Summer & Continuing Studies 2013

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ENG 27b - Classic Hollywood Cinema

4 credit hours
Instructor: William Flesch
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 11:00 AM - 01:20 PM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
A critical examination of the history of mainstream U.S. cinema from the 1930's to the present. This course focuses on major developments in film content and form, the rise and fall of the studio and star system, the changing nature of spectatorship, and the social context of film production and reception.
Sage class number: 2057
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

ENG 33a - Shakespeare

4 credit hours
Instructor: William Flesch
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 08:30 - 10:50 AM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
This course provides a survey of Shakespeare as a dramatist. Students will read between several plays, representing all periods of Shakespeare's dramatic career.
Sage class number: 2058
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

ENG 180a - The Modern American Short Story

4 credit hours
Instructor: William Flesch
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 08:30 - 10:50 AM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
This course presents a close study of masterworks of American short fiction masterworks. Students read as writers write, discussing solutions to narrative obstacles and examining the consequences of alternate points of view. This course studies words and syntax to understand and articulate how technical decisions have moral and emotional weight.
Sage class number: 2086
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

NEJS 5a - Foundational Course in Judaic Studies

4 credit hours
Instructor: Eugene Sheppard
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 11:00 AM - 01:20 PM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
This course is a survey of the Jewish experience and thought, focusing on the varieties of historical Judaism, including its classical forms, its medieval patterns and transformations, and its modern options.
Sage class number: 2069
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

NEJS 185b - The Making of the Modern Middle East

4 credit hours
Instructor: Shahram Shadbash
Requirements Fulfilled: ss, hum, nw
M, T, Th 06:30 - 08:50 PM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
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, formation of modern states, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2070
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

NEJS 187a - Political Islam

4 credit hours
Instructor: Shahram Shadbash
Requirements Fulfilled: hum, nw
M, T, Th 06:30 - 08:50 PM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
NEJS 187a may not be repeated for credit by students who have taken NEJS 148a in previous years. This course traces the recent reemergence of Islam as a political force by examining its position in the contemporary Islamic world. The course will use Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran as major test cases for assessing the success of political Islam. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2091
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

PHIL 1a - Introduction to Philosophy

4 credit hours
Instructor: Kevin Busch
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 11:00 AM - 01:20 PM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
A general course presenting the problems of philosophy, especially in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Texts include works of selected philosophers of various historical periods from antiquity to the present. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2107
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

PHIL 6a - Introduction to Symbolic Logic

4 credit hours
Instructor: Matthias Jenny
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 01:30 - 03:50 PM

Summer Session II: July 8 to August 9, 2013
Symbolic logic provides concepts and formal techniques that elucidate deductive reasoning. This course covers sentence logic and predicate logic. Topics include truth-functional connectives, quantifiers, validity, truth, validity, and proof.

This course fulfills requirements for philosophy majors and non-majors. It is also of interest to any students interested in critical thinking and logic, for example, those planning to take the LSAT. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2092
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee

PHIL 21a - Environmental Ethics

4 credit hours
Instructor: Benjamin Sherman
Requirements Fulfilled: hum
M, T, Th 01:30 - 03:50 PM

Summer Session I: June 3 to July 5, 2013
This is an experiential learning course.
PHIL 21a explores the ethical dimensions of human relationships to the natural world. Together we will look at environmental ethical theories such as deep ecology and eco-feminism and discusses the ethics of specific environmental issues such as wilderness preservation and climate change. You can view a syllabus for this class here.
Sage class number: 2106
Course Tuition: $2,320 plus a nonrefundable once per summer $50 registration fee