SUMMER 2010 COURSE OFFERINGS - Regent's College
Course offerings and timetables are subject to change. All courses
are worth 3 credits / 45 contact hours.
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS, COMPUTERS
HUMANITIES
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & SOCIAL SCIENCES
THEATRE, MEDIA, FILM
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS, COMPUTERS
COAP 2310 - Graphics: Nature, Architecture and Machinery
Meets: Mon, 2-5:30pm, Fri, 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Francis Burrows
Studies different graphics techniques, offered under different subtitles. May be repeated for credit if content differs.
MNGT 3100: Issues in Management: Multinational Corporations
This is the same class as INTL 2610 (cross-coded in two disciplines).
Meets: T/Th 10:00am - 1:30pm
Tutor: Mereille Hebring
Analyzes current management issues in terms of historical background, present status, and possible solutions. Utilizes case studies in discussing each issue.
HIST 2340 / MNGT 2340: History of American Business and Management
Meets: T/Th 2-5:30pm
Tutor: Maria Charalambous
Traces the rise of business as a major American cultural institution, with consideration given to its impact on government, law, education, and social customs. Special emphasis is given to the changes in managerial thought and practice in the twentieth century and the rise of corporate bureaucracy.
HUMANITIES
ARHS 2350: Introductory Topics in Art History: Photography and New Media in Contemporary Art
Meets: M/W 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Deborah Schultz
This course analyses the varied uses of photography and other new media, including film and video, in the visual arts of today. The media are examined through examples of works and by studying related texts. After an historical introduction, the course examines how the media have developed, and focuses mainly on contemporary practice. The course comprises a mixture of college-based lectures and seminars, together with visits to museums and galleries in London to experience the works at first hand.
ENGL 2110: Perspectives: Multicultural London
Meets: T/Th 2-5:30pm
Tutor: Valerie Kaneko Lucas
London - a cosmopolitan hub, shaped by arrivals from a remarkable range of backgrounds, traditions, and cultures! This course looks at literary and artistic works created by those from the post-Empire diaspora; together we will explore the rich heritage of British Asians, West Indians and other migrant groups. In addition, we will look at how the concepts of multicultural Britain have been contested by social and political institutions, where questions of representation and control are to the fore. Your understanding of London's cultural diversity will be enhanced by field trips and visits.
ENGL 3500/70: Contexts: Shakespeare Retellings
Meets: T/Th 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Anna Riehl
William Shakespeare's works are distinct products of the historical and cultural setting of early modern London, but, as Ben Jonson famously noted, they are also "for all time." Every new production of Shakespeare's plays gives his text a new interpretation; every allusion to Shakespeare in another text or in everyday life, however brief, evokes the world of Elizabethan and Jacobean London and the excitement of its theaters. But what happens to Shakespeare's plays when his stories are retold by our contemporaries? In this class, we will read Shakespeare's Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream along with their retellings by Tom Stoppard, John Updike, Jean Betts, L.Sprague Decamp and Fletcher Pratt.
ENGL 3500/71: Contexts: The Making of English Comedy
Meets: T/Th 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Craig Bertolet
Our understanding of comedy in the English-speaking world owes a great deal to British culture. But who are we when we laugh? How do we distinguish what is funny from what is hurtful or mean-spirited? In this course, we will survey roughly six centuries of British literary humour to attempt to answer these questions. We will read works be Geoffrey Chaucer (in modern English translation), William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Jerome K. Jerome, P. G. Wodehouse, and Douglas Adams.
HIST 2280: History of England: Press, Politics & Public
Meets: T/Th 2-5:30pm
Tutor: Victoria Gardner
Overview of the political, social, and cultural history of England from the medieval period to the present. Specific period covered varies from semester to semester (e.g., the medieval period, the Tudor-Stuart era, modern England). Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit if content differs.
HIST 2340 / MNGT 2340: History of American Business and Management
Meets: T/Th 2-5:30pm
Tutor: Maria Charalambous
Traces the rise of business as a major American cultural institution, with consideration given to its impact on government, law, education, and social customs. Special emphasis is given to the changes in managerial thought and practice in the twentieth century and the rise of corporate bureaucracy.
PHIL 2020: Formal Logic
Meets: Mon, 2-5:30pm, Fri, 9:30am-1pm
Tutor: Ian Brown
Studies techniques of deductive inference in a symbolic notation, including propositional calculus and some operations with quantifiers. Covers theory of logic, including such topics as axiomatization, rules of inference, the distinctions between use and mention and validity and truth, semantic interpretations, completeness, and consistency. Crosslisted with MATH 1580 and COSC 1580.
RELG 2400: Religion and the Arts: Religion and Representation
Meets: M/W 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Sophie Laws/ Jessica Frazier/ Julia Weiner
The course examines the role of the visual arts in major world religions. For those which employ representational art, what do they seek to "represent"? For those which do not, what other visual experience do they offer?
The course will be delivered by a team of specialists in art history and religious studies, and will include visits to museums, galleries and places of worship.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & SOCIAL SCIENCES
POLT 2250: Politics in the Industrialized World: the UK
Meets: M/W 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Mereille Hebing
An introduction to the British political system. Topics include the unwritten constitution, Parliament, the Cabinet, the office of Prime Minister, the electoral system, political parties, interest groups, the civil service, and the governance of North Ireland.
INTL 2630: New States in World Politics
Meets: T/Th 2-5:30pm
Tutor: Alvaro Mendez
Introduces the political process in the non-Western world and a survey of different methodological approaches to the study of non-Western systems. Emphasizes analysis of foreign policies and the role of new states in world politics.
INTL 2610: Functional Approach to Multinational Corporations
This is the same class as MNGT 3100 (cross-coded in two disciplines).
Meets: T/Th 10:00am - 1:30pm
Tutor: Mereille Hebring
Studies multilateral activities designed to promote economic, social, and technical progress. Examines international cooperation in such "nonpolitical" fields as trade, economic development, communications, health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental protection.
PSYC 2000: Issues in Contemporary Psychology: Famous, Fashionable and Fabulous
Meets: T/Th 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Felix De Beaumont
This course analyzes in-depth issues and topics in the field of Psychology. The topics vary each semester. This semester the course will focus on Fame, Fashion and Beauty and the related psychological aspects and processes and the indeed sometimes negative psychological consequences. The emphasis on celebrity, looks, self presentation and identity in today's media and society provides a fruitful source of interesting psycho -social issues.
THEATRE, MEDIA & FILM
FILM 3150: Topics in Film Production
Meets: T/Th 2-5:30pm
Tutor: Tristan Tull
These courses are offered periodically to feature topics in film production not covered by regularly offered courses. May be repeated for credit if content differs. Prerequisites vary with topic.
SPCM 1040: Public Speaking
Meets: M/W 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Leslie Viney
Students learn the organization, development, and delivery of a variety of formal public speeches. The course includes public speeches and a variety of other speaking exercises to help students adapt to audiences and contexts, solve delivery problems and build confidence. Activities also help the student to develop realistic evaluations of various speaking occasions.
THEA 3030 - Topics in Theatre: Stephen Sondheim's Musicals
Meets: M/W 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Olaf Jubin
The year of Stephen Sondheim's 80 birthday provides a powerful incentive for an in-depth look at the work of the man who invented the "concept musical" and has single-handedly expanded the boundaries of what is considered possible in musical theatre.
Having been controversial throughout his career - with his music and lyrics often being criticised as "cold" or "uncommercial" - he has triumphed over accusations that his songs are unhummable or unpopular to produce some of the classics of the musical theatre genre. Many of the shows that were at first rejected by the critics and the public are now labelled masterpieces (such as Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, and Assassins), and certain of his musicals (such as Company, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods) are produced over and over again, especially in Britain.
The course will offer close readings of the original shows, revivals, rewrites and re-imaginings as well as film and television adaptations to allow for a thorough review of the life and career of the man who has won several Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Academy Award and the Praemium Imperiale, and has been hailed as "the greatest living songwriter", "perhaps the richest, most complex voice in American music history" or simply "a genius".
THEA 3040: Topics in Theatre: Theatre in London: Images of City and Society
Meets: T/Th 9:30am - 1pm
Tutor: Anna Sullivan
Course description coming soon
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