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Title: Russia in Revolution, Tutorial, Fall 2001, First year tutorial, Fall 2001
Description: 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.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:3459

Title: Soundtracks and Scores, Soundtracks and Scores : Syllabus
Description: 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.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3460

Title: 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
Description: 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.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3461

Title: Summary of Online Experiments and Pilots, Online Experiments and Pilots
Description: Summary of online courses and pilot projects which Grinnell College has participated in.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:5185

Title: The Comedies of Aristophanes, Tutorial: The Comedies of Aristophanes
Description: 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,
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3433

Title: The Hero's Journey
Description: This will be a course in comparative heroic poetry. Through exercises in writing, spoken presentation, and discussion we shall study and analyze various aspects of five epic poems, in particular the portrayals of the hero(in)es and conceptions of the heroic in four (very) different cultures. Among topics to be addressed are the narrative patterns of quest and journey (spatial and spiritual), the role of religion and the divine, the role of women, and the diverse cultural value systems reflected in the poems. Particular attention will be paid to the organization of papers and the effective expression of ideas in writing.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3444

Title: The Social Politics of Having Children, Tutorial, Fall 2003; Social politics of having children
Description: This Tutorial will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding some of the issues and controversies that surround childbearing and childrearing. At the same time, the Tutorial will help students to develop the skills and capacities needed for a successful college career.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:54

Title: Tutorial summary sheet 2010-2011, Grinnell College tutorial summary sheet 2010-2011
Description: Tutorials offered during the Fall 2010 semester at Grinnell College.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:3462

Title: Tutorial: Color, Culture and Class, Color, Culture and Class, Tutorial (2010)
Description: Race thinking dominates ways in which people in the United States differentiate groups of people from each other. This tutorial focuses on associations between color and culture in order to examine how racial meanings are constructed and made comprehensible as well as how they are routed through representations of class. Using a combination of texts -- academic articles, films, newspapers and advertisements -- we will explore representations of "whiteness," "blackness," and other "race-d" identities in the public arena. Throughout the semester we will interrogate the language, ideas and assumptions that give meaning to the different ways we perceive the world around us and through which we understand our individual experiences.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:11384

Title: We Are What We Eat: Food, Culture, and Identity in Literature and Film, Food, Culture, and Identity in Literature and Film
Description: In this tutorial we will examine the cultural and political significance of food in literature and film. We will focus on the way national cultures and personal identities are described and defined through narratives of the preparation, consumption, and appreciation of food in twentieth-century Chinese and Chinese American literature and film. Additionally, the course will integrate samples from other cultures and periods as points of comparison. Extracurricular activities, such as a restaurant visit, will also be included to facilitate our understanding and analysis of the culture of food.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3463