What is real? What is our place in the world? Who am I? What’s important in life? Am I free or are my choices foreordained? And how can we learn more about these issues by watching movies? This course will explore some of the deep, heavy questions of philosophy through the (relatively) light, convenient medium of films such as The Truman Show, American Beauty, Memento, and others of your choice. Readings will point us to the issues to watch for in each film, which we will discuss after viewing. Assignments will include readings, viewings, and written reactions to them. Students will form groups, and each group will lead discussion of a given film. Students will be evaluated on participation in discussions, quality of preparation, and consistency and quality of written work.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9:30 - 12:30

Estimated Course Cost: $13

In this course, students will learn concepts and terminology for acting and apply them to preparing auditions for stage work, on-camera work, and voice-overs. In the first half of the course, students will learn acting concepts for stage, rehearse and perform two contrasting monologues, and learn techniques for “cold read” auditions. They will perform these pieces for guest adjudicators, (possibly Dr. Sharon Ammen, actress and director, Robert Neal of the Indiana Repertory Theatre, or Dr. Arthur Feinsod, director of ISU theatre) who will critique these auditions. In addition, students will attend a performance at the Indiana Repertory Theatre of A.L. Gurney’s Love Letters, (a performance in which two actors recreate love letters by performing their “letters” without physical interaction with each other). In the second half of the course, students will  prepare on-camera commercials and industrials. For this unit, they will learn terminology and etiquette for on-camera auditions, prepare a commercial and industrial, and perform them for a casting agent, possibly for Skip Welker of Artistic Indiana in Indianapolis.  In the final week, students will apply acting concepts to voice-overs, learn terminology and protocol for sound studio work. They will record two pieces in the GCPA’s sound studio, culminating in a professionally demo produced by Matt Champagne. At the conclusion of the course, students will have memorized and performed monologues for stage, recorded a DVD of two commercials and/or industrials, received critiques from stage directors and casting agents, and recorded a professionally produced demo-CD for voice-overs. 

Meeting Times: MTWRF 10 - 1

Estimated Course Cost: $120

This course is designed to teach the scientific principles behind the use of resistance training. The course focuses on the physiological, biomechanical, anatomical and nutritional aspects of resistance training as well as the application of program variables to program design. In addition, students will be expected to learn and demonstrate proficiency for a variety of lifts. As a result, time will be spent both in the classroom and in the fitness center. This course is not, however, designed to allow students to have a lot of time during which they will be able to do their own resistance training workouts.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 12

Estimated Course Cost: $0

This course is designed to provide you with insight into running a business and modern management techniques. The role of competition in a market economy is also a point of emphasis.  Unlike the usual chalk and talk or discussion-based course, you will be part of a team, playing a game against others. There will be a winner, but the process of play enables everyone to learn how to manage a business and understand the forces of competition. The course includes short lectures, assigned readings and video, but most of the learning is via playing the game. 

Meeting Times:MTWRF 9:30 - 12:30

Estimated Course Cost: $30

Throwing Art is a course designed to teach any student how to successfully throw functional pottery on a potter’s wheel in one month. Students will learn how to knead, center, open, pull, trim and finish functional ware on the potter’s wheel. Each student is required to complete three finished pieces—a cylinder, ginger jar and bowl. Each day will begin with a throwing demonstration with some helpful tips—while the majority of class time will be dedicated to throwing. This course requires a healthy amount of time spent outside class hours. Get ready for a fast-paced and intensive experience.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 12

Estimated Course Cost: $75

Baseball is America's oldest professional sport.  From it's founding in the 1840's the game has had a rich history, often reflecting the history of the United States, sometimes ahead of its time, other times far behind social and political trends.  That history has also produced a number of classic movies and novels.  This class will study both the game's history, seen through Ken Burns' documentary on the game, and how it has been reflected in our culture, by viewing some of the great movies and reading at least one of the classic novels.

The class will meet for two hours in the morning to view the nine part documentary or view movies.  The class will then meet again for an hour and a half in the afternoon to discuss the period of history covered by Burns or the movie, placing it in the contest of the historical period it reflects.  Four books will be assigned, covering various historical periods.  At least one will be a classic novel on the game.  Students will write four reaction papers of 2 to 3 pages each, based upon the readings and class discussions.  They will be graded on the quality of their reaction papers along with their participation and attendance.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9-11 and 1:30 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $74

Using the fantastic PBS Series A People's Century as an anchor for the course, we will 'travel' through the history of the tumultuous 20th century. Through a viewing of selections from the documentary series and relevant readings, we will be exposed to many of the main events that have shaped the world in which we live and the effects they had on average men and women. 

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9:30 - 12:30

Estimated Course Cost: $50

What is the citizen's role in shaping environmental public policy?  February 2009, United States President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which citizens commonly call the "stimulus package."  Yet, most lack full information about the vast array of funding opportunities within the 407-page document.  At http://www.recovery.gov, anyone can witness through charts and updates how the government responsibly spends the $787 billion.  The other information-perhaps more important-is what the investments are.  Listed below are two points from the website.

• Revive the renewable energy industry and provide the capital over the next three years to eventually double domestic renewable energy capacity
• Undertake the largest weatherization program in history by modernizing 75 percent of federal building space and more than one million homes

While these are quite large initiatives, there are smaller initiatives geared towards homeowners and individual citizens.  For example, summer 2009 enthusiastic automobile shoppers exhausted the $1 billion allocated for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Car Allowance Rebate System, prompting the U. S. Congress to allocate $2 billion more.  Some members of Congress laud the program's success as good for manufacturers while some question the true effectiveness.  As a citizen, taxpayer, voter, future policymaker, promising entrepreneur, or just interested bystander, what is your role in developing pseudo market-driven policy such as this or venturing out on your own?  What must you consider before entering the environmental fray?  Is there a common language that you should speak for a successful outcome?  As E. O. Wilson states starkly, assuming that the current economic model is flawed, what are our options for public policy or individual action?

Using the past, present, future rule, we investigate North American ecology almost 60 years ago through Aldo Leopold's eyes, Rachel Carson's half century old widely studied environmental critique, and Van Jones' pragmatic view that we can be socially just, innovative, profitable, and green-oriented.  Using a curriculum designed by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, we review some best practices and develop our own solutions as well.   

Meeting Times: MTWRF 10 - 1

Estimated Course Cost: $46

Philosophical investigation can deepen our understanding of the climate crisis.  In particular, well worn philosophical debates will help us ask (and hopefully answer) questions such as:  What degree of confirmation does climate science enjoy?  Do experts in climate science disagree about fundamentals, and if they do what should we (as lay people) do to make informed decisions?  What moral considerations apply to slow onset disasters such as climate change, e.g., do we have obligations to the future people, i.e., people who don’t yet exist (and if so what kind do we have and how strong are they)?  What — politically, morally, and psychologically — makes the climate crisis so difficult to respond to?  

Meeting Times: MTRF 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $40

Do you remember wondering?  Why is the sky blue?  Why do you need to wear a seatbelt?  Why is it easier to eat yucky food if you hold your nose?  How do people clean up oil spills?  Why can you turn milk into butter?  Re-ignite your curiosity by engaging local kindergarten through second grade students in hands-on, inquiry-based science experiments.  In teams, you will lead these students as they participate in experiments developed through a previous DePauw outreach program, in addition to experiments that you and your class will develop.  This class will be suited for science-loving and science-phobic students alike; science that K-2 students can understand and love is certainly accessible to you.  Working with these children is wonderful and inspiring – they jump up and down to do science and will make you love it too.  Due to the hands-on nature of this course, the schedule for some of our morning sessions will need to be a little flexible.  Students will be required to undergo a background check by the Greencastle Community School Corporation to participate in this course.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 10:30 and 12:30 - 2

Estimated Course Cost: $70

In a well rehearsed quote that owes more to legend than reality, the Duke of Wellington supposedly claimed that the Battle of Waterloo “had been fought and won on the playing fields of Eton”.  By extension it was suggested that the British Empire too had been won on the public school playing fields of Victorian Britain.  Apocryphal or not, the claims highlighted the extent to which British imperial expansion had been accompanied by the trappings of British culture.   But if the Empire had been won on the playing fields it was there, as the great Trinidadian historian CLR James observed, that the Empire could also be lost.

This course will consider the historic development of organized sport in Great Britain, including the codification of games in the 19th century and the Victorian sporting ethos which developed most prominently within the “public” schools.  Central to these themes will be discussions of muscular Christianity, social class, debates over amateurism and professionalism, and most importantly, the cultural ties that spread to the Dominions, Crown Colonies and dependencies of the British Empire through formal and informal imperialism.  The subsequent development and spread of British sport is then examined through three particular case studies:  cricket, football (soccer) and rugby.  In particular the course will highlight the ways in which sport illuminated broader imperial developments including those that secured ties to the Mother Country and simultaneously fostered emerging national and post-colonial identities.  The geographic range of the course will include discussions of cricket in the West Indies, India and Pakistan, Rugby in New Zealand, South Africa and the Pacific Islands and the global reach of football.

Meeting Times: MTRF 9:30 - 11:30 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $120

In the last three years, the collapsed African state of Somalia, which has lacked a functioning government for several years, and has fallen into the grips of various groups of competing warlords, has produced a number of pirates, patrolling the waters of the Horn of Africa, and seizing ships and their cargo for ransom.  Huge sums of money have been paid to rescue these hapless detainees, and pirates and their associates have often boasted of their success, as well as the lavish lifestyles that have resulted from their predations.  Some commentators have read these developments against the background of the heroic SHIFTA traditions of the area, in which, historically, people of military might have taken assets from the rich to pass on to the poor.  This course will review the SHIFTA tradition, and attempt to situate the current exploits of the pirates within it.  We shall attempt to establish the bona fides of participants so as to determine whether we are dealing here with altruism or outright banditry and exploitation.  We shall also seek to situate the phenomenon within a local Islamic impulse that has witnessed the rise of religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa.

Meeting Times: MWRF 8 - 12

Estimated Course Cost: $0

This course will focus on learning the necessary skills to become an entry-level NSCA-CPT. Students will learn about basic exercise science related information and practical applications involving patient consultation, exercise technique, program design, working with special populations, and safety.  Students will be evaluated based on performance in group work and practical assignments, as well as questions about reading assignments and critical thinking problem solving scenarios.

Students in this course are invited to participate in the Personal Training Program for the DePauw Community.  The student will serve as a personal trainer for any number of clients as long as it does not interfere with classes and other important activities.  While certified students will be paid, students that are not are still encouraged to participate.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9:30 - 2

Estimated Course Cost: $0

Plants influence all contemporary humans:  plants and plant products form the basis of our diet, our medicine, and our material culture.  Conversely, humans have influenced the evolution and ecology of thousands of plant species on this planet.  Since before Homo sapiens walked the earth, our ancestors have used plants to feed, clothe, cure, protect and kill. Using a variety of hands-on laboratory and greenhouse activities, this course will focus on observing and understanding the morphology, genetics, evolution, ecology, and physiology of plants, and their myriad connections to the human species and its diverse cultures.  Topics we will cover include: history of agriculture, genetic engineering of crop plants, traditional and current uses of medicinal plants, and the effects of specific plant species on the distribution of wealth and power in human cultures.

This course is meant to appeal to both students who love science and students who are unsure whether they enjoy science, but who have lingering questions about the natural (and artificial) world of plants and humans.  In the lab sessions, students will gain hands-on experience with a range of plants, then design, report on, and evaluate scientific experiments.  Our ongoing discussions will attempt to relate scientific investigations with their social and cultural influences.

Meeting Times: MTRF 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $95

In this course we will use one film, “I’m Not There” by Todd Haynes, to develop a framework for studying a portion of the work of one artist, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Students will write a 5-6 page research paper about the film’s subject based on: two viewings of the film (first at the beginning of the course and later toward the end of the course); viewing segments of other films alluded to in the Haynes film; listening to Dylan’s songs; reading critical and scholarly writings about Dylan’s work; and taking part in class discussions.

In “I’m Not There” director/co-screenwriter Todd Haynes employs six different actors to portray six different Dylan “personas.” Most of these personas depict a Dylan from different time periods in his career, although one of the personas runs concurrently with all the others, and as with time in many Dylan songs, the narrative in the film “I’m Not There” does not follow a strict linear chronology. Using these six personas—Dylan the traditionalist hobo kid; Dylan the symbolist/romantic/beat poet; Dylan the protest evangelist; Dylan the protagonist in a Hollywood domestic drama; Dylan the chic hipster punk rock star; and Dylan the rural cowboy recluse—we will study how in his music Dylan explores the notion of identity during different stages of his career.

Meeting Times: MTRF 9:30 - 11:30 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $22

When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. died (so it goes) on April 11, 2007, the world lost a literary giant, and Indiana mourned the passing of one of its most famous and beloved native sons.  The course will explore selections that represent the prolific work of Vonnegut, whose name is synonymous with a unique style of literary discourse that blends elements of science fiction, satire, black humor, autobiography, and social commentary, with a voice that is at once cautiously hopeful and despondently frightened for the fate of humanity.  Vonnegut was a keen observer of life and profound thinker whose writings analyze the irrationality of human nature.  His style of prose often reflects this irrationality with a structure that can best be described as experimental.  Through individual presentations and student-led class discussion, we will examine selections of Vonnegut’s writings, including three of his novels (Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions), a collection of early unpublished short fiction (Look at the Birdie), as well as articles about Vonnegut and his work, in order to understand the breadth and depth of his literary genius.  Additionally, we will watch and critique film adaptations of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.  We will consider how Vonnegut’s personal life philosophy, grounded in a type of situational existentialism, shaped his treatment of human behavior as illogical, irrational, and absurd.  By showing us this, and by making humanity ultimately responsible for its own behavior, Vonnegut challenges us to behave as decently toward each other as possible.  Evaluation for this course will be based on presentations, short reaction papers, class discussions, and a final analytical paper.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9:30 - 12:30

Estimated Course Cost: $60

Although situated only 90 miles off the southernmost point of Key West, Florida, the island of Cuba remains an enigma to most Americans. Severed diplomatic ties and anti-Cuban policies dating from the Cold War, equivocal myths about Cuban leader Fidel (now Raúl) Castro, and the influential political posturing of the Cuban-American exile community have contributed to America’s lopsided understanding of the Cuban nation. The WT ¡Cuba! curriculum is designed to expose the class to varied perspectives on Cuban history, politics and culture, in order to foster improved critical thinking skills that will aid students in interpreting the evolution of a post-Castro Cuba, especially as those changes impact U. S. relations with Cuba in the near future.

Meeting Times: MTRF 9:30 - 12:30

Estimated Course Cost: $87

This course will examine the theory and practice of meditation and its relevance for the study of human potential in higher education. In recent years meditative practices have received a great deal of attention from a broad range of scholars and researchers. From medical doctors and psychologists working through grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health to humanistic scholars working through grants endowed by the American Council of Learned Societies, the field of meditation research has begun to come of age in the United States. In this Winter Term seminar we will examine the idea of meditation and the claims made by its proponents and practitioners in order to better assess the limitations and possibilities of meditative practices for the enrichment of human life. The class will combine the traditional “third person” discursive learning of a daily seminar with the novel “first person” experiential learning of a meditation laboratory.     

Meeting Times: MTWRF 12:00 - 3:00

Estimated Course Cost: $75

Our goal in this winter term course is to immerse ourselves in the collected works of six prominent poets from New England who have significantly shaped the course of the American poetic tradition. Five of the six poets we will read are white and are no longer living, but their works survive and continue to influence contemporary poets not only in America, but all over the world. The last poet we will study currently lives in New England and teaches creative writing and Latino poetry at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and writes about his Puerto Rican identity. All the poets in this course are defined by their individual voices, but are grouped for our study by the region where they were born, or where they made their mark at the height of their respective careers.

Meeting Times: MTRF  10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $150

Students will take an active role in the rehearsal, design, and/or production of Because the Universe Tends Toward Entropy, a production for DePauw Theater’s mainstage season for 2009-2010, directed by Tim Good.  The production is made up of four one-act plays: Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso; The Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov; The Stronger by August Strindberg; and Dust of the Road by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman.  Assignments will be made according to the needs of the production, and also according to each student’s ability, experience, and interest, from beginners to advanced.  Possible assignments include: acting, stage management, scenery, costume, lighting, sound, properties, and dramaturgy.  Students can gain depth in one area, or work in different areas.  Students will work in production shops (scenery, costume, etc.) and/or in rehearsals for at least six hours per day, M-F, in addition to specific assignments outside of class meetings.  Performance is at the end of the first week of classes, Feb 4-7.  Each student must have an active role in production week and performance in order to pass the course.  

Meeting Times: MTWRF 10 - 4

Estimated Course Cost: $25

The past few years have seen an explosion in interest in food preparation and the science behind it. Television programs such as “Good Eats” on the Food Network and “Top Chef” on Bravo have introduced millions of viewers to cooking techniques and scientific explanations of how these techniques work. Recently a new scientific discipline has even been introduced called Molecular Gastronomy. In this course we will learn some food related science - mostly but not only chemistry - and practice cooking skills. Hopefully we will develop an appreciation for how understanding the science can improve our results in the kitchen.

Meeting Times: MTRF 9:30 - 11:30 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $80

This course provides students with Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training to prepare them for the Indiana State EMT examinations (written and practical) in the early spring semester, which certifies them for work as EMTs in Putnam county and other areas that meet the cross-certification requirements. Students learn the basic medical skills used by all EMTs for delivering emergency health-care to victims of accident and sudden illness. The range of training encompasses applied human anatomy and physiology to advanced treatments with sophisticated and specialized equipment in the ambulances. This course is intensive and meets 5 days per week for 8 hours per day to meet the State requirements for around 140 total hours of in-class training; 6 module exams and skill tests are required in addition to the final Course exam.   

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 5

Estimated Course Cost: $668

Greencastle and DePauw were founded at the same time, in the late 1830s, but the history of the place we inhabit here together is much deeper.  What do we know about the people who over the centuries inhabited or walked the shores of Big Walnut Creek and the rolling hills and flatlands around what is today Greencastle and the DePauw campus? Where do we go to look for such information, and what should we do with it? How do we know it is “true”? Why should anyone care about what happened long ago? Could knowledge about the past and a deeper sense of place help us make better decisions for the future?

Those who participate in this winter term course will investigate early histories of DePauw and Greencastle by conducting archival and ethnohistorical research in regional archives and historical libraries. After a week of discussion and planning, we will visit several institutions that hold significant collections of primary records about the area that is now DePauw and Greencastle. This course is, in a sense, about the “repatriation of knowledge” to communities at the source. Copies of important documents we find and the results of our research will be deposited according to scholarly standards in the DePauw University Archives and with the Putnam County Museum, where it will be accessible to other researchers and the broader public. This winter term course has a strong connection to anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, and information science in its exploration of methods, theory, ethical issues, and practice. 

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9:30 - 12:30

Estimated Course Cost: $98

This course will be an exploration of algebra, particularly as it relates to functions and their evaluations. It will also review the use and manipulation of trigonometric functions and expressions. The intent of the course is to provide a self-guided review of these materials for students intending to take calculus or some other mathematics course at DePauw.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 10:30 and 12:30 - 2

Estimated Course Cost: $0

“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him--and I didn’t know how potent that part might be--that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.” - Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

As Bella Swan attests above, it’s hard to resists vampires.  The eternally undead haunt our cultural imagination, yet no one is “absolutely positive” about why.  Scholars in many fields have pondered this question.  To some, vampires embody repressed desires; to others they represent socially marginalized groups, and to others they’re dissolute aristocrats feeding off the working class.  Yet one thing seems certain:  they’re proliferating!  As authors Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan recently observed in the New York Times, contemporary vampires “mutate at an accelerated rate… in the past one would see, for decades, the same variety of fiend, repeated in multiple storylines. Now, vampires simultaneously occur in all forms and tap into our every need: soap opera storylines, sexual liberation, noir detective fiction...”

Our winter-term intensive will probe the meanings of these multiple forms.  Starting with Polidori’s seminal “The Vampyre” (1819), we’ll progress through Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Rice’s Vampire Chronicles (1976) and Meyer’s Twilight Saga (2006).  We’ll also watch classic screen portrayals by Murnau, Herzog, Coppola and others, as well as highlights from television shows like Dark Shadows, Forever Knight, Buffy, and HBO’s current True Blood.  And we’ll consider images from other cultures like the Indian Baital and the Chinese Ch’ing Shih.

Along the way, we’ll read a range of theories with the aim of establishing a critical vocabulary, complicating initial opinions, and relating ideas across academic disciplines.  These “blood relations” promise to deepen our understanding not only of vampires but of ourselves as readers and thinkers. 

Meeting Times: MTRF 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $50

As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the global community faces multiple, interlocking crises. Taken together these constitute a world historical shift in the meaning of the human condition, the ontological foundations of who we are as a species. Our ways of understanding reality, however, remain tightly connected to modernity, especially Enlightenment paradigms. A new system of thought has yet to displace the old paradigm. Stuck between paradigms, the university is challenged with the daunting task of establishing new ways of thinking that better match the new ontology of catastrophic systemic collapse. This course invites us to undertake the challenge by exploring our current historical predicament and considering the ways past societies have thought about or not thought about similar challenges. The course will make use of Thomas Homer Dixon’s Upside of Down to frame discussion of our current situation, and we will use Jared Diamond’s Collapse as basis for our explorations of how past societies have understood the challenge of catastrophic collapse.

Meeting Times: MTRF 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $50

In our contemporary society, art is often overlooked as an enhancer to those activities we cherish. In this course we will discuss our existing perceptions of visual art (digital, 2 and 3 dimensionally): what and how we are educated in art, and what canons define visual art according to our individual class. The course will begin with a brief overview on art history, beginning with western ideology (European and American) and ending with non-western conceptions (African/Native American). With this overview, individuals or small groups of students will choose any topic of interest and eventually construct a visual art piece/representation(s) connecting these interests to art.

This is a collaborative process in the sense that each topic will be shared with the rest of the group. For example, if one student chooses basketball than that student will present the class with an overview on basketball and why it is special to them (this may even include literal participation, i.e. one afternoon the class would go to the gym). Then throughout the rest of the course that student will meet with the instructor and conduct an art representation related to basketball, for example a sculpture using actual basketballs. The student presents this sculpture to the class and explains how it relates to art as a whole, how it relates to basketball, and how it relates to him/herself. The student also writes a reflection thesis as a final assignment.

Meeting Times: MTWR 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $50

Students will participate in the daily operation of DePauw’s radio station, WGRE.  They will learn how a broadcast station is organized and how to operate facilities in a variety of programs.  Students’ on-air work will be critiqued regularly.  Participants will work in two of these four departments:  Sports (play-by-play , reporting and sportscasting of DePauw and area sports events);  News (writing and announcing news of campus and area interest);  Production (preparing and editing promotion and public affairs messages, producing remote broadcasts); and Promotion (making WGRE visible both on and off campus through events, publicity materials, contests and other methods.)  Students will have their own DJ shifts throughout Winter Term.  Some weekend and overnight work is required.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9:30 and other days arranged

Estimated Course Cost: $0

Turning matter into objects is easy- making objects that matter is another thing entirely.  While reading and discussing the role of art and artists in the community, students will each also be working in the sculpture lab to complete a miniature golf hole.  All necessary construction skills and training will be provided, no experience is necessary.  The course will culminate in a Charity Mini-Golf Outing, with proceeds benefitting art programs in Greencastle schools.

Meeting Times:MTWF 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $50

This course will give students the equivalent of the regular first semester Latin course offered by DePauw, but concentrated into 3 weeks. We will work through the first seven chapters of Keller and Russell's "Learn to Read Latin," the same text used in Latin 123, and students successfully completing the winter term course will be prepared to enroll immediately in Latin 124 this spring. In addition to making progress towards reading Latin, students will learn something of Roman culture, improve their understanding of English grammar, and add to their English vocabulary by understanding some Latin roots of English words. By the end of term they should be able to read easy medieval Latin (with some help from a dictionary).Students should be prepared to spend 2 to 3 hours preparing for each class. This will give us the same number of meetings as the regular Elementary Latin I class offered by DePauw's Department of Classical Studies.

There are two ways the class will depart from the normal syllabus of Elementary Latin:

1. Rather than some big tests that will occupy a whole class period, students in the WT Latin course will be given frequent small tests, usually at the start and end of class. They will have to achieve a near-perfect score to move on to the next test. But the tests will be cumulative; earlier material will mix with new material on each test.
2. From the very start of the course we'll supplement the (already plentiful!) materials in the textbook with easy Latin from English Etymology, mottos, hymns, and the medieval Europe.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 10 - 11:30 and 3 - 4:30

Estimated Course Cost: $55

In this course students will learn to work with images in the digital realm. Students will also learn to use Adobe Photoshop, digital cameras, scanners, photo printers and work in a Mac based platform. We will explore the techniques and applications of acquiring, manipulating and outputting digitized photographic images utilizing Adobe Photoshop. Students will complete a final portfolio or e-book.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9:30 - 12:30

Estimated Course Cost: $120

Designed for the serious musician, whether the aspiring professional or the amateur, this course will explore all things music- what makes a musician tick, the elements of music making, how to enhance performance, what goes into musical interpretation. What is talent? Does it exist? Does practice really make perfect? We will read about musicians, their triumphs and disappointments, discuss scientific research and engage in experimentation of our own. Last but not least, we will watch, listen and play. All music lovers are welcome. There is a playing component in the course, so music reading skills and a moderate degree of proficiency on an instrument and is required.

Meeting Times: MTF 10 - 1, W 1 - 4, additional evenings for concert trips

Estimated Course Cost: $45

Experience the world without leaving Putnam County!  The basic idea of this course is simple:  we will read aloud theatrical works from all over the world.  Rather than being passive consumers of these cultural products (e.g., watching films), we will actually speak their words.  Our readings will also range from the most traditional folk dramas to the most abstract and experimental, from hilarity to tragedy.  Though we will spare no effort in preparing ourselves from day to day for the texts (a whole team of students will be looking up background information for each text, as well as cultural contexts), we will also agree to give ourselves over to the feeling of incomprehension (although, as we will see, this very feeling is itself a product of our own culture).  The goal is NOT to become masters of the world, but rather to experience the humility of being foreign almost everywhere and perhaps a few moments of (possibly illusory) connection with other cultures and other times.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 10 - 1

Estimated Course Cost: $100

Civic Education- Connecting Classroom and Community will explore the relationship between classroom-based learning at DePauw with out of class experiences in Greencastle and Putnam County.  There will be six guiding topics for the course which include social justice, civic engagement, community building, spiritual exploration, international perspective, and diversity.  The course will be structured as a seminar, focusing on historical and current readings as well as discussions with leaders from the local community and campus.  In the middle of the term, students will participate in a four-day service-based immersion project in Chicago. 

The overall course objective is to facilitate an opportunity for students to connect their direct service experience with their intellectual life in the form of readings, dialogue, writing, and listening to the experiences of others.  The service-based immersion project will provide a shared group experience in which students can engage in community-based work with a heightened awareness of relevant topics.  Students will also draw upon prior individual direct service experience with the community as a basis for considering relevant issues.  As students often engage in community-based work without thinking critically about the implications and impact of their actions, this course will challenge students to confront their assumptions and the complexities of service. 

This course is aimed at students who are already deeply involved with the local community through direct service and advocacy work as class readings and discussions will draw largely upon the lived experience of class members.  There will be no cost for students to participate in this course.  All class-related materials and fees associated with the service-based immersion project will be at no cost to students.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 10 - 12 and 1- 3

Estimated Course Cost: $0

This course is designed for students to explore the relationship of art and technology through sculptural/video installation art.  Students will be asked to critique the current digital age through both the use of technology and the avoidance of technology.

Meeting Times: MTWF 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $120

To the uninitiated, reading literature is a way to access a surface-level story.  To those who have developed analytical and critical thinking skills, however, reading literary work is a method of studying the world we all live in.  In this course you will read three books and approximately sixteen short pieces (short stories, poems and essays).  You will learn, again, how to read literature.  There are no accidents in fiction and creative nonfiction, and with that in mind you will be asked to read each piece closely and evaluate the choices the writer has made.  You will have to read in this class, and read thoroughly.  You will also be expected to both write response papers and discuss the work in class, and these requirements will help you learn how to express what it is you think the writer is saying about this world.

Everything we read will connect, somehow, to fishing.  Because, really, what else is there to write about?  Nothing else matters.

Meeting Times: MTWF 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $25

In this course we will take a virtual tour of the most beautiful Italian cities through the eyes of a camera. We will watch and analyze Italian as well as American movies filmed in Venice, Florence and Rome, and analyze the perception of Italy through different historical and cultural perspectives. Students will note stereotypes, but also discover unexpected portraits of the Italian society as well of tourists who visit Italy at different historical times. The films will take us through charming Italian streets of enchanting cities, they will invite us to explore some of the most beautiful landscapes, but they will also ask us to get to know a new society and analyze the structure that governs it as well as its changes in time. We will question the role of the landscape as text in a film, and the impact of the urban structure on social paradigms.

Meeting Times: MTRF 8 - 12

Estimated Course Cost: $75

This class will be a basic introduction to the techniques, rules, and standards of critical thinking.  We will be introducing techniques that may be used in life, business, the humanities, and the sciences.

While students will be introduced to standards of logical thinking and evaluation, most of the class will deal with cases drawn from everyday situations.   To see an example, look below at Sample A: “Who is Making the Better Argument and Why?”

Students are expected to do all the readings and in-class work.  In addition there will be a group project where the students will explore an issue, research it, consider evidence and evaluate the results. 

Meeting Times: MTRF 10 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $31

Despite the growing prominence of the martial arts in American culture, these disciplines remain poorly understood.   The general public’s perception is molded from sensationalist images from the movies and media.  But unfortunately, a significant number of martial arts practitioners are also plagued by misconceptions.  Many experts (commonly equated with the rank of black belt) oftentimes fail to understand how a martial art was affected by the history and culture from which it originated.  Finding a martial artist with a general knowledge of several styles (and how those styles are interrelated) is even more difficult.

This is a basic introduction to several of the more popular martial arts from around the world.  The class does not require any prior martial arts experience.  This class examines the theories behind both the biomechanical and psychological aspects of the various martial arts.  A brief historical background and the rules of the sport version (where applicable) will also be discussed.  Students have a tremendous opportunity to sample several martial arts, and it may help to think of this course as a means to find which styles interest you the most or suit you the best.  The overall objective of the course is to provide a useful, general knowledge of the martial arts while at the same time eliminating as many misconceptions as possible.

Meeting Times: MWF 9 - 12 and 1 - 3

Estimated Course Cost: $39

Happiness is our birthright.  Not giddy, ephemeral happiness that fades as quickly as it arrives, but a deep and abiding sense of well-being.  This enduring sense of happiness can be our constant companion such that even when the surface waters of our life churn, our deeper currents run sure. 

While happiness is our birthright, claiming it is often difficult.  Most of us (including your professor) have looked in all the wrong places thinking happiness is an accident of birth, dependent on someone or something else, or that it can be purchased with professional success or the accumulation of money or material goods.

This course will provide you the opportunity to find greater happiness by gaining new knowledge about what happiness really is, what does and doesn’t lead to its realization, to reflect on your own actions and behaviors in light of this new knowledge and make changes in your own behaviors and thinking patterns

There are two primary texts that are required reading (What Happy People Know by Dan Baker and Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl).  There will also be numerous articles by various scholars in the field of Positive Psychology.   You will be required to use a journal to capture your learning and reflections.  The course uses extensive dialogue and in the initial sessions education will be provided on the process of dialogue (how to effectively express one’s own views, appreciate others and collaborate to form new perspectives).

The course requires reflection, participation and personal growth, but in return holds the opportunity to have a profound impact on your life.

Meeting Times: TWRF  9:30 - 11:30 and 12:30 - 2:30

Estimated Course Cost: $50

What is the best way to measure a baseball team’s offensive production?  Who is the best pitcher in the history of baseball?  Does it even make sense to compare a pitcher from 75 or 100 years ago to a pitcher from the last 10 or 20 years?  This course will introduce statistical thinking and statistical methods in the context of baseball.  We will use data from professional baseball and questions that arise from the data to learn some basic tools for statistical analysis.  The course is self-contained with respect to both baseball and statistics; you do not need to know the difference between a SLG and an OPS, nor the difference between a normal and a negative binomial distribution. 

Students will learn standard methods for summarizing and representing data, how to intelligently compare summary statistics from different batches of data, basic regression analysis for studying relationships between measurement variables, basic probability, and the ideas behind statistical inference.  Students will be expected to be in class every day, to make positive contributions to the daily activities, and to successfully complete daily assignments. 

Students will need a laptop computer with Microsoft Excel software installed.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 12

Estimated Course Cost: $42

This project is about learning to use the basic elements of film grammar, and developing skill in applying them, so that you can express yourself filmically well enough that your audience is happy to view what you have created. Because of the ubiquity of moving images in our culture, viewers have certain expectations of the way that information so conveyed should appear, thus anyone wanting to communicate in this medium should have control of these basics. This project is for students who have something they want to communicate and who want to use moving-image technology to do so. Course goals and objectives:
            a) learning the basic elements of film grammar
            b) applying them in a series of exercise
            c) producing a final project film of about two minutes duration communicating something that is important to the student.

More details about the course are below and online.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 12

Estimated Course Cost: Cost will range depending on what equipment students already own and what they can share. If nothiing is already owned or shared, cost will range from $442 to $862. See below for details.

1. Text: Grammar of the Film Language (Paperback) by Daniel Arijon; about $20
2. We will be doing the basics only; color and synch sound are tough, beyond what we can consider in one WT. Thus, exercises and projects will be viewed only in black and white (desaturated) and silent.
3. Equipment: Camera, tripod, and lighting. It will be useful to work in pairs, or perhaps triples for your work in this project. Sharing equipment is therefore possible, and probably a smart thing to do.

• Camera: Telephone video is not adequate for this WT project. Having your own digital video camcorder would be best (an older analog camcorder using tape is OK, but you will need to digitize the results for editing. You may get a device that will allow you to digitize analog video to your computer for $30 or so.) It will definitely be a plus if your camera has a lockable run button.
• A substantial tripod is absolutely essential and required (therefore, your camera must have a tripod mount). A Sunpak 620-060 6601UT is sufficient for our purposes; it can be purchased online for less than $30.
• A cheap but adequate lighting set can be made up using material obtainable at local stores. See http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/diy/lightstand.html for do-it-yourself instructions. The cost there for one stand is $13, not including the light itself. Perfectly adequate for our purposes will be “brooder lamps” available for about $8 at our local TSC store. Since three lights are needed, this is a fine place to share the cost with others and work in a group.

4. Editing software: This generally comes with digital camcorders or video capture devices. The internet can provide several free editing options as well. There will be no in-class instruction on the use of editing software since it is possible that there will be several programs in use by the students in the class.
5. A 4gigabytye USB flash drive for turning in assignments.

What is music? What is special about certain sounds that humans “find pleasing” while others are described as a cacophony? This course will explore both the physics of sound and musical instruments and also human perception of those sounds.

The primary objective of this class is to understand the nature and production of musical sound in terms of a few basic physical principles. A physical understanding of sound will enable you to make meaningful comparisons among sounds and to appreciate how the characteristics of a sound depend on the way it is created. In this way, you will gain some understanding of how musical instruments are designed and played. Topics related to the primary objective include the basics of how sound travels, the tools we use to describe sound, the vibration of simple and complex objects, how sound behaves in rooms, how we perceive sound, and the history and design of musical scales. Throughout the course, you will also be exposed to the history of musical sound as well as the myriad ways people all over the world have learned to produce sound.

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 10:30 and 12:30 - 2

Estimated Course Cost: $125

Students in this course will examine the roles that political, economic, and cultural factors play in globalization.  Course topics will include: defining globalization, the history of globalization, globalization and economic growth, globalization and inequality, international economic organizations, and culture and the global economy.  We will use popular and academic texts, movies, and on-line resources.

Meeting Times: MTWF 8 - 12

Estimated Course Cost: $120

Literature has long been believed to provide valuable lessons and touchstones for life. Whether we look at the stories embedded in sacred texts or secular narratives, we see a myriad of examples that fulfill the edict that good literature both delights and instructs.  Even recalcitrant readers have often admitted how a book has shaped or influenced their lives in unexpected, and sometimes belated, ways.  Rhetorical scholar Kenneth Burke claimed that "literature is equipment for living." This Winter Term will be examining how “youth” is constructed in five contemporary novels.  As a class we will be discussing each individual story as well as comparing and contrasting the five novels.  The novels center on young narrators as they navigate both typical developmental stages and the particular circumstances of their unique contexts.   Moreover, in this course, the study of literature is not passive; performance of literature means demonstrating your understanding of the narrator and his/her story through the actions of your body and voice.  So, a key premise of this course is that actually performing literature forces us to pick up that equipment in an active, holistic manner.  Authors Lee and Gura point out that performance or oral interpretation "is the art of communicating to an audience a work of literary art in its intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic entirety."  

Meeting Times: MTWRF 9 - 12

Estimated Course Cost: $60