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| 60000 Level Courses (60500-60599) *60513 COWBOY PHILOSOPHY: CHARACTER, VICE, AND VIRTUE IN THE WESTERN This course examines the morality practiced in Westerns in terms of recent philosophical work on character, vices and virtues. By "Western" is meant primarily films, but the genre is expanded to include novels, cowboy poetry and songs, and rodeos.
Dr. Ted Klein, Professor of Philosophy at TCU since 1963, received his M.Div. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Rice. He served as chair of the Philosophy Department for 10 years, and was the second Director of the Honors Program, serving in that role for four years. Currently Dr. Klein is a member of the Ethics Committee at Columbia Plaza Medical Center, and previously he served on the ethics committees at Cook’s Children’s Medical Center and St. Joseph Hospital. Aspects of plants that make them useful to people from an economic and social perspective. The structure, chemistry, genetics and ecology of plants are examined. Products derived from flowers, seeds, fruits, stems, leaves and roots are analyzed in light of past, present and future needs of the world community. 60533 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A BLESSING OR A CURSE? Today’s headlines report the failure of revolutions with their civil wars, ethnic massacres, and palace coups. What constitutes a successful revolution? What lessons are there in the American experience? General Washington’s startling words in 1783 express his anxiety for the problems of American state building and give the title to a course that will examine the origins of those problems in the protest to British Imperialism, the War for Independence, and the post war challenges leading to the creation of the Federal structure under the Constitution. 60543 THE STRUGGLE FOR TENNESSEE--THE CIVIL WAR’S TULLAHOMA AND CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGNS This course gives students a direct, profound, and comprehensive understanding of the crucial central theater of the Civil War via a combination of readings, discussions, lectures, written assignments, and on-site exploration. Includes one week of travel.
*60553 DILEMMAS IN AMERICAN POLITICS: FREEDOM, ORDER, EQUALITY This class will examine the perennial dilemmas between Freedom, Order and Equality especially as they pertain to political ideology and public policy. To understand the dilemmas, we will examine the basic structure of our government with special attention paid to the structural tensions that augment this dilemma. Next we will look at how the dilemmas surface in contemporary debate among liberals and conservatives and how the dilemmas impact the definition of policies in the United States. We will be discussing and debating a number of current issues that pit these three valued ideals against one another to better understand the positions presented by advocates on both sides of the policy debates and to illuminate our personal positions and views.
60573 THE AESTHETICS OF FILM, TELEVISION, AND RADIO PRODUCTION Understanding how media texts are created. The course provides a behind-the-scenes look at film, television, and radio, guiding students to a thorough understanding of the technological and stylistic options available to producers and directors. These options, in turn, form the palate from which directors and others construct mediated texts--the images, sounds, and dramatic tensions necessary for the successful execution of theatrical film, television, and radio. Examples will be taken from current film, television, and radio programming. Aimed at an educated consumer of the media, this course requires no previous experience in the media arts.
Human beings receive over 80% of their information about the spatial environment through vision. The mechanism by which this visual environment is revealed to us is light. It is the quality of that light, in all of its manifestations, that has inspired mankind for thousands of years. Ranging from the philosophical statement "I see", which has more to do with the act of understanding than the process of seeing, to the psychological aspects of certain three dimensional visual illusions that work, based solely upon stored mental information on the location of our sun and the resultant cast shadows; light has both inspired and guided our relationships with the world that surrounds us. So strongly interwoven is this relationship that it passes for the commonplace. This course seeks to explore and clarify the inter-relationship between man and light. Individual/team investigations will concentrate on the use of light and color to create sophisticated themed environments. The TCU Center for Lighting Education will be used to support the actual demonstration of and investigations into the use of various types of electric lighting devices, ranging from simple track fixtures to computer controlled fixtures that can change color, lighting position, and pattern.
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