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Painting Modernity, Tutorial: Painting Modernity
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The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Explores what is meant by the modern word.
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2004
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grinnell:3457
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Places I've Been: Outsiders, Exiles, Tourists, First Year Tutorial, Fall 2001, Tutorial, Fall 2001
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The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Explores the role and significance of place in conceptualizations of self and others.
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2001
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grinnell:3452
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Primitive Skills in the Modern World, Tutorial, Fall 2003, Whittaker
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The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Modern popular culture is seeing a revival of interest in primitive skills. Practical experience; reading and writing will be applied to the the exploration of primitive.
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2003
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grinnell:225
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Renaissance
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The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Considers the rebirth of arts, politics and culture in Florence known as the renaissance.
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1999
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grinnell:3458
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Russia in Revolution, Tutorial, Fall 2001, First year tutorial, Fall 2001
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The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. This tutorial focuses on the literature and art of the Russian Revolutionary period.
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2001
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grinnell:3459
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Soundtracks and Scores, Soundtracks and Scores : Syllabus
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The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Soundtracks and scores explores the use of music in conveying emotion in films.
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2004
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grinnell:3460
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Stories, Story-Tellers, and Audiences: Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Marguerite of Navarre's Heptameron, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Marguerite of Navarre's Heptameron, Tutorial: Stories, Story-Tellers, and Audiences: Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Marguerite of Navarre's Heptameron
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How is a story constructed? Using a model derived from linguistics and applied to narrative, we will explore both this question and the art of narrative. For most of the semester, we will be the audience of stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Marguerite of Navarre's Heptameron, but, at the end of the semester, you will be a story-teller and a part of the audience for your fellow students' stories. This tutorial will especially develop your ability to take part in class discussions and to write arguments.
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2003
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grinnell:3461
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The Comedies of Aristophanes, Tutorial: The Comedies of Aristophanes
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Throughout the semester we will explore the meaning, philosophy, and psychology of the comic as we see it in Aristophanes and elsewhere - what makes something funny. Is all humor contextual or are some of its elements intrinsic or universal? What did the famous actor mean with his last words,
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2004
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grinnell:3433