Summer 2007 IN350 Courses
IN 350/ EN 366 Immersion in People’s Republic of China - Matthews/ Onuora
IN 350/ EN 366 The Discovery of India - Banerjee
IN 350/ HI 340 /PO 323 Introduction to Modern South Asia: An Historical Inquiry into Democracy, Citizenship, and Human Rights - Banerjee & Banerjee
IN 350 European Grand Tour on the Cheap - Henry
IN 350 Epidemiologic Foci -Slayton
IN 350 The Modern World of Sports - Neibuhr
IN 350 Music and Culture of Summer Residency in Eastern Canada - Glencross
IN 350 Les Artistes- Peintres du 19eme siecle en France - Lassau
IN 350 A Comparative Study to Chinese Culture and American Through Writing and Media - Zhao
IN 350 The People’s Republic of China - Creal
IN 350 / HI340 Eastern Europe and the Holocaust - Kovalcik
IN 350 / HI 340 Hiroshima in History and Film - Murphy
IN350 / SO 260 Archaeology and Religion of Pagan Europe - Parker
IN350 / TH392 South American Performance Experience - Criswell and Pickard-Criswell
Summer 2007 IN350 Course Descriptions
IN 350/ EN 366 Immersion in Taiwan - Matthews/ Onuora
This course explores the diversity and interconnectedness of the world. Students will extend beyond the United States as they travel to Taiwan, a territory of China. This course is interdisciplinary and comparative. Concentration on experience in exploring the culture and history of Taiwan as well as their educational system will be achieved through culture classes, readings, field trips to historic sites and national landmarks, and student interaction and reflection with peers from Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Comparative analysis will include individual, group, culture and the world.
Dates: May 16-30, 2007
Times: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Dates: M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su
Credits: 3
Instructors: Ngozi Onuora and Anne Matthews
IN 350 / EN 366 The Discovery of India: British and Indo-Anglian Literatures and Films in Historical, Intellectual, and Cultural Contexts - Banerjee
Films: A Passage to India, Gandhi, Ghare Baire, Mirch Masala, Shatranj Ki Khiladi, Earth, Monsoon Wedding, Swadesh
This advanced study in literary, historical, and filmic texts (from the Modernist British to Indo-Anglian postcolonial tradition) is designed to enable students to explore the diversity inherent in the formation of the Indian concept of nation, culture, and gender. Together we shall raise questions about the interplay and contradictions that exist between reality, images, and representations of the Indian people and the country. Students taking this course are expected to work collaboratively, taking initiative and demonstrating leadership, and understanding the motivations, intentions, reasoning, perspectives, and emotions about themselves and others. It is highly recommended that students taking this course have a global interest and/or awareness; however, no specialized knowledge of the subject will be necessary. Students would be encouraged to embrace, celebrate, and critique cultural differences. The most rewarding aspect of this course is when students can also critically identify sparks of commonalities in the midst of difference. After all, it is often people’s humanity that defines them even while and especially when they resist stereotypical definitions.
Start Date: April 2007
Times: TBA
Days: M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su
Credits: 3
Instructor: Purna Banerjee
IN 350/ HI 340 /PO 323 Introduction to Modern South Asia: An Historical Inquiry into Democracy, Citizenship, and Human Rights - Banerjee & Banerjee
Film 1. Crossing the Lines (45 minutes): After four wars, Kashmiris and their land are divided between Pakistan and India, the source of recurring crises. The next war may well be a nuclear war. In this tragedy, each side tells the story of the injustice and violence of the other, and feels only the suffering of their own. This path-breaking independent documentary film, made in Pakistan, challenges us to look at Kashmir with new eyes and to hope for a new way forward.
Film 2. Ram Ke Naam (50 mins): This film by Anand Patwardhan shows how religion gets politicized and the civil space becomes uncivil in a post-colonial country.
Film 3. Anti Armed Forces Special Powers Act Struggle (20 mins): This real clipping of Anti AFSPA movement that took place in Manipur in 2005 portrays how a democratic state gets enmeshed in violence. These are real footage taken by journalists in Manipur during the days of struggle. This video is particularly important as it shows pictures of a struggle that is ongoing and yet little known in the West. The people who filmed it can come and speak to the class.
Dates: May 21-June 24
Times: 9:30 am -12:30 pm
Days: M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su
Credits: 3
Instructors: Purna Banerjee and Paula Banerjee
IN 350 European Grand Tour on the Cheap - Henry
Spend three weeks trekking from Paris to Rome. Along the way, we’ll see sights that lead to a deeper understanding of France, Switzerland and Italy.City stops include Paris, Geneva, Lausanne, Leysin, Bain de Lavey, Venice, Florence, Sienna and Rome. Possible other cities to be added. Learn how to find deals that save you time and money while traveling. We’ll spend time in major sites, but also get into neighborhoods and communities and learn what makes each culture unique.
Dates: May 21-June 10
Times: TBA
Days: M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su
Room: none
Credits: 3
Instructor: Jana Henry
IN 350 Epidemiology Foci: Cultural Comparisons – Slayton
In The Netherlands, there is a saying, “God made the world, but the Dutch made Holland.” With a true tenacious spirit to not only live, but to live HERE, the Dutch people literally claimed The Netherlands from the sea and the “wet hinterlands.” Murray (1967) asserted that, indeed, “Amsterdam and the Amsterdamers ... reversed the process of evolution” through this reclamation. Amsterdam witnessed the life and death of Rembrandt van Rijn, Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Anne Frank. The course explores not only how the physical environment of this city influenced the life and death of its citizens during Rembrandt’s time and beyond, but also how Amsterdam’s personal relationship with life and death has been shaped by the sum of its experiences. Students will retrace the journey of Anne Frank’s family from their Amsterdam home to the concentration camps of Eastern Europe following their capture by the Nazis and will examine the epidemiology consequences (morbidity and mortality) surrounding the events of World War II.
Dates: May 16, 17, 18, 19, & immersion 5/21-6/5
Times: Wed 16 (6-10), Thurs & Fri (8:00 am-10:00 pm), Sat 8:00 am - 12:00 noon; Abroad, times vary
Days: W,Th,F,S then M-W (15 days) abroad
Credits: 3 (co-enroll with MH101 and EN300/EN340)
Instructors: Deborah L. Slayton
IN 350 The Modern World of Sports - Neibuhr
This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to explore the diversity of sports in our global society and how this diversity affects the cultures and societies of our modern world. This course will offer a concise and comprehensive review of major developments in sport and physical activity viewed from an international perspective. Considerable attention will be paid to the identification and analysis of major issues confronting sport and physical education in a global context and the opportunity to compare the influence of sport on a wide variety of cultures, in relationship to their own, will be offered. A research component utilizing readings from a number of internationally known scholars and sports historians will afford the student a unique opportunity to explore culturally diverse points of view. Guest speakers with international sports experience, panel discussions, as well as various audio-visual aids will also be used to assist the student in examining how the diversity of the sports world affects their everyday lives. A variety of international topics will be explored to enable the student to understand their influence on their own society as well as their influence on modern American culture.
Dates: May 21-25
Times: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Credits: 3
Instructor: Doug Neibuhr
IN 350 Music and Culture of Summer Residency in Eastern Canada – Glencross
Join us for two weeks by the sea in Canada’s Maritime provinces intensively studying the history, culture and music of our nearest neighbor. As well as attending classes in quaint and historic St. Andrew’s-By-The-Sea, New Brunswick. We will take day trips to colorful Acadian historic sites, board a ship excursion to Ile Ste. Croix, go whale-watching, visit art galleries and fish farms, hear concerts featuring local Celtic and Acadian musicians and Millikin ensembles, sample local cuisine and much more. Satisfies Global Studies and Fine Arts requirements, Music and Dance electives.
Dates: May 21-25, Aug. 5-19, 2007
Times: 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Days: M-F, M-Su
Room: PMC 105
Credits: 3
Instructor: Laurie Glencross
IN 350 Les Artistes- Peintres du 19eme siecle en France - Lassau
Online preliminary studies of artists for 10 days + a 10-day trip to France. Students will be studying great artists such as: Cezanne, Matisse, Monet, Van Gogh and Chagall. During the preliminary phase of the course, students will study, write papers, and be tested on the backgrounds and works of the artists mentioned above. They must check in with me everyday online and submit all assigned work on time. During the trip to France, the students will experience firsthand the beauty and splendor of this country that so inspired them. In Paris, they will also get to see many of the works created by these artists and, as they travel around France, they will discover the geographical locations where some of their paintings were created or inspired. The trip will take them from Paris to the Normandy area to the Provence and the Côte d’Azur.
Dates: Jun.1-Jun.10/Jun.11-Jun.21
Times: Preliminary (online) - check in
everyday for 2 hours
Days: M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su
Credits: 3
Instructor: Kathleen Lassau
IN 350 A Comparative Study to Chinese and American Culture Through Writing and Media - Zhao
This course will use a comparison and contrast approach to introduce to the students the similarities and dissimilarities between American culture and Chinese Culture in terms of gender, sexuality, family relationship, rhetoric, ideology, education, theatre, philosophy, etc. Students will read fiction, poems, and dramas from both cultures and watch films portraying the above-mentioned cultural issues from both cultures. Students will construct their awareness of the differences and similarities between these two cultures through reading, discussions, collaborative writing projects, and writing to real people from Mainland China. There is no prerequisite for this course.
Start Date: June 12-July 2
Times: 8:30 am-11:30 am
Days: M,T,W,Th,F
Credits: 3
MPSL: IN350
Instructor: Peiling Zhao
IN 350 The People’s Republic of China - Creal
The course will take students to The People’s Republic of China and Northeast Normal University in Chang Chun, Jilin Province. Students will engage in Chinese cultural activities including history, geography, literature, and arts by visiting sites and landmarks in and around Chang Chun City. Upon arrival in Beijing, students will visit The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square before traveling by train to Chang Chun. The last days of the trip will be spent in Beijing to visit The Great Wall and observe preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Students must co-enroll in ES360 Topics - Teaching Physical Education in The People’s Republic of China.
Dates: July 15 -31, 2007
Times: 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Days: Su,M,T,W,Th,F,Sa
Credits: 3
Instructor: Todd Creal
IN 350 / HI340 Eastern Europe and the Holocaust - Kovalcik
This course is a tour of Eastern Europe. Special attention is paid to the Holocaust sites in Berlin, Warsaw, Prague and Vienna. The tour includes Warsaw Ghetto uprising sites, Auschwitz, Theresenstadt, and Matthausen. We will also visit cutlural sites in all of the major cities on the tour. The course will also offer a comprehensive study of comparative Holocaust, including an overview of the Armenian genocide, Cambodia, Serbia, and Rwanda. By the end of the tour students will have the experience of 13 days in Europe, plus they will be able to articulate the critical lessons associated with the study of genocide in the 20th century.
Dates: May 21-June 3, 2007
Times: 8:00 am -5:00 pm
Days: M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su
Credits: 3
Instructor: Timothy Kovalcik
IN 350 / HI 340 Hiroshima in History and Film – Murphy
This course deals with two issues. The first is the highly controversial use of atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, and the various interpretations of that event. The second is the way in which the atomic bomb is represented in several American and Japanese films. Lecture/Discussion format.
Dates: May 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22
Times: 9 am - 4:00 pm
Days: W, Th, F, Sa, M, T
Credits: 3
Instructor: Kevin Murphy
IN350 / SO 260 Archaeology and Religion of Pagan Europe - Parker
This course presents a survey of European prehistory and religion through the study of archaeological remains from the Paleolithic period until the Roman conquest. The coverage is selective because of the temporal and geographic variability of Europe. Several significant themes are emphasized and important sites from the various selected regions are discussed, centering primarily on west-central Europe. The distribution of sites in the landscape, evidence for subsistence and production, changes in mortuary ritual through time and the way in which ideology is mapped onto material culture and the built environment are components of the way prehistoric European social evolution is interpreted. The course introduces students to the archaeological evidence for the early development of what eventually become the various nation-states of modern Europe. In the process European cultural evolution is compared to other parts of the Old World, and placed in the context of increasing social complexity worldwide and its implications for the future of our species. Format is lecture/discussion, with slides, films and Web resources.
Dates: May 16-May 23
Times: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Days: M,T,W,Th,F,Sa
Credits: 3
Instructor: Erick Parker
IN350 / TH392 South American Performance Experience - Criswell and Pickard-Criswell
Experience is a two-nation tour through the heart of South America. The student will gain an appreciation of their place as global citizens by studying the cultures and history of Peru and Argentina. In Peru, the students will study Incan and pre-incan/Andean culture with visits to Macchu Pichu, Cuzco, Lima, and Arequipa. Excursion through cathedrals, temples and museums will give insight into the region’s history and cultural heritage. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the students will explore the rich and diverse theatrical traditions of the “Paris of South America.” Theatre outings will include Broadway style Spanish language productions, Avante Guarde underground theatre, and Argentina’s own Tango culture. The trip will center around performances of Jean Claude Van-Itallie’s La Serpiente. The production will rehearse on the Millikin Campus during the Spring Semester and will perform in Lima, Cuzco, and Buenos Aires.
Dates: May 21-June 6
Times: N/A
Days: M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su
Credits: 3
Instructor: R. Brad Criswell and Jennifer Pickard-Criswell
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