Fiction Writing - Jessica Senn / Charlie Dorf
Weeks: 1, 2
Session B
If you love getting lost in a good story, come write your own! In this seminar, you will write a short story with a focus on character development, plot, and world building. Classes will include a combination of direct instruction and plenty of time to write! On the last day, we will chat about next steps - how to finish your draft, seek feedback, or even submit it for publication! You don't need any prior fiction writing experience to enjoy this course.
Hip Hop and Social Change - Andrew Downey
Weeks: 1, 2
Session A
Hip Hop 101 will be a crash course in the "golden age” of hip hop. After exploring the socioeconomic conditions of South Bronx, NY( between 1960-1979, students will dive into the 4 pillars of Hip Hop. Through discourse, listening exercises, visual art, and readings, students will examine how hip hop has been a platform for social change, and an auditory record of black consciousness for the last 40 years.
Investment Alternatives, Trading Cards, and Non-Fungible Tokens - David Moseley
Weeks: 1
Session C
In this seminar, students will practice journalistic sports writing in the forms of reporting on an event, writing historical pieces, and sharing opinion in both written and spoken form. Explore the boom in sports cards, Pokémon cards, celebrity card, and Non-Fungible Tokens from a hobby to a full fledged alternative assets market place. Study the market from an internal perspective on current valuations and strategies for predicting future trends. Understand the definition of non-funigble tokens (NFTS) and digitalization of collectibles. Learn the fundamentals of the card collecting market and have fun seeing if your collection is now an asset.
Investment Alternatives, Trading Cards, and Non-Fungible Tokens - David Moseley
Weeks: 1
Session C
In this seminar, students will practice journalistic sports writing in the forms of reporting on an event, writing historical pieces, and sharing opinion in both written and spoken form. Explore the boom in sports cards, Pokémon cards, celebrity card, and Non-Fungible Tokens from a hobby to a full fledged alternative assets market place. Study the market from an internal perspective on current valuations and strategies for predicting future trends. Understand the definition of non-funigble tokens (NFTS) and digitalization of collectibles. Learn the fundamentals of the card collecting market and have fun seeing if your collection is now an asset.
Journalism: Read a Newspaper Everyday - David Rafoni
Weeks: 1, 2
Session B
The main goal of this journalism course will be to acquire a critical spirit while analyzing articles from important American newspapers, and to understand how articles are structured. 1. We will define what is "journalism", and check the outlines of front pages or website. 2. We will select an article and analyze it. 3. We will think about the connection between images, cartoons and the article's content. 4. We will compare different articles from the same news. 5. We will write an opinion piece on a subject of their choice.
Nonfiction Storytelling: Telling Your Truth - Charlie Dorf
Weeks: 2
Session C
In this seminar, students will explore the creative and diverse ways in which people tell their unique, personal stories. Students will read personal essays and poetry, watch films and live storytelling, and even play computer games that communicate the creators' personal journeys and discoveries. Students will break down and examine how different nonfiction creative forms and media allow creators to tell their unique stories. Students will also choose a particular theme, topic, or experience in their own lives to become the focus of their own creative multi genre project - at the end of the seminar, students will have produced a variety of different creative works that speak to their particular truth.
Philosophy - David Rafoni
Weeks: 1, 2
Session A
How can we define philosophy? Is it the creation of concepts or a way of life? We will be working on some elements of answer through the reading and analysis of texts by essential philosophers, from Plato to Kant. The main idea of this seminar will be to think about the way in which texts and ideas respond to each other, and how philosophers reflect upon the intellectual positions of those who preceded them. Students will be using their critical thinking and their communication skills.
Poetry at the Priory - Charlie Dorf
Weeks: 2
Session A
In this seminar, we will engage in an outdoor poetry reading/writing workshop that takes place at different Priory locations each day.
Redefining Beauty - Kathy Gonzalez
Week: 1
Session C
Women have often faced pressures to be silent and invisible, to stay within narrow roles as housemakers, mothers, and wives. In Renaissance Venice, women were told “maritar o monacar”--marry or join a convent. Yet a number of women developed new roles for themselves even within these strictures. A valuable woman was described as a beautiful one, and yet their beauty manifested through their good worlds, their intelligence, their creativity, their charity, their drive to succeed, their empowered voices, and their deft reasoning. From Elena Cornaro, the first woman to earn a university degree, to Maria Boscola, a famed boat racer, to Lucrezia Marinella, who wrote a treatise on women’s superiority, to Sarra Copia Sulam, who united Jews and Christians in scholarly discussion, these and many more Venetian women faced criticism but persevered to share their voices. We’ll survey the lives of these Venetian women, spanning 500 years, many of them proto-feminists who anticipated the ideas of later feminist writers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and others from the First and Second Waves of Feminism. Then we’ll examine how their unique contributions redefine beauty and connect to the definitions thrust upon people even today.