COWL-Cowell College

A workshop for beginning writers of poetry. Students generate, revise, and discuss their own work as well as study modern poems that illustrate issues and choices in contemporary poetry writing.

A workshop for novice writers of fiction in which students generate, revise, and discuss their own work as well as read stories by diverse writers.

Examines three different scripts from both a literary and performance perspective. Discusses the genre, structure, characters, and themes of each script, as well as the challenges involved in staging and the implications of various potential staging choices. Students then attend a production, evaluating the choices made in it. A fee for expenses involved in attending each production is charged.

A review and reconsideration of some of the major American photographers, from Matthew Brady to Judy Dater, with special consideration given to Edward Steichen, Imogene Cunningham, Gertrude Kasebier, Dorothea Lange, and others. Seminar discussion and four papers required.

Perspectives and case studies on diversity, communication, and social recognition. Discusses instances of social isms and phobias (racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia), and raises issues of religious tolerance and inter-faith dialogue. Includes current events and diversity topics in universitiy life. Enrollment restricted to college members. Admission by written application.

Focus on the literary and cultural construction of America. Examines a variety of 16th- and 17th-century texts. Explores questions of diversity, idealism, community, and race in the early English colonies.

An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of the brain, mind, and consciousness. Topics include the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, cognition, and social psychology, and their applications in fields such as health science, technology, and social development.

First-year honors seminar focusing on current research and theory related to children and technology. Attention is given to the gaps between public opinion about the impact of technology on children and the actual evidence regarding such impacts. Topics may include how use of digital devices may influence children's thinking; how children learn to use new technologies; computer gaming and aggression; and how children's social development may be influenced by social media and other technology.

Explores the world of philanthropy. Examines the different models of philanthropy to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. Also examines what drives philanthropists to give. Enrollment by permission and restricted to College Scholar students.

A comparison of three great modern cities, with emphasis on their roles as incubators of new forms of art, spectacle, and entertainment; the specters of alienation, poverty, and crime during periods of explosive growth; and immigration and diversity as sources of cultural dynamism.

Examines representative American stage musicals with emphasis on text, music, and lyrics thereof. Topics include the history of the genre and the relationship of the musicals to the political and social context of their respective times.

Traces the transformation from fiction into film of four modern texts. Discussions concentrate on effectiveness of the transformation in terms of filmic technique and medium differences. Final essay required.

A look into American silent comedy, its history and aesthetics, from sources in European clowning to its difinitive moment in the 1920's films of Chaplin and Keaton to such later developments as the television style of Ernie Kovacs.

A reading and discussion group focused on the interaction of language structure and socially relevant issues of language use involving questions of correctness, truth, manipulation, discrimination, and obfuscation.

Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.

Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.

Studies linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world. Topics range from the linguistic (language description) to the sociolinguistic (language use in multilingual societies), from literature (poetry, fiction, drama) to history and the arts.

An investigation into the idea of modern classical acting through seminar discussion and studio performance. Students practice detailed textual analysis of classical texts (with particular emphasis on Shakespeare) and their memorization and performance. Designed for members of Cowell College.

Development of an interpretive natural history trail on the lower and middle UCSC campus. Directed reading in pertinent literature and intensive practice in writing or graphically illustrating short popular pieces on natural history, as well as preparation of the guide-leaflet itself.

Course approaches literature and literary devices in their capacity to address the patient's experience of illness, medical education and practice, and medical ethics and to understand and assess how considerations of justice impact these themes in medicine. Particular issues raised by a variety of topics are examined and discussed in the context of case examples as presented in literature and film, e.g., informed consent, the doctor-patient relation, withdrawing vs. withholding life-sustaining treatment, organ transplantation, health care reform, rationing/social justice, etc.

Study of campus planning in American colleges and universities from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, with comparison to the planning and ideals of UCSC.