Transfer Student Courses in Lloyd Hall Scholars (Division 445)

Winter Term, 2000 (January 5 - April 26, 2000)

To see what Transfer Student courses have been added or changed in Lloyd Hall Scholars this week go to What's New This Week.

Section 001 – Designing the Perfect Place: Can You Create Your Perfect World?

Instructor(s): Tanya Topolewski

Prerequisites & Distribution: Lloyd Hall Scholars. (3). (Excl). A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Do you like where you grew up? Or were you bored where you lived? Did everything you saw look the same to you? Or did you ever wish you could play Sim City with your neighborhood, town, or city and create it from the ground up: a brand-new, fabulous place that had all the entertainment, houses, great schools, and character you've ever imagined? In this course you will have the chance to play God and create your perfect world.

This course will prompt your creativity by reading the works of visionary designers from Le Corbusier to Aldo Leopold. We will compare their ideas to our own about what makes perfect places and then we will contrast these ideas with what America looks like today. Using Ann Arbor as a model, we will critically assess its neighborhoods, city, and suburbs, and discuss how growth is reshaping this town and how it could be directed toward "perfection." We will explore the complexities of creating environments by examining the interrelationship of social status, wealth, class, ethnicity, and race as exemplified in films like Edward Scissorhands. Lastly, we will explore how America has become the way it is by looking at the history of governmental and social programs that have shaped the American attitude toward land.

This course will start with your ideas, creativity, and ability to critically comment on what you see and read and then challenge you to create your perfect world. You will develop designs for portions of growing cities and learn to make physical models and simple drawings that vividly illustrate your perfect place.

Section 001 – From Designer Babies to Jurassic Park: The Future of Genetic Ethics

Instructor(s): Karen Mauprivez

Prerequisites & Distribution: Lloyd Hall Scholars. (3). (Excl). A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Do you ever wonder if Jurassic Park could be more than a movie? Should the Lost World become a reality? Upon completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP), many questions will remain unanswered.

This introductory course in genetic ethics will cover the issues that can be seen in the headlines on a daily basis. We will discuss values, morality, and personal stances regarding everything from designer babies and cloning to the rights about privacy for individuals, employers, and whole communities concerning and individual's genetic make-up. Classroom initiatives and current events will provide a forum for in-class debates, small group discussions, and essays. Some of the topics we will cover include: genetic privacy; sex selection; newborn screening; and DNA databasing. Legal issues and policies concerning genetics will also be presented.

Readings will include A Brave New World, Boys from Brazil, and a course pack comprised of recent news stories and medical journal articles.

Section 002 – Beyond O.J. and Nicole: The Realities of Sexual and Domestic Violence

Instructor(s): Melissa Dreyling

Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Credits: (4).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Everyone has his or her opinion about the guilt or innocence of O.J., but how many have thought about the complicated dynamics of domestic violence that led to the trial of O.J. Simpson?.

In this course, we will examine the cultural and legal history of domestic and sexual violence and explore how this type of violence affects families, communities, and individuals. We will also explore a variety of issues that many people identify as the sources of sexual and domestic violence like pornography, prostitution, media representations of women, and gender roles of men and women.

Many sexual assaults that happen on college campuses involve acquaintances and go unreported. We will explore questions such as why women are not reporting assaults. We will also look at how other factors, like alcohol, play a role in campus assault and examine some of the myths about sexual assault. For example, is acquaintance rape just a matter of women not being forceful enough when saying no?.

Assignments will include four papers.

Section 003 – The Psychopathology of Everyday Life: Writing about Psychology and Culture

Instructor(s): Jean Leverich

Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Credits: (4).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

What does it mean to be "normal"? How do communities decide who or what is normal? Likewise, what does it mean to be "abnormal" or deviant, and how far from the norm does one need to stray to be labeled deviant by the community? For example, are tattooing and piercing "normal" today? More seriously, what sense can we make of the recent high school shootings and bombings? Are these boys monsters or ordinary teenagers?

This course asks you to hone your writing and critical thinking skills by examining the complicated relationships among individuals, community, conformity, and deviance. Although the main focus of this course will be on your own writing, we will also explore a variety of challenging, provocative, discomforting, and otherwise engaging essays, stories, and films. Expect to read essays from psychology (Like Freud's Totem and Taboo), anthropology (Geertz's Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight), and sociology (Goodman's Growing Up Absurd). We'll also read articles from the popular media and view recent films such as Paris is Burning and Suburbia. Everything we read and discuss in this class is intended to serve as a springboard for you to develop and articulate your own arguments and analyses about the normality/deviance continuum, how individuals fit into communities, how communities define norms, and how communities scapegoat those who seem "different."

Section 004 – The Sixties: Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll...and Your Parents

Instructor(s): Joe Gonzalez

Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Credits: (4).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

What did your parents do in the Sixties? Did your father serve in Vietnam? Did your mother take birth control pills? Did they experiment with drugs or go to Woodstock? In this course, you – the children of the Baby Boomers – will explore the world your parents encountered when they were your age: the politics, the war, the popular culture, even the sexual revolution of the Sixties.

In order to explore the Sixties, we will read autobiographies, memoirs and works of history. But we will do more than read; we will also experience. We will watch some of the movies and television of the period and listen to some of its music. We will also experience the Sixties through the eyes of real people, like a Vietnam veteran and a social activist who live here in Ann Arbor and will visit our class.

We will also write. You will write five papers in two drafts, four relatively shorter ones and one longer one. You will also be expected to actively participate in class discussions about the material and the writing of other students.

Section 005 – Personal Environmental Activism

Instructor(s): Lani Pascual

Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Credits: (4).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

“On the morning of August 16, 1996, Greenpeace divers slipped into Seattle Harbour carrying chains to wrap around the propellers of five U.S. factory trawlers which fish off the northwestern shores of Washington State. While the divers were in place twelve more protesters attached themselves to a floating boom and formed a human barricade.”

In this course we will explore the personal reasons that inspire ordinary people to work on environmental causes – from recycling to ecoterrorism. We will also discuss the many definitions of “environmentalism.” We begin by reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the book which launched the environmental movement, and end with a class survey project that explores why people do or do not consider themselves environmentalists. Not only will you leave the class with a greater understanding of how you can personally affect your relationship to the environment, but you will also leave with a strong understanding of college writing. We will compose five critical essays on the impact of environmentalism on policy, populations, groups, and individuals.

Section 006 – Race and Medicine in American History

Instructor(s): Alyssa Picard

Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Credits: (4).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

If you arranged your friends in order of skin color, from lightest to darkest, where would the line between white and black be? Race is more than just pigment: it's a social construction, a product of our ideas about what makes someone "white" or "black" or anything else. And, as a social construction, race has changed over time.

Sickness and health, too, are social constructions. They are products not only of biology, but of our ideas about what it means to be healthy, of our ability to detect and define "normal" and "abnormal" physiological and psychological states, and of our mastery of technologies that allow us to control or change the bodies with which we are born.

From Conquest to the present day, medical practitioners and patients have participated in the social constructions of both race and health. This class will explore those constructions with an eye towards understanding how race and medicine have brought each other into existence over the five hundred years since contact between the old world and the new. We will examine the cultural and biological reasons for Native American population declines (and increases), the ways in which medical ideas about race functioned during slavery and after, the encounters of Southern and Eastern European immigrants with American medicine, the long legacy of eugenic thought in American history (continuing to today), and the racial politics of venereal disease and teenage pregnancy. Our goal is to better understand both race formation and the development of medical ideas about race in the American context.

Because this course is also intended to introduce you to the critical analysis and rhetorical principles of college writing, you will compose and revise several essays, and will write constantly in other genres. We will communicate through in-class writing and over e-mail. As part of my ongoing experiment with democratic pedagogy, you will participate in devising the grading standards for the class, and you will workshop one another's written work on a regular basis. Your final grade will be based on a portfolio of your written work, and on your participation in class.

Section 004 – History of Israel. You must also register for t ACABS 321/Hist. 306/Rel. 358.

Instructor(s): Brian Schmidt

Prerequisites & Distribution: Permission of instructor. (1). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of three credits. A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Credits: (1).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

In this course, we will discuss topics from Ancient Civilization and Biblical Studies 321, that students want to pursue in more depth. This class gives you an opportunity to pin the professor down, get him to explain what it is that he is really saying, and make him come clean about his assumptions. In LHSP 151.004, you have a unique opportunity to get behind the lecture, and to find out how your professors think about your education. If you would like to take this mini-course, you must also register for the main course. (ACABS 321/Hist. 306/Rel. 358)

Section 005 – Get on the Bus: Travelling the Highway of America's Civil Rights Movement.

Instructor(s): Joe Gonzalez

Prerequisites & Distribution: Permission of instructor. (1). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of three credits. A maximum of 20 Lloyd Hall Scholars Program credits may be counted toward a degree.

Mini/Short course

Credits: (1).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

What are you doing for spring break? Are you going to Ft. Lauderdale? Cancun? Or do you want something different – something you will remember long after a sunburn heals and a hangover fades? If you do, then look no further. We'll get you out of Ann Arbor and out of the classroom. We'll take you places that you have never seen before. We'll show you what it was like to be your age and risk your life for the cause of freedom.

In this course, you will visit the people and places of America's Civil Rights Movement. You will see not only the site of Martin Luther King's most famous speech, but also the balcony where he was assassinated. You will visit other places as well: Greensboro, North Carolina, where young African-Americans sat at a "Whites Only" lunch counter and demanded to be served; Selma, Alabama, the location of two famous civil rights marches; and Meshoba County, Mississippi, where the Klan murdered three young civil rights workers during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Along the way, you will meet people who were there – on the front line in the fight for civil rights.

The course requirements are simple. You will keep a detailed journal during the trip, recording your impressions. You will also write a short paper after you return, due at the end of the semester.

So leave your books, your computer and your sunblock behind. Come experience history with your own eyes.