melford, Sara J.
Lincoln Park Campus
CREED FOR THIRD MILLENIUM
The central theme for this focal point seminar is climate change, the delicate physical balance that exists between "ice age" and "greenhouse" climate conditions, and the social or other consequences that could accompany significant climate changes. Approximately a third to a half of the course will involve the scientific study of climate change and will use primary literature to try to assess our present condition. Colleen McCullough's book: A Creed for the Third Millenium will be used to start the discussion of the human side of climate change in the vein that On the Beach and Alas, Babylon started a past generation thinking about the human consequences of a nuclear conflict.

Throughout the course, the students will be asked to write short papers primarily addressing the book and scientific papers. In a final, longer paper, the student will be asked to reflect upon how his or her thinking has changed because of the book and/or discussion about climate change. Small group oral presentations concerning historical, psychological, social, ethical, religious or other approaches to potential consequences of climate change will be the third major tool for student evaluation in this course.

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25839
M W F 09:40 AM - 10:40 AM 4 Selcer, Daniel J
Lincoln Park Campus
COWBOYS Samurai, Cowboys, and Other Thugs of the Sublime
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.

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20945
M W F 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM 4 Adibe,Clement E
Lincoln Park Campus
APARTHEID 20 C S AFRICA

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M W F 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM 4 Scott,Karen
Lincoln Park Campus
JOAN OF ARC
This course focuses 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.

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20947
M W F 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM 4 Thomas,David J
Lincoln Park Campus
ANTONIN ARTAUD & THE THEATER O

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20948
M W F 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM 4 Nast,Heidi J
Lincoln Park Campus
SLAVERY AROUND THE WORLD
Slavery has existed for millennia in various forms around the world. But has it always and everywhere served the same purposes or meant the same thing? For example: Were the situations and powers of women who were royal concubines in African empires the same as those of African women working on southern United States or Caribbean plantations? Can we compare the experiences of male slave physicians in the Roman Empire and Mamluk slave military leaders to male slaves in ancient Athens or nineteenth-century Brazilian plantations operated by the Portuguese?

This course explores different cultures of slavery from around the world at different periods in history, along the way examining why slavery was created at all. We will focus on five questions: 1) How did slaves become slaves in the first place? War? Inheritance? Purchase? 2) What were the kinds of labor tasks that slaves carried out in different geographical and cultural contexts? Did all slaves do the same kind of work? 3) Were there social hierarchies within slave groups themselves or can we say that all slaves everywhere were equal? 4) Can we point to different cultural expressions of slavery and, if so, do these expressions point to differences in the ways various social groups give meaning to their lives and to their actions? 5) Can we say that there were different kinds of slave bodies and, if so, how were these different bodies created and/or distinguished?
To explore these questions, we will read or hear from guest speakers about slavery in a variety of contexts, beginning in ancient Rome and Greece and ending with plantation slavery in the Americas. Wherever possible, we will work on two scholarly fronts: First, we will examine the "objective" conditions of slavery using what are called secondary sources, that is, research works by scholars who study slavery. Secondly, we will examine the "subjective" or personal conditions of slavery through exploring fictional accounts of slave lives written in the first person by scholars who study slavery. To help us in our endeavors, a number of guest lecturers with expertise in different geographical areas will speak with us, and we will view several slave-related films. One field trip is required: You will visit Chicago's Field Museum (it? a freebie every Wednesday) to study and take notes on the Africa and African slavery exhibit (this exercise will be discussed in more detail in class).

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M W F 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM 4 Isackson,R.J. J
Lincoln Park Campus
JEWISH CULTURE IN AMERICA
The greatest immigration of Eastern European Jews to America occurred between 1880-1920. They brought with them the joys and sorrows of a Jewish culture, incorporating and influencing literature, music, art, theater, film, food, and comedy. As a group/class working together, we will attempt to understand the journey that created a cultural perspective and how a culture is influenced and influences current society. Course evaluation will be based on a reading log, reading responses, a midterm, final, and concluding with a bagel-eating contest.

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20950
M W F 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM 4 Krokar, James P
Lincoln Park Campus
MAPS AND POWER
This course examines maps in multiple cultures and seeks to look at maps as windows into a culture’s view of itself and of the world. It explores the relationship between mapmaking and power, so that students will come to understand how maps might empower or render powerless individuals, societies, or cultures that produce them, adopt them, use them, or are affected by them. The course will also look at the development of maps and mapping techniques throughout history, but particularly in the last 500 years. The students will use the map collection in the DePaul University Archives/Special Collections and will also visit the Newberry Library, one of America’s foremost repositories of historic and contemporary maps.

Students will be expected to attend class regularly, read critically, participate in class discussions, work cooperatively on a project with other class members, give an oral report, and write an 8-10 page research paper. The cooperative project, the oral report, and the paper will involve interpreting a specific map from the DePaul Archives/Special Collections.

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20951
M W F 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM 4 Garcia,Alesia
Lincoln Park Campus
LALLORONA The Legend of La Llorona (The Weeping Woman) in the United States
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.

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25840
M W F 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM 4 Selcer, Daniel J
Lincoln Park Campus
COWBOYS Samurai, Cowboys, and Other Thugs of the Sublime
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.

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20953
M W F 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM 4 Block,James E
Lincoln Park Campus
GROWING UP IN AMERICA

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20954
M W F 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM 4 Winslade, Jason L
Lincoln Park Campus
POLITICS OF THE OCCULT
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

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20955
M W F 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM 4 Hansman,Curtis B
Lincoln Park Campus
CHINESE ART
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?

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20956
M W F 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM 4 Funk,Phillip E
Lincoln Park Campus
THE BLACK DEATH
The modern term "Black Death" refers to an epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, specifically to a cycle of epidemics that struck Europe beginning in 1348. This plague killed an estimated 30% of the population with mortality approaching 80% in some areas. Such wholesale loss of life caused a number of changes in the attitudes of survivors. This course will examine the dramatic effects wrought by this bacterium as both a pathogen and a cultural phenomenon. These issues will be cast in the light of modern knowledge of disease and current, as well as possible future, plagues.

This course will begin with a few lectures to introduce some basic concepts of microbiology and the host/pathogen relationship. Following this introduction, students will be assigned readings from primary and secondary texts on the subject for class discussion. These texts will include, where possible, first hand accounts of the plague of 1348. Students will be assigned a short paper early in the course and will complete a project concerning some aspect of bubonic plague; this will be presented to the class orally at the end of the quarter.

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20957
M W F 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM 4 Rumold,Inca
Lincoln Park Campus
Columbia: A Coca Country???
Rich in gold and emeralds, with all the climates of the world, its fertile soil bathed by two oceans, this fourth biggest country of Latin American is Colombia. Once called "the Athens of South America" for its poets, writers and philosophers, it is now mostly known —---- in this country — —-- for growing coca, its drug-lords, its terrorists, its socio-political violence and fratricidal war. And indeed, the increasing complexity of Colombia's socio-political and economic situation seems to have turned it into a seemingly unsolvable field of opposing forces. How to understand what happened in the last half century to this beautiful land? This will be the focus of this course.

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20958
M W F 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM 4 Fojas,Camilla M
Lincoln Park Campus
TELEVISION

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20959
M W F 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM 4 Budrys,Grace
Lincoln Park Campus
UTOPIAN SOCIETY/SCI FI
Expect to read a handful of novels and short stories in this course. The novels and stories describe societies that exist only the in authors’ imaginations. In writing these books, the authors describe societies that are either Utopian or as is more often the case, Dysutopian. They focus on aspects of the society in which they currently live which they consider to be problematic. They take the implications of what they are criticizing to the logical extreme to depict societies that are very strange and usually very frightening. Our task is to consider how convincing they in their predictions of dire social consequences.

Five social institutions or social arrangements, which affect the members of virtually every society, provide the framework for analyzing the fictional societies portrayed by the authors. These include arrangements governing family, education, religion, the economy, and the political system.

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20960
M W F 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM 4 Gott,Gil M
Lincoln Park Campus
(IN)JUSTICE
In this seminar we will explore the nature of two different but related justice-producing processes: formalized (e.g., legal) and social justice processes. We pursue this inquiry by focusing on two apparently divergent types of case studies. First, we will examine formalized processes in which "justice fails." In such instances outcomes demonstrably violate established rules for justice dispensation, not to mention common sense understandings of what is right and fair. Second, we will study cases where justice is "done" through social processes that exist outside formalized justice systems. In studying cases from these two boundary-defining categories we will develop a richer understanding of how formalized and social justice processes may actually mutually condition, indeed, constitute each other. As important, we will interrogate our existing perceptions of the functions served by formalized and social-based justice processes. When should we put our faith in formalized systems, and when is social justice action a warranted supplement to formal systems?

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20961
M W 01:10 PM - 02:40 PM 4 Johnston,Guillemette C
Lincoln Park Campus
PSYCHOLOGY OF FAIRY TALES
With a strong emphasis on a literary approach, this course proposes to analyze fairy tales of diverse cultures in light of their pyschological significance. Using theoretical perspectives developed from Jungian and Freudian psychology, we will bring out on the one hand the basic role of fairy tales in portraying the development of individual maturity, and on the other hand the typical though universal themes found repeatedly in tales from different cultures.

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20962
M W 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM 4 Johnston,Guillemette C
Lincoln Park Campus
ROUSSEAU
The eighteenth-century Swiss writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau has had a tremendous impact on several areas of modern life. His writings helped in bringing about the French Revolution, laying the foundation for developmental psychology, providing a theoretical base for the rise of anthropological inquiry, and stimulating the growth of self-expression in literary works of the Romantics. In this class we will read some of Rousseau’s autobiographical writings (passages from The Confessions and The Reveries of a Solitary Walker), analyzing his experiences to see how his emotions and sentiments influenced his views and helped stimulate the diversity of his interests.

Because this course is a seminar, its organization will differ from that of standard lecture courses. Rather than concentrating on secondary or textbook interpretations of the significance of Rousseau’s work, we will focus exclusively on Rousseau’s own writings. This will let us share our views on Rousseau’s life and the complexity of his ideas. Students will have the opportunity to interact directly with the professor and the class, exchanging views on the readings. They are expected to come to class having read the material and written a few provocative questions to stimulate debate. Additionally, they will write short papers in response to the readings, which will from a journal of their experiences in reading Rousseau. This close examination of the life and emotions of a major contributor to modern life will hopefully inspire us to look at our own lives.

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M W 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM 4 Nuzzo,Angelica
Lincoln Park Campus
JEWISH THOUGHT
This course provides a philosophical perspective into the intellectual experience of promient European Jews of the 20th century. We will read texts of philosopher Martin Buber, listen to the music of Arnold Schoenberg, and watch some images from a documentary on the Holocaust. The course is not an introduction to Jewish religion. The discussion of central issues of our time (such as human communication, the communication between man and God ) from a philosophical perspective is the "focus" of the seminar.

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20963
M W 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM 4 Breed,David R
Lincoln Park Campus
SCOPES TRIAL/RELIGION/SCI
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.

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20964
W 01:10 PM - 04:25 PM 4 Wilson,Midge L
Lincoln Park Campus
HUMOR AND GROUP IDENTITY
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.

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20965
F 01:10 PM - 04:10 PM 4 Elder CM,Mark Edward
Lincoln Park Campus
ARTISTIC INFLUENCES IN CONTEMP
This Focal Point class will concentrate on Mural painters and their influence on the Art World in history. Mural making has been around as long as humankind. This class, in a general sense, will explore the influences that effected the great mural painters such as Giotto, Rapheal, and Michelangelo.

In turn the student would see how these works influenced later artists such as Benton, Siquieros, and others. Finally it can be shown as to how these influences had an effect on present day artists (both local and international) such as Weber, Wyland, Gude, and others.

This course can be presented by these methods:

• Slide lecture
• Films
• Discussion
• Field Trips to Mural sites
• Small Projects
• Evaluation will be a culmination of the following:
• Journal entry reflections
• Mid-term and Final
• Small Projects

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20966
T TH 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM 4 Waring,Anna L
Lincoln Park Campus
PUBLIC HOUSING
Public housing in Chicago has captured the attention of the nation through media stories, policy reports, and movies. Originally designed as transition housing for the working poor, over the decades public housing in Chicago has become the symbol of failed public policy related to crime, poverty, racism and housing for the poor. This course looks at the history of public housing in Chicago, the actions taken by government officials and politicians that resulted in first the creation and then the deterioration of public housing in Chicago. In addition, the course will address the day-to-day experiences of people in public housing looking at such issues as community relationships, crime, and resources available to residents. Finally, this course will explore the possibilities for the future of public housing in Chicago in light of the elimination of many of the high-rise buildings, the dispersal of residents to different parts of the city, and the ongoing shortage of housing in Chicago for poor and lower income residents. In addition to the readings in the course, there were be some guest speakers and videos about public housing.

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T TH 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM 4 Michel,George F
Lincoln Park Campus
PSEUDO-SCIENCE
We live in the most technologically advanced society in the most technologically advanced time in history. Yet, "weird" beliefs and superstitions are widespread. Many people believe in mind reading, past-life regression therapy, abductions by extra-terrestrials, witches, ghosts, and other supernatural notions. Although science is the foundation of modern technological achievements, many eschew real science in favor of pseudoscience notions such as "scientific creationism", "scientific evidence of racial superiority", "recovered memory syndrome", "alternative medicine". Such supernatural beliefs are prevalent among people of all occupations and every educational and income level. In this course, the student examines several well-understood, psychological processes such as, 1) our sensitivity to coincidence, 2) penchant for developing rituals and habits to counteract feelings of anxiety or impatience when filling time or when marking expected changes in lifestyles, 3) a fear of failure, 4) attempts to cope with uncertainty, and 5) a need for control of our destinies that often result in irrational beliefs and superstitious and erroneous behavior. The student will discover exactly how superstitions, erroneous decisions, and weird beliefs are a result of common thinking patterns invoked by attempts to cope with the complexity and uncertainties of life (especially the social aspects of life). Many of these thinking patterns are close to good norms of rationality, whereas others depart sharply from them. Since the good and poor thinking patterns co-exist, we are simultaneously both rational and irrational. The student is introduced to, and encouraged to use, the methods of skepticism to counteract the twin mental positions of cynicism and gullibility that result from the typical application of our typical thinking patterns as coping techniques.

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21739
T TH 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM 4 Malley,Diane M
Lincoln Park Campus
SEXL HARRSSMNT:BRDGE PSY & LAW

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21740
T TH 10:10 AM - 11:40 AM 4 Amer,Kim Marie
Lincoln Park Campus
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.

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T TH 10:10 AM - 11:40 AM 4 Selinger, Eric M
Lincoln Park Campus
WIZARD OF OZ
To study The Wizard of Oz, Warren Susman has observed, is to study the radical transformations that have shaped twentieth century American culture. In its various incarnations as a book (L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), as a high-budget movie musical (both The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz), and as a source of inspiration and allusion for writers as diverse as Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, and the poet Ronald Johnson, this story is ideally suited to introduce students to the pleasures and rewards of academic inquiry. In this course, we will study at least four versions of this story-Baum's original book (and perhaps one or two sequels), the MGM musical, The Wiz, and the recent dark fable "Return to Oz" --from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our goal will be to see how academic inquiry, especially in a seminar format, can turn something utterly familiar to many of our students-to some, familiar since childhood-into a curious, complex network of historical, psychological, religious, economic, and artistic meanings.

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T TH 10:10 AM - 11:40 AM 4 Meritt Jr, Dennis A
Lincoln Park Campus
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.

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T TH 10:10 AM - 11:40 AM 4 Goldman, Jerry I
Lincoln Park Campus
NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY
Focal Point Seminars are intended to introduce first-year DePaul students to the nature and scope of intellectual inquiry through concentration upon a single topic and its subsequent elaboration. In this seminar we focus upon the discovery of the first non-Euclidean geometry and explore some of its ramifications. By the eighteenth century, intellectuals were confident that mathematics and science offered approaches to complete understanding of the universe. Many believed that Nature was mathematically designed and that mathematics, particularly the over 2,000 year old constructs of Euclidean geometry, was the foundation and key to this understanding. Around 1829, a revolutionary mathematical discovery completely shattered the conviction that there was only one possible geometry. We examine some steps in the evolution of thoughts which associated the theorems of Euclidean geometry with "truth" and the reactions when the absolute truth viewpoint collapsed. Along the way we will study some technical material, but no prerequisite except a willingness to work is necessary.

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T TH 10:10 AM - 11:40 AM 4 Pagliaro, Susanna F
Lincoln Park Campus
ANITA HILL/CLARENCE THOMAS HEARING
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.

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T TH 10:10 AM - 11:40 AM 4 Demissie,Fassil
Lincoln Park Campus
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?

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21825
T TH 11:50 AM - 01:20 PM 4 Lem, Ellyn A
Lincoln Park Campus
EATING ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
This seminar will examine a number of films, art objects, and literary works that use food and eating as central themes. The units will cover topics such as "food and the body," "food and culture," and "food and home" and include a broad range of subject matter from Andy Warhol’s soup can pictures to the recent movie, Chocolat. There will be a strong emphasis on multicultural perspectives of food representation as the eating practices of many cultural groups will be explored and analyzed. While most of our investigation will come through extensive writing and discussion, some actual eating will occur when students bring in food items that evoke family ties for a "collective cookbook" that we wil l write.

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23173
T 11:50 AM - 01:20 PM 4 Michel, George F
Lincoln Park Campus
DARWIN, EVOLUTION, & SOCIETY
Ever since its initial presentation, Darwinian notions about evolution have engendered much controversy in western societies. This course compares Darwin's notions with those evolutionary notions prevalent before Darwin. Also, we examine how Darwin's notions lead to the Eugenics movement started by his cousin Galton and were adopted by Herbert Spencer for use in his theory of social organization (social Darwinism). Early in the 20th Century, Mendel's genetic theories were rediscovered and incorporated into a Darwinian framework to create the modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution. This theory lead to several "biological" theories about human nature. For example, Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology seek to integrate social and biological sciences by treating many aspects of human psychology (e.g., violence, racial attitudes, intelligence, altruism, gender differences in values and behavior, homosexuality) and culture (e.g., incest taboos, marital customs, crime, religion, racial, sexual, and ethnic discrimination) as products of naturally selected genetic programs. The common assumptions of the Synthetic theory (that natural selection underlies all directed evolutionary change and that it acts on genes) are critically examined. Alternative accounts to Darwinian theory that rely on creationism notions are also examined critically. Finally a biological account is presented and examined that is consistent with Darwinian notions, but is not reductionistic and deterministic.

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21741
T TH 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM 4 Murphy, Alexandra G
Lincoln Park Campus
GENDER POWER POLITICS IN THE 2

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T TH 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM 4 Read, Kay A
Lincoln Park Campus
SACRIFICE ACROSS CULTURES
Most peoples around the world have had an idea of "sacrifice;" but what they actually think it is, or how they describe it can vary enormously. Some think sacrifice means you should be willing to lay down your own life, or offer up someone else’s for some higher cause. Of course the person whose life gets offered up may not agree with either being done in for a cause or the cause itself. Others may think it means no more than giving up something in honor of or in order to gain something else, like going without candy during lent. Others claim that sacrifice has been used by some to control others, or the undesired but possibly necessary act that is needed to keep others from controlling them. After 1) considering sacrifice as a question in and of itself, we will explore differing ideas about sacrifice appearing in widely diverse cultural and historical situations. These include: 2) classic Hindu religious structures; 3) pre-Conquest Maya and Aztec myths, poetry, and rituals; 4) revolutionary peasants fighting in the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980-90s; and 5) ancient and contemporary mythic theologies of Christianity. Although this is a reading intensive course, we will also draw from movies, and participate in group reports and debates. Besides objective and essay exams, the final project will include composing a myth, poem, or ritual describing a particular sacrificial position.

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21826
T TH 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM 4 Wolf, Micheal
Lincoln Park Campus
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

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T TH 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM 4 Bowden, Darsie M
Lincoln Park Campus
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.

Textbooks: Orville Schell's Mandate of Heaven, Jung Chang's Wild Swans, and Yi Mu and Mark Thompson's Crisis at Tiananmen Assignments: Reading Journals, Response Papers, Investigative Research Project

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25607
T TH 03:10 PM - 04:40 PM 4 Martin,Bill
Lincoln Park Campus
CHESS/CULTURE
There is a great deal of interesting culture surrounding the game of chess, and it is beneficial for critical thinking to learn to play the game of chess and to improve one's play. No chess experience is required for taking this course. We will undoubtedly have students in the course at all levels of play (including some who may be better players than the instructor), or no even no level. In the first week we will learn the basics of the game, and we will help each other to improve throughout the quarter. We will spend the first part of each class meeting playing chess, and working on chess problems, notation, etc. In most classes the instructor will present a brief lecture on some aspect of chess and its relation to culture and to philosophical and other theoretical questions. In the third part of each meeting we will deal with literature, film, painting, poetry, and music that are either about chess or that take their inspiration from chess. Among the theoretical issues we will deal with are the question of gender in chess; chess, computers, and artificial intelligence; and analogies between chess and military strategies.

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25608
TH 04:50 PM - 08:05 PM 4 Cellar,Douglas F
Lincoln Park Campus
WORK IN THE MOVIES
The course is designed to provide students with scientific and practical knowledge related to industrial/organizational psychology and then to view popular films, and ultimately make their own videotape from that perspective. A primary emphasis of the course will be the connection between the science and practice of industrial psychology and popular movies. Students are required to attend the viewing of the films and to write weekly papers related to the readings and the film in addition to making their own videotape.

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25626
T TH 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM 4 Corrin,Dean C
Lincoln Park Campus
AMERICAN CHARACTER: THE PRESIDENCY ON FILM
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.

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M W F 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM 4 Nellis,Mary M
Lincoln Park Campus
IN COLD BLOOD/AMER VIOLNC
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.

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T TH 10:10 AM - 11:40 AM 4 Moffitt,Kimberly R
Lincoln Park Campus
BLACK IMAGES IN FILM
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.

501
20967
M W 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM 4 Suglia,Joseph V
Loop Campus
DIANA & ACTAEON
Few myths have captured the Western imagination as persistently as that of Diana and Actaeon. The story of the Theban hero who surprises the goddess of the hunt while she bathes has been a constant subject in the history of literature from Ovid until French post-structuralism, as well as the history of painting (Titian, Ruben, Cesari, Joachim Anthoniesz are only a few of its representatives). The seminar will pose the following questions: What does the Greek myth tell us about the experience of seduction? What does it mean to be seduced--that is, to be [italicize] led astray[italicize]? How has this myth been revised, transformed, misunderstood, or distorted throughout the course of its reception? And what does it say about Western culture that this myth has exerted such fascination upon its artists and writers? The seminar will avail itself of a variety of media (film, slide presentations, Internet technology, etc.).

502
20968
T TH 11:50 AM - 01:20 PM 4 Layton, Azza S
Loop Campus
W.E.B. DUBOIS
This course is an exploration of the life, writings, and achievements of W.E.B. DuBois. DuBois was a civil rights activist, sociologist, historian, philosopher, and feminist, among other things. For seventy years he championed the human and civil rights struggle not only on behalf of African-Americans but of all people of color worldwide. Because of his convictions and efforts to expose the exploitation of people of color by the West, DuBois endured discrimination and alienation. Some of his persecutors were prominent African-Americans. This course has an historical component. It also has a practical component as we examine how DuBois used moral arguments to help bring down the walls of discrimination and racial segregation in the United States. With the technological advances in mass media, especially television, moral pressure has become an effective weapon. It contributed to the breakdown of Apartheid in South Africa. We will look at the origins of moral pressure--why and when it fails and succeeds. The timing of DuBois' activities will help provide the appropriate context for the course. Some of the historical marks we will discuss include the Holocaust, the isolation-internationalization of the United States, the formation of the United Nations, the Cold War era, the Peace Movement of the 1950's, and the wave of independence which swept Africa and Asia following World War II. We want to see what we can learn from DuBois and from history and how we can apply what we learning to the practical world of today.

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21822
T TH 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM 4 Ward, Jule D
Loop Campus
CHILDCARE DILEMMA

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T 05:45 PM - 09:00 PM 4 Baxter, Jane
Lincoln Park Campus
ARCHEOLOGY IN FILM & TV
Indiana Jones, the dashing and daring adventurer in search of lost treasure, is the most recognizable and most enduring image of an archaeologist in America today. Since the 1940s movie and television viewers have been entertained by diverse images of archaeologists at work. While films and television are largely responsible for the increase in public awareness of archaeology, the quest to provide lively entertainment has often resulted in misrepresentations and distortions of archaeological research. These characterizations of archaeology as presented to the public provide a fruitful arena to examine the realities and misconceptions that surround the practice of modern archaeology in America today. In this course the viewing of popular films and television episodes that feature archaeologists will be paired with topical readings from professional archaeological literature. Students will be required both in class discussions and a variety of writing assignments to explore such issues as archaeology and nationalism; relations between archaeologists and indigenous peoples; archaeology and public education; Gender, race, and the practice of archaeology; and archaeological ethics.

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20970
T 05:45 PM - 09:00 PM 4 Leigh, Susan A, Lincoln Park Campus
The Gendered Voice: Exploring Gender Through the Spoken and Written Word
Much like a thumbprint, we can be uniquely identified by physical characteristics of our speaking voices, as well as our writing style. What part does gender play in the development of our personal voice? Starting with the examination of the basics of vocal production, the students in this class will reflect on their physical voice and how their particular tone, timbre, and speech patterns may have developed. Exploring the role gender has in developing the physical and psychological "voice", the class will read theory, as well as explore primary source examples of "voice" in text, both spoken and written. From singing to poetry to playwriting, students will explore the concept of voice in many genres while exploring their own vocal expressiveness. Students will be required to participate in physical exercises in class exploring breath support for vocal production, singing, speech and diction. Additionally, students will have regular weekly writing assignments where they explore their voices in written text. Assignments, both written and oral, will demand that students reflect on their voice in cultural context, including aspects of race, class, gender, and sexual identity. So much of who we are, added to the influences of wherever we have been, is revealed in how we speak and the way we choose to put words together in text. The class will explore ways to further develop their individual voice as a powerful tool. The goals of the class would include an aw reness of the power of the personal voice, as well as an appreciation for the different voices in the class and in the world.

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TH 05:45 PM - 09:00 PM 4 Garfield, Robert, Lincoln Park Campus
MCCARTHY AND THE MOVIES
This Focal Point Seminar serves three purposes. The first and most central is to examine the phenomenon known as "McCarthyism" as it existed in the United States in the 1950s. The second is to see how the ideas and emotions of McCarthyism were expressed, approved, analyzed and criticized in the medium of motion pictures. The third purpose is to study an introductory level the techniques of motion picture creation, noting how the styles and methods of film -- its "grammar" – were used to present the factual/political/emotional message that the filmmakers wanted to convey.

To accomplish these ends, the seminar first will read and discuss some of the basic history of the McCarthy era to get an understanding of the time, place, culture, and mentality that led to such a phenomenon in U.S. history. Most of the course, however, will involve the viewing and analysis of selected motion pictures, both documentaries and feature films, that reflect and/or critique the McCarthy legacy. These films are not to be viewed as entertainment, though some of them certainly are. Rather, they are the primary sources and documents through which we will try to understand how and why something like McCarthyism occurred and how motion pictures, the dominant art form of the 20th Century, dealt with McCarthyism both in its own era and in retrospect

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25627
M 05:45 PM - 09:00 PM 4 Murillo, Carlos
Lincoln Park Campus
POP THEATRE: Popular Music Performance Through the Lens of Theatre Practice and Theory
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.