First Year Seminar in Honors: Text in the City

HN 102. Introductory = Honors Seminar II: Text and the City=

Preliminary= plan: Spring Semester, 2 credits

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Objective= . Introduce students to the culture = of Lowell through fi= eld trips, discussion, and active engagement.&= nbsp; Students will demonstrate understanding through written reflection papers and participation in a photography exhibit, Eyes on Lowell. Although there will be some rea= dings, the primary text will be the City of Lowell.

*Places in the City*
1	Introduction
2	Metaphor for two Lowells A View of the Harbor<= /p>	Field trip: Merrimack Repertory Theatre 1/8-2/1
3	Living in the City: Mansions & Tenements.
4	Playing in the City: Fields and Halls	Tour of Tsongas? LaLacheur? (weather?)
*Artist in the City*
5	Visioning the City: Presentations by Photographer Joe Quinlen	Set up photo show What makes a good photo?
6	Building the City:&= nbsp; Architecture of Lowel= l (field trip)	Field trip
7	Light in the City: Stained Glass of Lowell
8	Painting the City:&= nbsp; Whistler Museum (field trip)	Field trip
*Voices in the City*
9	The Mills: A Lowell Offering<= /p>	Sampling of writing styles
10	The Poet: Poe & the Bells of St. Anne’s
11	The Beat: Jack Kerouac
*People in the City*
12	Immigration and resettlement
13	The Killing Fields (movie)	Cambodians as case study
14	Angkor Dance Troupe (performance)	<= /o:p>
15	Reflections on Southeast Asian Lowell	Would need to prep interviews to be shown in each section—asking community leaders for comment on impact of Cambodian= s in Lowell *Charlie Nick on photographers he bro= ught to Psych Dept re: SE Asians. Book?
16	Synthesis &a= mp; Reflection	<= /o:p>
Photo Exh= ibit: Eyes on Lowell, UML Student Research Symposium

Reflection paper due at the end of each unit?

Revolving Museum?&nbs= p; Nesmith House?

Call the Darkn= ess Light

Joyce Johnson = Minor Characters

John Coolidge, Mill and Mansion ($25)

Benita Eiser T= he Lowell Offering ($15)

Poetry by Cambodian genocide survivors; Mogan oral his= tories

A View of the Harbor (MRT 1/8-2/1)

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Comedy/Drama. By Richard Dresser.

Nick i= s a child of privilege who grew up with every possible advantage. But along t= he way he came to believe that he could never measure up to the demands of h= is father, Daniel, a powerful and mercurial man who has run the family businesses with ruthless cunning. So Nick disappears, reinventing himself= as a blue-collar worker in a factory owned by his family. For the first time= , he takes control of his life. He works hard, makes friends, and falls in love with Page, a beautiful young woman. He discovers that he's a lot happier = getting by on a living wage than wallowing in the limitless wealth of his family. He's free. When Nick hears from his sister, Kathryn, that his father has = had a stroke, he realizes that he must face the towering figure in his life, = the man who caused him to run away. So Nick and Page travel to the coast of <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Maine, where D= aniel and Kathryn live in the rambling, mysterious, run-down mansion where Nick grew up. Nick finds himself yanked back into the increasingly twisted orb= it of his family. Page is shocked to see the confident man she fell in love = with reverting before her eyes to a small frightened child. Page becomes the catalyst for long-buried family secrets finally seeing the light of day. = In the end, the family is reconfigured in surprising ways as Nick reconnects with his sister and finally finds the strength to face the demons in his life. Unit set

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