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IDS 250-01 Liberal Arts Capstone-- Fall 2014 CRN 3324 Wednesdays 1:15-3:57 in Room 1120 Narrating the Body/Reshaping the Discourse Instructor: Dr. Daniela Ragusa (dragusa@ccc.commnet.edu 860-906-5202) Humanities Department Office Hours: Monday & Tuesday and by appointment (office: room 1114) Catalog Description: IDS 250 Liberal Arts Capstone is an interdisciplinary course focusing on a theme affecting cross sections of humanity. It is designed to broaden students perspectives beyond their own culture or discipline and to provide an opportunity for the integration of knowledge gained in General Education courses taken previously. The course will have a rigorous writing component and is required for all students graduating from the Liberal Arts Program (this requirement applies to students who enroll in the Fall of 2007 or later). Prerequisites: ENG 101, ENG 102. Students must be in their second year (i.e. 30+ credits) of the Liberal Arts and Sciences degree program to take this course. If you do not meet these requirements but have registered anyway, you may still not be eligible to get credit for this course. Please see me in the first week of the semester if you do not meet the prerequisite requirements. Goals & Objectives: This course will challenge you to grow in all six learning goals of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Degree Program: (1) effective communication, (2) use of information technology, (3) scientific reasoning, (4) critical thinking, (5) research and documentation skills, and (6) global awareness. Course Description: Our topic for this semester is how body narratives (the personal stories people tell about their bodies) fit into body discourses (larger conversations about the human body existing in the public realm.) In this course, students will inquire into the political import of these narratives to discuss how privilege and oppression become embodied in the ways we view our very selves and in the ways we view others. Furthermore, students will consider how historical, medical, societal, cultural, aesthetic, and other contexts form competing versions of mainstream and alternative discourses, which in turn help create our understanding of: what bodies are for, what they can (and can't) do, to whom they belong, where they are allowed to exist, when they are permitted to be seen, how they are used, and why they are valued, or not. With the help of guest speakers (professors who are experts in their fields, as well as student-leaders and community members with personal expertise on various topics), students will learn how people narrate the stories of their own bodies according to and/or contrary to public discourses existing outside of themselves. For example: people tell stories of weight loss or weight gain within the paradigm of the weight loss industry as it is mediated by advertising and/or medical rhetoric. Another example: people tell stories of their struggle with alcoholism, drug abuse, and sobrie
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- 2. Narrating the Body: Reshaping the Discourse Course Content
- 3. There is power in looking. bell hooks
- 5. Reviews and Reactions: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of the Business of Being Born by Dr. Kim Hensley Owens
- 7. Home Birth with Midwife
- 8. The Mirror Stagesheds light on the formation of the I. Jacques Lacan
- 11. Visibility is a trap. Michel Foucault
- 12. Eff your beauty standards.
- 13. Adipositivity isnt for women only.
- 15. Body Positivity Event Oct 22, 2014
- 17. Self-portrait by Substantia Jones
- 20. My 3rd grade teacher called my mother and said, Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we dont get him into therapy. And wouldnt you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress! Laverne Cox
- 21. Theres a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. Chaz Bono
- 23. "Getting this level of care has always been available to rich women. Lester Minto, MD
- 24. I do have belief in God. That's why I do this work. My belief in God tells me that the most important thing you can do for another human being is help them in their time of need. Willie Parker, MD
- 25. The Big Book Exploring the Tragi-Comic in Recovery Narratives
- 26. We don't say well, you have heart diseaseYou are morally unfit. You are weak. No. We say well, you have heart disease. But now that you know you have heart disease you have certain responsibilities. You should eat a healthy diet, and you should exercise, and you should see your cardiologist and you should take your medsAnd that should be our same attitude towards addicts. We should say okay, well, you're an addict. You have something wrong with your brain the way this other guy had something wrong with his heart. But it's not a free ride. From The Compass of Pleasure by David Linden
- 27. BRCA 1 Mutation
- 28. I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. Angelina Jolie
- 30. I do not want to die. But I am dying.Brittany Maynard
- 32. Custom casket from Ghana. Leave this world in style!
- 34. Student Topics
- 35. Transgender People in the Military
- 38. Abortion Rights
- 39. Being Fat Does Not Equal Being Unhealthy
- 40. Early Puberty is Becoming the New Normal
- 43. Aid in Dying
- 44. The Brains Role in Addiction
- 46. The purpose of this course is to empower students with a better understanding of body autonomy.
- 48. The topic for this capstone course was inspired by my mothers battle with ALS, a disease that robs the afflicted of their bodies leaving them unable to walk, talk, move, eat, speak, or breathe on their own, but leaves the mind sharp and the spirit intact. This course and its poster presentations are dedicated to the 30,000 Americans currently living with ALS.