An Introduction to Learning, Teaching and the Academic Environment (UN819) - University of Kent
The module covers the background knowledge required to begin teaching at the University level, and is designed to support you in developing the confidence to undertake the range of teaching duties required in Higher Education.
Critical Perspectives on Academic Practice (UN820) - University of Kent
This module is intended to help you locate your work within current policy, institutional and disciplinary contexts, and to make use of educational research and scholarship in developing your (and your students’) academic practice.
Topics in Art History (ARTH 785) - Northern Illinois University
In-depth research on specific artists, movements, periods, or problems in the history of art.
Teaching Art at the College Level (ART 780) - Northern Illinois University
Teaching art at the college level under the supervision of a master teacher.
Museum Internship (ART 765) - Northern Illinois University
Work experience in designing an online exhibition with collection(s) of related cultural or aesthetic objects and artifacts under the supervision of a member of the professional staff. Requires the completion of a major project arranged with the student's supervisor.
Independent Study (ARTH 703) - Northern Illinois University
Course work focused on collecting and personal display in Renaissance Italy. Research culminated in a seminar paper entitled “Action and Contemplation in the Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro” which discussed the portrayal of humanist characteristics of the vita activa and the vita contemplativa in both the Gubbio and Urbino studioli.
Art of the Narrative in the Middle Ages (ARTH 701) - Northern Illinois University
During the Middle Ages, artists used the art of visual story telling in a large variety of contexts in order to convey a diverse range of messages. How does telling a story with pictures differ from telling a story with words, and why was this art form so ubiquitous during the Middle Ages? What visual strategies did artists employ to tell stories, and to what ends? This is a reading intensive course that will consider theories of visual narrative and their implications for understanding individual examples of medieval pictorial narrative.
Thesis (ART 699A) - Northern Illinois University
Art Historical Methodology (ARTH 586) - Northern Illinois University
This course offers a critical survey of the ideas that have engaged art historians in the past and continue to engage them today. It is designed to introduce you to the discipline’s various methodological approaches and tools through close readings of primary and secondary sources. At semester’s end you should be familiar with the history and theory of the discipline of art history from the 18th century to the present, and able to identify and to analyze the assumptions underlying historical and current paradigms of art historical practice.
Paris and Chicago (AH 563) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This joint University of Illinois at Chicago/Northwestern University course will examine Chicago and Paris as case studies in urban development. The class will examine material primarily in a thematic way. Among the topics to be considered: the advantages and disadvantages of the urban grid, the importance of transportation and other infrastructures, the influence of real estate markets and governmental regulations, tourism, globalization, and historic preservation.
Searching for a Materialist Aesthetic in Postwar American Art: From the Artists Union to the Artworkers Coalition (AH 560) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This graduate-level course will approach the art of the American postwar period through the concerns articulated by the problematic of a materialist aesthetic and artistic labor. Although the politically radical investments of this period were subsequently anguished as economic, social and political conditions changed in the US in the immediate postwar period, we will examine the continued attempts to address art as a critical-creative, politically-motivated practice even in the far from revolutionary context of McCarthyist witch-hunts for subversives and the blossoming of late capitalist consumerist culture. We will conclude by examining the increasing difficulty of assigning radical content to the artist's activity as the artist as a social type is re-figured along the lines of the modern professional. Requirements and evaluation include a research paper plus formal in-class paper presentation as well as regular and considered participation in class discussion demonstrating a command of the texts and an engagement with the topics. To further facilitate discussion, each week a few students will be assigned as discussion leaders whose job it will be to have studied the texts in depth, developed pertinent questions of the material, and considered possible art/artist examples appropriate to the topic.
The Ruin (AH 560) – University of Illinois at Chicago
The ruin – whether construed as conceptual apparatus or as inescapable fact of urban life – has long been invested in modernist thought with iconic significance. And it is perhaps inevitable that the effect of “the ruin industry” – i.e., of the prominence of ruins in accounts of modernity – has been to discipline its subject, to constrict possibilities of new interpretation. This seminar reconsiders the role and vitality of ruins in modern experience by examining them in their expanded field, so to speak. We will focus primarily (but not exclusively) on artistic production in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Paris – roughly from the age of Diderot to Haussmannization – while considering a broad range of aesthetic theories and practices, from the vogue for ruin-strewn gardens to photographs of demolition zones. We will ask: how and in what variety of ways did ideas about urbanism and antiquity, the sublime and the picturesque, nature and Romanticism find expression in the production and reception of ruins? Case studies will include, among others, Piranesi's etchings, Hubert Robert's paintings, and Charles Marville's photographs.
Toward New Histories of the Visual Arts: 1960 to the Present (AH 511) – University of Illinois at Chicago
Since the sixties, the discipline and practice of art history has been transformed through scholarship forging new ways to study and understand the operations of visual culture. Our seminar will explore these initiatives toward new histories of the visual arts. As these initiatives often cross-disciplines, at times synthesizing into multi-disciplinary approaches to the visual, our topics and relevant readings are taken from a number of different fields, including postwar Marxism and psychoanalytic theory, structuralism, post-structuralism, the “New Historicism,” postcolonial theory, multiculturalism, cultural studies, anthropologies of art, and theories of vision and visuality. Class requirements include two-page summaries and enthusiastic discussion of readings for each seminar. Students also will lead the discussion in two seminars and submit a final research or analysis paper.
Philosophical, Historiographic and Research Issues in the History of Architecture and Art (AH 510) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This course is an intensive introduction to the philosophical and historical underpinnings of art history, theory, and criticism; in addition, it serves to present basic research methods in the discipline, including the use of archival and secondary material, the development of a research strategy, and the organization and presentation of research. Students will read extensively: as much as one or two major works a week in some cases and explore ways of doing research and making arguments in art history. Shorter analytic papers addressing the underlying issues of the week's readings are expected. Students will be responsible for presenting each week's materials and guiding the discussion. Over the course of the semester, students will devise an original research project, develop a research strategy, compile a bibliography and catalogue of relevant primary sources, and present their results, in a classroom setting and in the form of an abstract, outline, and bibliographic essay. This course is a rigorous and challenging intellectual adventure with the excitement of old and new ideas and complex thought as you wend your way through Plato, Alberti, Kant, Hegel, Wolfflin, Warburg, Panofsky, and Kubler among others. Over the course of the semester, a community of art historians develops, reading, writing and analytic skills improve dramatically, and most graduate students discover the area, the method or the theoretical basis for the work they will do over their graduate careers.
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Learning Styles (GC 495) – University of Illinois at Chicago
Responding to Medieval Architecture and its Arts (AH 441) – University of Illinois at Chicago
In this course we will first look at the architecture as well as smaller scale objects of the medieval West (with forays into the contemporary cultures of Islam and Byzantium) in order to consider the issues surrounding their creation and use in the middle ages. We will discuss how architecture and material culture functions in public and private, secular and religious, and luxury and everyday spheres. In the last weeks of the course we will turn our attention to more recent nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural and artistic responses to the architecture and arts of the Middle Ages, and examine how and why modern societies have used medieval forms and aesthetics. We will look at Medieval Revival buildings in Chicago as well as other responses to the middle ages in the United States and abroad (collecting, modern “guilds”, etc.) The course is structured as a seminar, with ample student participation required. Students will direct weekly discussions, give a formal presentation and write a substantial research paper.
Mannerism (AH 450) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This seminar will investigate the development of Mannerism, in both its initial stage and its major phase (today usually called the “Maniera”), and toward that end will examine its origins, its underlying theories, and the reasons for its ultimate rejection by both its major patrons and its very practitioners. Though the course will deal for the most part with Italy, some of the non-Italian manifestations of the style, as found in France, Germany and Flanders, may also be considered. Classes will consist of both lectures and class discussions of assigned readings, with student presentations of researched papers toward the end of the semester.
French (FR 401) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This course is designed for students who wish to develop a reading knowledge of French. The course is primarily intended to help graduate students acquire and practice tools they need to use French documents in their own academic work. French 401 focuses on three main aspects of reading: (a) strategies for reading effectively, (b) use of grammar to support understanding, and (c) the development of an extensive “high-yield” vocabulary that tends to recur in written texts across disciplines and genres.
The module covers the background knowledge required to begin teaching at the University level, and is designed to support you in developing the confidence to undertake the range of teaching duties required in Higher Education.
Critical Perspectives on Academic Practice (UN820) - University of Kent
This module is intended to help you locate your work within current policy, institutional and disciplinary contexts, and to make use of educational research and scholarship in developing your (and your students’) academic practice.
Topics in Art History (ARTH 785) - Northern Illinois University
In-depth research on specific artists, movements, periods, or problems in the history of art.
Teaching Art at the College Level (ART 780) - Northern Illinois University
Teaching art at the college level under the supervision of a master teacher.
Museum Internship (ART 765) - Northern Illinois University
Work experience in designing an online exhibition with collection(s) of related cultural or aesthetic objects and artifacts under the supervision of a member of the professional staff. Requires the completion of a major project arranged with the student's supervisor.
Independent Study (ARTH 703) - Northern Illinois University
Course work focused on collecting and personal display in Renaissance Italy. Research culminated in a seminar paper entitled “Action and Contemplation in the Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro” which discussed the portrayal of humanist characteristics of the vita activa and the vita contemplativa in both the Gubbio and Urbino studioli.
Art of the Narrative in the Middle Ages (ARTH 701) - Northern Illinois University
During the Middle Ages, artists used the art of visual story telling in a large variety of contexts in order to convey a diverse range of messages. How does telling a story with pictures differ from telling a story with words, and why was this art form so ubiquitous during the Middle Ages? What visual strategies did artists employ to tell stories, and to what ends? This is a reading intensive course that will consider theories of visual narrative and their implications for understanding individual examples of medieval pictorial narrative.
Thesis (ART 699A) - Northern Illinois University
Art Historical Methodology (ARTH 586) - Northern Illinois University
This course offers a critical survey of the ideas that have engaged art historians in the past and continue to engage them today. It is designed to introduce you to the discipline’s various methodological approaches and tools through close readings of primary and secondary sources. At semester’s end you should be familiar with the history and theory of the discipline of art history from the 18th century to the present, and able to identify and to analyze the assumptions underlying historical and current paradigms of art historical practice.
Paris and Chicago (AH 563) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This joint University of Illinois at Chicago/Northwestern University course will examine Chicago and Paris as case studies in urban development. The class will examine material primarily in a thematic way. Among the topics to be considered: the advantages and disadvantages of the urban grid, the importance of transportation and other infrastructures, the influence of real estate markets and governmental regulations, tourism, globalization, and historic preservation.
Searching for a Materialist Aesthetic in Postwar American Art: From the Artists Union to the Artworkers Coalition (AH 560) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This graduate-level course will approach the art of the American postwar period through the concerns articulated by the problematic of a materialist aesthetic and artistic labor. Although the politically radical investments of this period were subsequently anguished as economic, social and political conditions changed in the US in the immediate postwar period, we will examine the continued attempts to address art as a critical-creative, politically-motivated practice even in the far from revolutionary context of McCarthyist witch-hunts for subversives and the blossoming of late capitalist consumerist culture. We will conclude by examining the increasing difficulty of assigning radical content to the artist's activity as the artist as a social type is re-figured along the lines of the modern professional. Requirements and evaluation include a research paper plus formal in-class paper presentation as well as regular and considered participation in class discussion demonstrating a command of the texts and an engagement with the topics. To further facilitate discussion, each week a few students will be assigned as discussion leaders whose job it will be to have studied the texts in depth, developed pertinent questions of the material, and considered possible art/artist examples appropriate to the topic.
The Ruin (AH 560) – University of Illinois at Chicago
The ruin – whether construed as conceptual apparatus or as inescapable fact of urban life – has long been invested in modernist thought with iconic significance. And it is perhaps inevitable that the effect of “the ruin industry” – i.e., of the prominence of ruins in accounts of modernity – has been to discipline its subject, to constrict possibilities of new interpretation. This seminar reconsiders the role and vitality of ruins in modern experience by examining them in their expanded field, so to speak. We will focus primarily (but not exclusively) on artistic production in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Paris – roughly from the age of Diderot to Haussmannization – while considering a broad range of aesthetic theories and practices, from the vogue for ruin-strewn gardens to photographs of demolition zones. We will ask: how and in what variety of ways did ideas about urbanism and antiquity, the sublime and the picturesque, nature and Romanticism find expression in the production and reception of ruins? Case studies will include, among others, Piranesi's etchings, Hubert Robert's paintings, and Charles Marville's photographs.
Toward New Histories of the Visual Arts: 1960 to the Present (AH 511) – University of Illinois at Chicago
Since the sixties, the discipline and practice of art history has been transformed through scholarship forging new ways to study and understand the operations of visual culture. Our seminar will explore these initiatives toward new histories of the visual arts. As these initiatives often cross-disciplines, at times synthesizing into multi-disciplinary approaches to the visual, our topics and relevant readings are taken from a number of different fields, including postwar Marxism and psychoanalytic theory, structuralism, post-structuralism, the “New Historicism,” postcolonial theory, multiculturalism, cultural studies, anthropologies of art, and theories of vision and visuality. Class requirements include two-page summaries and enthusiastic discussion of readings for each seminar. Students also will lead the discussion in two seminars and submit a final research or analysis paper.
Philosophical, Historiographic and Research Issues in the History of Architecture and Art (AH 510) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This course is an intensive introduction to the philosophical and historical underpinnings of art history, theory, and criticism; in addition, it serves to present basic research methods in the discipline, including the use of archival and secondary material, the development of a research strategy, and the organization and presentation of research. Students will read extensively: as much as one or two major works a week in some cases and explore ways of doing research and making arguments in art history. Shorter analytic papers addressing the underlying issues of the week's readings are expected. Students will be responsible for presenting each week's materials and guiding the discussion. Over the course of the semester, students will devise an original research project, develop a research strategy, compile a bibliography and catalogue of relevant primary sources, and present their results, in a classroom setting and in the form of an abstract, outline, and bibliographic essay. This course is a rigorous and challenging intellectual adventure with the excitement of old and new ideas and complex thought as you wend your way through Plato, Alberti, Kant, Hegel, Wolfflin, Warburg, Panofsky, and Kubler among others. Over the course of the semester, a community of art historians develops, reading, writing and analytic skills improve dramatically, and most graduate students discover the area, the method or the theoretical basis for the work they will do over their graduate careers.
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Learning Styles (GC 495) – University of Illinois at Chicago
Responding to Medieval Architecture and its Arts (AH 441) – University of Illinois at Chicago
In this course we will first look at the architecture as well as smaller scale objects of the medieval West (with forays into the contemporary cultures of Islam and Byzantium) in order to consider the issues surrounding their creation and use in the middle ages. We will discuss how architecture and material culture functions in public and private, secular and religious, and luxury and everyday spheres. In the last weeks of the course we will turn our attention to more recent nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural and artistic responses to the architecture and arts of the Middle Ages, and examine how and why modern societies have used medieval forms and aesthetics. We will look at Medieval Revival buildings in Chicago as well as other responses to the middle ages in the United States and abroad (collecting, modern “guilds”, etc.) The course is structured as a seminar, with ample student participation required. Students will direct weekly discussions, give a formal presentation and write a substantial research paper.
Mannerism (AH 450) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This seminar will investigate the development of Mannerism, in both its initial stage and its major phase (today usually called the “Maniera”), and toward that end will examine its origins, its underlying theories, and the reasons for its ultimate rejection by both its major patrons and its very practitioners. Though the course will deal for the most part with Italy, some of the non-Italian manifestations of the style, as found in France, Germany and Flanders, may also be considered. Classes will consist of both lectures and class discussions of assigned readings, with student presentations of researched papers toward the end of the semester.
French (FR 401) – University of Illinois at Chicago
This course is designed for students who wish to develop a reading knowledge of French. The course is primarily intended to help graduate students acquire and practice tools they need to use French documents in their own academic work. French 401 focuses on three main aspects of reading: (a) strategies for reading effectively, (b) use of grammar to support understanding, and (c) the development of an extensive “high-yield” vocabulary that tends to recur in written texts across disciplines and genres.
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Advertising Design (ART 363) – DePaul University
Explores the function and practice of design in advertising through team projects. Application of design themes across a range of public communication outlets.
Typography (ART 362) – DePaul University
Design of type and fonts as carriers of visual and verbal information. Concentrated look at the expressive formatting of type by hand and computer.
Beginning Sculpture II (ART 362) – Northern Illinois University
Continued exploration of form and space through the basic techniques and media of the sculptor. A continuation of ART 361.
Package Design (ART 361) – DePaul University
Focuses on current design trends with projects utilizing properties of materials such as paper, plastics, and glass.
Beginning Sculpture I (ART 361) – Northern Illinois University
Various media and techniques involved in the sculpture process: modeling, carving, welding, casting, direct plaster. Studio and lecture.
Independent Study in Design – Corporate Design (ART 360) – DePaul University
Color (ART 302) – Northern Illinois University
Color theory: Munsell, Ostwald, Itten, Albers. A combination of lecture and studio aimed at developing sensitivity to color and knowledge of its properties.
Publication Design (ART 262) – DePaul University
Focuses on the introduction to design on various methods and visual approaches used to create attractive and easy to read publications; combination of concepts, aesthetics, and presentation techniques to create layouts for magazines, catalogs, and annual reports.
Graphic Design II (ART 261) – DePaul University
Further explores ideas, processes, tools, and materials involved in the field. Real client contact is established to develop projects including business cards, letterhead, envelopes, brochures, ads, mailers, and posters.
Photography (ART 225) – DePaul University
Introduction to the theoretical and technical foundations of photography with exploration of the medium's aesthetic, documentary, and narrative purposes.
Beginning Visual Communication I (ART 213) – Northern Illinois University
Introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of graphic design with an emphasis on typography.
Beginning Design II (ART 212) – Northern Illinois University
Intensive study of form and structure in three-dimensional space. Studio and lecture.
Beginning Design I (ART 211) – Northern Illinois University
A comprehensive study of design elements and principles through the study of two-dimensional space. Emphasis on inventiveness in the use of various media. Studio and lecture.
Life Drawing (ART 200) – Northern Illinois University
Study of the human figure through exercises in contour, modeling, and gesture drawing in a variety of media.
Beginning Painting (ART 110) – DePaul University
An introduction to basic organizational and technical concepts in painting. The preparation and proper use of materials is also stressed.
Basic Drawing 1 (ART 100) – Northern Illinois University
Introduction to drawing. Emphasis on object representation through descriptive and expressive means. Control of line, value, and spatial illusion with a variety of media.
Explores the function and practice of design in advertising through team projects. Application of design themes across a range of public communication outlets.
Typography (ART 362) – DePaul University
Design of type and fonts as carriers of visual and verbal information. Concentrated look at the expressive formatting of type by hand and computer.
Beginning Sculpture II (ART 362) – Northern Illinois University
Continued exploration of form and space through the basic techniques and media of the sculptor. A continuation of ART 361.
Package Design (ART 361) – DePaul University
Focuses on current design trends with projects utilizing properties of materials such as paper, plastics, and glass.
Beginning Sculpture I (ART 361) – Northern Illinois University
Various media and techniques involved in the sculpture process: modeling, carving, welding, casting, direct plaster. Studio and lecture.
Independent Study in Design – Corporate Design (ART 360) – DePaul University
Color (ART 302) – Northern Illinois University
Color theory: Munsell, Ostwald, Itten, Albers. A combination of lecture and studio aimed at developing sensitivity to color and knowledge of its properties.
Publication Design (ART 262) – DePaul University
Focuses on the introduction to design on various methods and visual approaches used to create attractive and easy to read publications; combination of concepts, aesthetics, and presentation techniques to create layouts for magazines, catalogs, and annual reports.
Graphic Design II (ART 261) – DePaul University
Further explores ideas, processes, tools, and materials involved in the field. Real client contact is established to develop projects including business cards, letterhead, envelopes, brochures, ads, mailers, and posters.
Photography (ART 225) – DePaul University
Introduction to the theoretical and technical foundations of photography with exploration of the medium's aesthetic, documentary, and narrative purposes.
Beginning Visual Communication I (ART 213) – Northern Illinois University
Introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of graphic design with an emphasis on typography.
Beginning Design II (ART 212) – Northern Illinois University
Intensive study of form and structure in three-dimensional space. Studio and lecture.
Beginning Design I (ART 211) – Northern Illinois University
A comprehensive study of design elements and principles through the study of two-dimensional space. Emphasis on inventiveness in the use of various media. Studio and lecture.
Life Drawing (ART 200) – Northern Illinois University
Study of the human figure through exercises in contour, modeling, and gesture drawing in a variety of media.
Beginning Painting (ART 110) – DePaul University
An introduction to basic organizational and technical concepts in painting. The preparation and proper use of materials is also stressed.
Basic Drawing 1 (ART 100) – Northern Illinois University
Introduction to drawing. Emphasis on object representation through descriptive and expressive means. Control of line, value, and spatial illusion with a variety of media.
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History of Decorative Arts: Furniture (ART 496A) – Northern Illinois University
A chronological survey from ancient Egypt through the 20 th century.
Independent Study in Architectural History (ART 399) – DePaul University
History of Visual Communication (ART 381) – Northern Illinois University
A chronological survey of the developments in the allied fields of graphic design and illustration from the Victorian era to the present.
History of Western Architecture (ART 370) – DePaul University
Social, economic, and political history of Western architecture, from Paleolithic times to the 1789 French Revolution. Topics include: classicism, the status and role of the architect, social struggle, patronage and architectural techniques.
Cities of the World: Paris and Vicinity to 1860 (ART 366) – DePaul University
The architecture and urban history of Paris and vicinity along with the principal trends in painting from the Renaissance kings to Haussmann's rebuilding of the capital city.
Buddhist Art (ART 340) – DePaul University
An exploration of the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Buddhism; examines this art as a reflection of the religious beliefs of Buddhist peoples in India , China , and Japan .
Art History Survey III from 1700 (ART 293) – Northern Illinois University
Art and architecture from the 18 th century to the present.
Baroque and Rococo Art (ART 237) – DePaul University
A survey of the art in Italy and in Western Europe , from 1600 to 1790, up to just before the French Revolution.
Contemporary Art (ART 222) – DePaul University
An examination of art from the 1930's this course traces the major movements, styles, and artists (Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Postmodernism). Special emphasis on art in Chicago collections.
Art of the Film (SPH 209) – Illinois Valley Community College
Background viewing, critiquing, lectures, discussions on history and appreciation of cinema as an art form and its influence on and reflection of society.
Survey of Non-Western Art (ART 203) – DePaul University
An examination of the changing social, religious, and political roles of visual arts in Non-Western cultures; Asian, Islamic countries, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas , from prehistoric times to the modern period.
Art Survey I (ART 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
Cultural analysis of the interrelated fields of architecture, sculpture, painting, and other humanistic studies beginning with the Paleolithic period and continuing through the Gothic period.
A chronological survey from ancient Egypt through the 20 th century.
Independent Study in Architectural History (ART 399) – DePaul University
History of Visual Communication (ART 381) – Northern Illinois University
A chronological survey of the developments in the allied fields of graphic design and illustration from the Victorian era to the present.
History of Western Architecture (ART 370) – DePaul University
Social, economic, and political history of Western architecture, from Paleolithic times to the 1789 French Revolution. Topics include: classicism, the status and role of the architect, social struggle, patronage and architectural techniques.
Cities of the World: Paris and Vicinity to 1860 (ART 366) – DePaul University
The architecture and urban history of Paris and vicinity along with the principal trends in painting from the Renaissance kings to Haussmann's rebuilding of the capital city.
Buddhist Art (ART 340) – DePaul University
An exploration of the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Buddhism; examines this art as a reflection of the religious beliefs of Buddhist peoples in India , China , and Japan .
Art History Survey III from 1700 (ART 293) – Northern Illinois University
Art and architecture from the 18 th century to the present.
Baroque and Rococo Art (ART 237) – DePaul University
A survey of the art in Italy and in Western Europe , from 1600 to 1790, up to just before the French Revolution.
Contemporary Art (ART 222) – DePaul University
An examination of art from the 1930's this course traces the major movements, styles, and artists (Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Postmodernism). Special emphasis on art in Chicago collections.
Art of the Film (SPH 209) – Illinois Valley Community College
Background viewing, critiquing, lectures, discussions on history and appreciation of cinema as an art form and its influence on and reflection of society.
Survey of Non-Western Art (ART 203) – DePaul University
An examination of the changing social, religious, and political roles of visual arts in Non-Western cultures; Asian, Islamic countries, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas , from prehistoric times to the modern period.
Art Survey I (ART 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
Cultural analysis of the interrelated fields of architecture, sculpture, painting, and other humanistic studies beginning with the Paleolithic period and continuing through the Gothic period.
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Modern British Poetry (ENG 475) – Northern Illinois University
Intensive study of 20th century British poetry, including such poets as Yeats, Auden, Housman, and Dylan Thomas.
Restoration and 18th Century Literature (ENG 412) – Northern Illinois University
Later 17th and 18th century literature, including selections from such representative writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Johnson.
Shakespeare (ENG 407) – Northern Illinois University
Representative comedies, tragedies, and historical plays. Special attention given to Shakespeare's growth as a literary artist and to the factors which contributed to that development; his work evaluated in terms of its significance for modern times.
Early English Literature (ENG 405) – Northern Illinois University
An intensive study of selected topics from English literature to 1500 apart from Chaucer. Modernized texts will be used for those works which might otherwise present language problems.
Modern American Poetry (ENG 377) – Northern Illinois University
Intensive study of 20 th century American poetry, including such poets as Frost, Stevens, and Hart Crane.
The American Novel (ENG 375) – Northern Illinois University
An intensive study of selected novels by such representative American authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, Howells, Henry James, Dreiser, Cather, Lewis, Wolfe, Hemingway, and Faulkner.
American Short Story (ENG 374) – Northern Illinois University
The shaping and development of the modern short story as a literary form by American writers, from the early 19 th century to the present.
Structure of Modern English (ENG 321) – Northern Illinois University
A survey of modern English and contemporary linguistic methods of analyzing and describing its major structures and their functions.
Language and Linguistics (ENG 318) – Northern Illinois University
Introduction to the nature of language and the fundamental principles of linguistic analysis. Survey may include interdisciplinary aspects of linguistics, the biological foundations of language, language acquisition, language variation and change, and languages of the world, their classification, typology, and viability.
Selected Readings in Drama: Tragedy (ENG 307) – Northern Illinois University
Representative selections from world drama, focusing on periods such as classical, Renaissance, or modern, or upon a theme. Subject will be announced in the class schedule.
Writing Poetry I (ENG 307) – Northern Illinois University
A beginning course in writing poetry.
Introduction to Literary Studies (ENG 200) – Northern Illinois University
A survey of major approaches to literature and of the basic tools of literary study. Practical applications of such approaches as formalist, historical, and psychological to poetry, fiction, and drama.
Experience of Fiction (ENG 110) – Northern Illinois University
Close reading for the appreciation of fiction as an embodiment of human and cultural values.
English Composition II (ENG 102) – Illinois Valley Community College
Composition II continues the study and application of rhetorical principles of expository writing in developing effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays, with particular emphasis on analyzing and writing expository prose. Students' essays will be based upon their readings of poetry, drama, and fiction.
English Composition I (ENG 101) – Illinois Valley Community College
English Composition I allows the student to study and apply rhetorical principles of writing in developing effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays, with particular emphasis on analyzing and writing expository prose. Students' essays will be based upon their readings of a variety of texts on various topics.
Intensive study of 20th century British poetry, including such poets as Yeats, Auden, Housman, and Dylan Thomas.
Restoration and 18th Century Literature (ENG 412) – Northern Illinois University
Later 17th and 18th century literature, including selections from such representative writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Johnson.
Shakespeare (ENG 407) – Northern Illinois University
Representative comedies, tragedies, and historical plays. Special attention given to Shakespeare's growth as a literary artist and to the factors which contributed to that development; his work evaluated in terms of its significance for modern times.
Early English Literature (ENG 405) – Northern Illinois University
An intensive study of selected topics from English literature to 1500 apart from Chaucer. Modernized texts will be used for those works which might otherwise present language problems.
Modern American Poetry (ENG 377) – Northern Illinois University
Intensive study of 20 th century American poetry, including such poets as Frost, Stevens, and Hart Crane.
The American Novel (ENG 375) – Northern Illinois University
An intensive study of selected novels by such representative American authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, Howells, Henry James, Dreiser, Cather, Lewis, Wolfe, Hemingway, and Faulkner.
American Short Story (ENG 374) – Northern Illinois University
The shaping and development of the modern short story as a literary form by American writers, from the early 19 th century to the present.
Structure of Modern English (ENG 321) – Northern Illinois University
A survey of modern English and contemporary linguistic methods of analyzing and describing its major structures and their functions.
Language and Linguistics (ENG 318) – Northern Illinois University
Introduction to the nature of language and the fundamental principles of linguistic analysis. Survey may include interdisciplinary aspects of linguistics, the biological foundations of language, language acquisition, language variation and change, and languages of the world, their classification, typology, and viability.
Selected Readings in Drama: Tragedy (ENG 307) – Northern Illinois University
Representative selections from world drama, focusing on periods such as classical, Renaissance, or modern, or upon a theme. Subject will be announced in the class schedule.
Writing Poetry I (ENG 307) – Northern Illinois University
A beginning course in writing poetry.
Introduction to Literary Studies (ENG 200) – Northern Illinois University
A survey of major approaches to literature and of the basic tools of literary study. Practical applications of such approaches as formalist, historical, and psychological to poetry, fiction, and drama.
Experience of Fiction (ENG 110) – Northern Illinois University
Close reading for the appreciation of fiction as an embodiment of human and cultural values.
English Composition II (ENG 102) – Illinois Valley Community College
Composition II continues the study and application of rhetorical principles of expository writing in developing effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays, with particular emphasis on analyzing and writing expository prose. Students' essays will be based upon their readings of poetry, drama, and fiction.
English Composition I (ENG 101) – Illinois Valley Community College
English Composition I allows the student to study and apply rhetorical principles of writing in developing effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays, with particular emphasis on analyzing and writing expository prose. Students' essays will be based upon their readings of a variety of texts on various topics.
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French, Comprehension and Conversation (FEN 203) – Illinois Valley Community College
Emphasis on oral and written proficiency, study of idiomatic expression and current usage. Use of language laboratory for preparation.
Intermediate French II (FLFR 202) – Northern Illinois University
Further development of the skills of reading, writing, listening comprehension and speaking. Grammatical problems; reading of literary texts. Conducted in French.
Intermediate French II (FEN 202) – Illinois Valley Community College
Continuation of FEN 201 – Intermediate French I
Intermediate French I (FLFR 201) – Northern Illinois University
A review of grammar, work in composition and the reading of modern French authors, to develop language mastery.
Intermediate French I (FEN 201) – Illinois Valley Community College
Review of French grammar as needed, reading of selected texts, oral and written practice continued in the language laboratory.
Emphasis on oral and written proficiency, study of idiomatic expression and current usage. Use of language laboratory for preparation.
Intermediate French II (FLFR 202) – Northern Illinois University
Further development of the skills of reading, writing, listening comprehension and speaking. Grammatical problems; reading of literary texts. Conducted in French.
Intermediate French II (FEN 202) – Illinois Valley Community College
Continuation of FEN 201 – Intermediate French I
Intermediate French I (FLFR 201) – Northern Illinois University
A review of grammar, work in composition and the reading of modern French authors, to develop language mastery.
Intermediate French I (FEN 201) – Illinois Valley Community College
Review of French grammar as needed, reading of selected texts, oral and written practice continued in the language laboratory.
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Topics in the Business of Music: Legal Issues (MUS 333) – DePaul University
An in-depth study of contracts for artists, agents, managers, and producers, and an investigation of copyrights; BMI, ASCAP, and unions.
Applied Networking and the Internet (PC 226) – Illinois Valley Community College
This is an introductory level course designed to equip the student with the necessary tools to navigate through the network. The student will be assigned a user ID on the network and given the chance to explore the many facets of the Internet.
Theater Production II (SPH 205) – Illinois Valley Community College
Continuation of SPH 105 – Theater Production I
Harvard Graphics (PCI 127) – Illinois Valley Community College
The student will be introduced to the field of desktop publishing. Basic concepts of text flow, graphic creation and placement, types of graphics, and type specifications are covered.
Planetary and Space Science (GEG 107) – Illinois Valley Community College
A survey of space and time, exploring past, present, and future development of our universe and solar system. Subjects included are: sun, moon, planets, stars, meteors, comets, constellations, galaxies, quasars, and black holes. Astronomy, being an interdisciplinary science, will also cover concepts dealing with biology, geology, and religion.
Swing Choir (MUP 106) – Illinois Valley Community College
A course in the understanding and enjoyment of music. Musical examples studied through selections from swing choral literature.
Precalculus (MTH 105) – Illinois Valley Community College
This course covers the same topics as College Algebra (MTH 103) and Trigonometry (MTH 104) with emphasis on functions approach and curve sketching. It is recommended for students planning to take the calculus sequence but have not met the prerequisites.
Theater Production I (SPH 105) – Illinois Valley Community College
The study and production of a major play, revue, and/or readers' theater. All areas of production related to acting, technical work, business, and public relations will be dealt with as the areas of specific assignments. The class meeting times will be arranged with the instructor for rehearsals and for independent work assignments.
Personal and Community Hygiene (HPR 103) – Illinois Valley Community College
This course includes a study of community health problems caused by pollution, communicable, diseases, and chronic illness. It considers personal problems caused by malnutrition, drugs, and emotional illness. Current developments in health science are discussed.
History of Western Civilization II (HIS 101) – Illinois Valley Community College
An introductory course dealing with the analysis of the political, economic, cultural, and social events and achievements of Western Civilization. The course begins with the Renaissance and ends with the aftermath of World War II. Special emphasis will be placed on such events as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, World War I, World War II, and its aftermath. In appropriate places, a multicultural approach will be stressed.
Fundamentals of Speech (SPH 101) – Illinois Valley Community College
A course on the fundamentals of speech presentation in audience situations with emphasis upon the development of effective organization, voice, and movements.
Physical Geography I (GEG 101) – Illinois Valley Community College
An investigation into the science of the earth's atmosphere and its related weather. Emphasis will be placed on the origin and composition of the atmosphere, earth-sun relationships, radiation, temperature, humidity, condensation and precipitation, air pressure and winds, air masses, climates, severe weather, and forecasting. Typical assignments will involve the interpretation of weather symbols, the identification of weather conditions, and simple weather forecasting techniques.
Introduction to the History of Music (MUS 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
A survey course covering the history of music. Intended to broaden the students' understanding of music as an essential component of culture. Course work is divided into three categories: study of elements and fundamentals, study of music history and context in which major works were created, and listening.
Psychology (PSY 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
An introductory course dealing with analysis and description of human behavior with special reference to learning, memory, perception, motivation, emotions, personality, and adjustment. Emphasis is placed on psychological principles as they relate to daily life.
Wellness (HPR 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
This course is designed to help students understand the wellness concept and how it applies to the development of a healthy lifestyle. The course content includes information on self-responsibility, nutrition, stress management, and physical fitness.
Introduction to Sociology (SOC 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
An introductory course dealing with basic principles, concepts, and terminology. Efforts will be made to develop sociological insights into the study of man, society, and culture.
An in-depth study of contracts for artists, agents, managers, and producers, and an investigation of copyrights; BMI, ASCAP, and unions.
Applied Networking and the Internet (PC 226) – Illinois Valley Community College
This is an introductory level course designed to equip the student with the necessary tools to navigate through the network. The student will be assigned a user ID on the network and given the chance to explore the many facets of the Internet.
Theater Production II (SPH 205) – Illinois Valley Community College
Continuation of SPH 105 – Theater Production I
Harvard Graphics (PCI 127) – Illinois Valley Community College
The student will be introduced to the field of desktop publishing. Basic concepts of text flow, graphic creation and placement, types of graphics, and type specifications are covered.
Planetary and Space Science (GEG 107) – Illinois Valley Community College
A survey of space and time, exploring past, present, and future development of our universe and solar system. Subjects included are: sun, moon, planets, stars, meteors, comets, constellations, galaxies, quasars, and black holes. Astronomy, being an interdisciplinary science, will also cover concepts dealing with biology, geology, and religion.
Swing Choir (MUP 106) – Illinois Valley Community College
A course in the understanding and enjoyment of music. Musical examples studied through selections from swing choral literature.
Precalculus (MTH 105) – Illinois Valley Community College
This course covers the same topics as College Algebra (MTH 103) and Trigonometry (MTH 104) with emphasis on functions approach and curve sketching. It is recommended for students planning to take the calculus sequence but have not met the prerequisites.
Theater Production I (SPH 105) – Illinois Valley Community College
The study and production of a major play, revue, and/or readers' theater. All areas of production related to acting, technical work, business, and public relations will be dealt with as the areas of specific assignments. The class meeting times will be arranged with the instructor for rehearsals and for independent work assignments.
Personal and Community Hygiene (HPR 103) – Illinois Valley Community College
This course includes a study of community health problems caused by pollution, communicable, diseases, and chronic illness. It considers personal problems caused by malnutrition, drugs, and emotional illness. Current developments in health science are discussed.
History of Western Civilization II (HIS 101) – Illinois Valley Community College
An introductory course dealing with the analysis of the political, economic, cultural, and social events and achievements of Western Civilization. The course begins with the Renaissance and ends with the aftermath of World War II. Special emphasis will be placed on such events as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, World War I, World War II, and its aftermath. In appropriate places, a multicultural approach will be stressed.
Fundamentals of Speech (SPH 101) – Illinois Valley Community College
A course on the fundamentals of speech presentation in audience situations with emphasis upon the development of effective organization, voice, and movements.
Physical Geography I (GEG 101) – Illinois Valley Community College
An investigation into the science of the earth's atmosphere and its related weather. Emphasis will be placed on the origin and composition of the atmosphere, earth-sun relationships, radiation, temperature, humidity, condensation and precipitation, air pressure and winds, air masses, climates, severe weather, and forecasting. Typical assignments will involve the interpretation of weather symbols, the identification of weather conditions, and simple weather forecasting techniques.
Introduction to the History of Music (MUS 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
A survey course covering the history of music. Intended to broaden the students' understanding of music as an essential component of culture. Course work is divided into three categories: study of elements and fundamentals, study of music history and context in which major works were created, and listening.
Psychology (PSY 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
An introductory course dealing with analysis and description of human behavior with special reference to learning, memory, perception, motivation, emotions, personality, and adjustment. Emphasis is placed on psychological principles as they relate to daily life.
Wellness (HPR 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
This course is designed to help students understand the wellness concept and how it applies to the development of a healthy lifestyle. The course content includes information on self-responsibility, nutrition, stress management, and physical fitness.
Introduction to Sociology (SOC 100) – Illinois Valley Community College
An introductory course dealing with basic principles, concepts, and terminology. Efforts will be made to develop sociological insights into the study of man, society, and culture.
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