31 courses with the subject LARTS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LARTS 101Writing Studio3
Fall or Spring Faculty This course will introduce the standards and practices of critical reading and writing common to the humanities and social sciences. Emphasis is placed on the exposition of the arguments of nonfiction prose, response to such arguments, and application of those arguments to real-world problems. Special attention will be paid to the structures of expository prose such as the construction of sentences and paragraphs that build a formal argument. Students will apply processes of notetaking, drafting, and revision common to professional and academic writing and publishing. Please contact the instructor if you have questions or require accommodations.
LARTS 111 . This course focuses social, cultural, and political understandings of the world around us. This means moving beyond individualistic and either/or frameworks to think in a more nuanced way about how social patterns, social identities, and social inequities develop in place and time. Key areas of exploration include social identity and belonging; the ways in which power and authority are institutionalized; alternative accounts of justice; and the sources of social transformation.
LARTS 161English and Communication3
per semester Fall and Spring Robert Wilson English and Communication is designed to advance the academic language skills of emergent bilingual English speakers. The primary course objectives are to increase grammatical accuracy and fluency and orient students to norms and conventions of academia in the United States. Specifically, we review grammar rules and practice grammar forms (e.g., subject-verb agreement, fragment avoidance, run-ons/comma splices, tenses). Working with a combination of classic and contemporary essays, we examine elements such as topic, thesis, coherence, tone, and style. We practice the writing process, including planning, generating ideas, organizing and drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. Regarding paragraph-level writing, we work on the formation of claims (as distinct from opinions) and support, with attention to the differences among introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions. Students learn and practice reading strategies in order to recognize (and later produce) rhetorical patterns associated with description, narration, exposition, and argument.
LARTS 102 , LARTS 111 or LARTS 112 . Introductory language courses provide basic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Students also study the culture and history of the language and the countries where it is spoken. Students may not enroll in courses involving the study of their native languages.
LARTS 102 , LARTS 111 or LARTS 112 . Introductory language courses provide basic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Students also study the culture and history of the language and the countries where it is spoken . Students may not enroll in courses involving the study of their native languages.
LARTS 102 , LARTS 111 or LARTS 112 . Introductory language courses provide basic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Students also study the culture and history of the language and the countries where it is spoken. Students are expected to pass the first semester with a grade of at least “C” in order to continue to the second semester. Students may not enroll in courses involving the study of their native languages.
LARTS 112 . This creative writing class will contextualize poetry within its origins as a performed art. Looking at literature as an oral art form, students will practice writing their own poems as well as performing them along with poems from the larger canon. In addition to writing and editorial skills, students will develop public speaking skills and stage presence in an encouraging workshop setting.
LARTS 322Going to Hell: Introduction to Dante’s Inferno3
LARTS 350Seeing like an Anthropologist: Examining Culture, Power, and Meaning3
Spring Priya Chandrasekaran This introductory course will expose students to the fundamentals of Cultural Anthropology and the colonial history of the discipline. Students will develop their capacity to see social life and human experience through an anthropological lens attuned to issues of culture, power, language, race, gender, and history. Each class will build upon previous discussions and readings, providing a textured and complex understanding of what constitutes meaning and agency in people’s lives. Students will learn to write ethnographic notes and use them to look for patterns that might deepen their understanding of themselves and the world around them. They will also be encouraged to examine cultural assumptions and look at social life through multiple points of view. Overlapping with themes pertaining to Art, Society, and Politics (ASP), this class will incorporate museum visits, as museums and anthropology share a long and sordid history.
LARTS 360Europe and the World, 1789-1914: History as Hegemony3
Fall Gonzalo Sánchez Political, social, and ideological developments in Europe during the so-called “long 19th century”—the period encompassing 1789 to the eve of World War I (1914)—shaped the modern world. Political, economic, and ideological upheavals swept over the continent, spilling out to remote corners of the globe—alongside social conflicts, imperialism, racism, and colonialist commitments that would eventually lead to two World Wars and which continue to haunt the globe today. Complemented by works of fiction by Claire du Duras, Joseph Conrad, and Chinua Achebe, this course proposes a thematic survey of Europe’s period of international hegemony with an eye to informing our present predicaments.
LARTS 112 . An examination of the cultural and historical elements shaping the very young and fluid tradition of American poetry, including issues such as the modern quarrel with Classicism; the dialectic between language and reality, regional and international, personal and political; the social function of poetry; and the poet’s relationship to community and the human family. In addition to poems, students will read literary and cultural essays written by contemporary poets on issues related to the American tradition.
LARTS 112 . In this course, students will investigate a specific thematic, structural, or historical topic related to the African-American literary canon. Possible topics may include: The Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, African-American poetry, Naturalism and the ghetto experience, black women writers, and contemporary African-American popular fiction.
LARTS 373Culture, Art, and Politics in Europe, 1900-1945 (Modernism and War)3
Spring Gonzalo Sánchez Minerva is the Roman goddess of warfare and sponsor of the arts, among other patronages. 20th-century Europe witnessed an unprecedented intensification in the unlikely pairing of these human phenomena, as social conflict and global war engendered art movements as diverse as soldier-poets and “the lost generation”; avant-gardes such as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and Suprematism; and the explicitly political aesthetics of Fascism and Socialist Realism. This course will survey the most important social and political events of 20th-century Europe—wars, revolutions, economic and ideological crises—and their corresponding artistic responses.
Fall and Spring Alex Gatten or Robert Wilson This course is designed for emergent bilingual graduate students to advance their academic language skills. Working with popular, academic, and scientific articles, along with literature, this course cultivates the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required for participation in postgraduate education. May be required as a result of language assessments.
