2012 SPRING COURSE SCHEDULE
SPECIAL NOTE: Classes, dates, and times are subject to
cancellation/change based on enrollment.
Spring
Course Schedule downloadable pdf.
MONDAY CLASSES 6:30 - 9:20 P.M.
The Human Experience: Introduction to Graduate Liberal
Studies (REQ - INTRO)
HUMN
6316
Class # 5410
Mondays
3 Credit Hours
Examine issues of human existence using interdisciplinary perspectives, primary readings, large group presentations and discussion groups. Learn the various disciplines of human thought and problems. Contribute to the overall knowledge of the many ways in which humans try to understand themselves and the world around them. Study what it means to be human including a consideration of the nature of products of human activity, and the world in which humans find themselves. Take a close look at the human condition, human creations such as social institutions, art and literature, and science.
Instructor: Tony Picchioni
Dr. Anthony Picchioni is Chair of the Department of Human Development at Southern Methodist University. He has used his extensive knowledge and experience in negotiation, organizational behavior, conflict management, change management, succession planning, and dispute resolution to educate corporate executives and business people across the United States and abroad. With more than thirty years experience as a facilitator/ trainer, Dr. Picchioni has assisted in resolving all types of disputes, including those involving employment, commercial contracts, interdepartmental conflicts, and family matters.
Reading Poetry (WI)
HUMN 6309
Class # 5413
Mondays
3 Credit Hours
This course develops the skills of analytical thinking and reading to make
students informed readers of poetry, able to take emotional and intellectual
pleasure in the most primal art form in the world: the patterned words, sounds,
sensations, and feelings of poetry. It also develops students' skills at writing
clear, concise, evidence-based, focused, and analytical arguments of the kind
necessary for graduate study.
Instructor: Rick Bozorth
The Immigration
Experience
(AMS)
(HUM)
(HRJ)
BHSC 6363
Class # 5414
Mondays
3 Credit Hours
Instructor: Caroline Brettell
Caroline Brettell is University Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University and a member of the faculty of the Department of Anthropology. She has served as Director of Women's Studies (1989-1994), Chair of the Department of Anthropology (1994-2004), and Interim Dean of Dedman College (2006-2008) She has written extensively on problems of international migration in general, and on aspects of Portuguese emigration in particular. Her most recent books are Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants (with Deborah Reed-Danahay); Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (6th edition; co-edited with Carolyn Sargent); Citizenship, Immigration and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States (co-edited with Deborah Reed-Danahay) and Twenty-first Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America (co-edited with Audrey Singer and Susan W. Hardwick).
Oral Interpretation of Literature (CMT)
HUMN 6356
Class # 5415
Mondays
3 Credit Hours
This course
introduces the student to the study of literature through performance. Based on
the assumption that performance is a method of understanding and enjoying
literature, the student participates in performance readings of prose, poetry,
and dramatic literature. Written work is assigned, but the focus of this course
is on the discovery and exploration of literature through the medium of vocal
and physical performance.
Instructor: Jan Sayers
Jan Sayers has taught communication courses at SMU since 1990. Her particular areas of interest are public speaking, persuasion, voice and articulation, and oral interpretation of the literature, either through the undergraduate education program or the graduate Master of Liberal Studies (MLS) program in the School of Education and Human Development. She directed the SMU forensics program for three years including an award-winning team in 1993 and 1995. Dr. Sayers's career has always included experience in the corporate world as well as academia. She served as an Educational Technologist while at the GTE World Headquarters (Telephone Operations) in Irving, Texas. She assessed training needs and designed curricula for various courses. While at GTE, the issue of workplace literacy became one of her primary areas of concentration. She interviewed area schools providing workplace literacy and the businesses they served. A summary of her dissertation on how colleges provide workplace literacy programs to business and industry was published two years later.* Dr. Sayers' degrees include the B.F.A., Communication in Human Relations, Texas Christian University; M.S., Communication in Human Relations, T.C.U.; and Ph.D., Higher Education, University of North Texas. *Sayers, J.K. (l995, July-August). “Providing Workplace Literacy: Collaboration with Business and Industry.“ Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 19, pp. 295-305.
(NEW) Middle Eastern American
Literature
(AMS)
(GLO) (HUM)
HUMN 7304
Class # 5416
Mondays
3 Credit Hours
Middle Eastern
Americans are creating a tributary into the mainstream of American culture.
Poets, playwrights, fiction and non-fiction writers are sharing their
perceptions and experiences of heritage and new beginnings, and their creative
imaginations, with U.S. audiences. Middle Eastern American Literature offers
students the opportunity to cross the new bridge into multi-cultured America.
Instructor: Holly Hill
Holly Hill is Emerita Professor of Speech & Theater at John Jay College of The City University of New York and former New York Theatre Corresondent for The Times of London. Her most recent book, Salaam.Peace: an Anthology of Middle Eastern American Theatre, was co-edited with Egyptian scholar Dina Amin.
Special Topics
in Human Rights
(GLO)
(HUM) (HRJ)
SOSC 7305
Class # 5418
Mondays
3 Credit Hours
Nazi persecutions and exterminations were perpetrated by ordinary people who lived and acted within a modern society not unlike our own, a society that had produced them as well as the methods and instruments for the implementation of their actions. However, the goals of these actions were anything but commonplace. The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of 11 million people depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. This course will look at the roots of anti-Semitism in Europe, Nazi (racial) policies, the origins and implementation of the Final Solution, actions of perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders, horrific crimes across Europe, and the ongoing attempts at justice through trials, memorialization, and legal restitution throughout the postwar years to the present day.
Instructor: Rick Halperin
Dr. Rick Halperin is Director of the Southern Methodist University Human Rights Education Program, and teaches courses at SMU including: America's Dilemma: The Struggle for Human Rights; America and the Age of Genocide; and America Enraged: From Brown to Watergate, 1954-1974. Dr. Halperin has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA from 1989-1995, and from 2004-2009; he served as Chair of the Board from 1992-1993 and again from 2005-2007. He is also a member of the National Death Penalty Advisory Committee, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (serving as President from 2000-2006 and from 2007-2008).
Women and American Experience, Part
II
(AMS) (GEN) (FEI)
SOSC 7323
Class # 5602
Mondays
3 Credit Hours
"It was we, the people; not we, the white male
citizens...but we, the whole people, who formed the Union." - Susan B. Anthony.
This course examines the changing roles, status, and contributions of women in
the American experience from 1900 to 2000: from the Progressive era and World
War I - through prosperity, depression, the New Deal, and World War II - through the
Cold War, Civil Rights and Women's Rights Movements, New Frontier, Great
Society, Vietnam, and Watergate - to the Reagan era, Gulf War, and Clinton era,
Biographies and writings of key Americans will focus on the political, economic,
religious, social, intellectual, and artistic ways that women shaped the
American experience, with critical analysis given to reform efforts of the 20th
century Women's Rights Movement. The goal is to view the lives of individual
women in relation to the historical context of the American experience and as
part of - in the words of Susan B. Anthony, "we, the people...the whole people,
who formed the Union."
Instructor: Jody Potts
Dr. Potts' research and teaching focus on the biographical aspects of the American experience. Through the writings of key Americans, her course Ideas Shaping the American Character explores the ideas-political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, and artistic-that shaped the American character from the Puritan Era through the twentieth century. An additional research interest involving left and right brain learning concepts resulted in Dr. Potts' creation of an MLS course titled The Lively Mind: Creative and Critical Thinking, as well as left/right brain seminars for public school faculties nationwide. Dr. Potts has served as University Spokesperson on the Texas Council for Social Studies Textbook Adoption Review Committee and as a member of the TCSS curriculum committee. She is on the University of North Texas Department of History Advisory Council and is a past member of the Presidents' Circle of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2001 she was honored as an outstanding alumna of the University of North Texas.
TUESDAY CLASSES 6:30 - 9:20 P.M.
THE HUMAN
EXPERIENCE: INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE LIBERAL STUDIES (REQ)
HUMN 6316
Class # 5411
Tuesdays
3 Credit Hours
Examine issues of human existence using interdisciplinary perspectives,
primary readings, large group presentations and discussion groups. Learn the
various disciplines of human thought and problems. Contribute to the overall
knowledge of the many ways in which humans try to understand themselves and the
world around them. Study what it means to be human including a consideration of
the nature of products of human activity, and the world in which humans find
themselves. Take a close look at the human condition, human creations such as
social institutions, art and literature, and science.
Instructor: Martha Satz
Dr. Satz exploits her dual background in philosophy and literature and experience in trans-racial culture to teach and write about a diversity of topics. She teaches courses in minority literature, most notably African American and Jewish American literature, ethics and children's literature, literature and disability, and ethics and literature.
(new)
CHEMISTRY IN ART
(ACT)
FNAR 6307
Class # 5421
Tuesdays
3 Credit Hours
Students will be acquainted with the major developments in science and
technology through the ages and will learn how these developments influenced
materials and techniques used in art. Various artists' materials will be
discussed, such as dyes and pigments, clays, metals and alloys, glasses,
coatings and adhesives, etc. The major art forms that employ these materials
include painting, dyeing of textiles, manuscript illumination, glass and
metalworks, work with ceramics, and many others. Original sources will be used
to learn about how various materials were prepared and applied in art in the
Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, or more modern periods. Two
laboratory demonstrations will be given to better illustrate some of the methods
and materials used in the past.
Instructor: Nicolay Tsarevsky
Dr. Nicolay Tsarevsky obtained his M.S. in theoretical chemistry and chemical physics in 1999 from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He joined Professor Kris Matyjaszewski's research group at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, as a Ph.D. student in 2000, and obtained his doctorate in 2005. He worked on the synthesis of functional polymers by atom transfer radical polymerization, and on development of rules for rational selection of the catalyst for various reaction media, including aqueous solvents. He was awarded the Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award in Green Chemistry (2003), the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Award (2004), the Pittsburgh Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Polymer Group Student Award (2004), as well as the Harrison Legacy Dissertation Fellowship (2004-5), and the National Starch & Chemical Award (2008).
(NEW)
Technology, Humanity
and Identity (CMT)
HUMN
6304
Class # 5422
Tuesdays
3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to explore how the use of Internet technology has affected the individual's concept of identity both at the personal and societal levels. Students will study various topics such as exploring the digital person, digital surveillance and personal freedom, and issues of privacy in a wired world. The course will explore these issues with the use of presentations, current events, cases, and online articles. Emphasis is placed on improving the critical thinking and writing skills of students through comprehensive writing assignments.
Instructor: Martinella Dryburgh
Dr. Dryburgh received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to that, she earned a Master of Liberal Arts (now Master of Liberal Studies) degree as well as a Graduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution from Southern Methodist University. Her undergraduate degree in Business Administration is from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Dryburgh's current research examines technology's impact on societies and individuals. Specifically, she studies issues centering on the distinction between public and private spaces on the Internet. Dr. Dryburgh actively supports the MLS program by regularly speaking at information sessions and encouraging potential students to explore the liberal arts.
consuming news in the digital age (CMT)
HUMN 6395
Class # 5425
Tuesdays
3 Credit Hours
Examine the impact of digital technology on news, and the free flow of information in a democratic society today. Learn about varied historical evolution of American journalism from its founding up to its current-day forms. The standards and practices of journalism for traditional media (print, radio and television), and new media (online reporting, blogging, video/audio podcasts, live streaming and RSS feeds) will be closely reviewed. Discover how the different technological methods of news distribution affect who does the coverage, what gets covered, who is reached and why this is important.
Instructor: Yolette Garcia
Yolette Garcia - a summa cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University, with a Masters of Arts degree in Art History. She received her undergraduate degree in Art History from Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Garcia comes to her position as a veteran public broadcasting journalist and manager for KERA television and radio, the North Texas public broadcasting station. She served the public broadcasting organization in various capacities for 25 years. In her most recent position, Garcia supervised the creation of a new arts unit for radio and Web. Prior to this she directed Communications/Marketing, Web, the Educational Resource Center and community outreach for all of KERA's content areas (Radio, Television, Web and Education). She has served as Assistant Station Manager of KERA 90.1, and News Director. As such, she managed the activities of the radio staff, and provided editorial guidance and oversight for the News department. She also supervised joint Radio and TV journalism projects for local and national broadcast.
religion of the east
(Glo) (hum)
(HRJ)
HUMN 7315
Class # 5427
Tuesdays
3 Credit Hours
Since the first encounters of Europeans with India, China, and Southeast Asia,
westerners have been challenged by the philosophies, religions and world views
of Asia. Over the centuries they have become for many, new ways of thinking
about the possibilities of being human and understanding the world. This course
will be a survey of Hunduism, Buddhism, and Chinese Religions. Students in the
course will be offered the opportunity to understand more fully the world-views
on traditional Asian societies, the ways in which their religions have met the
spiritual and social needs of their adherents, and their present growth and
relevance outside Asia. through both lectures and readings students will journey
through theses world views, engage the stories and rituals in which they are
expressed, and learn the ways in which they function in individual lives and the
societies as a whole. An important part of the course will be visits to Hindu
and Buddhist religious communities in the Dallas area, as well as meetings and
discussions with their members and leaders.
Instructor: Robert Hunt
Dr. Robert Hunt was
born in Dallas, Texas. After attending school in Austin and Richardson, he
majored in History at the University of Texas in Austin. After completing a
Master of Theology at Perkins School of Theology (SMU) he served as associate
pastor of the Bethany United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. He and his wife
Lilian were married in 1979. Lilian is a native of Sarawak, Malaysia who
attended Martin College, SMU, and the University of Texas. She is a music
therapist practicing in the Dallas area. They have two children. Naomi is a
graduate of Boston University and the Diplomatic Academy of the University of
Vienna and is currently working in Vienna. Elliott is a graduate in Middlesex
University and works in London.
Terrorism and Torture (GEN)
(GLO)
(HRJ)
SOSC 6301
Class # 5428
Tuesdays
3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to analyze the crimes of terror and torture from the perspective of international law, government, literature, culture, and philosophy. This course examines the origins and development of terror and torture in literature and the legal status of rights under United States domestic law and international law. It analyzes tensions between universal and culturally-specific definitions of rights, state sovereignty, and humanitarian intervention. And, finally, looks forward at future directions in regulating terrorism and torture in international law.
Instructor: John Vernon
Mr. Vernon is a practicing attorney, licensed in
Texas, Utah, and the District of Columbia, with The Vernon Law Group, PLLC, who
advises and counsels clients on cross-border international and domestic
transactions, international trade, and international franchising. He has taught
seminars and spoken as a guest lecturer at law schools both in the US and in
many other countries. Mr. Vernon is also adjunct faculty to the SMU Dedman
School of Law.
WEDNESDAY CLASSES 6:30 - 9:20 P.M.
Women's Lives and Literature (WI)
HUMN 6308
Class # 5417
Wednesdays
3 Credit Hours
This course deals with women writers grappling with
the phases of women's lives: childhood, friendship, marriage, motherhood, and
old age. We will employ literary analysis as we examine the particularity of
women's life span.
Instructor: Martha Satz
Dr. Satz exploits her dual background in philosophy and literature and experience in trans-racial culture to teach and write about a diversity of topics. She teaches courses in minority literature, most notably African American and Jewish American literature, ethics and children's literature, literature and disability, and ethics and literature.
Understanding the Mind and Behavior
BSHC 6310
Class # 5420
Wednesdays
3 Credit Hours
Each student will
gain a more insightful understanding of their unique perception of their
environment and the world around them. Students will also gain an understanding
of their authentic self based on their biological and environmental influences.
This will be explained from a theories viewpoint, the Psychological and
Physiological Perspectives: Psychoanalytical, Biological, Cognitive, Behavioral,
Socialistic and Humanistic approaches.
Course Focus: Major Depression
Major Depression touches and reaches all of us at some point in our life.
Painful events and negative programming during the developmental years
constitute the most serious threat to the evolution of the authentic self and
brain development. Our brains are shaped and developed through our environmental
influences and stimuli. Psychological defenses attempt to dull or block out our
emotions to stimuli leading to the human condition, and worse can predispose
psychopathology, specifically Major Depression over a period of time.
Instructor: Thomas Cox
Dr. Thomas Cox is a Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D.) specializing in child and adolescent abnormal behaviors. His focus is on developmental issues surrounding children from both an environmental and biological perspective. His dissertation research work and teaching have centered on social issues and physiological brain development in adolescents. He researched, wrote, and created a character building model for parents of adolescent children, utilizing the works of Lawrence Kohlberg, Jean Piaget, and Erick Erickson. He also provides seminars for Parents of Adolescent Children, teaching parents to understand the chemical and physiological brain development of Adolescents, along with, the development of Hormones and Social implications of the Adolescent years. Professor Cox joined the SMU Psychology Faculty in 2003 and has taught multiple Psychology Courses at the undergraduate level, where he achieved and was the recipient of awards in teaching excellence in undergraduate studies. Most recently he has been teaching courses in the Master's in Counseling Program.
(new) organizational
leadership (org)
BSHC 6320
Class # 5423
Wednesdays
3 Credit Hours
Describing and analyzing a wide variety of different theoretical approaches to leadership, this course gives special attention to how each theory can be, or has been, employed in real-world situations. Special application is made through the readings of contemporary leadership books, classic cases, and great films.
Instructor: Andrew Weaver
Andrew Weaver has served as an adjunct professor in the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering and taught a course of the same name (ME 7303 – Organizational Leadership) as part of the Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Management (MSM) program. Presently, he is the Vice President of Strategy & Policy for a $8 billion retailer. A student and practitioner of leadership for the last two decades, he has led organizations from 5 to 5,000. His degrees include: M.A National Security & Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College 1998; M.P.A. Public Administration, Troy State University 1994; and B.S. in Business from the University of California, Berkeley 1980.
Art
of the Italian Renaissance (ACT)
(HUM)
FNAR 6309
Class # 5424
Wednesdays
3 Credit Hours
Explores painting, architecture, and sculpture during the Italian Renaissance from its beginning in the early fourteenth century through the High Renaissance in the sixteenth century. Major artists and their works are discussed within their cultural contexts, and focus is given to technique, stylistic influence, and iconographical developments.
Instructor: Dianne Goode
Dianne Goode - PhD, Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas; M.A., Art History, Southern Methodist University; B.A., Art History, The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Dianne Goode has been a member of the MLS faculty since 1981, and has served multiple terms on the MLS Academic Council. She is an art historian who regularly teaches courses on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, and modern painting. She also teaches two-week summer courses abroad in Italy and France, offering MLS students an extraordinary and memorable opportunity to experience the magnificent artworks in their historical and cultural contexts.
(NEW)
Creative Poetry II
(crw)
FNAR 6394 (repeatable for credit)
Class # 5426
Wednesdays
3 Credit Hours
A course designed to explore and create a variety of poetic forms. Conducted as a workshop, this course will involve students in the reading and interpretation of a wide variety of poems, the crafting of the student's generated poetry, and the critiquing/evaluation of those poems by both the faculty member and student colleagues.
Instructor: Paul Otremba
Dr. Paul
Otremba is a poet and critic whose work has focused on modes of understanding
and representation in poetry, including investigations of artworks, film, and
other media as subjects alongside experiences drawn from Midwestern landscapes
and urban centers both in America and abroad. He is currently finishing a second
manuscript, which includes experiments in forms and occasions for poetry,
including psalms, sonnets, epistles, and literary allusion.
Little but Lethal
(env)
(hum)
SCCL 6335
Class # 5431
Wednesdays
3 Credit Hours
Studies the hazards of the new technology upon men and women. This course examines critical problems confronting humanity in an age of rapidly advancing technology, including overpopulation, malnutrition, pollution, and major diseases.
Instructor: John Ubelaker
John Ubelaker is Professor of Biology in the Biological Sciences Department. He joined SMU in 1968 after receiving his Ph.D. at Colorado State University. He has served on and chaired numerous SMU committees and was Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences from 1989-2001. He is also Director of SMU-in-Taos, SMU's summer campus at Fort Burgwin, New Mexico. He is an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honor Society, recipient of the Student Senate Special Recognition award, and received the prestigious President's Associates Award in 2004. His students remember him long after they have graduated. One student writes, "Your genuine concern for the betterment of your students shines through. As I continue to further my education, I will not forget those who have helped me along the way. Thank you for being an excellent teacher and mentor."
THURSDAY CLASSES 6:30 - 9:20 P.M.
(NEW) Contemporary Art (act)
(hum)
FNAR
6313
Class # 5429
Thursdays
3 Credit Hours
This class is the second of a two-part course that focuses on contemporary art post World War II. This course encompasses the 30 years straddling the turn of the century, 1980 to 2010. You will witness evergrowing new ideas developed by adventurous, mostly young artists worldwide. Contemporary art is the art of today produced by artists living in the 21st century. It is a window on contemporary society that helps us understand the world and ourselves. The art combines materials, methods, concepts and subjects that challenge traditional boundaries and defy easy definition.
Instructor: Joan Davidow
Maybe you've heard
Joan Davidow during drive time on KERA's Morning Edition or during All Things
Considered. Her commentaries about today's art and the urban environment air
monthly. Or maybe you heard her insightful arts reviews in the 1980s during her
six years as weekly broadcaster on KERA 90.1, when she also aired national
stories on NPR. Director Emerita after nine years as Dallas Contemporary
Director, Davidow transformed the local arts space into a non-collecting
contemporary museum, raising $4.4 million in capital funds to purchase and move
it to its heady industrial quarters in the Design District. Gaining national
attention, The Wall Street Journal recognized Dallas Contemporary as a respected
museum for presenting group exhibitions of young artists to watch. The
international magazine, ArtNews, spotlighted Davidow's prior ten years at the
Arlington Museum of Art for developing Texas' premier venue for cutting-edge
art. Statewide recognition came with a Texas Monthly profile naming Davidow the
most imaginative and adventurous museum director working in Texas. Locally, D
Magazine in its 25th anniversary issue claimed Davidow almost single-handedly
carved one of the best modern art museums in Texas.
(NEW) Spectacle of Theater
(act)
FNAR
6395
Class # 5607
Thursdays
3 Credit Hours
The intent of this class is to make the casual theatre supporter aware of the origins, developments, and purpose of theatre in our lives. When one attends a play whether on Broadway or in Dallas, the playwright, director, actors, and designers all collaborate to shape how we interpret the performed word. Often supporting the spoken word is an elaborate environment created by the design team in the areas of costume, scenery, sound, and lighting design. Whether the ancient Greek gore wagon or the flying rig in Spiderman, design though the areas shares many of the same traits and approaches.
Instructor: Steve Wood (Lighting Designer)
Steve Woods has enjoyed international success at the Festival L'Imaginaire and the Festival Blues Sur Scene in Paris as well as productions in Berlin, Moscow, London Athens, Taipei, Budapest, the XIX Winter Olympics, and dozens of other locations around the world. His work in New York City includes the Lincoln Center, Theatre for a New Audience, Ohio Theatre, the Ice Factory, as well as the Joyce and York Theatres. Regional work has been seen at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Undermain Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, The Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Cumberland County Playhouse as well as Jacob's Pillow, American Dance Festival and Spoleto Festival. Dance credits includes the Jose Limon Dance Company (a member since 1988), Compania Nacional de Danza and work with Phyllis Lamhut, Garth Fagan, John Cranko (Stuttgart Ballet), Donald McKayle, and Daniel Nagrin. Television credits include PBS Broadcasts of Rigoletto, Lucia de Lammermoor, Susannah, Evangeline, and Lewis and Clark, as wells as events for MTV, BBC, Showtime and CBS. Currently Woods serves Professor of Theatre and as Head of the Stage Design Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
(NEW) How the People of the
Book Read It (ACT)
(glo)
(hum)
HUMN 7345
Class # 5604
Thursdays
3 Credit Hours
This course will provide an in depth practical look into how Jews read the biblical text across the generations, with an emphasis on classical medieval commentaries still used today. Learners will gain an understanding of the approach of each of the major commentators, be able to successfully predict how they might approach a given text, and argue for the advantages and disadvantages of each method on various texts. Learners will also study where and how the classical commentators fell short due to the fact that they did not have the advantage of the knowledge of multi-authorship and modern Syro-Palestinian archeology.
Instructor: David Gruber
Rabbi Gruber is a native of Evanston, Illinois, and an eighth generation rabbi. He grew up in Israel, where he served as a tank gunner in the IDF Armored Corps, and attended Yeshivat Sha'alvim, one of the most prominent institutions of higher Jewish learning in Israel. He holds a B.A. in History from Thomas Edison State College, and an M.S. in Educational Leadership from Walden University. He has served in educational and religious leadership positions in the Jewish community on three continents. He is the only person to date to be ordained both by the Chief Rabbis of Israel, and the Humanist Society.
Environmental Sustainability:
Current Issues (env)
(glo)
SCCL
6395
Class # 5605
Thursdays
3 Credit Hours
This is a combination lecture/seminar style course. After a short introduction to underlying concepts, we will examine current issues in the "political economy" of environmental sustainability. We will pose and try to answer some fundamental questions: Are our economic and energy systems sustainable? How does politics influence our views of energy and environmental issues? How do we formulate an integrated systems approach to the transformation of the energy infrastructure? What examples do we have of successful "sustainable development" and what does that mean? Numerous guest speakers from the world of Sustainability will present during the course, and readings, lectures & short films will support the discussions of current events. Students will develop a thesis on the subject and defend it in a research paper to be written over the course of the semester. Speakers and issues change from one semester to another.
Instructor: Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson has been involved with energy efficiency and sustainability in the built environment for more than twenty-five years, including broad experience in product design & development, building energy analysis, manufacturers' representation and construction management. He has a BA in Philosophy & English Literature from UC Berkeley, and a MS in Design, Engineering Technology & Business Administration from the University of North Texas. He has authored a variety of articles on energy and buildings and his book, High Performance Buildings: A Guide For Owners & Managers, is forthcoming from the Fairmont Press. A member of the Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization, the Sustainable Leadership Roundtable and the Association of Energy Engineers, he sits on the Board of Advisors for the Energy & Resource Technology HUB - North Texas and is president of Axis Design-Build, Inc.
(NEW) Democracy and
Development in SE Asia (glo)
(hum)
SOSC 6302
Class # 5430
Thursdays
3 Credit Hours
Are democratic values universal? What role does economic development play in promoting democracy? Is there an alternative to the western model of political and economic progress? These are the overarching questions this course will consider as it explores how countries in Southeast Asia (SE Asia) negotiate the paths of democratization and development. SE Asia's record of remarkable economic growth under diverse political regimes offers a range of fascinating case studies that challenge conventional wisdom about democracy and economic development.
Instructor: LaiYee Leong
Dr. Leong received her B.A. (1994) and Ph.D. in Political Science (2008) from Yale University. At SMU, Dr. Leong teaches undergraduate courses in Comparative Politics, the Politics of Southeast Asia, the Politics of the Middle East, and the Politics of Islam. She also teaches an SMU-in-Bali Study Abroad course on Politics and Religions, as well as courses for the Continuing and Professional Education program. Dr. Leong's scholarship focuses on Islamic groups and ideological change; she is working on a book analyzing how such groups in Indonesia played a positive role in the country's democratization. Dr. Leong is a native of Singapore, but has lived in various parts of the U.S. for two decades.
civil
rights: an unfinished revolution
(ams)
(hum)
(hrj)
SOSC 6356
Class # 5432
Thursdays
3 Credit Hours
This course will focus upon the history and politics of the movement that destroyed the system of racial segregation, dissolved barriers to political participation by African Americans, and influenced the culture and politics of the United States. The course combines readings and classroom discussion with an extended trip over spring break to historical civil rights venues.
Instructor: Dennis Simon
Dr. Simon is an Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He is the recipient of SMU's M Award, the Willis Tate Award, and the President's Associate award. His research and teaching interests include the American Presidency, national elections, and the politics of change in the United States. His previous research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Women and Politics. He is the recipient of the Southern Political Science Association's Pi Sigma Alpha Award for his study of national forces in state legislative elections and, with Barbara Palmer, the Miriam Irish Award for their work on women and congressional elections. In February of 2008, he and Palmer published the second edition of Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections with Routledge Press. At present, he is working on a book length project that focuses on elections in the American south since 1868.
SATURDAY CLASSES 9:30 A.M. - 11:50 A.M.
(NEW) Time Past, Time
Present: Storytelling with a Backdrop of History
(CRW)
FNAR
6396
Class #
5744
Saturdays
3 Credit Hours
All writing reflects a backdrop of history, whether the immediate past, the personal past, or the distant past. Storytelling in fiction and nonfiction becomes richer, more dramatic, and closer to the "truth" when a writer researches, explores, and incorporates historical context. By mining the past for stories waiting to be told, writers spark their creativity and enhance the richness of their creations. This course combines creative writing with literary analysis and historical research to reflect the benefits of close reading, learning from the masters, exploring the "presentness" of the past, and enhancing the creative process.
Instructor: Janet Harris
Dr. Harris has
taught literature and writing for over twenty-five years with special emphasis
on the connection between learning from other writers and application of that
knowledge to writing projects. She has helped more than 100 writers develop,
edit, and publish their work and has guided more than 85 books into print for
literary and mass markets. Co-author of a literature and composition text, she
has published articles, monographs, and reviews.
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Phone: 214-768-4273
Fax: 214-768-2104
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