Spring Semester 2005
HONR 110: Satire: From Aristophanes to Jon Stewart
Instructor: Dr. Goode (North Carolina Professor of the Year, 1995)
Time: Thursday 8:30-11am
This course will examine the subjects, techniques, purposes, and effects of satire in several historical contexts and different media, including drama, narrative fiction, essays, film and television. Students will read Aristophanes, Juvenal, Chaucer, Swift, Twain, Mencken, Will Rogers, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and more contemporary satirists (Woody Allen, Al Franken, Dennis Miller), including those whose work appears in film (Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Mel Brooks, Monty Python), on television (SNL, The Daily Show, The Simpsons), in magazines (MAD, The Onion), and on the internet.
Students will learn the methods of satire (point of view, exaggeration, understatement, burlesque, parody, irony, invective, ridicule, etc.) and the genres (political, social, aesthetic) and will produce a work of satire as a final course project. 3 hours
HONR 220: The Secret Life of Rivers
Instructors: Dr. Perkins, Dr. Steinmetz
Time: Tuesdays 8:30-11am
This course will explore the vital, and often conflicted, relationship humans have with rivers. Floods bring destruction, but also the fertile soil for new life. Rivers are home to intricate ecological systems, but are also transportation arteries driving economic growth and the quality of human life. From nearly any perspective, rivers are central to understanding the human experience on Earth. In this semester’s journey, we will ask some fundamental questions: How do rivers work ecologically? How have rivers guided human history? How have rivers shaped us---economically, recreationally, artistically, spiritually? We will consider how answers to these questions change as you move from headwaters to the ocean. The focus will be on the Catawba River, but we will also consider major river systems throughout the world (Tigris-Euphrates, Amazon, Yangtze, Mississippi, etc.). Weekend canoe/boating trip required. 3 hours
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