Drew University Moodle

EAP 040: Writing & Grammar (Section GJ)
Dr. Yessenia Guglielmi

Location: Tilghman House 205 Semester: Fall 2023
Days: Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays Times: 10:00-12:05 pm
Office: Tilghman 206 Email: yguglielmi@drew.edu



Course Description:

In this course, students will focus on the continuation of the Academic English language writing and grammar series with a concentration on greater mastery of academic writing skills and accuracy in more complex grammatical forms. Students additionally move from a focus on different types of academic paragraphs and to an introduction of the academic essay while utilizing the writing process. Student learners will continue to develop the ability to construct grammatically accurate sentences in their writing using more complex grammatical structures. This course is designed for students at the intermediate level.

This course introduces professional practices in the visual arts and supports art majors as they develop a professional identity. Students work on articulating their artistic practice and create a website where they publish a portfolio of their artwork, artists’ statement, and other common writings in the field. Students learn to document and prepare digital files for presentations and applications. Materials in class are used to apply for real-world opportunities.

Come on down to the Cabaret! In this class we will examine the mystical place where art and science collide. This seminar-style course uses musical theater productions to explore psychological themes, drawing from clinical, social, cognitive, and developmental psychology. Emphasis will be placed on finding, reading, and interpreting empirical articles.

During the course of the semester, students will study the craft of directing through the experience of directing a one-act or full-length play for public performance. This class will serve as a place of support and ensemble as students navigate this process. Classroom discussion will focus on works in progress, with special emphasis on the problems of translating a text to the stage; working with actors, designers, and playwrights. By the end of the course, students will have explored and strengthened their process as a director and begun to develop their individual artistic point of view.

General DSEM Description:
The Drew Seminar introduces students to the intellectual life of the liberal arts college. The seminars revolve around an intellectual area of exploration, designed by the faculty member. The DREW Seminar is rigorous and analytical, engaging explorations of a significant question, mode of inquiry, or topic. The goal is to help students develop the academic skills and habits of mind that are central to higher education; faculty share their intellectual passions and welcome students into the collaborative culture of the liberal arts college. The seminar will help students develop the following skills and habits of mind: critical thinking, writing skills, rhetorical knowledge, oral communication, and information literacy. Activities include formal and informal writing, discussion of readings, oral presentation, and writing revision.

Specific Description:
From Aphrodite to Lady Pink: Women and Art.
This course will explore the evolving role of women as patrons of art, makers of art, and as subjects of art. Through a series of case studies and a variety of media we will explore the visual arts, both past and present, as a means to better understand the role of women in past cultures and in our modern society. Some of the topics covered will include: prominent, powerful women of the past such as Marie de'Medici Queen of France and Queen Christina of Sweden; ancient images of Venus/Aphrodite will be discussed in connection with their Renaissance reincarnation and modern images of the nude. In addition, we will question the emergence of the female artist in the sixteenth century and the role of women today as award winning architects, street artists, and women whose work can be found in museums around the world.

This class is focused on exploring over two and a half centuries of North American history, from roughly 1600 to 1877, with an eye on the peoples, cultures, and places that formed, or contributed to the formation, of what became the United States. That said, throughout our course we will constantly keep in mind that the establishment and rise of the U.S. was not inevitable. Geographically, our course examines how developments taking place on what became the continental U.S. were always connected to what was happening elsewhere in the hemisphere, in the Atlantic, and throughout the world. We will also be taking particular care to trace what took place in New Jersey throughout this period. Socially and culturally, we will be examining a wide gamut of historical actors from a plethora of backgrounds that constituted the heterogeneous populations of early North America. Intellectually, we will be plunging into the past both so that we might better familiarize ourselves with the origins of the United States as well as to critically approach some of the questions and challenges we face in the present.

Explores cross-disciplinary uses for digital 3D modeling using the open-source software Blender, including 3D-printing original sculptures, recreating cultural artifacts, designing assets for film and gaming, and proposing new relationships between physical and virtual worlds. Technical instruction begins with the basics of polygonal modeling while readings, screenings, forum discussions and guest speakers provide a critical framework. Students from diverse disciplines are welcome and are encouraged to apply concepts from their field(s) of study to develop unique syntheses between practical and theoretical pursuits.

Course Description:
The Drew Seminar introduces students to the intellectual life of a liberal arts education. Led by a faculty member dedicated to working with first-year students, the seminar provides a stimulating introduction to rigorous, college-level work that centers on the exploration of a particular topic or subject area, and includes development of critical thinking, information literacy, and writing skills, as well as oral and interpersonal communication skills. Activities include formal and informal writing, discussion of readings, oral presentations, and writing revision.

Soft Data: Art & Illegibility
This seminar explores theoretical and practical approaches to visualizing invisible, illegible, or otherwise undiagnosable afflictions in the body by tracing intersectional strategies from medical humanities, art, and disability studies. We will begin with a history of diagnosis and its discontents, focusing on the role that evolving medical imaging technologies play in reorienting our relationship with the body. From there we will study narrative medicine and examine a wide range of soft data practices from various creative and medical disciplines. In contrast to the networked and institutionalized hard data bodies that stand in for the individual, soft data is gathered through subjective and embodied experience and can be used to synthesize, track, and defamiliarize our relationship with our unruly selves.