Three sections of Elementary Italian still have seats available:
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=005373&term=1169
If you are interested in learning Italian language and culture, look no further. Please attend class on Wednesday or write an email to Professor Aresu (faresu@wesleyan.edu) or Professor Zamboni (czamboni@wesleyan.edu).
The College of East Asian Studies would like to draw your attention to a new class: CEAS 181, Chinese Pop Culture, which meets MW 10:50-12:10.
The course examines a wide range of Chinese pop culture materials from film to literature, martial arts to internet culture.
It appears there was some confusion about whether the class is held in Chinese or English. It is taught in English (a Chinese language class covering similar subjects is CEAS 204).
The film screening time is currently listed as Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15, but that time is just a placeholder as required by the registrar. The film screenings will be scheduled at a time that works for the students in the class, so if you are in athletics, please don’t let that posted time worry you.
A new section of DANC 111 has been made available:
DANC 111 Section 02
Tu, Th 8:40-10:10AM
This is an introduction to dance as an educational, technical, and creative discipline for students with no previous formal dance training. Classes will introduce the basic components of dance technique–stretching, strengthening, aligning the body, and developing coordination in the execution of rhythmic movement patterns. Through improvisation, composition, and performing, students will develop a solid framework applicable to all forms of dance.
The College of Letters is rolling out a brand-new, unique, co-taught (with Kari Weil, Tushar Irani, and Jesse Torgerson), welcome-to-the-humanities lecture + discussion + writing-workshop FYS: COL 150: Great Books Unbound.
The idea behind the course is to provide first-years with the chance to explore, stir up, and challenge the very idea of a “Canon of Great Books” that is so enmeshed in the ideal of a liberal arts education at Wesleyan.
In the course we will deploy the College of Letters’ characteristic inter-disciplinary approach (Philosophy, Literature, History) to conjoin texts that aren’t supposed to be read in the same course, and lead students in an exploration of the topics of identity, the animal, society, and transcendence.
If you’re looking for a way to explore multiple disciplinary approaches, and/or read some of those books “everyone’s read” while at the same time challenging that privileged cultural status, then check out COL 150.
From the point of view of the U.S. nation-state, education has always been a hegemonic means to control knowledge, to calibrate unequal forms of citizenship, and to promote the social reproduction of power. Yet as W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, “education among all kinds of men [sic] always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men [sic] strive to know.” Drawing inspiration from the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum and spanning from enslavement to emancipation to the long civil rights movement, this course explores how people of African descent in the United States, and black women in particular, have used education to empower themselves, produce social change, and redefine the terms under which change may occur.
The course, taught by Professor Khalil Johnson, meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:20-9:40 a.m., CAAS Lounge. Space is available.
The Learning and Living Seminar program is designed for first-year students who want to live with seminar classmates in the same residential area. Living in close proximity allows for intellectual discussions and collaborative learning to extend beyond the classroom, facilitating group assignments and projects, and promoting growth of community through daily interaction. Learning and Living seminars are a subset of the first-year seminar program. Three L&L seminars are being offered this fall:
Enthusiastic commitment is expected from students who enroll in L&L seminars since both housing and faculty advisor assignments will be based on the L&L seminar choice. If you wish to enroll in a L&L seminar, you must submit the Learning & Living Seminar Registration Form by 5:00pm on Thursday, June 30.
First-year seminars are writing intensive courses that introduce students to a variety of topics ranging from Greek myth to neuroscience. Some treat a specific thinker (e.g., Kafka); others provide a sweeping introduction into an interdisciplinary area of study that may be new to first-year students (e.g., animal studies). All of these seminars, however, emphasize the importance of writing at the university level. Students in first-year seminars become familiar with the methods used to collect, interpret, analyze, and present evidence as part of a scholarly argument. Faculty teaching these classes also highlight the type of writing associated with their respective disciplines, and help students develop, compose, organize, and revise their writing. All first-year seminars have assignments totaling at least 20 pages, and feature oral or written feedback on student writing; many also employ peer-mentoring and writing tutors. First-year seminars are limited to 15 students. Click here for a complete list.
