23379 ISP 101 201 M W F 8:30 AM 9:30 AM 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.

23380 ISP 101 202 M W F 9:40 AM 10:40 AM Moody-
AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION
This course explores the genre of science fiction written by African American writers. The course will examine issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality in these writings through the lens of several disciplines and perspectives: literary criticism, history, race and ethnic studies, women's and gender studies as well as the politics of publishing. Readings include short fiction in the anthology Dark Matter, which features fantasy fiction from the late 1880s to late twentieth-century, and novels by acclaimed science fiction writers Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delany.

23382 ISP 101 204 M W F 9:40 AM 10:40 AM 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. This 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 be used to marginalize minority groups and limit their power. This 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.

23383 ISP 101 205 M W F 9:40 AM 10:40 AM Martin,Bill
PLATO'S REPUBLIC

23384 ISP 101 206 M W F 10:50 AM 11:50 AM Hague,Euan
Celtic, Scottish and Irish Identities in the United States
This course will focus on the historical, political and cultural geographies of the ‘Celtic’ diaspora. There is growing interest in Celtic Studies at an academic level and DePaul University is considering the establishment of a minor in Irish Studies. ‘Celtic’ peoples and places are traditionally associated with the non-English areas of the United Kingdom, namely Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Other definitions include the English county of Cornwall and areas of France such as Brittany. This course will focus primarily, however, on the contemporary politics and cultural practices of ‘Celtic’ communities outside Europe – primarily those in the United States. The course will be designed to appeal to a broad range of students, critically examining the social constructions of race, ethnicity, diaspora communities and the development and perpetuation of ethnic stereotypes. The issue of the politics of Celtic identity will also be assessed, through the lens of nationalism.

23385 ISP 101 207 M W F 10:50 AM 11:50 AM Layton,Azza S
TERRORISM:THEORY & PRACTICE
Through focused study of the CIA, this course will explore the phenomenon of terrorism in general and state-sponsored terrorism in particular. This course analyzes the claim that the United States, through the CIA, has been responsible for fomenting terrorism around the world. Through readings, written assignments, group projects, Internet research, class presentations and discussions, students will analyze cases of CIA overt and covert operations. We will examine the methods by which the CIA contributed to the waves of military dictatorships starting with Iran’s in 1953.
We will explore the “unfamiliar U.S. Foreign Policy,” cases of undeclared war against other countries in order to influence political and economic conditions-undeclared war cloaked in covert operations, where the US government funds, trains, and aids oppressors to terrorize their own population. Does the US government conduct low intensity conflict operations, which involve assassinations, torture, rape, acquiring information by all means, police operations against citizens, undermining democratically elected governments, and destroying and/or contaminating land and water sources? If so, when and why does this happen? Under what circumstances does the CIA do this? And why such operations are limited to Asia, Africa, and Latin America and not Europe?

23386 ISP 101 208 M W F 10:50 AM 11:50 AM Paeth,Scott R
Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell
This course examines a number of primary texts, including poetry, novels, and plays, as well as theological sources from a number of religious traditions, to illuminate the development of the ideas of heaven and hell. Though largely taught from the perspective of western culture and literature, it will also have a comparative component as texts from Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism are brought into the conversation. The objective of the course is to offer the students an opportunity to engage in a close examination and analysis of texts, and to bring the tools of religious reflection and ethical analysis to their understanding of how these texts should be read.

23396 ISP 101 209 M W F 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 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 were 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.

23397 ISP 101 210 M W F 12:00 PM 1:00 PM Isackson,R.J.
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.

23398 ISP 101 211 M W F 1:10 PM 2:10 PM Silliker,Margaret E
CLONING & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Cloning, Gene Therapy, DNA Evidence, are topics frequently in the news today. The goal of this course is to teach the biological underpinning of this field and how this basic biological knowledge has lead to the seemingly magical ramifications we hear about in the headlines. Topics to be covered will include: how cells code, decode, and transmit information through DNA; basic methods of studying and manipulating DNA; methods of modifying the DNA of organisms; biotechnological applications of these principles and their impact and regulation. Source materials will include first person accounts by principal investigators in the field, as well as, critical assessments of the risks associated with this new technology.

23399 ISP 101 212 M W F 1:10 PM 2:10 PM Wippel,Birgitta
POWER/POLITICS FEMINIST PERSP

23400 ISP 101 213 M W F 1:10 PM 2:10 PM Johnson,Valerie C
JESSE JACKSON/RAINBOW COALITION
This course will examine the life and work of Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, and his attempt to build a Rainbow Coalition—a coalition of the disaffected—minorities, immigrants, whites, peace and environmental activists, the young, the old, the poor, women, lesbians and gays, the disabled, family farmers, and labor. The central theme of the course revolves around factors that impede or facilitate a Rainbow Coalition. The first part of the course will examine the early years of Jesse Jackson and aspects of his up-bringing that impacted his personality traits, and identity as a leader of the oppressed. Part two places the historical context of the Rainbow Coalition ideology in the civil rights movement. In doing so, it focuses on the manner in which the civil rights movement effectively challenged the cultural hegemony of the white ruling elite, igniting radical participation in every area of institutional life. Key to this focus will be an examination of Jackson’s association with Dr. Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), his early activism for social and economic justice, and the founding of PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity). The third part of the course examines the social, political and economic impetus for a Rainbow Coalition, Jackson’s subsequent 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns, the Rainbow Coalition campaign platform, and the support and oppositional forces associated with this effort. The concluding section of the course will examine Jackson’s activism during the post-campaign years, his continuing association with the Democratic Party, and the current state of the Rainbow Coalition. During the quarter, students will visit the Chicago headquarters of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to attend a session of the “Saturday Morning Forum,” and will have an opportunity to discuss the theme and content of this course directly with Reverend Jesse Jackson.

23401 ISP 101 214 M W 1:10 PM 2:40 PM Johnston,Guillemett
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.

23402 ISP 101 215 M W 1:10 PM 2:40 PM
BIG BROTHER
Individual privacy is a significant and complex problem. New technologies have made it increasingly easier for other to learn about each of us, without our knowledge or even our consent. Often, however, we willingly provide personal information for convenience (e.g., buying goods on the internet) and other benefits (e.g., grocery store discount cards). Furthermore, we often believe we can increase safety by forgoing privacy: the City of Chicago plans to install surveillance cameras on most streets in Chicago, for instance. On a national level, there are plans to merge multiple datasets (commercials ones such as credit rating agnecies and public ones such as local police records) to develop profiles of terrorists and determine who should not be allowed to board a plane. Should Americans be more concerned about their privacy? What types of information are available about us -- and to whom are they available? Have we invited Big Brother into our lives without realizing it? The goal of the course is to gain an understanding of the political and social aspects of privacy issues, of your own values on privacy, and privacy policies congruent with your values.

23403 ISP 101 216 M W F 2:20 PM 3:20 PM Thompson,John R
LITTLE ICE AGE:CHARTING THE UN
In this course we will explore Earth’s changing climate with emphasis on the question of whether or not human activities have altered or will alter climate. We will also explore the potential impacts of human-induced climate change on the natural and human environment, and investigate alternative ways of producing and using energy that may reduce our impact on Earth’s climate and, at the same time, alleviate other environmental problems. Finally, we will reflect on how our relationship with nature has changed as a result of global-scale environmental problems.
Following is a representative, but not exhaustive, list of topics for the course: the physics and chemistry of Earth’s climate, reconstructing past climates from fossil evidence, computer models of climate, ecological impacts of climate change, societal impacts of climate change, "green" sources of energy, energy conservation, and preservation versus development. This course has a strong science content and will aim to develop students’ writing, analytical reasoning, and quantitative skills.

23404 ISP 101 217 M W 3:30 PM 5:00 PM Harp,Steven J
LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by Walker Evans and James Agee, is a work which is interdisciplinary on a variety of levels simultaneously, and indeed owes much of its impact to the fact that it reaches its audience both visually and linguistically, both as art and as social science, both as narrative and as polemic. Further, it stands as an attestation to one man’s dogged struggle in the face of the inadequacy of all documentary media to do justice to their subjects; in the text, we see Agee adopt and reject one documentary approach after another, a fact which renders the work an apt focus for a study of the evolution of documentary forms. Indeed, the fact that the text itself reflects its author’s restless search to bear witness to the plight of tenant farmers in the south at the time of the New Deal, necessitates that its form is, as a result, ragged and complex, and must be located within all the layered and competing contexts to which it attempted to speak. I plan to make use of these disparately developed raw edges of the text as organizing principles of the course: Inasmuch as this text holds a central place within the burgeoning documentary photography movement in the 1930’s, we will first study the photographs in themselves, as the culmination of a developing photographic tradition, and a seminal influence on the course of documentary photography since that time.

23405 ISP 101 218 M W 3:30 PM 5:00 PM 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.

23406 ISP 101 219 M W 3:30 PM 5:00 PM Murillo,Carlos
POP THEATRE:THE INFLUENCE OF
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.

23407 ISP 101 220 F 1:30 PM 4:30 PM Elder CM,M
ARTISTIC INFLUENCES IN CONTEMP
his 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 will 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

23408 ISP 101 221 T Th 8:30 AM 10:00 AM Krazek,Rafal 0
NAPOLEON

24461 ISP 101 805 M 5:45-9:00 Singh, Joshua
BIRACIALISM IN THE US & ELSEWHERE
People who are biracial have more than one racial heritage. Biracial people are often stared at by strangers, forced to prove they are ethnic “enough,” required to pledge allegiance to a single racial group, told that they are not a true member of one of their racial or ethnic groups, exposed to racist jokes or comments that put down one side of their family, physically beaten, and more. This course will examine why biracial people are put in such situations. We will also explore the concept of biraciality from a variety of other standpoints. We will examine theories of biracial identity development in contrast with other types of racial identity development (African American, white, etc.). Common social issues such as family and peer relations will be examined. Diversity within the biracial experience will also be explored through the inclusion of guest speakers, and the analysis of biracial relationships in literature and film. The course will conclude by examining the impact that biraciality has on how race is conceptualized. Themes that will flow throughout the course will include social isolation and marginality of biracial individuals, diversity within the biracial experience, and the political, personal, and social impact biraciality has in America today.

23410 ISP 101 223 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM Budrys,Grace
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.

23411 ISP 101 224 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM Winchatz,Michaela R
CULTURAL WAYS OF SPEAKING
“Cultural Ways of Speaking” is a course in which students will study the intricate links between communication and culture as revealed in speakers’ daily interactions. Specifically, whenever people speak with each other, they use and reveal culture. Systems of acquired symbols, meanings, rules, and value orientations underlie the sense people make with one another, what they understand themselves to be saying and doing, and the ways in which they organize their lives. In turn, whenever people communicate, they reveal a culture, i.e., they reveal “codes” of what it means to be a person, how people can relate to each other, and how they view the world.

23412 ISP 101 225 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM Lakebrink,Joan M
BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATN
The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, 1954, will be used as a focus for exploring the concept “separate but equal.” The U.S. system of jurisprudence will be one lens through which to study this phenomenon. Separateness within a society will be examined from the African American point of view in its historical context from colonial times to the present. The legal decisions, history, political discourse and literature will be used to help understand the African American status in the USA.

23413 ISP 101 226 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.

23414 ISP 101 227 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM
GLOBALIZATION
The concept of "globalization" builds on the intellectual tradition of the study of the world economy as a system. This structural interpretation of worldwide economic activity recognizes that some parts of the world constitute a "core" (about 15% of the world’s population), in which reside critical financial, technological, and managerial resources. Other regions make up a "periphery," which is significantly dependent on inputs from the "core" and thus in many ways contingent, subservient, and vulnerable. This theoretical kernel has many visible manifestations in how people run their lives today, from New York’s financial district to the flood-prone lowlands of Bangladesh, and from the garment sweatshops in the Honduras to the post-industrial "green" cities of the European Union.
Ultimately, the dominance of capitalist modes of production and consumption internationally, the hypermobility of finance capital across national borders, the emergence of New York, London, and Tokyo as primary "global cities" and command, control, and communication centers of the world economy, the erosion of national sovereignty and its measured replacement by intergovernmental and supranational regional cooperation, as well as the advent of extraordinary and accessible information technologies, have increasingly enabled the unification of national economies, cultures, societies, and polities in an unprecedented manner. The "MacDonaldization" of the world, as globalization critics call this restructuring trend, is highly controversial. Since the core regions tend to dominate trade, technology, capital, and increasingly culture, resistance has been growing: consumer advocate groups, environmentalists, worker-rights groups, and states that belong to the "periphery" are challenging globalization entities like the World trade Organization and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to amend their procedures and cushion the vulnerable periphery from what they see at the predatory tactics of the core upon the planet’s poor and the environment. In this course we will explore the mechanics of globalization and investigate the claims of its discontents.

23415 ISP 101 228 T Th 3:30 PM 5:00 PM 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.

23416 ISP 101 229 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM Merritt,Dennis
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 probable 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

23417 ISP 101 230 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM Birmingham,Peg E
THE BODY:PLEASURE/POWER/SEXUAL
The body—how we eat, how we dress, our daily routines and rituals is the medium of culture. The body is a powerful symbolic form upon which are written the rules, customs, and power relations of a society. These power relations are inseparable from the way the body’s pleasures and pains are felt and expressed. In this way the body is the practical locus of social and political control. This Focal Point Seminar will examine the discipline and control of the body, specifically in regards to the notions of pleasure and pain.

23490 ISP 101 231 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM Rumold,Inca
BERLIN & THE GOLDEN TWENTIES
BERLIN AND THE GOLDEN TWENTIES is the culture of the Weimar Republic, Germany’s attempt at creating a democracy after the loss of the First World War, and the end of it’s empire. The fragility, vulnerability, and final failure of this democratic experiment was the result of many complex internal and external factors in the political, economic, and cultural realms reflected in the literature of those years.
The rebellion of the artist against the ideology of the bourgeois conventions of the first two decades of the 20th century reaches a climax of its social protest in the “Golden Twenties.” The theater of the Expressionists and Brecht’s Threepenny Opera (Brecht/Weil), the atonal opera of Alban Berg (Wozzeck); the films of Fritz Lang (Metropolis) and Sternberg (The Blue Angel); the program of the Bauhaus (Gropius, Klee, Mies van der Rohe) which demanded a new style in architecture and the arts; the biting satire of the pictures of Georg Grosz which shocked and disappointed the bourgeois; the literature and political writings of the brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann – are all part of the kaleidoscopic Berlin of the twenties. Its culture is characterized by both its exuberant creativity, critical experimentation and social protest, as well as a growing feeling of doom, climaxing in the rise of National Socialism.
Through lectures and discussions, films, slides, and oral presentation of students’ projects based on the required reading of original texts and secondary sources, students will reflect and become conscious of the complexity of the Weimar Republic, and why it failed.

23491 ISP 101 232 T Th 1:30 PM 3:00 PM Pierce,Lori
MALCOLM X
In the years since his assassination, the image of Malcolm X has shifted from a radical separatist feared by the White establishment, to a member of the pantheon of Civil Rights heroes. In this seminar, we will examine not just the life of Malcolm X, but the way in which his life story has been created and re-created through film, journalism, photography, biography and autobiography. Students will begin by reading Alex Haley’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” We will then examine the historical context of Malcolm X’s life including his father’s involvement with Marcus Garvey’s UNIA movement, the terrorism of lynching that ruptured the Little family, Black popular culture in the post Harlem Renaissance years, the rise of the Nation of Islam and traditions of African and Black nationalism in the United States. We will also examine how and why Black popular culture in the 1980’s revived Malcolm X as an American cultural hero by looking at Spike Lee’s bio-pic “Malcolm X.”

23492 ISP 101 233 T Th 1:30 PM 3:00 PM Carter,Jeff
ART & TECHNOLOGY
This course will examine the presence and impact of technology in modern and contemporary visual art, exploring and defining “technology” in terms of numerous disciplines and contexts such as anthropology, biology, philosophy, socioeconomics, mass media and popular culture. We will examine how and why many artists have utilized the technologies of medicine, communication, entertainment, industry and the military, how these various and often contradictory paradigms of technology are articulated by specific artworks, artistic practices and art movements of our time, and the degree to which technology exerts an influence over all aspects of artistic practice, from content and aesthetics to production, presentation and the viewing experience.

23539 ISP 101 235 TuTh 11:50AM 1:20PM May,Catherine R
FOOD AND POLITICS
This course explores the relationships and connections between food and politics. Politics may be defined as “who gets, what, when, why, and how. This definition points to the underlying power relationships inherent in the political. To study the politics of food is to study the power relationships involving food. In other words, food may be understood as a type of language, reflecting cultural values, political practices, ideological perspectives, and the socialization process. Through an investigation of food, students will be able to explore the world of politics.

23540 ISP 101 236 T Th 3:10 PM 4:40 PM Meyer,Karen L
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.

23541 ISP 101 237 T Th 3:10 PM 4:40 PM Suglia,Joseph V
POSTWAR FICTION: THE SELF
What does it mean to be fascinated by someone? Each of the fascinating novels that we will read in this course has characters who are fascinated---either by themselves or by other human beings. In every instance, they are drawn into a world in which they lose all control. By analyzing how each of these works addresses the question of fascination, we may acquire a deeper understanding of what fascination means (both as an experience and as a concept); as a result, we will, perhaps, reveal an important dimension of what makes us human. Authors to be studied will include Heinrich Mann, Yukio Mishima, Dennis Cooper, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Pierre Klossowski.


23542 ISP 101 238 T Th 3:10 PM 4:40 PM Zamsky,Robert
JAZZ & AMERICAN LITERATURE
This course focuses on the relationship between jazz music and American poetry and fiction in order to understand and appreciate: the thematic and symbolic roles of jazz music, its heritage, and its legacy in American poetry and fiction, the structural and conceptual influence of jazz in American literature, the elements of a broadly based jazz aesthetic, and the ways in which the relationship between jazz and literature echoes ancient ties between music and poetry.

23543 ISP 101 239 T Th 3:10 PM 4:40 PM Fojas,Camilla M
TELEVISION
In this course, we consider television within its cultural, social, economic and historical context. We consider how television has shaped history, how it has been used as a political medium and how it has shaped cultural attitudes. We will learn how to read and interpret television with regard to various analytic methods and genres, especially as they come to bear on questions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and class. All areas of television programming will be discussed, from early programming, commercials, news, soap operas, talk shows, dramatic series, situation comedies, game shows, cable and reality-tv. We pay equal attention to the history of television in the U.S. and to ways of interpreting tv as a visual medium.

23544 ISP 101 240 Th 4:45 PM 8:15 PM Cellar,Douglas F
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.

24661 ISP 101 243 T TH 8:30 AM 10:00 AM Winslade, Jason
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Joss Whedon's cult hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer was on the air from 1997-2003. During its run and since, it has been the subject of numerous scholarly anthologies, an online academic journal, and a series of academic conferences. Academics are fascinated as both fans of the show and as serious scholars interested in the intriguing possibilities of deeply analyzing the show as a text. In this class, we will explore some of that scholarship, viewing the program in light of interdisciplinary discussions involving topics like feminism and gender, pop culture, performance studies, religion, philosophy, anthropology, and media studies, among others. Students will bring their own interpretations into play and learn how to bring together pop culture with academic writing and analysis.

23545 ISP 101 501 M W F 9:40 AM 10:40 AM Philips, Joseph
SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
Proof of the existence of a naturally-occurring, extra-terrestrial intelligence would be both one of the greatest scientific discoveries and a unique, self-affirming cultural development. As a scientific discovery it would offer us our first opportunity to study and exchange knowledge with a civilization formed by a completely different natural history. Culturally it would give us an “existence proof” that at least one other technological society has so far staved off self-annihilation. Both the cultural and scientific payoffs of the successful search for extra-terrestrial intelligence have enthralled the public and have influenced politics and pop-culture.
This course will cover the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence from multiple scientific perspectives: chiefly those of physicists, chemists and biologists. We will also cover science-based cultural and political views of SETI.


23546 ISP 101 502 T Th 8:30 AM 10:00 AM Burke,Robin D.
VIRTUAL REALITY
Virtuality – the expansion of human experience to computer-generated worlds – has been an enduring theme in futuristic fiction. It has also been the inspiration for many different strands of computer science research over the past 30 years, and it is already a real phenomenon for many computer users. This course will examine the promise and reality of computer-generated and –mediated experience. Students will engage in and reflect on virtual experiences of different kinds. The will explore some of the technologies that enable today's (and tomorrow's) virtual reality experiences. Students will also study some of the speculative texts that have made virtuality their theme. In addition, students will engage with thinkers who have critiqued the vision of the virtual future as sterile, inhuman and/or unattainable.

23547 ISP 101 503 T Th 10:10 AM 11:40 AM Torres,Maria D
HAROLD WASHINGTON 1YR

23548 ISP 101 504 T Th 11:50 AM 1:20 PM Winslade,Jason L
IRISH MYTH & POLITICS
From Guiness to Leprechauns to Riverdance, Irish culture has become quite a commodity. Yet the troubled history of the Emerald Isle, with its constant invasions and colonizations, is often glossed over and romanticized. This course will examine the connections between Irish myth and history and contemporary Irish politics, in several multidisciplinary methods. We will examine the various Irish myth cycles and how particular stories continue to have resonance in today's cultural and political situation. Further, we will explore the presence and function of myth in contemporary Irish culture through storytelling and music, history, current political events, and popular “Celtic” culture.

23549 ISP 101 801 T 5:45 PM 9:00 PM Garfield,Robert
IMAGINING ARMAGEDDON
Beginnings and endings are major themes in literature, poetry and art. The origins of, and the end of, the world are themes which especially have engaged imaginative thinkers through the ages. This interest extends also to the medium of motion pictures. The end of the world is not only a fascinating idea in itself, but readily lends itself to the most visual of all media, motion pictures. The proposed course will be an intensive study of some of these films, bringing students to an understanding of why film-makers' visions of the ultimate catastrophe varied so greatly and how these reflected the real times in which they lived. Besides viewing selected films, students will have background reading regarding when and where a film was made and the cultural currents present. Thus, a viewing of "On The Beach" will require reading about the Cold War and the fear of nuclear annihilation. Students will also study some basic examples of film technique in order to understand how such extraordinary images could be created.

23550 ISP 101 802 T 5:45 PM 9:00 PM Krell,David F
CONFRONTATIONS WITH MORALITY

23551 ISP 101 803 W 5:45 PM 9:00 PM Keshk,Khaled
MUHAMMAD & THE ARABS
This course will investigate the Arabs through out history. Students will look at the history of the Arabs, their origins, their conquests, and their independence. Students will try to answer such questions as what is an Arab. What makes an Arab an Arab? Is it a racial, geographical, linguistic category? Did even such a category exist through out history? Or is this a modern invention? Students will look at the affects of Muhammad being an Arab on Islam and Islam's affect on the Arabs. Students will also look at the Arabs cultural contributions.
After looking at the above students will begin to look at Arabs in the US imagination, by looking at films, cartoons, Op ed pieces and legal documents that also try to define what is an Arab, and we will see if these definitions are in any way close to what students discovered from the above exercise.

23552 ISP 101 804 W 5:45 PM 9:00 PM Chin,William
GAMING & GAMES OF CHANCE
Two of the popular played games of chance are blackjack (twenty-one) and poker. These games form the most interesting examples of games of chance where risky decisions can profitably be made based on probability theory and game theory. Of particular interest is the theory and practice of card-counting in blackjack, and the mathematics and psychology of poker strategy. We shall deal with the basics of such analyses and indicate how they have been developed. Some requisite rudimentary probability theory statistics and their foundations will be introduced. The theory shall be reified with examples, concrete problems and live play, all tied in with mathematical and psychological theory. We will examine these and other games of chance, focusing on how they are played with positive expectation (or not). Fallacies regarding gambling and their psychological bases will be discussed in the context of games, and generalized to other decision-making processes. Moral, cultural and legal issues surrounding “gambling” will also be addressed.