CW 200- Reading for Writers

Fall 2013,  M W F  

Reading for Writers is a literature class designed specifically for writers of poetry and prose fiction meant to teach students how to identify and discuss the mechanics and craft elements of short stories and poems with the aim of expanding the student writer’s “toolbox” when approaching her/his own work.  Much of the discussion about short stories and poetry will thus be about identifying and applying practical, descriptive approaches that are useful for interpreting and writing poems and stories.  To accomplish this, weekly readings will span genres, languages, nationalities/ethnicities, and time periods, giving students a broad survey of “what’s out there,” “how it all works,” and “how it’s done well” while also giving students a common, sophisticated language for discussing writing in a workshop setting or advanced literature class.  This class satisfies a literature requirement in the Creative Writing major.

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Anna S. Ivy

Academic Advisor, English and Creative Writing

200 English Building

608 S. Wright St., MC-718

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-4346

aivy@illinois.edu

PSYC 496 ID3: Facilitating Intergroup Dialogue Processes (3 credits)

Fall 2013 (CRN: 37966)

Mondays 12pm-2:50pm

Instructor: Ross Wantland

How can we have productive and strategic conversations about social justice issues? How can we build understanding across difference? PSYC 496 ID3 (ID4 is available for graduate students) provides students a general overview of the skills and knowledge needed to facilitate culturally diverse group interactions. The course is open to undergraduate (ID3) and graduate students (ID4). Students will explore the impact of gender, ethnicity, race, religious identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, disability and physical appearance on group dynamics, while also building their own skills to facilitate these dialogues.

Following the course, students have an opportunity to apply to become EPSY 203 student dialogue facilitators or facilitate IConnect workshops for first year students in Spring 2014. E-mail Ross at wantland@illinois.edu for more information.

Queer Lives Queer Politics-Summer Flyer

GWS/MACS 335- Film, TV & Gender

FILM, TV & GENDER explores our ideas about gender, sex, and sexuality are shaped through popular Film & television. To do so, the class will focus on constructions of masculinity, femininity, and other gender configurations.
Viewing films like Spring Breakers and the Hangover and TV shows like Mad Men, Catfish, and Jersey Shore students will engage with ideas around gender & their own pop culture landscapes. ***CRN 36808***

Dear Students,

I want to let you know that I am teaching a “Great Books of Journalism” class in the fall of 2013. It’s a pretty new class–this will be its third time out. The only class for which ICES evaluations are available got an excellent rating by students. The class is taught as a Book Club. It’s open to all College of Media students, including those in Ag-Com, who will have reached sophomore or above status. The idea is to introduce you to the great breadth and depth of profoundly significant and beautifully written in-depth books by journalists. We’ll meet once a week in the evening and talk about the readings from each of eight books. The books will date from more than 100 years ago to recent years and cover topics such as business and political power and corruption, rural poverty, the atomic bombing of Japan, the history of oranges, a soldier’s-eye view of the Iraq War, the daily life among India’s poor, and traveling the back roads of America. All of the books are written to be read for pleasure as well as knowledge. Hey, it’s journalism! The books are available in the commercial, paperback marketplace, no textbooks. You’ll write an opinion essay on each of them. Then we’ll talk about how the books were done and how they were received. Grades will be based on the eight essays and an overview essay at the end. We won’t have a final exam.

I’m passionate about this subject and excited about teaching the class.

The course is listed as a J-460 in the Journalism curriculum.

Thanks,

Walt Harrington

Professor of Journalism

RST100 Society and Leisure (offered on line for summer and in class for fall)
Central issues in defining leisure; historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological, and economic approaches to understanding leisure behavior, its meanings, social contexts, and personal and social resources.
Gen ED – UIUC Social Sciences course

RST 242 – Nature and American Culture  – New Class!!  (Fall 2013)
Appreciation and critique of cultural meanings associated with American natural landscapes. Traditional perspectives including colonial American, romantic, and science-based conservation are characterized, as well as revisionist themes aligned with gender, cultural pluralism, and societal meanings of parks and protected areas. Implications of diversity in cultural meanings toward nature are developed and provide the basis for assessing tenets of contemporary environmental policy and supporting concepts associated with community-based conservation.
Gen Ed –UIUC Western Compartv Cult course

RST 330 – Leisure and Consumer Culture
Examination of contemporary patterns and meanings of leisure in a consumer society. Understanding of the impact of consumption on expressions of identity, gender, social class, race and ethnicity.
Gen Ed – UIUC Social Sciences course , and UIUC: Western Compartv Cult course

RST 370 – Research Methods & Analysis
Educates students in principles of research design, data collection, measurement, methods of statistical analysis, techniques in summarizing data, and the interpretation and application of research findings to the field of Leisure Studies.  Gen Ed – UIUC: Quant Reasoning II course

OTHER GREAT CLASSES AVAILABLE TO YOU:

RST 130 – Foundations of Sport Management
RST 110 – Leisure Service Delivery
RST 255 – Ethical Issues in Sport

Questions?  lkpaden@illinois.edu

The Holocaust in Context:

Postwar Representations in Literature and Film

GER 260/CWL 271/ENG 268

This course examines cultural representations of the Holocaust in literature, film, and critical essays. Starting out with a discussion of contemporary memory culture in the US and Germany, the course introduces students to the historical context of the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and the Second Word War. We then turn to a variety of postwar texts, including memoirs, poems, essays, memorials, documentary and feature film, to explore how Jewish and non-Jewish writers have dealt with issues of perpetration, survival, trauma, and memory in postwar German culture and beyond.

 When:        Summer Session I 05/13 – 06/07

Where:       134 Armory

Instructor:  Dr. Isaac Tubb (ijtubb@illinois.edu)

CRN 35710            9:00 – 11:50   MTWR

Taught in English. All texts will be provided in English translation.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Literature and Arts, Advanced Composition, and Western Comparative Culture course.

LLS 100  Intro Latina/Latino Studies

(ONLINE COURSE TAUGHT SEMESTER 2: June 10 – August 1)

Interdisciplinary introduction to the basis for a Latina/Latino

ethnicity in the United States. Topics include immigration and

acculturation experiences and their commonalities and differences,

comparison of Latina/Latino experiences to those of other racial,

ethnic and immigrant groups, and the potential for a pan-ethnic identity.

This class will have 4 synchronous discussions on June 20 and 28 and

July 26 and 31.

Fulfills the US Minority Culture(s) general education requirement.

(CRN 37420, instructor M. Velazquez)

Do you love photography? Do you want to earn three credit-hours in a fun four-week course at the start of summer break? Do you have a camera with features that you’d like to learn how to use? Do you have loads of photos that you’d like to present to the world? If you answered yes to any of these questions then you need to enroll in Digital Photography Foundations, Jour 460, Sec. B, CRN 37430. This will be an awesome hands-on course taught by award-winning photographer and professor Brian Johnson May 13 to June 7. No prior photography experience expected or required. Cameras will be provided. Enroll in this course and you’ll benefit from it for the rest of your life.