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This is not a complete list of courses, just some suggestions for courses you may not have considered.  Please refer to the Searchable Schedule of Classes for complete information on each course, such as meeting place, pass/fail, special requirements, etc.

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ARTH 290B Tps:African Art (1 Credit)
T. Aherne 8:20-9:50 MW  
This course will explore African art in its cultural setting--who makes it, how, for whom, and why. From sculpture, to masquerade, to dance, and contemporary photography and film, art in Africa is meant to be engaged by everyone. It is powerful, thought provoking, and can be used to affect change in society, or to legitimize established norms. The diverse, rich heritage of Africa's art will be explored through the major style areas of lower sub-Saharan Africa, including: the Cameroon Grasslands, Equatorial Forest, Zaire River Basin, Southern Savannah, Southeastern Africa, Southern Africa, and the island of Madagascar.

ARTS 398CA Tps:Generative Art (1 Credit)
P. Williams 12:40-3:30 TR  (peterwilliams@depauw.edu, x5924)
Since the advent of mechanical and digital methods of reproduction, process and concept have been key aspects of art making. Generative Art seeks to make "the making of" art. The Artists' creation of systems/rules/instructions/parameters - set in motion and open to chance...interpretation...everyday life - results in a completed work. In this studio art course, students will explore performance and mixed media (such as sculpture and paint), along with digital techniques. Simple, art-oriented computer programming will be used, including Processing. Processing is an easy-to-learn, visually-oriented language designed by and for artists, offering immediate visual feedback of executable code, and has been highly influential in contemporary art.

ASIA 290A Tps:MenMightPltcs&Poetry (1 Credit)
S. Mou 8:20-9:50 MW  
The course examines literary images of women from Chinese antiquity down to the 20th century. We will sample works that have had lasting influence on Chinese literature, written by both men and women, from a variety of genres. Most of these works have created paradigms that find their way into works by modern Chinese and non-Chinese writers alike. Looking at these paradigms, we will examine how certain notions about Chinese womanhood are developed, molded, perpetuated, and adopted by both male and female writers. Keep in mind at least three different angles in the making of women's images: male authors who describe what they see, male authors who use female narrators to present what they are interpreting or what they want to express, and female authors. These viewpoints are, of course, further complicated by other social, political, and economical factors. Whenever appropriate, Western literary and feminist theories will be brought into our class discussions; you are also encouraged to apply them in your own work, keeping in mind that they have their limitations, especially when confronted by certain cultural specifics. Probably the most fruitful way to apply these theories to works from distant times, places, or cultures is to take certain issues as points of departure and then follow the lead of the texts under study, rather than imposing the issues on the texts.

PHIL 213A Hist/Phil - Medieval (1 Credit)
D. Shannon 10:30-11:30 MWF  
This is an introductory course to Medieval Philosophy. The course will focus on five topics: Existence of God; Ethics and the Problem of Evil; God’s Foreknowledge and Free Will; the State; Knowledge and the Problem of Sensation. Major figures from the Middle Ages and Renaissance will be featured, including, among others, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, St. Anselm, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Ibn Rushd (Averröes). Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions will be represented. Requirements include a mixture of tests and papers. Most texts will be short selections from representative works. We will, however, consider two longer works which students will be assigned to read, comment on, and lead discussion. The first will be Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed, and the second will be St. Thomas Aquinas, selections from the Summa Theologica, on law, morality, and politics.

REL 290A Tps:Jewish Writers (1 Credit)
B. Benedix 2:20-3:50 TR  
This class treats a range of modern and contemporary Jewish writers (European, American, and Israeli). Through writers such as Freud, Kafka, David Grossman, Dara Horn, Philip Roth, and Larry David, we will explore elements of Jewish identity, culture, history, theology and humor. Is there such a thing as a distinctly Jewish imagination? A distinctly Jewish aesthetic?

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