DIVISION OF LIBERAL ARTS
SUMMER SESSION I: May 21 – June 22
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

COM 1100 Public Speaking (3 credits)
The aim of this course is to develop speaking skills, and listening skills, appropriate to the demands of modern life. The one-semester course is an exercise in forms of communication, and in voice and diction based on the student’s experience. Using rhetorical principles, students will practice of techniques of speech construction and delivery through readings, lectures and exercises as such speeches, presentations, workshops, debates and mock interviews.

ENG 1102: Composition II: Art Lives (3 credits)
Like publishing a book, a documentary is a permanent artifact of your time on the planet. I always keep in mind that the complexities and vagaries of an artist’s life are famously and quixotically difficult to capture… and even once captured, it’s only the merest sliver of the “truth,” the most elusive concept of all,” from What Remains, the documentary on the life and work of Sally Mann.

Composition II is the second term in the yearlong Composition course which advances skills in critical thinking, reading, writing, and responding to texts (both traditional and non-traditional). Learning the practice and craft of reading with sustained focus, and writing and revising with purpose, are key goals of the course. Composition II will focus on Art Lives: analyzing and discussing artist’s biographies and examining how artists view their work and their creative process. Texts include: What Remains (film), Blue Pastures by Mary Oliver, The Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz, and What It Is by Lynda Barry. Weekly assignments include: essays, creative projects, and short presentations. All citations follow MLA 2009. The summer composition course operates on the portfolio model, with a final portfolio due at the end of the session.

FRE 1101: Elementary French I (3 credits)
An introduction to the French language with the goal of oral proficiency. The major emphasis is on spoken French, basic grammar and vocabulary building, which will provide the student with the necessary language skills to function on a basic level in a French-speaking country. The student will also learn about cultural elements of the country and its people.

FRE 1102: Elementary French II (3 credits) OFFERED SUMMER SESSION II: June 25 – July 27
A continuation of the skills developed in Elementary French I. The major emphasis is on spoken French, basic grammar and vocabulary building, which will provide the student with the necessary language skills to function on a basic level in a French-speaking country. The student will also learn about cultural elements of the country and its people.
Prerequisites: Passing FRE 1101 required for FRE 1102.

HUM 2101: Self, Society, and Cosmos (3 credits)
An in-depth examination of some of the fundamental texts that contribute to the conversation about the essentials of the human condition. Readings will include, but not be limited to, Plato’s Republic, selections from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, at least one important example of non-Western thought, and a challenging contemporary work, and can be drawn from a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, literature, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the arts.
Prerequisite: ENG 1102 or equivalent

MST 1100: Digital Media for the Artist (3 credits)
This course actively investigates what it means for us to be media-literate in the 21st century. Using a project-based instructional format, students explore and extend their abilities to read (and interpret and evaluate) and write (or produce) content and communications in a variety of digital media including text, audio, image, moving-image, interactive database, and combinations thereof. Ready-or-not, young people in the 21st century are gathering their own information and assembling and sharing their own meanings. This course seeks to acknowledge and inform this new and powerful role for young people by providing an environment in which to learn design skills, information skills, and media skills in a holistic, project-based fashion. This course will be taught on the UNCSA campus and as an online course.

LIT 2900: 17th Century French Theatre (3 credits)
This course emphasizes people's search for order through the study of the juste milieu in the works of Molière, who teaches that any sense of freedom, any drastic changes and disobedience, any sense of lie and violence are a threat to society, which claims to be established on reason to the service of the Prince. It also takes into consideration the two other giants of 17thcent. French theatre: Corneille and Racine, through the study of their tragedies, respectively The Cid and Phaedra. (In English)
Prerequisite: ENG 1102 or equivalent

THH 2101, 2102: Theater History I & II (3 credits each)
Prerequisite for both: ENG 1102 or equivalent
THH 2101 introduces the basics of dramaturgical and critical practice by looking at cultural contexts, period styles in stage craft and acting, architecture, technology and the plays themselves across the first half of the arc of Western theatre practice. We examine the establishment of theater in Greece and Rome; the demise and rebirth of theater in the Middle Ages; the recovery and reinvention of full theatrical traditions and innovations of the Renaissance in Italy, England, Spain and France during this period.

THH2102 focuses on changing theater practices and canon from Restoration England to the 21st century in Europe and America, occasionally looking at practices in other theatrical traditions. The class tracks the ways in which theater changes as a result of developments in culture, science, technology as well as the business of theater, stagecraft, the rise of the director and changes in acting, set and drama itself. We examine realism and naturalism and then study some of directions in which modern and postmodern theater venture.

PSY 1200: Developmental Psychology (3 credits)
This course offers a survey of scientific theories and research findings in human psychological development, including its biological, behavioral, cognitive, social, and emotional aspects

PSY 2198: Topics: Weird Beliefs (3 credits)
The course will focus on two related themes: (1) Beliefs, including those about “weird” things, arise from the normal workings of the human mind. Our cognitive processing systems normally serve us extremely well, but under some circumstances, the way our mind works allows illusions and errors in reasoning, remembering, and perceiving. Furthermore, these illusions and errors play a powerful role in what and how we believe – even when contradicted by objective evidence. (2) A rational, skeptical, and scientific approach is useful for evaluating truth claims of all sorts in everyday life, including those about “weird” things. Science not only uncovers the secrets of the human genome and the composition of stars, but it is also the best tool that humanity has developed for determining whether anything that you learn, experience, think, or believe is likely to be true. Prerequisite: ENG 1102 or equivalent.