Novel representations and diverse perspectives can reveal new insights into complex systems, …
Novel representations and diverse perspectives can reveal new insights into complex systems, and can support rich understandings of the world. In this activity, students will identify and analyze the choices artists and scientists make when creating representations of living or non-living natural objects. This process will help students recognize the potential and place for their own articulation of how the world works. After drawing from nature, students will reflect on the process of representing information, then compare their drawings with that of a 16th-century artist. Students will consider what is included and what is excluded, and hypothesize about larger contexts and systems.
This course focuses on novels and films from the last twenty-five years …
This course focuses on novels and films from the last twenty-five years (nominally 1985–2010) marked by their relationship to extreme violence and transgression. Our texts will focus on serial killers, torture, rape, and brutality, but they also explore notions of American history, gender and sexuality, and reality television—sometimes, they delve into love or time or the redemptive role of art in late modernity. Our works are a motley assortment, with origins in the U.S., France, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Japan and South Korea. The broad global era marked by this period is one of acceleration, fragmentation, and late capitalism; however, we will also consider national specificities of violent representation, including particulars like the history of racism in the United States, the role of politeness in bourgeois Austrian culture, and the effect of Japanese manga on vividly graphic contemporary Asian cinema. We will explore the politics and aesthetics of the extreme; affective questions about sensation, fear, disgust, and shock; and problems of torture, pain, and the unrepresentable. We will ask whether these texts help us understand violence, or whether they frame violence as something that resists comprehension; we will consider whether form mitigates or colludes with violence. Finally, we will continually press on the central term in the title of this course: what, specifically, is violence? (Can we only speak of plural “violences”?) Is violence the same as force? Do we know violence when we see it? Is it something knowable or does it resist or even destroy knowledge? Is violence a matter for a text’s content—who does what, how, and to whom—or is it a problem of form: shock, boredom, repetition, indeterminacy, blankness? Can we speak of an aesthetic of violence? A politics or ethics of violence? Note the question that titles our last week: Is it the case that we are what we see? If so, what does our obsession with ultraviolence mean, and how does contemporary representation turn an accusing gaze back at us?
This Freshman Advising Seminar surveys the many applications of magnets and magnetism. …
This Freshman Advising Seminar surveys the many applications of magnets and magnetism. To the Chinese and Greeks of ancient times, the attractive and repulsive forces between magnets must have seemed magical indeed. Through the ages, miraculous curative powers have been attributed to magnets, and magnets have been used by illusionists to produce “magical” effects. Magnets guided ships in the Age of Exploration and generated the electrical industry in the 19th century. Today they store information and entertainment on disks and tapes, and produce sound in speakers, images on TV screens, rotation in motors, and levitation in high-speed trains. Students visit various MIT projects related to magnets (including superconducting electromagnets) and read about and discuss the history, legends, pseudoscience, science, and technology of types of magnets, including applications in medicine. Several short written reports and at least one oral presentation will be required of each participant.
Au boulot! is a two-year college French program consisting of: a textbook, …
Au boulot! is a two-year college French program consisting of: a textbook, workbook and 21 accompanying audio exercises; as well as a reference grammar, to be used the entire two years. We also insist that our students obtain a full-sized dictionary, and we recommend the HARPER-COLLINS-ROBERT bilingual New Standard Edition. (Instructors will note in reviewing the materials that we provide vocabulary lists at the ends of chapters, with translations, but no glossary. We have become convinced after years of experience that glossaries are counter-productive. It is vital that students learn to use dictionaries, and the sooner the better.)
In this activity, students will continue practicing their fingerspelling as a warm …
In this activity, students will continue practicing their fingerspelling as a warm up. Students will then play an auction game to familiarize them with products and numbers.
This activity will expose students to the types of currency from Spanish …
This activity will expose students to the types of currency from Spanish speaking countries. Students will purchase items through an "auction". Students will practice numbers in Spanish and will also use adjectives to describe items that they can sell and buy. Students will practice using vocabulary to persuade others to buy a product and make deals with others when purchasing the product.
This activity will expose students to using money and auction related signs. …
This activity will expose students to using money and auction related signs. Students will practice numbers in ASL and will also use adjectives to describe items that they can sell and buy.
In this activity, students will have the opportunity to practice using money …
In this activity, students will have the opportunity to practice using money and math skills to bid on items in an "auction". Students will also experience what actions are like for Deaf individuals.
This activity is to expose students to other types of currency of …
This activity is to expose students to other types of currency of Spanish speaking countries. Students will practice the numbers in Spanish and will use adjectives to describe items that they can sell and buy.
This lesson focuses on Audacity, a free audio editing application. Each lesson …
This lesson focuses on Audacity, a free audio editing application. Each lesson begins with one or more YouTube tutorials and an exercise based on the tutorial content which can be saved for evaluation. It concludes with a final assessment which can be used to evaluate the user's ability to use the application.
This module is part of the Audio Production 1 class offered at …
This module is part of the Audio Production 1 class offered at Lane Community College in Eugene, OR. The purpose of this class is to introduce students to sound manipulation for time-based media. The class covers three elements; field recording, foley capture and ADR. The course uses Pro Tools for recording, editing, mixing and mastering.This first module looks at mobile recorders. It is broken up into three tasks.Activity 1: Getting to know the equipmentActivity 2: Using the equipmentActivity 3: Importing and Editing sounds captured.The mobile recording units used at LCC are the PMD-660, Zoom H4n (and Pro) and Tascam DR-110. You will need the following equipment:mobile recording devicesXLR mic cablesshotgun microphones------------------------------------------Footnote:Image used: Two individuals recording ecoacoustics in the field. Recording ecoacoustics in rural Illinois, USAPublic DomainFile:Ecoacoustics recording in Rural Illinois, USA.jpgCreated: 04:24, 11 November 2009 (UTC) July 2009
Audio is an extremely important part of creating good video, especially when …
Audio is an extremely important part of creating good video, especially when doing interviews. Learn how to avoid making common audio mistakes by following these tips.
In this video from August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand …
In this video from August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand the playwright discusses the influence that the blues has had on his writing. The clip also features a performance from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and commentary from several theater scholars.
Sarah and Susan are sisters who enjoy spending Sunday afternoons with their …
Sarah and Susan are sisters who enjoy spending Sunday afternoons with their great-great Aunt Flossie. Aunt Flossie entertains her great-grandnieces by letting them explore her collection of hats, each of which has a story of its own.
My niece and nephew's elementary school was closed due to COVID-19, so …
My niece and nephew's elementary school was closed due to COVID-19, so we decided to have weekly meetings via zoom to set up research projects and activities that they would complete. This remote learning plan includes the following projects: Animal Research via webcams, Research a Real Life Hero, Research a Country, Interview a Family Member, Perform a Play, Make Environmental Art & La Loteria Board Game, and Compare & Contrast COVID-19 Data.
This supplement was designed to help students build a strong foundation in …
This supplement was designed to help students build a strong foundation in aural training and sight singing by progressing through the core rhythmic and melodic patterns that are found in music. Through the progression of content, students will build skills in pattern recognition and an understanding of how music functions. Rhythms for each section include single and two-part examples as well as pitched examples for use in aural training. Melodies for each section include single line melodies, canons, duets, and chorales. Melodies were designed to be easily accessible for students with basic keyboard skills, and were written without articulation and dynamic markings to allow students and instructors the flexibility to personalize them.
Australian Aboriginal art is one of the oldest continuing art traditions in …
Australian Aboriginal art is one of the oldest continuing art traditions in the world. Much of the most important knowledge of aboriginal society was conveyed through different kinds of storytelling—including narratives that were spoken, performed as dances or songs, and those that were painted. In this lesson students will learn about the Aboriginal storytelling tradition through the spoken word and through visual culture. They will have the opportunity to hear stories of the Dreamtime told by the Aboriginal people, as well as to investigate Aboriginal storytelling in contemporary dot paintings.
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