Summer & Continuing Studies 2013

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Key:   = Session 1    = Session 2    = Extended Session

ANTH 144a - The Anthropology of Gender

4 credit hours
Instructor: Jessica Hardin
Requirements Fulfilled: wi, sn, nw
M, T, Th 06:30 - 08:50 PM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
This course is an examination of gender constructs, sexuality, and cultural systems from a comparative perspective. Topics include the division of labor, rituals of masculinity and femininity, the vexing question of the universality of women's subordination, cross-cultural perspectives on same-sex sexualities and transsexuality, the impact of globalization on systems, and the history of feminist anthropology. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2051
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

ENG 79a - Directed Writing: Beginning Screenwriting

4 credit hours
Instructor: Marc Weinberg
Requirements Fulfilled: wi, hum
M, T, Th 11:00 AM - 01:20 PM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
This course may not be repeated by students who have taken ENG 129b in previous years. Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of screenwriting: structure, plot, conflict, character, and dialog. Students read screenwriting theory, scripts, analyze files, and produce an outline and the first act of an original screenplay.
Sage class number: 2126
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

ENG 129a - Writing Workshop

4 credit hours
Instructor: Joseph Coroniti
Requirements Fulfilled: wi, hum
T, W, Th 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
This class is a graded course but Brandeis students may use up one of their Pass/Fail options for this course.
This creative writing workshop is designed for those willing to take a close look at the act of writing, whether prose or poetry. The course will be highly interactive, with feedback from other members as well as the workshop leader. Writing experiments will get our creative juices flowing and stimulate creative muscles we are not used to flexing. We will read a variety of short writings to provide a common ground for theorizing, inspiring, and sharing the creative process. We will specifically consider what we are trying to accomplish: to change the world? to change ourselves? to think? to see? to find an individual voice? We will focus on words, techniques, styles, dreams, bodies, states of mind, and the world outside. This course is available for Undergraduate Credit only in Summer 2013. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2127
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

ENG 139b - Intermediate Screenwriting

4 credit hours
Instructor: Marc Weinberg
Requirements Fulfilled: wi, hum
M, T, Th 11:00 AM - 01:20 PM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis.
Prerequisites: ENG 129b or ENG 79a or permission of the Instructor. To receive permission, please send a writing sample to the Instructor at marcw@brandeis.edu. In this writing course students build on screenwriting basics and delve more deeply into the creative process. Participants read and critique each others work, study screenplays and view films, and submit original written material on a regular basis. At the conclusion of the course each student will have completed the first draft of a screenplay (100-120 pages).
Sage class number: 2128
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

JOUR 45a - Sports Writing

4 credit hours
Instructor: Peter May
Requirements Fulfilled: wi, ss
Online-T, Th 06:00 - 07:30 PM

Extended Summer Session: June 3 to August 9, 2013
This course applies skills in research, interviewing, and direct observation to write game stories, features, and opinion pieces about sports. Students learn to also see and write about sports in the broader context of business, political and social issues. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2113
Course Tuition: $2,475 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

PSYC 52a - Research Methods and Laboratory in Psychology

4 credit hours
Instructor: Monika Lohani
Requirements Fulfilled: wi, ss, qr
M, T, Th 08:30 - 10:50 AM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
This is an experiential learning course. Prerequisites: PSYC 1a and 51a. This course may not be repeated for credit by students who have taken PSYC 152a in previous years. In this course, you will learn how to conduct research in psychology. Through an intensive hands-on projects, you will learn about correlational and experimental design, have the opportunity to analyze data, and write comprehensive research reports in the style accepted by the American Psychological Association. The course offers supervised practice in experimental design, data analysis and interpretation, and formal presentation of experimental results. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2096
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

THA 71a - Playwriting

4 credit hours
Instructor: Joseph Coroniti
Requirements Fulfilled: wi, ca
Online T, Th 06:00 - 07:30 PM

Extended Summer Session: June 3 to August 9, 2013
This is an experiential learning course. This course may not be taken for credit by students who took THA 104a in prior years. Please Note: This course does not count toward a Major or Minor in Creative Writing, but does fulfill the Writing Intensive Requirement for Degree Requirements.
In this online playwriting workshop, members will create three-dimensional characters in action; dramatic tension and conflict; and cadenced dialogue that grips the audience. As models for writing, we will consider a small number of plays and film adaptations, drawn from such works as Glengarry Glen Ross (David Mamet), The Heidi Chronicles (Wendy Wasserstein), Topdog/Underdog (Suzan-Lori Parks), Angels in America (Tony Kushner), Waiting for Godot, and Amadeus. However, the focus of this workshop will be on students' original scripts. Participants will write one ten-minute play and one one-act play.
You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2114
Course Tuition: $2,475 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee