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Title: Dynamic Map and Timeline: History of the Modern Middle East (1798-Present)
Description: A poster explaining how the faculty member used a dynamic map and timeline to illustrate events. The map and timeline are tied together so that an entry on one appears on the other.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:3324

Title: Emotion and Cognition, Tut. 100.28 Emotion and Cognition
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. Explores how cognition informs emotion and how emotion affects cognition.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3440

Title: Frankenstein's Monsters: the Creation of Horror & the Horror of Creation
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. Fairy tales and horror stories are used to learn about literary analysis.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3441

Title: Freedom, First year tutorial : Freedom, Tutorial, Fall 2002
Description: Is freedom the "natural"condition of humankind, as some theorists maintain, or are our identities subject to forces over which we exercise little control? Indeed, do humans covet freedom at all, or do they, as Dostoevsky has the Grand Inquisitor say, prefer to abandon their freedom in favor of happiness? From numerous perspectives, both classical and modern, this tutorial will examine freedom and its limitations. We will consider how dystopian fiction, Nazi culture, neuroscience, and molecular biology, among others, contribute to our understandings of freedom and its boundaries, and what these understandings mean for a liberally educated person.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3442

Title: Humanities I : The Ancient Greek World, The Ancient Greek World
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. Uses ancient Greek texts to introduce students to college level reading, writing, and oral skills.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3446

Title: Ideas of Love in Western Culture, Tutorial: Ideas of Love in Western Culture
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. Explores "love" in Western culture.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3447

Title: Images of Africa
Description: John Reader compiled a remarkable history of Africa in his book Africa: Biography of a Continent (1996). We will use this volume as a central reference for our consideration of the origins of various Anglo-American images of an incredibly diverse continent and its people. In addition, we will examine recent fictional and non-fictional texts and films to explore the effects of these images on current perceptions of African politics, culture and environment.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3448

Title: Music in the Balance of Power, Tutorial: Music in the Balance of Power
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.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:226

Title: Musicians in Fiction
Description: Students will read fiction about musicians and listen to the relevant musical works that are mentioned in the literature.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3453

Title: Myth of the Middle Class, Tutorial: The Myth of the Middle Class
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. The United States is frequently described as a middle-class society and we hear the description so often that we assume we know what it means. This course will explore the myth of the middle class.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:3454