Course Finder: Humanities

Sex, Power, and Politics: Women in Ancient Rome (CLACS01-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $150.00

Timing: 4 sessions from February 8, 2010 - March 8, 2010 on day TBD. Look for this class in Spring 2010!

Location: TBD

Instructor(s): Lauren Donovan

State heroes, tragic victims, vicious poisoners, passive pawns, and ambitious power-players—these are just a few of the descriptions ancient writers and modern scholars ...(read more)

The Secret Lives of the Caesars: Roman Imperial History and the Private Lives of Rome’s First Family (CLACS02-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $150.00

Timing: 4 sessions from October 6, 2009 - October 27, 2009 on Tuesdays, 10:15am-12:15pm

Location: Wilson Hall, room 309

Instructor(s): Lauren Donovan

Power struggles, family strife, the difference between a public and a private image, and the encroaching role of family dynamics on state policy.

Sound familiar?

In ...(read more)

A Tale To Pass On: The Canonization of Toni Morrison (ENGCS01-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 8, 2009 - December 17, 2009 on Thursdays, 7:00pm-9:00pm no class 11/26

Location: TBD

Instructor(s): Jeannette Lee

In May 2006, the New York Times Book Review announced that Toni Morrison’s Beloved is “the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 yea...(read more)

Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists in Contemporary Fiction (ENGCS02-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $187.50

Timing: 5 sessions from October 6, 2009 - November 3, 2009 on Tuesday, 10:15am-12:15pm

Location: Thayer 101, room 116-D

Instructor(s): David Jacobson

Contemporary society is divided over issues of religious faith. In recent decades there has been a resurgence of religious faith, while at the same time many have been skeptic...(read more)

Picturing the World in Twentieth-Century Literature (ENGCS07-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 7, 2009 - December 16, 2009 on Wednesday, 7-9pm no class 11/25

Location: TBD

Instructor(s): Jennifer Schnepf

This course explores America’s role on the world stage. Through a diverse selection of novels and short stories from the 1920s through to the 1950s, we will consider the...(read more)

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Romance and the Victorian Novel (ENGCS14-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 5, 2009 - December 14, 2009 on Monday, 7-9pm no class 10/12

Location: Wilson Hall, room 206

Instructor(s): Khristina Gonzalez

Boy meets girl. Girl falls in love with boy. Boy becomes a ruthless villain who marries girl’s sister-in-law. Wait, what?? Despite some common misconceptions, Victori...(read more)

What People Wore: A History of Costume at the RISD Museum of Art (HARCS03-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $150.00

Timing: 4 sessions from October 17, 2009 - November 14, 2009 on Saturdays, 1-3PM

Location: RISD Museum

Instructor(s): Carole Villucci

This course examines costumes and textiles as depicted in works of art in the Museum's galleries---paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and 20th century apparel. We will disc...(read more)

Masterpieces of 17th Century Art (HARCS04-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 7, 2009 - December 16, 2009 on Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00pm no class 11/25

Location: Wilson Hall, room 104

Instructor(s): Mario Pereira

This course explores the artistic masterpieces produced across seventeenth-century Europe. We will consider the themes, issues, iconography, and style of the most celebrated a...(read more)

Fiction into Film (LITCS01-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $300.00

Timing: 8 sessions from October 7, 2009 - December 2, 2009 on Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00pm no class 11/25

Location: TBD

Instructor(s): Elisabeth Bell

From the start, the film industry has turned to fiction for its sources. Using films based on novels and short stories, this course examines the differences between the two m...(read more)

Contemporary American Playwrights (LITCS03-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $150.00

Timing: 4 sessions from October 8, 2009 - October 29, 2009 on Thursday, 10:15am - 12:15pm. Please note the change in day and time.

Location: Wilson Hall, room 109

Instructor(s): Joe Caliguire

Who are the most produced American playwrights of the past 20 years? How does their work speak to the American experience? Why are theatergoers attracted to these particular...(read more)

The Future of Media (MCMCS01-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $150.00

Timing: 4 sessions from October 8, 2009 - October 29, 2009 on Thursdays, 10:15am-12:15pm

Location: Thayer 101, room 116-D

Instructor(s): Andrew Losowsky

Are newspapers doomed? Will all libraries close? How will the novelists of tomorrow be published? Will our grandchildren even know what paper is?

This course will look at ...(read more)

The Future of Media - Part 2 (MCMCS02-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $75.00

Timing: 2 sessions from December 3, 2009 - December 10, 2009 on Thursdays, 10:15am-12:15pm

Location: TBD

Instructor(s): Andrew Losowsky

Continuation of The Future of Media. Are newspapers doomed? Will all libraries close? How will the novelists of tomorrow be published? Will our grandchildren even know what p...(read more)

Hollywood’s Ancient History (MEDCS01-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $187.50

Timing: 8 sessions from October 6, 2009 - November 24, 2009 on Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00-pm

Location: Wilson Hall, room 103

Instructor(s): Lyra Monteiro

Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix face off in gladiatorial combat, Brad Pitt attacks Troy, Angelina Jolie bosses around her son, Alexander the Great. Sure, the characters are...(read more)

The First Year of the Obama Administration (POLCS01-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 5, 2009 - December 14, 2009 on Mondays, 7:00-9:00pm no class 10/12

Location: Wilson Hall, room 106

Instructor(s): Robert Ellis Smith

Rarely has there been a presidential administration with a more crowded agenda and higher expectations. This course provides a rare opportunity to scrutinize the priorities, t...(read more)

(Mis)Translating the New Testament (RELCS01-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $112.50

Timing: 3 sessions from November 5, 2009 - November 20, 2009 on Thursdays, 1:30-3:30pm

Location: Thayer 101, Room 116-D

Instructor(s): Jennifer Eyl

This class looks closely at 5-10 of the most frequently mistranslated words in the New Testament, and why they are mistranslated. We will begin by comparing multiple versions ...(read more)

Buddhism in the West (RELCS02-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 7, 2009 - December 16, 2009 on Wednesdays, 7-9pm no class 11/25

Location: TBD

Instructor(s): Amy Langenberg

Believe it or not, Buddhism is now an American religion. Whether recently converted, or Buddhist by birth, American Buddhists have adapted this ancient faith to their contempo...(read more)

Introduction to Early Christianity (RELCS03-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 6, 2009 - December 8, 2009 on Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00pm

Location: Wilson Hall, room 109

Instructor(s): Jennifer Eyl

When did Christianity come into existence? Many have traditionally claimed that Jesus and/or Paul “founded” the church. This class will challenge that assumption b...(read more)

Beginning Drawing (VISCS01-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $400.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 5, 2009 - December 14, 2009 on Mondays, 7:00-9:00pm no class 10/12

Location: List 325

Instructor(s): Marlene Malik

Drawing from nature, still life, the model, and the imagination in a variety of media. This course is intended to be an experience which cultivates and stretches the capacity ...(read more)

Daguerre to Flickr: Truth and Photography (VISCS02-1a)

Status: Closed

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 8, 2009 - December 17, 2009 on Thursdays, 7:00-9:00pm

Location: TBD

Instructor(s): Millee Tibbs

From the beginning of time people have been fascinated with the ability to encapsulate and perpetuate the living into the form of an image, and this class will examine how pho...(read more)