Spring 2016 Course Information
Please note: A&S 100-level courses connected with Wired will be taught in the Champions Court II First Floor Rotunda. WRD 111 courses
connected with Wired will be taught in classrooms in Blazer Hall (BLH), right across the street from where Wired is housed in Champions Court II.
1. Pick one of the A&S courses below (please see course descriptions on the next page). These courses are
two credit hours each and last for the first 10 weeks of the semester.
Course
Number
A&S 110-001
A&S 110-002
A&S 110-003
A&S 120-001
A&S 130-001
Course Title
Instructor
Day
Time
Location
WIRED: Drawing on Your Creative
Circuitry
Monsters: Tales of the Strange &
Wondrous
Creativity and the Art of Acting
History to Fizz-iology of Beverages
Between Shadow and Light:
Cosmopolitanism in Virtual and
Physical Worlds
Beth M. Ettensohn
MW
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
CC2 Rotunda
TR
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
CC2 Rotunda
MWF
MWF
TR
9:00 AM – 9:50 AM
11:00 AM–11:50AM
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM
CC2 Rotunda
CC2 Rotunda
CC2 Rotunda
Michelle R. Sizemore
Jeremy Kisling
Rita Basuray
Richard B. Greissman/
Randolph Hollingsworth
2. All students who are eligible must register for a WRD 111 course (UK Core) from the following list unless
the requirement has already been met. Please discuss this with your advisor.
Course
Number
WRD 111-018
WRD 111-024
WRD 111-042
Course Title
Instructor
Day
Time
Composition & Communication II
Composition & Communication II
Composition & Communication II
Joshua Abboud
Joshua Abboud
Katherine Rogers-Carpenter
MWF 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM
MWF 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM
TR
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Location
BLH 237
BLH 237
BLH 237
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WIRED: Drawing on Your Creative Circuitry (A&S 110-001, MW, 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM)
Beth Mosher Ettensohn, Lecturer in School of Art & Visual Studies & Co-Director of WIRED Residential College
Your brain is wired for creative activity and everything you see has potential for pushing boundaries and bringing new ideas to fruition. Using
drawing as a springboard, you will explore several factors that stimulate and inhibit creativity. Skills in perceptive seeing, ideation, reframing
problems, combinatorial creativity, divergent and visual thinking will be explored using a variety of traditional drawing media and iPad apps. Both
individual and collaborative products will be generated. This is an introductory course designed for all majors.
Monsters: Tales of the Strange and Wondrous (A&S 110-002, TR, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM)
Michelle R. Sizemore, Department of English
This semester we’ll be gripped by texts that turn the spotlight on people and creatures who, by either choice or force, inhabit the margins of
mainstream society. Through an ensemble of texts that mix horror, fantasy, tragedy, and humor, we will explore how writers over the past two
centuries have used stories of “monsters" to ask profound questions about differences among humans, as well as differences between humans and
other beings: What are the limits and excesses of the human? How have bodies been markers of otherness? How are feelings of strangeness and
wonder connected with social othering? In this class we will pay special attention to how cultures have constructed anomalous social categories in
order to define or secure membership in a common group. We will be equally concerned with how race, class, sexuality, gender, and disability
factor into these designations and divisions. Texts will include a mixture of literature, film, television, podcasts, and other media.
Creativity and the Art of Acting: Altered Stages – Theatre is not what you think!
(A&S 110-003, MWF, 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM)
Jeremy Kisling, Adjunct Instructor in Theatre
When we think of theatre - we think of actors, stages and plays. Introduce yourself to alternative methods and processes of creating and using
theatre. Students will examine how theatre can be created and utilized in all types of settings. Discover and study several different theatre makers
and how they have changed the landscape of how art is created and performed. The final project will stretch your creative juices as you devise and
perform your own theatre piece.
History to Fizz-iology of Beverages (A&S 120-001, MWF, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM)
Rita Basuray, Visiting Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences
How long can we live without drinking a drop of water? How does our body adjust? Why did human beings start to drink fluids other than water
and how are these alternate liquids associated with interesting chapters in human history? Using the book entitled “History of the World in 6
Glasses”, this course will explore the physiology and pathology of thirst, kidney function, micturation and gastrointestinal tract activities that help
absorb and discard fluids from the human body. I will also explain how alcohol affects mental acuity and how caffeine in different drinks can affect
the heart. The fluids examined will include water, beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and Coca-Cola.
Between Shadow & Light: Cosmopolitanism in Virtual and Physical Worlds
(A&S 130-001, TR, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM)
Randolph Hollingsworth, Assistant Provost, Undergraduate Education/Richard Greissman, Retired Senior Assistant Provost for Faculty Affairs
People hold very different philosophical positions about concepts of diversity, inclusion, cross-cultural understanding and multiculturalism. This
should come as no surprise. Independent of our philosophical comfort or discomfort with such concepts, however, we increasingly face the day-today reality that we live in a world of strangers. We live in a world not only of ‘common’ strangers but of people who look and behave very
differently from ourselves - whomever ‘ourselves’ might be - and with whom we are expected to interact constructively and productively, be it in
school, workplace or civic life. How do we, and how should we, behave in a world of strangers?
Students in this course will explore what it means to be part of a global community, and what it might mean to be a ‘global citizen’ through
readings and class discussions as well as ethnographic study in the 3D virtual world Second Life <secondlife.com> and a final ethnographic project
involving students in UK’s English As a Second Language (ESL) Program.
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