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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
by ASHLEY BENNERS
Intern Lifestyles Reporter
For some students who find themselves nestled deep into their major classes, a little variety doesn’t seem like such a bad idea.
To combat this, many departments offer special interest classes that students can add to give a little kick to their curriculum.
Offered by the Heltzer Honors Program Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-1:45 p.m., Dr. Emory Maiden teaches a course called “Hairy Beasts to Harry Potter.”
According
to the honors program Web site, the course will examine current
realities addressed by science fiction and consider the narratives as
part of “an ancient and honorable tradition that has found exemplary
expression in the last century and a half.”
 Dr. Larry Bond sits before a replica of the medieval document “De Docta Ignorantia,” or “on learned ignorance.” Bond will offer a class next semester examining the works of C.S. Lewis and the medieval world. Photo by Holt Menzies
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In the history department, Dr. Lisa Holliday will teach a junior/senior
honors seminar on ancient medicine on Tuesdays and Thursdays from
9:30-10:45 a.m.
According to the honors program Web site, this course will introduce
students to medical practices from Hippocrates to Galen, including
pharmacology and surgical techniques, as well as health, diet and
standards of living in the ancient world.
Also available in the history department is “C.S. Lewis and The
Medieval World” taught on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays by Dr. Larry
Bond from 11-11:50 a.m.
“Most readers today know only C.S. Lewis’ more popular writings such as
the Chronicles of Narnia and his space trilogy,” Bond said.
“Our course will examine the most important works C. S. Lewis wrote
about medieval life and thought and investigate to what extent the
notions found there also appear in his other writings,” Bond said.
In the English
Department, Dr. Susan Staub will teach a class called “Body and Society
in the English Renaissance” Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-1:45 p.m.
“We’ll be looking at sex and gender in various texts to understand how
sexual difference was constructed and how homosexuality was invented,
but we’ll also consider race, and more superstitious ideas about the
body that we see in stories about monsters, hermaphrodites, and
witches,” Staub said.
“Counterculture in the ‘50s and ‘60s” will be taught by David Huntley Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-4:45 p.m.
“Instead of spending much time on the ‘60s, we’re skipping to the ‘70s
when the Baby Beats became a literary and arts force in San Francisco,”
Huntley said.
One of that group’s prominent poets, Thomas Crowe, now lives in
Tuckaseegee and will connect with the class throughout the semester.
Students should check with individual professors to determine whether
special permission is required for admittance into some of the
described classes.
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