ACH 102.1: How to Write a Children's Novel
Charles Haddad, Journalism
Charles.Haddad@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 5:20 -6:15pm
Location: Tabler 107
Description TBA
ACH 102.2: What’s Wicked? Is There Evil?
Ruth Bottigheimer, Comparative Studies
Ruth.Bottigheimer@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 3:50-5:40pm
Location: Humanities 2052
We will read literature either for (fairy tales and one or more children's books) or about children (such as A High Wind in Jamaica). Participants will keep a reading journal as they read, will bring it to class discussions, and will pass it in for my comments.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
ACH 102.3: Digital Dreams
Christa Erickson, Art
Christa.Erickson@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 6:50pm-7:45pm
Location: Tabler 104
An introductory look at digital arts practice and careers through hands-on tutorials; survey lectures and readings/surfings; guest lectures; and a few fieldtrips.
Note: This class will require a few fieldtrips outside of class
ACH 102.4: Rock and Relevance
Christian Filstrup, Library Director's Office and Howard Gimple, University Communications
Christian.Filstrup@stonybrook.edu
Howard.Gimple@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 12:50pm-1:45pm
Location: Tabler 104
Rock and Relevance: Political and social commentary in the lyrics of popular music from the 1960s to the present.
ACH 102.5: Rock and Relevance
Howard Gimple, University Communications and Christian Filstrup, Library Director's Office
Howard.Gimple@stonybrook.edu
Christian.Filstrup@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 12:50pm-1:45pm
Location: Tabler 107
Rock and Relevance: Political and social commentary in the lyrics of popular music from the 1960s to the present.
ACH 102.6: Rebellion
Nancy Franklin, Psychology
Nancy.Franklin@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 9:35am-10:30am
Location: Psych A 113
Rebellion -- against one's family, one's culture, authority, and oneself -- is arguably one of the most important and pervasive forces that shape civilization, the arts, and personal identity. It can result in chaos and destruction, or in moral and social reform, or in passing fads of no consequence. In this seminar, we will explore the powerful role of rebellion in society and our own lives.
ACH 102.7: Miles Davis and American Culture
Krin Gabbard, Comparative Studies
Krin.Gabbard@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 12:50pm-1:45pm
Location: Humanities 2052
The music and career of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. We will analyze recordings from each era in his long career, and we will read portions of his autobiography. We will also make connections between Davis's music and his role in American culture. Students will make entries in a journal each week.
ACH 102.8: Hamlet on Film
Perry Goldstein, Music and Bente Videbaek, English
Perry.Goldstein@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 11:20am-1:20pm
Location: Tabler 107
What’s the big deal about Shakespeare? This course, revolving around Hamlet , might help to explain what all the fuss is about. More ink has been spilled about Shakespeare generally, and Hamlet specifically, than about any other written work except the Bible. We will read the play together and watch and compare pivotal scenes from several film versions. The play’s meaning as revealed through various directorial and acting choices will be discussed, and some readings on the play's meaning and staging will be assigned. The course’s grading criteria include attendance, participation in discussion, and one final paper.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
ACH 102.9: Hamlet on Film
Bente Videbaek, English and Perry Goldstein, Music
Bente.Videbaek@stonybrook.edu
Perry.Goldstein@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 11:20am-1:20pm
Location: Tabler 107
What’s the big deal about Shakespeare? This course, revolving around Hamlet , might help to explain what all the fuss is about. More ink has been spilled about Shakespeare generally, and Hamlet specifically, than about any other written work except the Bible. We will read the play together and watch and compare pivotal scenes from several film versions. The play’s meaning as revealed through various directorial and acting choices will be discussed, and some readings on the play's meaning and staging will be assigned. The course’s grading criteria include attendance, participation in discussion, and one final paper.
Note: This class meets the first week of classes and then for 2 hours a week the second 7 weeks of the semester.
ACH 102.10: USA through Foreign Eyes
Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood, European Languages
Izabela.Kalinowska-Blackwood@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 11:45am-1:45pm
Location: Tabler 107
Representation of others in literature and the arts forms one of the chief concerns of cultural studies and cultural analysis. This seminar invites students to look at how “others" have represented “us.” Class discussion will focus on the representations and concepts correlated with America in the work of several prominent European filmmakers, including Lev Kuleshov, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier, Emir Kusturica, and Paul Verhoeven.
Note: Every other week this class will show a 2 hour film.
ACH 102.11: Making "New" Music
Judith Lochhead, Music
Judith.Lochhead@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 10:40am-11:35am
Location: Staller 2314
The creative process is often linked to inspiration and to flashes of insight. In this course, we'll explore what is entailed in musical creation in various genres of music: classical, jazz, and popular. We'll consider what factors play into inspiration and creative insight. We'll read what the composers and musicians write about the creative process, speak to some creators in class, and go to some concerts at Stony Brook. Grading will be based on a "blog" that each student will complete through Blackboard, and on a final project (musical, performative, or written). Attendance at some concerts on campus is required.
Note: This class will meet every other week. In addition, students will be required to attend musical performances outside of class time.
ACH 102.12: Monologues for the Actor
Steve Marsh, Theater
Steve.Marsh@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 11:20am-12:15pm
Location: Staller 3002
Class requires full attendance and participation. Rehearsal outside of class is necessary. Student actors will have the opportunity to develop and practice a repertoire of dramatic, comic and classical monologs. Great preparation for auditions or just for stretching the actor’s instrument.
Note: Rehearsal outside class is required
ACH 102.13: Homer’s Odyssey
Lee Miller, Philosophy
Lee.Miller@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 12:50pm-1:45pm
Location: Tabler 104
Sometimes when you come home, you are a different person. Sometimes when you come home people have changed. Is that why people say you can’t go home again? This course will read and discuss Homer’s Odyssey to find out how difficult one homecoming was for everyone involved, long before things were written down.
ACH 102.14: Islam and Beauty
Sachiko Murata, Asian & Asian American Studies
Sachiko.Murata@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 5:20pm-6:15pm
Location: Humanities 1043
One of the more neglected sayings of Muhammad nowadays is “God is beautiful, and He loves beauty.” In fact, over Islamic history beauty has played an essential role in art, architecture, poetry, and literature, not to mention theology and spirituality. We will look at Islamic notions of beauty, its relation to love, and various ways in which it has become manifest in cultural forms.
ACH 102.15: Art out of the Box
Nobuh Nagasawa, Art
Nobuho.Nagasawa@stonybrook.edu
Day: TBA
Location: Staller 4222
This course investigates the contemporary art projects that are created outside of the gallery and the museum framework. Students will review a number of diverse art practices in the context of socially relevant issues, and investigate the ideas and the strategies that have affected the larger audiences. Documentary films and other recourses will introduce projects in both west and eastern cultures. Students will examine the methods and approaches of the contemporary artists who have executed the projects as dynamic social/cultural events.
ACH 102.16: How I Write My Novels
Patrice Nganang, Comparative Studies
Patrice.Nganang@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 2:20pm-3:15pm
Location: Tabler 107
Writing novels is not hard but it requires techniques which can be learned. In this course, we will discuss how to write a story, read selected stories by acclaimed writers, and use them to write our own novel. The form and content of our novel will be based on our class discussions.
ACH 102.17: Drawing and Creative Thinking
William Oberst, Art
William.Oberst@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 5:20pm-6:15pm
Location: Tabler 107
Though highly prized, and the subject of much study and documentation, creative thinking remains elusive. Can it be explained? Can it be taught? This course explores connections between creativity and perception. Using hands-on exercises with pencil and paper, we’ll investigate whether perceptual skills acquired by learning how to draw can be used in tandem with verbal, analytical skills, leading to enhanced creativity. Our focus will be real-life situations: can the new way of seeing we’ll employ as we learn to draw yield new ways of visualizing and solving problems? The course assumes no previous training in art—or any art ability—on the part of students.
ACH 102.18: Adolescence in Fiction and Film
Sandy Petrey, Comparative Studies
Donald.Petrey@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: Tabler 107
When does adolescence start? Does it ever end? What makes it so hard? We will consider these and other questions as they are confronted in novels by Maxine Hong Kingston and J. D. Salinger and movies by François Truffaut and others.
ACH 102.19: Movies on Movies
Jacqueline Reich, European Languages
Jacqueline.Reich@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 12:50pm-1:45pm
Location: Humanities 2052
What happens when films turn the lens on themselves? We’ll look at the results, which range from the serious (Fellini, Truffaut) to the outrageously funny (Steve Martin, Robert Townsend). These films offer inside glimpses into both the idea of film as an art form and film as a major industry, and how filmmakers negotiate between these often contradictory aims.
Note: This course will require movie screening times outside of class.
ACH 102.20: Movies on Movies
Jacqueline Reich, European Languages
Jacqueline.Reich@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 2:20pm-3:15pm
Location: Humanities 2052
What happens when films turn the lens on themselves? We’ll look at the results, which range from the serious (Fellini, Truffaut) to the outrageously funny (Steve Martin, Robert Townsend). These films offer inside glimpses into both the idea of film as an art form and film as a major industry, and how filmmakers negotiate between these often contradictory aims.
Note: This course will require movie screening times outside of class.
ACH 102.21: Language, Culture and You: Italian-Americans and Other Immigrant Groups
Lori Repetti, Linguistics
Lori.Repetti@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 10:40am-11:35am
Location: Library N3090
This course is designed to introduce you to the languages of immigrant groups in the Unites States. We will survey immigrant languages in the US, and focus on the language of Italian-Americans.
Using readings, discussion, short documentary films, and a small field research project, we will investigate these and other questions:
• Why do some immigrants have such a hard time learning English?
• Why do all immigrants from the same language background have the same accent when speaking English?
• With regard to Italian-American, we will examine what language(s) the original immigrants spoke — Italian or a ‘dialect’ — and how that language has changed as a result of contact with English?
• How has English changed as a result of contact with immigrant languages?
Depending on the interests of the students we may also investigate other language groups.
ACH 102.22: Experiencing Asian Diasporas
Eng Kiong Tan, Comparative Studies
EngKiong.Tan@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: Library S1410D
What does it mean to be Asian? Are we still relying on politically incorrect and outdated stereotypes to define the broad category of Asian identities? With the recent rise of interest in diaspora and transnational studies in academia, what kind of identity politics should we adopt to relocate and restructure transforming Asian identities within a global context. The objective of this course is 1) to introduce students to Asian diasporic experience through literature and film from three Asian cultural traditions: Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and 2) to address the abovementioned issues by examining the common themes and aesthetics concerning the works of diaspora writers and filmmakers of different Asian heritage.
