Comedy, Spring 2008

Abstract:: This course looks at comedy in drama, novels, and films from Classical Greece to the twentieth century. Focusing on examples from Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Molière, Wilde, Chaplin, and Billy Wilder, along with theoretical contexts, the class examines comedy as a transgressive mode with revolutionary social and political implications. This is a Communications Intensive (CI) class with emphasis on discussion, and frequent, short essays.

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Humor, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship

Abstract:: This course is designed for the student who likes to live on the edge. It is about a way of thinking, living, and working. We will integrate humor, creativity, and entrepreneurship into this course. The course will challenge some of your current beliefs and philosophies concerning how people live and work in organizations. The course emphasizes humor, creativity, and entrepreneurship as a way of life. The course is designed to help students use humor, creativity, and entrepreneurship in their own lives, as well as to apply some of the concepts to their organizational lives. It is designed to teach students how to live and work outside of bureaucracy, to learn to dream about new ideas and new ventures, to push the edges of the envelope and to see the concept of entrepreneurship as "virtual reality."

Abstract:: Surveys both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such as the classical era, the samurai age, wartime Japan and the atomic bombings, social change in the postwar period, and the appropriation of foreign cultural themes, with an emphasis on the modern period. Directors include Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Teshigahara. Authors include Kobo Abe and Yukio Mishima. Films shown with subtitles in English. Taught in English.

Abstract:: In deze les leer je je mening geven over een bedrijfspresentatie over humor op het werk. Je leert ook de informatie te begrijpen uit een gesproken tekst, de speech van een professionele spreker op de workshop. Tegelijk steek je ook wat op over hoe humor voor een betere werksfeer kan zorgen.