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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

Title: Narrative and Identity, Tutorial: Narrative and Identity
Description: All human beings tell stories, indeed some researchers argue that a narrative capacity is a critical and unique feature of human cognition. The great political philosopher, Hannah Arendt, claims that we tell stories because we need them to understand the intentions of human actors, and without them we cannot make sense of human speech and action. Stories not only help us to make sense of actions, they also motivate them.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3455

Title: New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the critique of neoliberalism, Film and the critique of neoliberalism
Description: In 1992, B. Ruby Rich coined the term New Queer Cinema to describe a cycle of films in the late 1980s and early 1990s that broke with conventional cinematic practices to show rethought subjectivities, generic subversions, and revised histories. New Queer Cinema, however, saw little of the same bursts of innovative directors and their films after 1992. This lag in revolutionary filmmaking left many evaluating queer cinema’s current state, even mourning the supposed end of New Queer Cinema. In this paper, I argue that queer filmmaking is not void of revolutionary potential; it is more that the driving force behind these films has changed. Instead of acting in opposition to a conservative government that failed to respond to the AIDS crisis, current queer work resists the normalizing effects of today’s neoliberal government. A cycle study of recent queer films reveals this driving revolutionary force.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:3419

Title: Not the Country of My Heart : Alumni Memories of Grinnell College, Alumni Memories of Grinnell College
Description: Alumni memories of Grinnell College reveal the importance of social spaces and the centrality of the people at Grinnell to creating a sense of place.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:3420

Title: Noyce Commons: relevance of layout, amenities, and space designation to college students
Description: A study of the effect that the layout of a room has on student study preferences in the Noyce Science Center.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:3421

Title: Noyce String Master Class and Concert 2006, Noyce Viola and Chamber Music Master Class 2006, Master Class and Concert, Noyce Violin Master Class 2006
Description: Concert program for recital on November 5, 2006. Alyssa Yokota-Lewis, violin; Scott Slinker, violin; Elizabeth Greenberg, violin; Victor Colussi, violin; Harry Inglis, violin; Sarah Hvidsen, violin; Young Lee, violin; Emily Read, violin; Philippa Hoover, cello; Huiting Liu, flute; Vincent Geels, violin; Maxwell Stephenson, viola; Jun Hee Kim, violin; Emma Meade, violin; Wini Marcel, viola; Ian Bishop, cello; and Meredith Drake, viola.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:4245

Title: On Ethics and Economics
Description: This paper analyzes the linkages between ethics and economics in the writings of Aristotle, Smith and Sen, and then provides an alternative paradigm for addressing ethical or normative concerns within contemporary economics
Date Created: 2005
PID: grinnell:115

Title: Outward from the Middle of the Maze: Selected Plays of Tom Stoppard, Selected Plays of Tom Stoppard
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:3456

Title: Painting Modernity, Tutorial: Painting Modernity
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 what is meant by the modern word.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3457

Title: Perceptions of the Forum and JRC Grills: architectural and experiential approaches to atmosphere
Description: An examination of the Forum and JRC grills using interviews and GIS data suggests that both architecture and experience are important and interrelated factors that shape perceptions of atmosphere, with experience playing a particularly influential role for people who have memories that they associate with place.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:3422