| source UC Santa Cruz (X) |
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department Kresge College (X) |
A program of individual study arranged between an upper-division student and a Kresge faculty member. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Helps students develop study skills, writing skills, critical reading and thinking skills, test-taking strategies, strategies for stress reduction, and time-management skills. Students evaluated on attendance at class, attendance at individual meetings with instructor, and preparation of weekly assignments. Enrollment restricted to college members and by permission of college advisor. Enrollment limited to 18.
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Students find a volunteer position with the instructor's assistance and perform community service in non-profit organizations, schools, unions, or local government agencies. Students meet weekly, keep a journal, and write a "social action witnessing" report of their experience. Enrollment restricted to college members. Enrollment limited to 15. May be repeated for credit.
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Students find a volunteer position with the instructor's assistance and perform community service in non-profit organizations, schools, unions, or local government agencies. Students meet weekly, keep a journal, and write a "social action witnessing" report of their experience. Enrollment restricted to college members. Enrollment limited to 15. May be repeated for credit.
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Studies challenges and rewards of writing careers students might pursue professionally (from technology to travel, screenwriting to grant writing, journalism to literary careers—depending on quarter taught). Course centers around series of visiting UC Santa Cruz alumni who talk about their writing lives. Enrollment restricted to college members. Enrollment limited to 18. May be repeated for credit.
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Seminar taught by upper-division Kresge students under Kresge faculty supervision. (See course 192.) Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
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Seeks to ask hard questions about the role of the prison, its increasing use in our nation, and the use of torture by the U.S. government in Guantanamo, Abu ghraib, and other prisons. Readings include J. James's Imprisoned Intellectuals, Alexander Berkman's Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, and other writings by American prisoners. Eve Ensler's What I Want My Words to Do to You is shown. Course is primarily reading and discussion; students are asked to keep a reading journal and to write a critical/creative essay at the end of the quarter. (Formerly Language of the Prison House.) Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to college members. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Students attend weekly creative writing readings by fiction writers and poets, read excerpts from the writers' works, participate in question and answer sessions, and write short, creative and/or analytical responses to the readings and writings. Enrollment restricted to Kresge and Porter college members. Enrollment limited to 25. May be repeated for credit.
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Focuses on issues in contemporary art and popular culture. Students write about music, film/video, and visual art. Class meets weekly to look at artists' work and to discuss readings. Weekly writing assignments and class discussions. Enrollment restricted to college members during priority enrollment. Enrollment limited to 22.
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Students analyze comedic writing and practice writing comedy. Students develop pieces to be delivered in a performance at the end of the quarter. Enrollment limited to 22.
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Reinvents the museum as we know it by using the perceptual tools of poetic imagination to create fundamental alternatives to the known forms of museum. Weekly readings, presentations, and projects culminate in a collective exhibition of student-created anti-museums. Enrollment limited to 22.
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Through lecture, demonstrations, and hands-on projects, students develop the skills to successfully complete a mural. Generating the idea, completing the design, submitting a proposal, and painting a mural are covered. Enrollment restricted to college members. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Holistic approach examining leadership as it relates to personal and institutional ethics, personal accountability, group dynamics, and the effects of culture on leadership. Enrollment restricted to college members.
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Addresses the most effective methods of social change. Examines principles and strategies of transformative action and case studies of leaders solving world problems. Empowers students to be innovators in real-life community projects. Integrates nonviolence, psychology, sustainability, and social justice.
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Addresses the most effective methods of social change. Examines principles and strategies of transformative action and case studies of leaders solving world problems. Empowers students to be innovators in real-life community projects. Integrates nonviolence, psychology, sustainability, and social justice.
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Offers hands-on gardening skills within a student-run space. Focuses on developing a strong cooperative garden on campus, with special attention to the documentation of this process. Enrollment limited to college members. Enrollment limited to 10.
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Explores the relationship between our individual choices as "eaters" and "food citizens," and how those choices affect the collective "food system" on many scales—locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally. Concurrent enrollment in course 80A or 80B is required. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Focuses on creating a final project individually, or in collaboration with others, that engages issues of power and represnetation through the medium of photography. Concurrent enrollment in course 80A or 80B is required. Enrollment limited to 20.
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For students who wish to supplement their core experience with creative writing. Students do in-class and out-of-class writing assignments; read and discuss texts; and work to develop their final project. Concurrent enrollment in course 80A or 80B is required. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Students investigate the themes presented in the core course to arrive at a final creative project in pairs, groups, or individually. Concurrent enrollment in course 80A or 80B is required. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Practical and hands-on approach leads students through the laborious and labyrinthine process of making and distributing an independent narrative feature film. Enrollment restricted to college members during priority enrollment. Enrollment limited to 35.
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Explores rhetorical principles and conventions of university discourse, providing intensive practice in analytical writing, critical reading,and speaking. Explores relationships between individuals and their communities—communities as small as families and friends, colleges and cities; communities as large as nations and the world. Examines ways we constitute ourselves as individuals in relation to communities, focusing on representations of class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and race in several genres—critical theory, film, art, fiction, non-fiction, and theater. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 80B. Enrollment restricted to first-year college members who have not satisfied the C1 requirement. Enrollment limited to 22. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, C1.)
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Explores the intersections of investigations, interpretation, and persuasion, and hones strategies for writing and research. Explores relationships between individuals and their communities—communities as small as families and friends, colleges and cities; communities as large as nations and the world. Examines ways we constitute ourselves as individuals in relation to communities, focusing on representations of class, ethnicity, sexual
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Explores the intersections of investigations, interpretation, and persuasion, and hones strategies for writing and research. Explores relationships between individuals and their communities—communities as small as families and friends, colleges and cities; communities as large as nations and the world. Examines ways we constitute ourselves as individuals in relation to communities, focusing on representations of class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and race in several genres—critical theory, film, art, fiction, non-fiction, and theater. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior college members. Enrollment limited to 22. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, W.)
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A program of directed study arranged between a freshperson or sophomore student and a Kresge faculty member. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
Score: 11.746651 Details | Listing | Web page