Academic Team:
Dean Mundy (dmundy@uoregon.edu)
FIG Seminar Instructor
Paige
FIG Assistant
Meet your FIG Instructor and Assistant!
Courses in the FIG:
UGST 109 FIG Seminar
TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 1 Credit
In the SOJC, you learn to craft compelling stories. Stories that draw you in, challenge your thinking, and make compelling arguments. Among all stories, however, human stories have long been the most powerful. And one tool we use in creating those human stories is creating a “persona” – a description of a fictional person who represents an audience we’re trying to reach. What drives them, frustrates them, their hopes, fears, demographics, etc.
So each week, I’m going to give you a communication challenge. You determine who might be a good audience to target with that challenge. Then, using tools like CHAT GPT, you’ll do some digging to find out about that audience, and then develop a persona for them. At the same time, in class we’ll discuss your own transition to college and the process of building character as a developing professional.
By the end of the term, you will have developed a cast of characters, so to speak. So your final project, just for shits and giggles, is to write a fictional story based on those characters.
Along the way, you’ll find I, too, can be a character, as in a self-proclaimed smart ass. So let’s brainstorm, do some digging, tell good stories, and have some fun along the way.
PSY 202Z
Social Science (>2)| TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 4 Credits
Introduction to the science and application of psychology. Emphasis will be placed on psychological concepts, theories, and principles related to: Personality, Social Psychology, Health and Well-Being, Motivation and Emotion, Disorders, Therapies, Lifespan Development, and related topics
JCOM 201 Making Sense of Media
Social Science (>2)| TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 4 Credits
The "Introduction to Comparative Literature" series (COLT 101, 102, 103) introduces students to the study of world culture. Each course emphasizes the richness and complexity of world culture, covering a broad array of works from classical Greece to the modern Caribbean, from Shakespeare to the Kenyan essayist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o. However, where COLT 101 and 102 focus primarily on written texts, COLT 103 introduces students to the study of Comparative Literature by considering visual culture from across the world. "Visual culture" is a term that has been used within the discipline for several decades now, and includes topics in world film and digital media; performance and live culture; and, finally, texts that combine word and image (e.g. graphic novels and photojournalism). In many ways the study of visual culture now represents the cutting edge of Comparative Literature as a discipline. COLT 101, 102 and 103 complement each other, and may be taken individually or out of sequence. COLT 103 satisfies both the University's Arts and Letters requirement and the International Cultures multicultural requirement.