With two hours to go before the close of the fourth class day, you may have
just felt the earth move under your feet and the sky tumble down (it IS the
year 2012 after all!): A few seats for non-art majors have been opened up in ALL sections of the following restricted studio art courses:
-ART 303K
-ART 303L
-ART 304K
-ART 304L
**These courses will not count towards your Visual and Performing Arts requirement**
We’ve just added a LAH 350 “Our Lives in Fiction”, taught by our very own Dr. Carver!
Meets: T/TH 11-12:30, SZB 286
In this course we will explore the hypothesis that human beings have and continue to create and recreate themselves through the telling of stories. While we tell stories for many reasons–pleasure, escapism, will to power, and so forth–one of the principal reasons, or so the course posits, is to find out what is significant, what is praiseworthy, what is it we should value and why. As the infant Akhilleus sat on the lap of his tutor, Phoenix, “wet[ing] [his] shirt, hiccuping/wine-bubbles in distress,” the greatest of ancient Greek heroes was listening to stories “instruct[ing] [him] in these matters/to be a man of eloquence and action.” Years later, Phoenix will seek once again to guide the actions of his extraordinary charge by telling him a story. If you are like me, as a child and now an adult, you too heard and continue to hear stories; you too have sought and now continue to seek in these stories patterns of how to live. It is this educative function of story that we will be exploring. We will begin the course with two 20th-century coming of age novels, one about a young man, and one about a young woman. We will then turn back to read four great novels of our literary history.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
Grades will be based on the following: (1) regular class attendance, careful preparation of the readings, and active participation in the class; (2) short papers responding to the day’s reading; (3) timely submission of all work; and (4) a final examination, which will ask you to identify and tell the significance of selected passages from the semester’s reading.
Grades on writing will make up 35% of the grade; class participation will constitute 35%; and the final examination 30%.
The complete syllabus: LAH 350 Our Lives in Fiction
Want to design your own major?
The Humanities major allows you to compose your own interdisplinary plan of study around a research interest.
As part of the Humanities major, you will:
The Humanities major is by application only and requires 30 hours in residence and a 3.5 gpa.
Details online: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/humanities/
Attend an info session (below) or call 471-3458 to schedule an appointment.
Wed • Oct 12
Humanities Info Session
GEB 1.206
3:00 PM
Tue • Nov 15
Humanities Info Session
GEB 1.206
3:00 PM
Registration for summer and fall is upon us! April 18-29. Before you register, you should see us for advising. Just call 471-3458 to set up a time with Linda or Stacey. Don’t email us, as it’s too hard to go back and forth choosing a time. Calling is much more efficient.
The lower-division honors course sign up book is now available. To secure a seat in a lower-division honors course, you must sign up in the book. Come by the LAH office to see what we have!
Upper-Division LAHers, Remember that for any upper-division LAH course (LAH 350s) you can register on your own as long as you have close to 60 hours and a 3.5 gpa. IF you are pursuing a dual degree in another college,you will need to contact us during your registration time to be manually added into the class if the class is open.
Registration tip: for upper-division cross-listed LAH courses, it might be easier to register for the class under it’s cross-listing. Especially Government/LAH 350. If you are a Government major, and want an LAH 350 class that is cross-listed, you should go to the Government department to be added into the class. It will still count towards LAH under it’s cross-listing.
Already gearing up for Summer and Fall classes? The online course schedule will be posted soon: the Summer schedule will come out on March 29 and the Fall schedule will come out on April 5.
You don’t have to wait for the course schedule to come out – set up your advising appointment with Stacey or Linda any time after Spring Break! Juniors and Seniors will have the earliest registration time, so please come in as soon as you can. First year students and sophomores can start coming in for advising during the first week of April. To set up your appointment, please call 512-471-3458 or stop by GEB 1.206.
Here are some links to help you get started:
Course Schedule http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/
Registration Information Sheet: http://registrar.utexas.edu/students/registration/before/ris/
Interactive Degree Audit: http://registrar.utexas.edu/students/degrees/ida/
Academic Calendar: http://registrar.utexas.edu/calendars/11-12/index.htm
PLEASE NOTE: Attending an internal transfer information session is now required to be eligible for admission to the Psychology major. The intent of these sessions is to enhance your understanding of psychology as a major at UT and therefore help you determine if psychology is the right major for you.
Information sessions for Spring 2011:
Tuesday, March 22
10 – 11 am, SEA 4.244
Wednesday, March 30
2 – 3 pm, SEA 4.244
Thursday, April 7
2 – 3 pm, SEA 4.244
Monday, April 11
3 – 4 pm, SEA 4.244
Thursday, April 21
9 – 10 am, SEA 4.244
Friday, April 29
9 – 10 am, SEA 4.244
Dear Students,
Want to learn the basics of filmmaking? Interested in media and culture? Consider taking classes this summer with RTF!
RTF Summer 2011 – Courses for All Majors
RTF 318, Intro to Image and Sound (INTRO TO FILMMAKING)
first summer session
Open to non-RTF majors SUMMER ONLY
Learn fundamental filmmaking concepts and techniques
Create photography and digital video projects
RTF 305, Intro to Media Studies
first summer session
ONLINE only
focuses on the study of mass media
surveys the cultural industries from multiple perspectives, including history, economics, regulation and social effects
emphasizes the relationships among mass media, culture, and power
RTF 316M, Race Ethnicity and the Media
first summer session
addresses race and representation in historical perspective
examines racial representations in relation to social structures, gender and national identities, and the workings of media industries
RTF 317, Narrative Strategies
second summer session
focuses on the study of how meaning is structured and perceived through the aesthetics of audiovisual images
surveys the various modes used in narrative and non-narrative storytelling in fiction film and television
We have a couple of upper-division LAH 350 courses with availability.
LAH 350 # 30265 China’s Great Wall/Silk Rd Lit. TTH 2:00-3:30. We will waive the 60 hour pre-requisite so if you have sophomore or even freshman standing, and are interested go ahead and register. This is a new LAH class and we really want it to make!
LAH 350 #30273 Face of Justice TH 3:00-6:00(cross-listed with GOV 357M and WGS 345) has availability. Remember if you are a Government or WGS major or minor, it could count towards you major or minor and apply towards College Honors (aka Liberal Arts Honors).
Plan II also has a course they will allow LAHers to register for:
Plan II has seats available for junior or senior-level LAH students interested in taking a seminar course with Dr. David Oshinsky, an award-winning professor in the History Department. Course details follow. If you are interested in taking the course, please contact Mary Dillman in the Plan II Honors office: mdillman@austin.utexas.edu
T C 357 • History Of American Medicine
43455 • Oshinsky, David M.
Meets M 1200pm-300pm CRD 007A
Description:
The course will focus on the theory and practice of medicine in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Topics include our changing biological environment, the history of public health campaigns, the development of medical research, the role of the physician, and the impact of disease on American history.
Texts/Readings:
Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague
Judith Leavitt, Typhoid Mary
David Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story
Charles Rosenberg, The Cholera Years
Paul Starr, The Transformation of American Medicine.
Assignments:
Students will be required to lead one class discussion, write one book review, and write a term paper, approximately thirty pages in length, based largely on primary sources.
About the Professor:
Professor Oshinsky specializes in 20th Century U.S. political and cultural history. He was the Pulitzer Prize winner in 2006 in the History category for his recently published book, Polio: An American Story.
The department of French and Italian will give the placement exam for FR 320E and 322E on Tuesday, January 11th from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. in HRH 2.118: http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/hrh.html
Students MUST register for this exam by contacting Dr. Tom Vessely via email: TRV@mail.utexas.edu
More information can be found on our website here: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/frenchitalian/student-resources/placement-exams.php
320E. Advanced French I: Written Emphasis. A four-skills course with emphasis on grammar and writing skills. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: French 612, 312L (or 312M), or 312N with a grade of at least C.
322E. Advanced French II: Oral Emphasis. Development of speaking and listening skills, with emphasis on grammatical accuracy and fluency. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: French 320E.