2012-2013 Academic Year Calendar - Marianopolis

Creative Arts, Literature and Languages: Computer Science - Englishnetworks and the history andworkings of the Internet, and goes onto principles of page and site designusing the HTML formattinglanguage. Students learn to designattractive, easy-to-navigate websiteswith appropriate use of images, links,and special features – all these whilecreating, maintaining and expandingtheir website. The emphasis is on“raw” HTML coding using a texteditor. Later in the course studentsare introduced to an HTML editor.Following the contemporaryapproach to web page design,StyleSheet definitions (“CSS”) areintroduced; interactivity is achievedthrough user-input forms; livelier webpages are created by using shortexamples of code in the JavaScriptprogramming language.Computer Graphics420-LFC-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsThis course is an introduction tocomputer graphic design using astandard graphics software package.It is taught interactively, three hoursper week in the computer lab, withstudents getting extensive hands-onpractice as well as completingprojects on their own. No artisticability or previous computerexperience is required.This course includes elements ofgraphic design by computer, as wellas an introduction to the theory ofdesign. The goal is to produce wellcraftedand aesthetically pleasingillustrations with knowledge of thecomputer techniques involved as wellas a practical understanding of theunderlying artistic principles. A verybasic presentation of computerhardware – needed by everycomputer user – is also part of thiscourse.English Language andLiterature (603)The following are samplings ofEnglish courses (subject toavailability) that may be taken bystudents in the Creative Arts,Literature and Languages program(course descriptions may also befound in the General Educationsection of this Calendar, pp. 27-34):The Beat Generation603-LCD-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsThe Beat movement in literaturebegan in the mid-1950s as a responseto the post-war conservatism of theUnited States. The writings of itsseminal figures, Kerouac, Ginsberg,Corso, Snyder and others deal withthe relationship of the individual tosociety, aspects of which includea questioning of political values,sexual and religious norms, and theintroduction of non-western culturaltraditions and popular culture into theAmerican consciousness. Throughouttheir study, students assess theinfluence of the Beats on popularculture, particularly the folk musicand rock ‘n’ roll of the 60s and 70s.Images of Women603-LCG-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsThis course will explorerepresentative images of women innineteenth- and twentieth-centuryfiction (poems, short stories, and aplay). Through this exploration ofimages of women, we will uncoverimages of men. We will look at theways in which various authors acceptor challenge, through their depictionsof women and men and situations, thetraditional stereotypes held for bothgenders. Ultimately, the course willexamine the legacy of the Adamand Eve archetypes, a legacy that hasshaped our present gender relations.Critical Approaches: Literatureand Theory603-LCJ-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsThe objective of this course is toenable students to develop greatercritical ability in approachingliterature from various perspectives.Students will study a range of criticalapproaches and learn to apply them toselected literary works. Approachesdiscussed may include New Criticism,Reader Response Theory, PsychoanalyticCriticism, Eco-Criticism,Post-colonial Criticism, GenderStudies, Feminism, Queer Theory,Marxism, and New Historicism.Students will refine their criticalthinking and oral skills in the designand management of their seminars.They will learn to lead discussion, toframe questions and express informedopinions.Critical Approaches to Mythology603-LCJ-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsIn this course, we will draw upon theconventions of several critical andtheoretical lenses in order to sharpenour critical reading of major imagesand themes in world mythology. Wewill begin, through both reading anddiscussion, by exploring the traditionaland current definitions and insightsgained from myth. We will thenapply Joseph Campbell’s monomythand Claude Levi-Strauss’ structuralistapproaches to The Epic of Gilgamesh.We will also analyze selected heromyths from both a Jungian and aFreudian psychoanalytic point ofview and the course will culminatewith an examination of contemporaryapocalypse myths from a postmodernperspective.79