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Spring Semester Class Listing
Apologies in advance for the lengthy post.
This is NOT the class sign-up post.
Instructions for class sign-ups will be forthcoming in the next few days. This is simply a listing of all classes being offered for Fandom High's Spring Semester. Feel free to take a look and get some ideas of what classes you would like your character to take this semester.
Please be aware that class sizes are limited, and you may not get your first choice of classes. All students must take at least 3 classes. Have a few back-up choices on hand just in case you don't get to enroll in your first choices.
The schedule for these classes will be released in a separate post following this one. You may not enroll in any two classes that are on at the same time. You'll have to schedule like a normal student has to.
Teachers - if I've missed your class here, chances are you didn't submit your form way back or it's been misplaced. Contact me ASAP so we can work your classes into the current schedule.
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
Course Name: Biology
Instructor: Sara Sidle
Maximum Capacity: 30 per section
Course Description: Lecture-intensive, as well as lab work. Topics covered will include the origins of the study of biology, microbiology, macrobiology, genetics, anatomy, physiology, histology (time permitting). Also, the class will be making another trip to the Fandom Body Farm for studies in comparitive decomposition.
Notes: There are two sections for this class. Section 1 has the same content as Section 2, but the sections are offered at two different times. Please choose only one.
Course Name: Chemistry
Instructor: Sara Sidle
Maximum Capacity: 20 per section
Course Description: Lecture/Lab intensive. Covering the origins of the study of chemistry, molecular work, significant experimentation, and prevalence in the world.
Notes: There are two sections for this class. Section 1 has the same content as Section 2, but the sections are offered at two different times. Please choose only one.
Course Name: Forensics
Instructor: Sara Sidle
Maximum Capacity: 30
Prerequisite: Biology
Course Description: Lecture intensive, covering the history of forensics, the sciences contained therein, significant discoveries of the past and present, and forensic techniques. There will also be a field trip to the Body Farm for comparitive studies in decomposition.
Course Name: Quantum Physics For Not-So-Beginners (QPHY 225)
Instructor: The Doctor
Maximum Capacity: 6
Course Description: Continuing off the basis of this term's 123, this course will take a more practical approach. Students will study a particular period in Earth history in depth ((This will probably be 20th century America, because it's what Rhi knows well)), examining and speculating what would have occurred had different events been affected by temporal distortions. Course will focus on various forms of cultural and ideological change, both for the time traveller and for those whom he or she encounters, and how scientific concepts affect very real people. Discussion and project based.
Course Name: Paleontology
Instructor: Tommy Oliver
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: Dinosaurs. Dead things. Bones. Fossils. You get the picture.
Course Name: Mathematics: Beginners
Instructor: Charlie Eppes
Maximum Capacity: 6
Course Description: An introduction to numbers, the various number systems. Basic math - addition, subtraction, division, multiplication. The history of mathematics.
Notes: All mathematics classes are held at the same time. You can only choose one.
Course Name: Mathematics: Intermediate
Instructor: Charlie Eppes
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: Mathematical riddles, exercises and theory
Notes: All mathematics classes are held at the same time. You can only choose one.
Course Name: Mathematics: Advanced
Instructor: Charlie Eppes
Maximum Capacity: 6
Course Description: Theory and project work in the fields of advanced mathematics. Theory based on the students' choice of project.
Notes: All mathematics classes are held at the same time. You can only choose one.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course Name: Sociology of Violence
Instructor: Gil Grissom
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/drgrissom/2005/01/01/
Course Name: Sociology of the Paranormal
Instructor: Gil Grissom
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/drgrissom/2005/01/01/
Course Name: Sociology Special Topic - Sex Cultures
Instructor: Gil Grissom
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/drgrissom/2005/01/01/
Course Name: Fandom Area Study (Independent Study)
Instructor: Gil Grissom
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: TBA
Course Name: US Government: There's A System. Really.
Instructor: Joshua Lyman
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/professor_lyman/1088.html
Course Name: US History: You Live Here, You Might As Well Learn About It
Instructor: Joshua Lyman
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/professor_lyman/925.html
Course Name: Political Campaigning: Give Me Enough Money and Time, I Can Elect A Monkey to Congress
Instructor: Joshua Lyman
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/professor_lyman/1360.html
Course Name: Celtic Studies
Instructor: Camulus
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: A hodge-podge of everything I wanted to teach this semester but didn't have enough students. Most literture and story-telling, focusing on the Tain Bo Cuilagne, the Oisianic cycle (Finn McCool), and a scattered few other classics. Also looks at Celtic history, culture, cuisine and a little bit of basic Gaelic.
Course Name: Arthurian Traditions
Instructor: Camulus
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: A look at the legend of Arthur, starting from Celtic and Welsh roots. Texts covered are the Mabinogian, Geoffrey of Monmouth, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', Malory, and 'The Mists of Avalon'. Discusses topics like the role of women, the role of men, the Holy Grail, chivalry, the need for a hero, the nature of myth and legend.
Course Name: Psychology 101
Instructor: Jenny Calendar
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: A discussion-based class which covers general introductory topics for psychology, including a general overview of the history of the field, major personalities and theories, and includes class exercises which are designed to illustrate principles of psychology through recreating past experiments performed by researchers in the field. We will also include a short section on parapsychology as a subset of the field.
Course Name: Carl Jung - Archetypes, The Collective Unconscious, and Psychoanalysis
Instructor: Jenny Calendar
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Descripion: An overview of the impact of Carl Jung on the field of psychology, along with analysis of his theories, personality analysis, the concept of the anima/animus and shadow, archetypes, personal and cultural mythology, god, I'm such a geek, the collective unconscious, and possibly with the showing of a space opera depicting a character arc such as the heroic journal. Various myths from around the globe will be used as examples of Jung's archetypes. A potential unit on dream interpretation, depending on student interest.
Course Name: Anthropology 101
Instructor: Daniel Jackson
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: Class will be lecture and discussion based. Homework will be set as needed, to either ensure that what was said in class was understood, or to go beyond the class. It will include cultural and physical anthropology, but will also touch on various other subdivions, such as applied and economic anthropology, but not archaeology (as that will already be offered seperately) Famous anthropologists, or those from other disciples will also be looked at. Cultural anthropology will include kinship, sex and marriage, economic anthropology, political anthropology, livelihood, well-being and society and the comparison of other societies to the ethnocentric norm, with the use of ethnographies. Physical anthropology will include primates, evolution, genetics and variability, looking at human origins and diversity. The two will also be tied together, showing how biology, culture and society works.
Course Name: Introduction to Archaeology
Instructor: Daniel Jackson
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description:
It will provide a wide-ranging introduction to the history of archaeological thought, the way in which archaeology can be organized, methods of finding and exploring sites and the kinds of information which can be derived from the results of fieldwork and excavation. Class format will be the same as anthropology.
Included Topics: Introduction to the subject of Archaeology, History of archaeological thought, Surveys, Artefact Studies, Excavation and publication, Human Skeletal remains, Dating, Animal and plant remains, Reconstructing societies and cultural change, Public and professional archaeology.
Course Name: Advanced Criminal Justice
Instructor: The Tick
Maximum Capacity: 14
Course Description: ACJ will continue to be a discussion oriented class. Topics will be whatever bit of randomness crosses my Tick's brain that he can somehow pulled back into Justice, just like it has been this semester. Many topics will be pulled from existing fictional sources (i.e. Road Runner, Kenny McCormick) and twisted into a Justice-related package. Really, it'll be the same basic class, but possibly with an additional weekly metaphor assignment (which would be the "Advanced" part of the class). There will be two projects, (the focus of which are TBD), up to two quizzes, a Midterm Exam, and a Final Exam.
Notes: Admission to this class is limited. Priority will be given to current Criminal Justice students and then seniors.
Course Name: History 101 - Western Civilization
Instructor: Adam Pierson
Maximum Capacity: To Be Advised
Course Description: A study of Western Civilisation from Sumarian roots tomodern times as far forward as we can get through the course.
Course Name: History 301 - Medieval English History
Instructor: Adam Pierson
Maximum Capacity: To Be Advised
Course Description: A study of the history of England from 1000 - 1485.
Course Name: The Tactics of War: A Study of Theories and Approaches
Instructor: Doctor Samantha Carter/Eighth
Maximum Capacity: 14
Course Description: In this class, students will learn about a variety of battle tactics from a variety of fandoms and discuss the nature of both group and individual in each case. Particularfandom battles will be discussed at length as well as the motivations of people involved. Such a class would be useful for both aspiring hero and villain as both sides of the coin will be discussed.
Course Name: Business Law
Instructor: Lorelai Gilmore-Danes
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: The course is intended to help students: (1) understand how law affects business; (2) identify and critically analyze legal issues arising in a business context; (3) understand the impact of legal decisions; and (4) appreciate the importance of legal risk management.
Included Topics:
The Legal System - Philosophy, Sources, and Classification of Law, Business Ethics and the Law, The Court System, Civil Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Private Law - Torts (Intentional Torts, Negligence, Strict Liability & Product Liability), Property (Personal and Real), Intellectual Property, Contracts
Public Law / Business Regulation - Constitutional Law, Regulation of Business, Administrative Agencies,
Antitrust
Course Name: Human Resources Management
Instructor: Lorelai Gilmore-Danes
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: Students will understand how to analyze jobs and why this is important, what some of the important issues are in recruiting and selecting a labor force, what is important in training, motivating, and maintaining an effective work force, and what are the important legal and regulatory issues in managing human resources. They will also have a basic understanding of labor relations and of the relationships between the human resource management function and other organizational activities.
Included Topics: The Challenge of Human Resource Management, Equal Opportunity Employment, Job Analysis and Employee Involvement, Training and Development, Appraising and Improving Performance, Managing Compensation, Employee Benefits, Safety & Health, Employee Rights & Discipline
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
Course Name: Creative Writing: Poetry
Instructor: Geoffrey Chaucer
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: The course will cover most of the major forms of poetry and students will be assigned to produce their own work. Class will include a lecture on poetic forms and elements, followed by discussion on the lecture/and or the assigned reading. Some of the assigned readings will also be read aloud in class by the instructor or student volunteers. Students will be required to periodically submit an original poem. Some of these assigments will incorporate the lessons on poetic forms.
Included Topics: Petrarch's Canzoniere, Chaucer's Troylus and Creseyd or Romance of the Rose, Shakespeare's selected Sonnets, Pope's The Dunciad, Poe's selected poems, Dickinson's selected poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning selected poems, Robert Burns selected poems, John Donne selected poems, Percy Bysshe Shelley selected poems, Oliver Wendell Holmes selected poems, Hilaire Belloc selected poems
Course Name: Introduction to Western Literature
Instructor: Geoffrey Chaucer
Maximum Capacity: 15
Course Description: A survey class designed to introduce students to the the highlights of European and American literature. Classes will take the form of a short lecture combined with directed discussion about the assigned readings. The lecture will cover topics related to the assigned reading: generally things like literary form, information on the author, explanation of literary elements being encountered for the first time (i.e. satire, Greek chorus, etc.). The lecture and discussion cover the two major portions of the grading arrangement. A student project will be required. Each student will choose a topic -- either related to one of the assigned readings or to a new reading they would like to introduce to the syllabus. They will lead a class discussion on their topic. Examples: lead a discussion on how Shakespeare's Sonnets are related to the work of Petrarch; lead a discussion on the symbolism of color in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. There will occasionally be an oral quiz on the class discussions and readings. These will not be scheduled. They will also not be lengthy -- the point is to make sure students are doing the readings and paying attention in class.
Included topics:
Shakespeare's Macbeth, Goethe's Faust, Austen's Mansfield Park, Shelley's Frankenstein, Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Course Name: Foreign Literature 101
Instructor: Dream
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: Students will read short stories, poems and plays originally in a variety of European, Asian and other tongues. Authors might include Haruki Murakami, Dante Alighieri, Pablo Neruda, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov and more. The goal of the class will be for students to, through literature, come to an understanding of other cultures and times. In addition, Dream will review a few vocabulary words in the language of each piece studied in class, to help students build foreign language skills.
Course Name: Creature Languages 101
Instructor: Dream
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: Students will learn the snake language known as Parseltongue, Sharkspeak, Dragon, Spider, and a variety of other animal dialects through lecture, discussion and in-class practice, with a goal of enabling student communication with animals they may think of as threatening. They will also learn about the cultures surrounding those languages. Lockheed will serve as a guest lecturer, as will other creatures (played by Dream or by fh_anonymous). Unlike in Cat class this term, there will be no transformation of students into animals.
Course Name: Classics 201: Classical Languages
Instructor: Dream
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: In this upper-level course on the classical tongues of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, students will move beyond the basic grammar and vocabulary they studied last semester into more advanced translation and reading of Latin and Greek works. Lecture course with frequent discussions and in-class presentations. Primarily for students who have studied Classics before; others admitted by permission only.
Course Name: Speech 201 - Advanced Public Speaking
Instructor: CJ Cregg
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: A course designed for students who do not get nervous. Students will learn preparation for addressing others in classical speech format. Traditional Greek rhetorical tools of ethos, pathos, and logos are used. Students will be assigned topic on Tuesday and allowed to discuss with classmates and the instructor. They will present these speeches each Thursday.
Course Name: Speech 301 - Interpersonal Communication
Instructor: CJ Cregg
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: A more theory based course. Students will examine how people communicate with one another. Classes will be thematically grouped by week. Essays and discussion are required.
Included Topics: Trust, Influence and Manipulation, Obedience, Friendship, Family, Theory and Practice
Course Name: Speech 401 - Advanced Communication
Instructor: CJ Cregg
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: A combination of theory and application. students will deconstruct images and texts, and videos as availible, to understand the sender/message/receiver paradigm. Studets will learn more about Register, professional and technical communication, and graphic analysis utilizing the Gestalt Principles of design. Political speeches will be unpacked for the rhetoric used, and the theories and philosophies of Grice and Foucault will be, at bare minimum, introduced. 301 Pre-Requisite
LIFE SKILLS
Course Name: Cultivation and Gardening
Instructor: Justin Quayle
Maximum Capacity: 15 per section
Course Description: The class will cover everything needed to be known about plants and flowers and cultivated fruits/vegetables. Each student will grow multiple plants through out the year as project grades and will learn how to take care of that plant. Each week there will be a discussion on either the plant being grown or a a chosen topic.
Course Name: Shop
Instructor:Angus MacGyver
Maximum Capacity: 15
Course Description: Fabrication of simple machinces for a specific purpose (ala Junkyard wars), use of different environmental elements to solve a specific problem (MacGyver Type situations). All classes will be held in the Danger Room Shop where the safety locks are always on and no student can be harmed during the class period. Despite a request from students, we will not be building any weapons that could be taken out of the shop class room.
Course Name: Magical Theory 101
Instructor: Jenny Calendar
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: The class will watch movies, read books, and discuss both the theories of magical practice and--to a lesser degree--perception of magic in the modern media (with a focus on what may be correct or incorrect). This is a theoretical class only and will not cover practical applications of magic. It will contain a short, succinct chapter on magical ethics and how to know the difference between black/evil magic and white/good magic. Will also contain a short section on technomagic vs. traditional magic.
Course Name: Driver's Education
Instructor: Tommy Oliver
Maximum Capacity: 10 (per section)
Course Description: Students in this class will learn how to drive. All classes will be held in the Danger Shop. Section 2 will only be filled after Section 1 is filled.
Course Name: General Physical Conditioning
Instructor: Duncan MacLeod
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: Classes meet in the gym. This is a general conditioning course. Topics such as weight lifting, aerobic kick boxing, track, and team sports will be covered. Other topics can be added if interest and the instructor’s judgement indicate that this is a good idea.
Course Name: Multidisciplinary Self Defense Forms
Instructor: Duncan MacLeod
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: This class meets in the gym. The emphasis will be on aikido and tai chi rather than judo or jujitsu. Students will be drilled and paired for sparring according to their current level of skill. An after school meeting to work out with each student to determine that ability to the instructor’s satisfaction will be required. Kendo will be added if interest and potential indicate it to be appropriate for the student. Students who miss a class must present a valid excuse or be sent to detention. This is for even the first absence. Continued lack of attendance will result in the student being removed from the course.
JOURNALISM
Course Name: Journalism 101/201
Instructor: Rita Skeeter
Maximum Capacity: TBA
Course Description: This subject will cover the basics of writing for a periodical. 201 students will be expected to do more work and said work will need to be of a higher quality.
Course Name: Advanced Journalism
Instructor: Rita Skeeter
Maximum Capacity: TBA
Course Description: This class will only be open to those who have some form of prior experience (and yes, if you weren't in Spider's class last semester, you will have to test into the class), and will further explore aspects of writing for a periodical.
Course Name: Journalistic Integrity
Instructor: Rita Skeeter
Maximum Capacity: TBA
Course Description: Ethics in regards to how writing should be handled, ie - are tabloids bad?
Course Name: Photojournalism (Independent Study)
Instructor: Rita Skeeter
Maximum Capacity: TBA
Course Description: Independent study. Students will be expected to do assignments on their own and will need to meet with Rita once a week.
THE ARTS
Course Name: Music 201 - Music of the Multiverse
Instructor: Ted 'Theodore' Logan
Maximum Capacity: 24
Course Description: Each week will focus on the music of a region of the multiverse. Attention will be given to the arrangement of this music, as well as its place in daily life in the region and what effects the music can have on both residents and non-residents. The purpose of the class is to cater to a varied student body. The class format will involve two periods held together. The first period will be a lecture on the topic, including exposure to actual works from the chosen region. The second period will be used primarily for discussion or practical work on projects that will engage the students and hopefully allow them to understand music as a working part of daily life.
Included Topics: Earth (20th Century USA), Earth (20th Century non-USA), A Galaxy Far, Far Away (Star Wars), The Twelve Colonies of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica), The Rim (Firefly), The Uncharted Territories (Farscape), Ancient Greece (Xena: Warrior Princess), Songs of the Sea (Horatio Hornblower, Pirates of the Caribbean), Wizarding England (Harry Potter), The Labyrinth (Labyrinth) and Melmac and Ork (ALF and Mork & Mindy)
Course Name: History of Art
Instructor: Autolycus
Maximum Capacity: 15
Course Description: Art through the ages. What's goodenough to steal? What is art worth?
Course Name: Studio Art
Instructor: Autolycus
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: A project-based art subject. You will be required to submit work of some kind on a regular basis.
This is NOT the class sign-up post.
Instructions for class sign-ups will be forthcoming in the next few days. This is simply a listing of all classes being offered for Fandom High's Spring Semester. Feel free to take a look and get some ideas of what classes you would like your character to take this semester.
Please be aware that class sizes are limited, and you may not get your first choice of classes. All students must take at least 3 classes. Have a few back-up choices on hand just in case you don't get to enroll in your first choices.
The schedule for these classes will be released in a separate post following this one. You may not enroll in any two classes that are on at the same time. You'll have to schedule like a normal student has to.
Teachers - if I've missed your class here, chances are you didn't submit your form way back or it's been misplaced. Contact me ASAP so we can work your classes into the current schedule.
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
Course Name: Biology
Instructor: Sara Sidle
Maximum Capacity: 30 per section
Course Description: Lecture-intensive, as well as lab work. Topics covered will include the origins of the study of biology, microbiology, macrobiology, genetics, anatomy, physiology, histology (time permitting). Also, the class will be making another trip to the Fandom Body Farm for studies in comparitive decomposition.
Notes: There are two sections for this class. Section 1 has the same content as Section 2, but the sections are offered at two different times. Please choose only one.
Course Name: Chemistry
Instructor: Sara Sidle
Maximum Capacity: 20 per section
Course Description: Lecture/Lab intensive. Covering the origins of the study of chemistry, molecular work, significant experimentation, and prevalence in the world.
Notes: There are two sections for this class. Section 1 has the same content as Section 2, but the sections are offered at two different times. Please choose only one.
Course Name: Forensics
Instructor: Sara Sidle
Maximum Capacity: 30
Prerequisite: Biology
Course Description: Lecture intensive, covering the history of forensics, the sciences contained therein, significant discoveries of the past and present, and forensic techniques. There will also be a field trip to the Body Farm for comparitive studies in decomposition.
Course Name: Quantum Physics For Not-So-Beginners (QPHY 225)
Instructor: The Doctor
Maximum Capacity: 6
Course Description: Continuing off the basis of this term's 123, this course will take a more practical approach. Students will study a particular period in Earth history in depth ((This will probably be 20th century America, because it's what Rhi knows well)), examining and speculating what would have occurred had different events been affected by temporal distortions. Course will focus on various forms of cultural and ideological change, both for the time traveller and for those whom he or she encounters, and how scientific concepts affect very real people. Discussion and project based.
Course Name: Paleontology
Instructor: Tommy Oliver
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: Dinosaurs. Dead things. Bones. Fossils. You get the picture.
Course Name: Mathematics: Beginners
Instructor: Charlie Eppes
Maximum Capacity: 6
Course Description: An introduction to numbers, the various number systems. Basic math - addition, subtraction, division, multiplication. The history of mathematics.
Notes: All mathematics classes are held at the same time. You can only choose one.
Course Name: Mathematics: Intermediate
Instructor: Charlie Eppes
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: Mathematical riddles, exercises and theory
Notes: All mathematics classes are held at the same time. You can only choose one.
Course Name: Mathematics: Advanced
Instructor: Charlie Eppes
Maximum Capacity: 6
Course Description: Theory and project work in the fields of advanced mathematics. Theory based on the students' choice of project.
Notes: All mathematics classes are held at the same time. You can only choose one.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course Name: Sociology of Violence
Instructor: Gil Grissom
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/drgrissom/2005/01/01/
Course Name: Sociology of the Paranormal
Instructor: Gil Grissom
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/drgrissom/2005/01/01/
Course Name: Sociology Special Topic - Sex Cultures
Instructor: Gil Grissom
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/drgrissom/2005/01/01/
Course Name: Fandom Area Study (Independent Study)
Instructor: Gil Grissom
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: TBA
Course Name: US Government: There's A System. Really.
Instructor: Joshua Lyman
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/professor_lyman/1088.html
Course Name: US History: You Live Here, You Might As Well Learn About It
Instructor: Joshua Lyman
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/professor_lyman/925.html
Course Name: Political Campaigning: Give Me Enough Money and Time, I Can Elect A Monkey to Congress
Instructor: Joshua Lyman
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: http://www.livejournal.com/users/professor_lyman/1360.html
Course Name: Celtic Studies
Instructor: Camulus
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: A hodge-podge of everything I wanted to teach this semester but didn't have enough students. Most literture and story-telling, focusing on the Tain Bo Cuilagne, the Oisianic cycle (Finn McCool), and a scattered few other classics. Also looks at Celtic history, culture, cuisine and a little bit of basic Gaelic.
Course Name: Arthurian Traditions
Instructor: Camulus
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: A look at the legend of Arthur, starting from Celtic and Welsh roots. Texts covered are the Mabinogian, Geoffrey of Monmouth, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', Malory, and 'The Mists of Avalon'. Discusses topics like the role of women, the role of men, the Holy Grail, chivalry, the need for a hero, the nature of myth and legend.
Course Name: Psychology 101
Instructor: Jenny Calendar
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: A discussion-based class which covers general introductory topics for psychology, including a general overview of the history of the field, major personalities and theories, and includes class exercises which are designed to illustrate principles of psychology through recreating past experiments performed by researchers in the field. We will also include a short section on parapsychology as a subset of the field.
Course Name: Carl Jung - Archetypes, The Collective Unconscious, and Psychoanalysis
Instructor: Jenny Calendar
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Descripion: An overview of the impact of Carl Jung on the field of psychology, along with analysis of his theories, personality analysis, the concept of the anima/animus and shadow, archetypes, personal and cultural mythology, god, I'm such a geek, the collective unconscious, and possibly with the showing of a space opera depicting a character arc such as the heroic journal. Various myths from around the globe will be used as examples of Jung's archetypes. A potential unit on dream interpretation, depending on student interest.
Course Name: Anthropology 101
Instructor: Daniel Jackson
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: Class will be lecture and discussion based. Homework will be set as needed, to either ensure that what was said in class was understood, or to go beyond the class. It will include cultural and physical anthropology, but will also touch on various other subdivions, such as applied and economic anthropology, but not archaeology (as that will already be offered seperately) Famous anthropologists, or those from other disciples will also be looked at. Cultural anthropology will include kinship, sex and marriage, economic anthropology, political anthropology, livelihood, well-being and society and the comparison of other societies to the ethnocentric norm, with the use of ethnographies. Physical anthropology will include primates, evolution, genetics and variability, looking at human origins and diversity. The two will also be tied together, showing how biology, culture and society works.
Course Name: Introduction to Archaeology
Instructor: Daniel Jackson
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description:
It will provide a wide-ranging introduction to the history of archaeological thought, the way in which archaeology can be organized, methods of finding and exploring sites and the kinds of information which can be derived from the results of fieldwork and excavation. Class format will be the same as anthropology.
Included Topics: Introduction to the subject of Archaeology, History of archaeological thought, Surveys, Artefact Studies, Excavation and publication, Human Skeletal remains, Dating, Animal and plant remains, Reconstructing societies and cultural change, Public and professional archaeology.
Course Name: Advanced Criminal Justice
Instructor: The Tick
Maximum Capacity: 14
Course Description: ACJ will continue to be a discussion oriented class. Topics will be whatever bit of randomness crosses my Tick's brain that he can somehow pulled back into Justice, just like it has been this semester. Many topics will be pulled from existing fictional sources (i.e. Road Runner, Kenny McCormick) and twisted into a Justice-related package. Really, it'll be the same basic class, but possibly with an additional weekly metaphor assignment (which would be the "Advanced" part of the class). There will be two projects, (the focus of which are TBD), up to two quizzes, a Midterm Exam, and a Final Exam.
Notes: Admission to this class is limited. Priority will be given to current Criminal Justice students and then seniors.
Course Name: History 101 - Western Civilization
Instructor: Adam Pierson
Maximum Capacity: To Be Advised
Course Description: A study of Western Civilisation from Sumarian roots to
Course Name: History 301 - Medieval English History
Instructor: Adam Pierson
Maximum Capacity: To Be Advised
Course Description: A study of the history of England from 1000 - 1485.
Course Name: The Tactics of War: A Study of Theories and Approaches
Instructor: Doctor Samantha Carter/Eighth
Maximum Capacity: 14
Course Description: In this class, students will learn about a variety of battle tactics from a variety of fandoms and discuss the nature of both group and individual in each case. Particular
Course Name: Business Law
Instructor: Lorelai Gilmore-Danes
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: The course is intended to help students: (1) understand how law affects business; (2) identify and critically analyze legal issues arising in a business context; (3) understand the impact of legal decisions; and (4) appreciate the importance of legal risk management.
Included Topics:
The Legal System - Philosophy, Sources, and Classification of Law, Business Ethics and the Law, The Court System, Civil Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Private Law - Torts (Intentional Torts, Negligence, Strict Liability & Product Liability), Property (Personal and Real), Intellectual Property, Contracts
Public Law / Business Regulation - Constitutional Law, Regulation of Business, Administrative Agencies,
Antitrust
Course Name: Human Resources Management
Instructor: Lorelai Gilmore-Danes
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: Students will understand how to analyze jobs and why this is important, what some of the important issues are in recruiting and selecting a labor force, what is important in training, motivating, and maintaining an effective work force, and what are the important legal and regulatory issues in managing human resources. They will also have a basic understanding of labor relations and of the relationships between the human resource management function and other organizational activities.
Included Topics: The Challenge of Human Resource Management, Equal Opportunity Employment, Job Analysis and Employee Involvement, Training and Development, Appraising and Improving Performance, Managing Compensation, Employee Benefits, Safety & Health, Employee Rights & Discipline
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
Course Name: Creative Writing: Poetry
Instructor: Geoffrey Chaucer
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: The course will cover most of the major forms of poetry and students will be assigned to produce their own work. Class will include a lecture on poetic forms and elements, followed by discussion on the lecture/and or the assigned reading. Some of the assigned readings will also be read aloud in class by the instructor or student volunteers. Students will be required to periodically submit an original poem. Some of these assigments will incorporate the lessons on poetic forms.
Included Topics: Petrarch's Canzoniere, Chaucer's Troylus and Creseyd or Romance of the Rose, Shakespeare's selected Sonnets, Pope's The Dunciad, Poe's selected poems, Dickinson's selected poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning selected poems, Robert Burns selected poems, John Donne selected poems, Percy Bysshe Shelley selected poems, Oliver Wendell Holmes selected poems, Hilaire Belloc selected poems
Course Name: Introduction to Western Literature
Instructor: Geoffrey Chaucer
Maximum Capacity: 15
Course Description: A survey class designed to introduce students to the the highlights of European and American literature. Classes will take the form of a short lecture combined with directed discussion about the assigned readings. The lecture will cover topics related to the assigned reading: generally things like literary form, information on the author, explanation of literary elements being encountered for the first time (i.e. satire, Greek chorus, etc.). The lecture and discussion cover the two major portions of the grading arrangement. A student project will be required. Each student will choose a topic -- either related to one of the assigned readings or to a new reading they would like to introduce to the syllabus. They will lead a class discussion on their topic. Examples: lead a discussion on how Shakespeare's Sonnets are related to the work of Petrarch; lead a discussion on the symbolism of color in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. There will occasionally be an oral quiz on the class discussions and readings. These will not be scheduled. They will also not be lengthy -- the point is to make sure students are doing the readings and paying attention in class.
Included topics:
Shakespeare's Macbeth, Goethe's Faust, Austen's Mansfield Park, Shelley's Frankenstein, Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Course Name: Foreign Literature 101
Instructor: Dream
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: Students will read short stories, poems and plays originally in a variety of European, Asian and other tongues. Authors might include Haruki Murakami, Dante Alighieri, Pablo Neruda, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov and more. The goal of the class will be for students to, through literature, come to an understanding of other cultures and times. In addition, Dream will review a few vocabulary words in the language of each piece studied in class, to help students build foreign language skills.
Course Name: Creature Languages 101
Instructor: Dream
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: Students will learn the snake language known as Parseltongue, Sharkspeak, Dragon, Spider, and a variety of other animal dialects through lecture, discussion and in-class practice, with a goal of enabling student communication with animals they may think of as threatening. They will also learn about the cultures surrounding those languages. Lockheed will serve as a guest lecturer, as will other creatures (played by Dream or by fh_anonymous). Unlike in Cat class this term, there will be no transformation of students into animals.
Course Name: Classics 201: Classical Languages
Instructor: Dream
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: In this upper-level course on the classical tongues of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, students will move beyond the basic grammar and vocabulary they studied last semester into more advanced translation and reading of Latin and Greek works. Lecture course with frequent discussions and in-class presentations. Primarily for students who have studied Classics before; others admitted by permission only.
Course Name: Speech 201 - Advanced Public Speaking
Instructor: CJ Cregg
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: A course designed for students who do not get nervous. Students will learn preparation for addressing others in classical speech format. Traditional Greek rhetorical tools of ethos, pathos, and logos are used. Students will be assigned topic on Tuesday and allowed to discuss with classmates and the instructor. They will present these speeches each Thursday.
Course Name: Speech 301 - Interpersonal Communication
Instructor: CJ Cregg
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: A more theory based course. Students will examine how people communicate with one another. Classes will be thematically grouped by week. Essays and discussion are required.
Included Topics: Trust, Influence and Manipulation, Obedience, Friendship, Family, Theory and Practice
Course Name: Speech 401 - Advanced Communication
Instructor: CJ Cregg
Maximum Capacity: 12
Course Description: A combination of theory and application. students will deconstruct images and texts, and videos as availible, to understand the sender/message/receiver paradigm. Studets will learn more about Register, professional and technical communication, and graphic analysis utilizing the Gestalt Principles of design. Political speeches will be unpacked for the rhetoric used, and the theories and philosophies of Grice and Foucault will be, at bare minimum, introduced. 301 Pre-Requisite
LIFE SKILLS
Course Name: Cultivation and Gardening
Instructor: Justin Quayle
Maximum Capacity: 15 per section
Course Description: The class will cover everything needed to be known about plants and flowers and cultivated fruits/vegetables. Each student will grow multiple plants through out the year as project grades and will learn how to take care of that plant. Each week there will be a discussion on either the plant being grown or a a chosen topic.
Course Name: Shop
Instructor:
Maximum Capacity: 15
Course Description: Fabrication of simple machinces for a specific purpose (ala Junkyard wars), use of different environmental elements to solve a specific problem (MacGyver Type situations). All classes will be held in the Danger Room Shop where the safety locks are always on and no student can be harmed during the class period. Despite a request from students, we will not be building any weapons that could be taken out of the shop class room.
Course Name: Magical Theory 101
Instructor: Jenny Calendar
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: The class will watch movies, read books, and discuss both the theories of magical practice and--to a lesser degree--perception of magic in the modern media (with a focus on what may be correct or incorrect). This is a theoretical class only and will not cover practical applications of magic. It will contain a short, succinct chapter on magical ethics and how to know the difference between black/evil magic and white/good magic. Will also contain a short section on technomagic vs. traditional magic.
Course Name: Driver's Education
Instructor: Tommy Oliver
Maximum Capacity: 10 (per section)
Course Description: Students in this class will learn how to drive. All classes will be held in the Danger Shop. Section 2 will only be filled after Section 1 is filled.
Course Name: General Physical Conditioning
Instructor: Duncan MacLeod
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: Classes meet in the gym. This is a general conditioning course. Topics such as weight lifting, aerobic kick boxing, track, and team sports will be covered. Other topics can be added if interest and the instructor’s judgement indicate that this is a good idea.
Course Name: Multidisciplinary Self Defense Forms
Instructor: Duncan MacLeod
Maximum Capacity: 20
Course Description: This class meets in the gym. The emphasis will be on aikido and tai chi rather than judo or jujitsu. Students will be drilled and paired for sparring according to their current level of skill. An after school meeting to work out with each student to determine that ability to the instructor’s satisfaction will be required. Kendo will be added if interest and potential indicate it to be appropriate for the student. Students who miss a class must present a valid excuse or be sent to detention. This is for even the first absence. Continued lack of attendance will result in the student being removed from the course.
JOURNALISM
Course Name: Journalism 101/201
Instructor: Rita Skeeter
Maximum Capacity: TBA
Course Description: This subject will cover the basics of writing for a periodical. 201 students will be expected to do more work and said work will need to be of a higher quality.
Course Name: Advanced Journalism
Instructor: Rita Skeeter
Maximum Capacity: TBA
Course Description: This class will only be open to those who have some form of prior experience (and yes, if you weren't in Spider's class last semester, you will have to test into the class), and will further explore aspects of writing for a periodical.
Course Name: Journalistic Integrity
Instructor: Rita Skeeter
Maximum Capacity: TBA
Course Description: Ethics in regards to how writing should be handled, ie - are tabloids bad?
Course Name: Photojournalism (Independent Study)
Instructor: Rita Skeeter
Maximum Capacity: TBA
Course Description: Independent study. Students will be expected to do assignments on their own and will need to meet with Rita once a week.
THE ARTS
Course Name: Music 201 - Music of the Multiverse
Instructor: Ted 'Theodore' Logan
Maximum Capacity: 24
Course Description: Each week will focus on the music of a region of the multiverse. Attention will be given to the arrangement of this music, as well as its place in daily life in the region and what effects the music can have on both residents and non-residents. The purpose of the class is to cater to a varied student body. The class format will involve two periods held together. The first period will be a lecture on the topic, including exposure to actual works from the chosen region. The second period will be used primarily for discussion or practical work on projects that will engage the students and hopefully allow them to understand music as a working part of daily life.
Included Topics: Earth (20th Century USA), Earth (20th Century non-USA), A Galaxy Far, Far Away (Star Wars), The Twelve Colonies of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica), The Rim (Firefly), The Uncharted Territories (Farscape), Ancient Greece (Xena: Warrior Princess), Songs of the Sea (Horatio Hornblower, Pirates of the Caribbean), Wizarding England (Harry Potter), The Labyrinth (Labyrinth) and Melmac and Ork (ALF and Mork & Mindy)
Course Name: History of Art
Instructor: Autolycus
Maximum Capacity: 15
Course Description: Art through the ages. What's good
Course Name: Studio Art
Instructor: Autolycus
Maximum Capacity: 10
Course Description: A project-based art subject. You will be required to submit work of some kind on a regular basis.
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