Humanities Requirement Course Offerings - Summer 2009

Summer Session I: June 1 - July 3, 2009
Literature for adolescents can't afford any self-indulgences: its audience is too impatient. So it's a great place to see what's essential to story-telling. Authors include Shelley, Twain, Salinger, Pullman, and Rowling, whom we'll use to test basic narrative theory.
SAGE Course Number: 2020
Course Tuition: $2024

Summer Session I: June 1 - July 3, 2009
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. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
SAGE Course Number: 2021
Course Tuition: $2024

Summer Session I: June 1 - July 3, 2009
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. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
NOTE: This course is hybrid course which combines online learning using a course website in LATTE with traditional class meetings each Wednesday from 11:15am-1:45pm.
SAGE Course Number: 2017
Course Tuition: $2024

Summer Session II: July 6 – August 7, 2009
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. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
NOTE: This course is taught entirely online using the Brandeis LATTE website.
SAGE Course Number: 2019
Course Tuition: $2024

Summer Session II: July 6 – August 7, 2009
Open to all students. NEJS 185b may not be repeated for credit by students who have taken NEJS 145b in previous years.
Students will discuss the processes that led to the emergence of the modern Middle East: disintegration of Islamic Ottoman society; European colonialism; reform and reaction; the rise of nationalism and the modern states, remergence of Islam as a political ideology and the concept of democracy. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
SAGE Course Number: 2079
Course Tuition: $2024

Summer Session II: July 6 – August 7, 2009
This course provides an introduction to important philosophical debates about contemporary moral issues. Topics include: animal rights, environmentalism, global justice and famine relief, racism, affirmative action, sexism, pornography, sexual morality, and gay marriage. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
SAGE Course Number: 2091
Course Tuition: $2024